HIST 344 Contemporary China: Reform, Rise, and Crisis

One of the fastest growing economies in the world and most rapidly urbanizing societies, China has risen to a central role in the world today. Yet this rise has been fraught with problems and tensions that threaten its continued development. This course looks at the social, political, cultural, environmental, and economic development of contemporary China (from the 1970s to the present), and asks how do we know contemporary China? This is a hands on research course in which students will learn how to find, evaluate, and use sources to understand present-day China from an interdisciplinary perspective.