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• Introduction: The Making of the Modern World

• 01

  The foundations of Western supremacy

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• 02

  Western expansion and the formation of colonial empires

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• 03

  Asia’s reactions to Western expansion

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• 04

  Towards international cooperation

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• Theme A : Modernisation and Transformation in Twentieth-Century Asia

• 01

  Political and institutional changes of Hong Kong

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• 02

  Development as an international city of Hong Kong

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• 03

  Early attempts at modernisation – reforms and revolutions of China

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• 04

  Socialist modernisation in the Maoist period and the evolution of “socialism with Chinese characteristics” in the post-Mao period

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• 05

  Modernisation and transformation of Japan

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• 06

  Southeast Asia: from colonies to independent countries

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• Theme B : Conflicts and Cooperation in the Twentieth-Century World

• 01

  International relations from 1900 to 1914

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• 02

  The two world wars and the peace settlements

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• 03

  Major conflicts after WWII and attempts to make peace

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• 04

  International economic cooperation

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• 05

  International social and cultural cooperation

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