The study of Modern Chinese history since 1500 through politics, economics, diplomacy, and culture. Includes China’s conquest by the Manchus, Opium Wars, peasant rebellions, fall of the Empire, republican and then communist revolutions, and economic metamorphosis after 1979. A-E Only. Offered irregularly. LA WHGA GL Prerequisite(s):SoS or 3 s.h. lower division HIST course.
