HIST 1121 — Modern East Asia
Modern East Asia will provide students with a foun- dation in early modern to modern history of China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Topics for the course will include but are not limited to the early modern/late traditional era including European and American con- tact with Asia, the end of the Tokugawa period in Ja- pan, the Meiji Reformation, the decline and partition of China, Industrialization and Imperialism through World War II, Communism in China, the Korean Conflict, Indo–China through the Vietnam War and an examina- tion of the successor states in Modern East Asia.