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HI 452PG East Asian History (3)
This course examines the major political, economic, cultural, and social developments underlying the emergence of modern China and Japan. Examination of imperial decline and fragmentation, in the case of China, and the rise of a centralized nationalist state, in the case of Japan, before the Second World War, are followed by the subsequent emergence of unitary communist authoritarianism and capitalist modernism, respectively.
