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2013-2014 Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HI 310X - War and Society in Modern China

Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Credit Hours: 3

This course introduces cadets to the 100-year cycle of civil war and international conflict that China experienced from the Opium War until the Communist victory of 1949. Major topics include warlords, imperialism, the Sino-Japanese wars of the 1930s, World War II in China and the Communist victory in China’s civil war. We will study not only the experience of the war for combatants and citizens, but also the domestic and international causes and ramifications of conflict. Note: Region: Asia/Africa/Latin America. Prerequisite(s): HI 104 . Civilizations and Cultures (X).