Undergraduate Edition 2016-2017

HIST 465 History of Modern Asia

Survey of the political, religious, social, cultural, economic, and intellectual development of Asia, in particular, China, Japan, India, and Southeast Asia. Special emphasis is on events taking place after 1850: the Meiji Restoration in Japan, the rise of the Indian National Congress, Indian independence from the British Empire, the rise of Nationalism and Communism in China and Vietnam, World War II in Asia, the People's Republic of China postwar economic growth to the present.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

HIST 200 (for History majors), Junior Status; GE 140 and GE 141 (for all majors).

Offered

F