HIST 335 Ancient East Asia

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Prerequisites: HIST 101 , HIST 102 , or HIST 203 , HIST 204 ; or permission of the instructor.
This course will cover the development of East Asian civilizations from the neolithic era to the establishment of a permanent western presence in the 1600s. Topics include the creation of social, economic, and political institutions; unification of the suzerain empire; development of Confucian traditions; the rise of Taoism, Buddhism, and Shintoism; the late imperial order in China; and the character of Japanese feudalism