China: Humiliation, Rebellion, and Nationalism

Thursday, February 17, 2022


Sun Yat-Sen

Read before class:

  • The Western Intrusion Into China (Sources of Chinese Tradition, Vol 2, hereafter SCT 198-205)
  • The Taiping Rebellion (SCT 213-23, 226-30)
  • Sun Yat-Sen and the Nationalist Revolutions (SCT, 314-330)
  • Chiang Kai-Shek, “China’s Destiny” (SCT 344-47)