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College Catalog 2011-2012 
    
College Catalog 2011-2012 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HIST 276 - History of Traditional Japan

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A survey of the major political, social, religious, intellectual, economic and artistic developments in Japan from earliest times to the opening of Japan in the 1850s. The course will revisit Japan’s emperor system, Shintoism, feudalism, Samurai as a class, selective borrowing from China, Korea, and the West, and the background of Japan’s rapid modernization after the Meiji Restoration. Alternate years. (4 Credits)