Topics in Modern East Asian History Topics in Modern East Asian History
for HIST 175 at Penn State University
C O N T E N T S
Part One: Shaking Up the Old Order
Chapter 2: Japan's Ansei Edo Earthquake
Chapter 3: Japan's Meiji State
Chapter 4: The Late Qing Dynasty and its Collapse
Chapter 5: Late Qing China Through the Lens of Medicine and Disease
Part Two: Social and National Engineering
Chapter 6: National Identity in Japan and China
Chapter 7: Attempts to Make Japanese through Religion and Education
Chapter 8: Strengthening the National Body in Japan and China
Part Three: Politics and Wars
Chapter 9: Japan's Meiji Constitutional Order
Chapter 10: The First Sino-Japanese War - The Washington Conference
Chapter 11: Warlords, the CCP, and the Guomindang
Chapter 12: The Long Pacific War, 1931 - 1945
Part Four: Recent History
Chapter 13: Early Decades of the PRC