This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. May be taken by 3rd years where regulations permit.
This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students. May be taken by 3rd years where regulations permit.
Lectures will be online. The School aims to run in-person classes, subject to circumstances, with some online provision if and where necessary.There will be a reading week in the Michaelmas and the Lent Terms.
Students will be required to submit three 2000 word essays in all and to sit a mock exam.
A detailed reading list will be issued at the start of the course, but the following survey texts are essential: W G Beasley, The Rise of Modern Japan; P Duus (Ed), The Cambridge History of Japan: The Twentieth Century; L Eastman (Ed), The Nationalist Era in China, 1927-1949; J L McLain, Japan: A Modern History; R MacFarquhar (Ed), The Politics of China, 1949-1989; A Buzo, The Making of Modern Korea; J Spence, The Search for Modern China.
Exam (100%, duration: 3 hours) in the summer exam period.