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'''How to write an article?'''
 
'''How to write an article?'''
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Just type in your new article title into the search field and press "Go" (not "Search"). You will get a response side stating that your article does not yet exist. Then you click on "create this article" and start to write. You may post your notes. Don't forget to click on "save". You may post your "reading in turn" notes with a 3rd name as long as you do not know your historical figure. Use MLA style when citing within your wiki articles.[[User:Root|Root]] 00:48, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
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Just type in your new article title into the search field and press "Go" (not "Search"). You will get a response side stating that your article does not yet exist. Then you click on "create this article" and start to write. You may post your notes. Don't forget to click on "save". You may post your "reading in turn" notes with a 3rd name as long as you do not know your historical figure. Use MLA style when citing within your wiki articles. [[User:Root|Root]] 00:48, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
  
 
= Foreword =
 
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- Historical Figures: Licia = [[Qianlong]], Alexis = [[Cixi]], Kendra = [[Kang Youwei]], Talya = [[Liang Qichao]], Thomas = [[Sun Yat-sen]], Juan = [[Mao Zedong]], Gavin = [[Deng Xiaoping]], Jessica = [[Chiang kai-shek|Chiang Kai-shek]], Trevor = [[Xi Jinping]].
 
- Historical Figures: Licia = [[Qianlong]], Alexis = [[Cixi]], Kendra = [[Kang Youwei]], Talya = [[Liang Qichao]], Thomas = [[Sun Yat-sen]], Juan = [[Mao Zedong]], Gavin = [[Deng Xiaoping]], Jessica = [[Chiang kai-shek|Chiang Kai-shek]], Trevor = [[Xi Jinping]].
  
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= The late Ming dynasty =
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= The Qing overthrow the Ming =
  
 
== The Manchu Conquest ==
 
== The Manchu Conquest ==
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* 13 [[Local Government in China under the Ching ]] [[User:Xi Jinping|Xi Jinping]] 04:34, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
 
* 13 [[Local Government in China under the Ching ]] [[User:Xi Jinping|Xi Jinping]] 04:34, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
 
* 14 Talya: Benjamin Elman, [[Political, Social & Cultural Reproduction via Civil Service Examinations in Late Imperial China]], Journal of Asian Studies, 50.1. (Feb., 1991), 7-28 [[User:Liang Qichao|Liang Qichao]] 21:36, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
 
* 14 Talya: Benjamin Elman, [[Political, Social & Cultural Reproduction via Civil Service Examinations in Late Imperial China]], Journal of Asian Studies, 50.1. (Feb., 1991), 7-28 [[User:Liang Qichao|Liang Qichao]] 21:36, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
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* 17a 1768- [[Soulstealers: The Chinese Socery Scare of 1768]] - [[User:Qianlong|Qianlong]]
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* 18 [[Signifying Bodies: The Cultural Significance of Suicide Writing by Women in Ming-Qing China By Grace S. Fong]] [[User:Cixi|Cixi]]
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== Late Imperial Culture ==
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* 15 Naquin and Rawski, [[Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century]], 55-93.
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* 16 Kendra: Ebrey, [[Exhortations on Ceremony]], in Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook
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* 17 Gavin: Watson, [[Standardizing the Gods: The Promotion of T’ien-hou (Empress of Heaven) along the South China Coast, 960-1960]]
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* 17a 1768- Philip Kuhn, [[Soulstealers: The Chinese Socery Scare of 1768]] (HUP, 1990) - [[User:Qianlong|Qianlong]]
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== Women and Gender ==
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* 18 Grace Fong, [[Signifying Bodies: The Cultural Significance of Suicide Writing by Women in Ming-Qing China By Grace S. Fong]], in Ropp, ed., Passionate Women: Female Suicide in Late Imperial China (Special issue of the journal Nan/Nü 3.1 [2001]), 105-142 [[User:Cixi|Cixi]]
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* Empress Dowager [[Cixi]] (慈禧, 1835-1908)
 
* 20 [[Political Economy and Ecology on the Eve of Industrialization: Europe, China, and the Global]] - [[User:Mao Zedong|Mao Zedong]] 20:59, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
 
* 20 [[Political Economy and Ecology on the Eve of Industrialization: Europe, China, and the Global]] - [[User:Mao Zedong|Mao Zedong]] 20:59, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
 
* 23 [[The Opium War, and Opening of China]] [[User:Xi Jinping|Xi Jinping]] 05:20, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
 
* 23 [[The Opium War, and Opening of China]] [[User:Xi Jinping|Xi Jinping]] 05:20, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
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= Material from Syllabus =
 
= Material from Syllabus =
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F 09/16/2011 12-12.50 p.m. Late Imperial Culture
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== China and the Outside World ==
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Replacement: Fulbright Teaching Assistant Celine Shan LU
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* 19 Glorydawn Vahai: John K. Fairbank, ed., The Chinese World Order, 1-19
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required reading 19 pp.: Johnson, “Popular Values and Beliefs,” in DeBary Sources of Chinese Tradition, 73-92.
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* 20 Juan Anzar: Kenneth Pomeranz, “Political Economy and Ecology on the Eve of Industrialization,” American Historical Review 107.2 (2002), 425-446.
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Reading in turn #15 Katheryn Kriek: Naquin and Rawski, Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century, 55-93.
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* 21 Jessica Breedlove: Evelyn Rawski, “The Qing Formation and the Early Modern Period,” The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time, 207-241.
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Reading in turn #16 Kendra Mairs: Ebrey, “Exhortations on Ceremony” in Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook
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* 22 Thomas Giles: R. Bin Wong, “The Search for European Differences and Domination in the Early Modern World,” American Historical Review 107.2 (2002), 447-469.
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Reading in turn #17 Gavin Norton: Watson, “Standardizing the Gods: The Promotion of T’ien-hou (Empress of Heaven) along the South China Coast, 960-1960”
 
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Oral presentation = reading in turn #01 Licia Kim: Philip Kuhn, Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 (HUP, 1990), entire.
 
