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2023-2024 CGC Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

MLTH 550 - History of War and Society in China

Credit Hours: 3

This course charts war and violence in China from the Bronze to the Nuclear Age. It would include topics such as chariot warfare, the emergence of infantry armies and the crossbow, professional generals and their manuals on military strategies and tactics, warfare against the nomads, farmer-soldiers and agricultural garrisons, knight-errantry and revenge killings, banditry, piracy, the development of firearms, peasant rebellions and secret societies, martial arts, the Boxer Rebellion, Warlordism, the Red Army and the Jiangxi Soviet, the War of Resistance against the Japanese, Chinese intervention in the Korean War, the military suppression of the Tian’anmen protests, and the modernization of the People’s Liberation Army.