HIST 434 — History of Modern China and Japan since 1900
History · University of Ghana
This course will examine the Boxer Uprising, abdication of the Manchu, the second phase of Japanese modernization, 1900-30, heavy industries, the Zaibatsu, Anglo-Japanese friendship and the Russo-Japanese war, the Annexation of Korea, Japanese imperialism 1930-45, the politics of violence, China between revolutions, 1911-45, the war lords, Kuomintang versus Communists, China and Japan since 1946, the Cold War in the far East, the Korean War the Vietnam war, USA versus USSR in Asia, ―Ping-pong diplomacy‖ and its repercussions on Africa.
- Credits
- 3
Other courses on this programme
- HIST 213 — Africa and the Wider World in the 19th Century
- HIST 214 — Africa in the International Setting in the 20th century
- HIST 322 — Ghana in the 19th and the 20th Centuries
- HIST 324 — History of Europe, 1798 - 1945
- HIST 328 — Economic History of West Africa: 1890 to 1960
- HIST 431 — History of Modern China and Japan, ca. 1800 - 1900
- HIST 435 — Aspects of World History: 1914-1945
- HIST 436 — History Modern Russia & U.S.A: 1860-1939
- HIST 438 — Aspects of World History since 1945
- HIST 111 — Earliest Civilizations
- HIST 112 — Selected Topics in World History
- HIST 211 — Historiography
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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).