Modern China

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DUE DATES
1	China Today
2	Traditional China
3	The Qing in the Early Modern World
4	The Tribute System and Imperial Diplomacy	Weekly response due
5	The Opium Wars In-Class Quiz: China’s Geography
6	The Taiping Rebellion	Weekly response due
7	Reform and Self-Strengthening
8	The Boxer Rebellion	Weekly response due
9	The 1911 Revolution and the End of Imperial China
10	The May Fourth Movement	Annotation assignment (Harrison) due
11	Nationalists and Communists
12	World War Two, Part 1	Weekly response due
13	World War Two, Part 2
14	The Communist Revolution	Weekly response due
15	Building New China in the 1950s
16	The Great Leap Forward	Weekly response due
17	The Cultural Revolution, Part 1
18	The Cultural Revolution, Part 2	Weekly response due
19	The Beginnings of Reform and Opening Up
20	Taiwan and Overseas Sinophone Communities	Annotation assignment (Yang) due
21	Midterm
22	From Family Planning to Protests to Deng’s Southern Tour
23	Economic Growth and Development in Mainland China, 1992–Present	Weekly response due
24	Hong Kong, Singapore, and Chinese Identity
25	China in the Xi Jinping Era	Film, novel, or book report due
26	Timeline Presentations	Historical timeline final project due