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(Set) The Rise of Modern Japan & Understanding Imperial China: Dynasties, Life, and Culture

(Set) The Rise of Modern Japan & Understanding Imperial China: Dynasties, Life, and Culture

(Set) The Rise of Modern Japan & Understanding Imperial China: Dynasties, Life, and Culture

Modern Japan and imperial China are the focus of this two-course set of eye-opening history courses. Start by discovering how a nation devastated by World War II engineered an economic miracle—only to face new challenges in a complex, modern world in The Rise of Modern Japan. Then, examine imperial China’s historical unfolding through the lives of individual people of all walks of life, spanning the centuries from the empire’s founding in 221 BCE to its dissolution in 1912, in Understanding Imperial China: Dynasties, Life, and Culture.

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