During the Republic of China era in the 1930s and 1940s, there existed powerful Hui (Muslim) armed groups in northwestern ...
The History of Modern China (198): (Same as HISTORY 98. 198 is 5 units; 98 is 3 units.) This course charts major historical transformations in modern China, and will be of interest to those concerned ...
Contributors: Jeffrey Wasserstrom (University of California, Irvine), Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick), Stephen R. Platt (University of Massachusetts), Robert Bickers (University of Bristol), ...
Chinese president Xi Jinping has declared a monopoly on narratives not only about today's China but also about its ancient and more recent past. In that process, any diverging narrative or piece of ...
Modern Chinese history has been shaped profoundly by the interplay of disease, public health reform and medical innovation. In the late Qing dynasty, recurrent epidemics of plague, cholera and ...
HONG KONG — The diaries of a top Chinese official and prominent critic of Beijing are at the center of a U.S. legal battle, raising questions about who will write the history of modern China. Li Rui, ...
This intellectually adventurous, wide-ranging, and boldly integrative study examines the ecological impact of China’s post-1949 agricultural, dam-building, industrial, and urbanization policies, which ...