Fall/Winter Timetable

XBC199Y1Y L0352

First-Year Seminar

Ideologies and Social Movements in China's Modern Transformation

Themes

This course has two main objectives. The first is to introduce students to the study of modern Chinese history. The second is to introduce a number of core concepts in social science, in particular, to explore the various meanings of the term ideology, focusing particularly on its embodiment in concrete social and political movements. It will seek to understand how ideas shape politics, analyzing the programmatic and socio-political attributes of ideologically driven movements and regimes. A consideration of modern China’s protracted revolutionary crisis from the mid-1800s to the present will serve as the raw material for this exploration.