Free Online Course from EdX: Creating Modern China: The Republican Period to the Present

EdX is offering a free online course in Creating Modern China: The Republican Period to the Present. This course will explore enduring issues around Chinese modernity, with a focus on the creation of the modern Chinese state during the Republican era. You’ll learn about China’s war against Japan, about long-term patterns in U.S.-China relations, and about the role of individual leaders against the backdrop of historical circumstance. Ultimately, you’ll learn different ways to study and understand history. 

What you'll learn How to:

• What were the foreign models for a Chinese republic?
• How the modern Chinese state was built on the ruins of the previous empire.
• The impact of China’s war against Japan.
• How China’s relationship with the U.S. follows established patterns.
• The role of leaders like Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Mao Zedong.

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Additional Information:

• Length: 15 Weeks 1 – 3 hours per week
• Price: FREE Add a Verified Certificate for $ 139 USD

About EdX:

EdX is an online learning destination and a massive open online course provider, it is founded by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2026. edX offers high-quality courses from the world’s best universities and institutions to learners everywhere. It is open to students from around the world, who are interested in different fields like computer science, languages, engineering, psychology, writing, electronics, biology or marketing. With more than 130 global partners, edX counts the world’s leading universities, nonprofits, and institutions as their partners to provide the best online courses on the Web.

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