This course explores how distinctive patterns of government, society and culture emerged over four millennia in East Asia - primarily China and Japan - and how this endogenous development prepared those nations to confront and challenge Western supremacy in the modern world.
Course credit exclusion: AP/HIST 2710 6.00 (prior to Fall 2011).
PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/HIST 2710 6.00.