Description
This course is a survey of the History of China and the Far East from the seventh century. Topics include the Tang dynasty, the Nara and Heian periods in Japan, the Sung dynasty, Mongol Rule in China, Japanese feudalism, the Ming and Manchu dynasties, the Tokugawa Shogunate, European intrusion, Japanese industrialism, the 1911 and Communist Revolutions in China, the liberation of Southeast Asia, and the rise of the Pacific Rim.