History 212 - CHINA TRANSFORMATION 750-1900

Spring
2016
01
4.00
Daniel Gardner
MW 01:10-02:30
Smith College
39919-S16
SEELYE 105
dgardner@smith.edu
Chinese society and civilization from the Tang dynasty to the Taiping rebellion. Topics include disappearance of the hereditary aristocracy and rise of the scholar-official class, civil service examination system, Neo-Confucian orthodoxy, poetry and the arts, Mongol conquest, popular beliefs, women and the family, Manchus in China, domestic rebellion, and confrontation with the West.
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