Modern China: Post-Mao Reforms, 1978-2016

1 Unit · Undergraduate

Examines the complex transformations unleashed by China?s economic reforms from the late 1970s until the early 21st century. Topics include arguments about the unevenness and morality of socio-economic change, the 1989 Spring Democracy Movement, China?s ?Peaceful Rise,? the AIDS crisis and SARS, the crisis of unemployment and public welfare, the environmental movement, and China?s growing participation in global affairs.