HISTORY 2530 - China in Revolution:Nationalism to Maoism

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Bard College

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GIS, Human Rights In October 1949, Mao Zedong stood at the Gate of Heavenly Peace outside the old imperial palace and proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China. This course explores the intertwined processes of nationalism and revolution that drove this transformation. Studying China's successive republican, cultural, nationalist, "fascist," and communist revolutions, studentsexplore the causes and effects of different kinds of revolutionary movements. Course work then traces China's revolutionary process from the beginnings of modern mass mobilization at the start of the 20th century to the revolutionary cataclysms of Mao's Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution during the 1950s and 1960s. Novels, films, folk songs, hairstyles and popular fashions, mass protests, and state-run spectacles are all considered as agents of cultural transformation.

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4.00

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Lecture

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www.bard.edu

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(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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