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Undergraduate Bulletin 2012-2013 
    
Undergraduate Bulletin 2012-2013 [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]

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POSC 263 - China: Mao to Reform

3 hours
This course will cover the civil war in China, China’s role in World War II, Mao’s consolidation of power, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, the influence of Chou En-lai and Deng Xiaoping, China’s foreign policy, including the split with the Soviets and the accommodation with the United States under Nixon, the economic reforms of the past decade, the Tiananmen Square protest, and the future of China as a major economic power. The course will also include an introduction to the history and culture of China.

This course will satisfy the social sciences core area requirement and the multicultural core requirement.



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