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Imperial China

Course Number: HIST 280
Title: Imperial China
Day & Time 1: MW 02:30PM 03:45PM
Instructor I: Wilson T
Credit: 1.00
Building/ Room: MW - Kirner-Johnson Building 104
Course Description: Survey of Chinese social, cultural, and political history from the fall of the Han dynasty in the third century to the Manchu conquest in the seventeenth century. Focus on how Chinese writers have understood their own history on such questions of the rise and fall of dynasties and human interactions with powerful cosmic forces that determine fate. Examines the decline of the medieval aristocracy and the emergence of the Confucian gentry; the family and the changing status of women; military conflict with the Mongols and war with Japan in the sixteenth century.
Comments: Open to Seniors, Juniors, Sophomores, & 1st Years

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