/ This course–the first part of a two-course sequence–examines the history of Late Imperial China through the early 19th century. We begin with major transformations in the Song Dynasty: the emergence of a scholar-gentry culture and imperial Confucianism, the southward economic and demographic shifts, the early globalization of a thriving commercial economy, and the relative changes in social statuses for common men and women. We then trace a subsequent political and social evolution, including imperial court politics; law, government, and society; intellectual tensions; gender, family, and kinship; the peasantry and its cultural patterns; rebellions and early contact with foreign powers; and finally the sources of imperial decline. Alternate years.
Grade Basis: Letter Grade
Credits: 4.0
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