History 345 - China in the 19th Century
Fall
2024
01
3.00
Stephen Platt
TU TH 11:30AM 12:45PM
UMass Amherst
30778
Herter Hall room 117
platt@history.umass.edu
The rise and spectacular fall of China?s last dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), with particular emphasis on the social, economic, intellectual and military forces that transformed China from an empire into a modern nation in the decades leading up to the 1911 Revolution. Our subjects will include secret societies, restoration scholars, gunboat diplomacy, imperial decadence, new-text Confucian visions, clandestine missionaries, treaty-port translators and student revolutionaries. No prior exposure to Chinese history is assumed.
Open to Seniors, Juniors & Sophomores only.