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Smashing the Iron Rice Bowl: Chinese East Asia
Art: Université de Caen Normandie · CNRS · ENSICAEN…, Bayeux Tapestry Scene 03, 2017 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. Peter C. Perdue
- Term
- Fall 2004
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 7 other files · 5 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21H.560 Smashing the Iron Rice Bowl: Chinese East Asia, Fall 2004, Prof. Peter C. Perdue — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
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Syllabus
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- Final Paper (Courtesy of Xuemin Chi. Used with permission.) Download
- Chinese Cinema in the 1980s and 1990s (Courtesy of Emily Cheng. Used with permission.) Download
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Lecture 2: Qing China, 1644-1911
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Lecture 3: Decline of the Qing; Rise of Nationalism
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Lecture 4: The Republic of China, 1911-1949
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Lecture 5: Origins and Development of the Chinese Communist Party
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Lecture 6: The People’s Republic: From Great Leap Forward to Cultural Revolution
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Lecture 7: Midterm Exam
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Lecture 8: From the Cultural Revolution to the Reform Period
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Lecture 9: Tiananmen and After
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Lecture 10: Family Problems in Village Taiwan
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Lecture 11: Women’s Issues in the PRC in the 1980s
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Lecture 12: Communist Cadres in the Reform Period
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Lecture 13: Current Issues: Environment, the Development of the West, and Foreigners
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