This graduate reading seminar examines recent English-language scholarship on China’s Republican period (1912-1949), covering themes from state and economy to society and culture. Weekly topics, which juxtapose one recent monograph with one classic study, include state institutions and law, nationalism, politics and political movements, the development of cities, media and publication, gender, education, labor, and rural reconstruction.

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HIST 032/EAST 032: SHANGHAI

HIST 309J/EAST 309: USES OF THE PAST IN MODERN CHINA

HIST 375/EAST 375: CHINA FROM MAO TO NOW