Courses of Study 2018-2019 
    
    Apr 23, 2024  
Courses of Study 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HIST 2931 - China’s Early Modern Empire

(crosslisted) ASIAN 2293 , CAPS 2931  
(GHB) (HA-AS)      
Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Y. Du.

The Great Qing (1644-1911), a multi-ethnic empire that conquered China proper from the northeastern borderlands, expanded into central Asia, Mongolia, and Tibet, and consolidated the China-based empire’s control over its southwestern frontiers. An heir to both Chinese and Inner Asian traditions, the Qing empire laid the foundation for the modern Chinese nation-state. In this course, students will focus on the political, legal, social, cultural, and intellectual aspects of China’s last empire. Students will also locate the early modern Chinese empire in a regional and global context, examining its power influence in Korea and Southeast Asia, and its encounters and interactions with Western and Japanese imperialist powers. These encounters and interactions contributed to the domestic turmoil and foreign invasions that would eventually led to the decline and demise of the Chinese empire, but they also gave rise to new forces that would shape the fate of modern China in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. (HNU)



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