HIST 431 — History of Modern China and Japan, ca. 1800 - 1900
History · University of Ghana
This is a comparative study of the history of China and Japan since the 19th Century, at a time that both opened up to western science and technology: Ch‘ing China and the West in the 19th century, the opium war and the arrow war, the Treaty Port system, unrest within china, Taiping, Muslim and other rebellions, Self-strengthening movements; Industrialization, the Tokugawa state and the Meji restoration, the 1857-8 Treaties and their repercussions, the new order, the first phase of Japanese modernization 1870-1900, implications of military, educational and technical reforms. The course also analyses of the Meji constitution and examines China under foreign pressure; the 1880-90 wars and reforms
- Credits
- 3
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).