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Smashing the Iron Rice Bowl: Chinese East Asia

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21H.560
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2004English
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This subject examines the experiences of ordinary Chinese people as they lived through the tumultuous changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We look at personal narratives, primary sources, films alongside a textbook to think about how individual and family lives connect with the broader processes of change in modern China.

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