ASN5021 EMPERORS, TYRANTS & RELIGIOUS REBELS IN MODERN EAST ASIA

An examination of the religious dimensions of Chinese and Japanese politics in the 19th- and 20th-centuries. For China, attention will be given to the 19th-century Taiping Rebellion and Mao's 20th-century Communist Revolution. For Japan, the focus will be on the role of Shinto in Japan's rise as an imperialist power in East Asia between 1880 and 1945 and its controversial legacy in Japan today.