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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

HST 385 - History of the People’s Republic of China

Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
A study of the world’s most populous country. Covers the rise and fall of Nationalist China, the establishment of the People’s Republic, social transformation, economic policy, bureaucracy and freedom, Mao’s ideology, the people’s communes, the cultural revolution, the new leadership and the new U.S./China relationship. Cross-listed with HST 585
Graded