HIST 009B. Modern China: Reformers, Revolutionaries, and Rebels

This course is an introduction to the intellectual, social, and economic forces that shaped the history of modern China. We will rely heavily on primary sources as we try to reconstruct the plural, contradictory, and fluid ways in which Chinese intellectual and political leaders viewed themselves as “modern.”
Concentration: Culture and Identity, Empires and Nations
Social sciences.
1 credit.
Eligible for ASIA. Concentration: Culture and Identity, Empires and Nations
Spring 2025. Chen.
Catalog chapter: History
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history

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