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Outline Syllabus

Term One:

  • Week 2, Introduction
  • Week 3, The Qing’s Conquering of the Ming, 1644
  • Week 4, The First Opium War, 1839
  • Week 5, The Taiping Rebellion, 1850
  • Week 6, Reading Week
  • Week 7, Reform Movements, 1861
  • Week 8, The 1911 Revolution, 1911
  • Week 9, The May Fourth Movement, 1919
  • Week 10, The Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937

Term Two:

  • Week 11,The Communist Revolution, 1949
  • Week 12, The Cultural Revolution, 1966
  • Week 13, The Reform and Opening-up, 1978
  • Week 14, The June 4th Massacre
  • Week 15, The Workers and Ordinary Lives
  • Week 16, Reading Week
  • Week 17, Gendered China
  • Week 18, Xi and Embattled China
  • Week 19, Democracy at state, Taiwan and Hong Kong
  • Week 20, China's Digital Authoritarianism