HIS 2232 - Modern East Asia

Credits: 4
Survey of East Asian history from 1600 to the present. This course maps the intersections and divergences in the histories of China, Korea, and Japan during the past four hundred years, from the Japanese invasion of Korea in 1592, the global economic crisis in the seventeenth century, and the Chinese domination of the world market in the eighteenth century, to the violent encroachment on East Asia by imperialist powers in the nineteenth century, the reforms and revolutions of the turn of the twentieth century, the massive destruction during the Second World War, and the political and economic developments of recent decades.
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern.