HIST 420

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China Under the Qing Dynasty

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Credit: 2 TO 4 hours.

The period of Manchu domination in China (1644-1912); emphasis on Chinese reactions to Western influences during the nineteenth century.

Same as EALC 420. 3 undergraduate hours. 2 or 4 graduate hours.

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HIST 420 class schedule data for spring 2025
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
39422	Lecture-Discussion	G2	3:30PM -5:50PM	T	207 Gregory Hall	Pu, Y	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Credit: 2 hours Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
39772	Lecture-Discussion	G4	3:30PM -5:50PM	T	207 Gregory Hall	Pu, Y	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Credit: 4 hours Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
39774	Lecture-Discussion	U3	3:30PM -5:50PM	T	207 Gregory Hall	Pu, Y	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Description: This course addresses several fundamental questions in modern Chinese history concerning political and ethnic identities, women, classes, and the modalities of modernity. Being the last dynasty under the rule of an originally non-Chinese people, how, if at all, did the Manchu rule change the social, economic, political, and intellectual landscapes of China after a period of more than a century of profound economic, intellectual, and cultural change in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries? Why and how did the Manchu regime fail to meet the challenges from within Chinese society and from the intrusion of Western imperialist powers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Finally, why did the Chinese abandon the imperial system they had embraced for over two thousand years? To answer these questions, we will investigate broad trends of change in politics, population, the economy, thought, culture, social structure, and the relationship between the state and local elites. Class participation is crucial and students need to have some background in Chinese history. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.