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Discussion:  What are the key means by which Chinese popular culture was preserved and transmitted according to Johnson?  What were the goals of elites in the cultural arena?  What about the state?  How might commoners have exerted their own power against those who sought to control them?
 
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Assignment 8: Please read the texts for the next session (see beneath) and take the quiz on it (Assignment 8).
 
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M 09/19/2011 12-12.50 p.m. Women and Gender
 
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Replacement: Fulbright Teaching Assistant Celine Shan LU
 
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Required reading 19 pp.: Dorothy Ko, “The Body as Attire: The Shifting Meanings of Footbinding in Seventeenth-Century China,” Journal of Women's History 8:4 (Winter 1997), 8-27.
 
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Reading in turn #18 Alexis Sagen: Grace Fong, “Signifying Bodies: The Cultural Significance of Suicide Writings by Women in Ming-Qing China,” in Ropp, ed., Passionate Women: Female Suicide in Late Imperial China (Special issue of the journal Nan/Nü 3.1 [2001]), 105-142.
 
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Oral report: (6) Empress Dowager Cixi (慈禧, 1835-1908)
 
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Recommended reading: Susan Mann, “Women in the Kinship, Class, and Community Structures of Qing Dynasty China,” Journal of Asian Studies 46:37-56.
 
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Paola Paderni, “Between Constraints and Opportunities,” in Zurndorfer, ed., Chinese Women in the Imperial Past, 258-285.
 
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Discussion:  Most of the readings for this week touch on the issue of agency. What forms of power did women wield in society?  What limitations did they encounter?
 
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Assignment 9: Please read the texts for the next session (see beneath) and take the quiz on it (Assignment 9).
 
  
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W 09/21/2011 12-12.50 p.m. China and the Outside World
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== China and the Outside World / Clash with the West ==
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required reading 21 pp.: 117-138=chapter 6
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* 23 Trevor Ireland: Dilip Basu, “The Opium War and the Opening of China: An Historiographical Note,” and Tan Chung, “Interpretations of the Opium War (1840-1842): A Critical Reappraisal,” in Ch’ing-shih wen-t’i (December 1977), 2-16, 32-46.
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Reading in turn #19 Glorydawn Vahai: John K. Fairbank, ed., The Chinese World Order, 1-19
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* 24 Talya Trunnel: James Polachek, The Inner Opium War, 1-16, 273-287.
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Reading in turn #20 Juan Anzar: Kenneth Pomeranz, “Political Economy and Ecology on the Eve of Industrialization,” American Historical Review 107.2 (2002), 425-446.
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* 25 Katheryn Kriek: Fairbank, “Synarchy Under the Treaties,” 204-231.
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Reading in turn #21 Jessica Breedlove: Evelyn Rawski, “The Qing Formation and the Early Modern Period,” The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time, 207-241.
 
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Reading in turn #22 Thomas Giles: R. Bin Wong, “The Search for European Differences and Domination in the Early Modern World,” American Historical Review 107.2 (2002), 447-469.
 
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Discussion: According to Fairbank, how did China relate to the outside world?  According to Pomeranz, why did Europe industrialize before China?  What does Wong see as being the source(s) of European domination?
 
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Recommended reading: DOC =ch.6
 
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Assignment 10: Please read the texts for the next session (see beneath) and take the quiz on it (Assignment 10).
 
  
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F 09/23/2011 12-12.50 p.m. China and the Outside World / Clash with the West
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== The Crisis Within ==
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Required reading 27 pp.: 139-166=ch.7
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* 26 Kendra Mairs: Ebrey, “Mid-Century Rebels” in Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook
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Reading in turn #23 Trevor Ireland: Dilip Basu, “The Opium War and the Opening of China: An Historiographical Note,” and Tan Chung, “Interpretations of the Opium War (1840-1842): A Critical Reappraisal,” in Ch’ing-shih wen-t’i (December 1977), 2-16, 32-46.
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* 27 Gavin Norton: Susan Naquin, Millenarian Rebellion in China, 1-8, 63-117.
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Reading in turn #24 Talya Trunnel: James Polachek, The Inner Opium War, 1-16, 273-287.
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* 28 Alexis Sagen: Elizabeth Perry, Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1-9, 48-95.
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Reading in turn #25 Katheryn Kriek: Fairbank, “Synarchy Under the Treaties,” 204-231.
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* 29 Glorydawn Vahai: Robert Weller, “Saturating the Movement” and “Too Many Voices,” 50-85.
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Discussion:  What were some of the earlier historical interpretations of the Opium War?  On what assumptions were such appraisals based?  Why is Polachek’s interpretation so important?  How does the concept synarchy contribute to the Sincization debate?
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* 30 Juan Anzar: Paul Cohen, History in Three Keys, 69-95. [Link to Google books]
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Recommended reading: DOC ch.7
 
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Assignment 11: Please read the texts for the next session (see beneath) and take the quiz on it (Assignment 11).
 
  
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M 09/26/2011 12-12.50 p.m. The Crisis Within
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== The Political and Social Effects of the Taiping Rebellion ==
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required reading: ch.8
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* 31 Jessica Breedlove: Philip Kuhn, Rebellion and its Enemies in Late Imperial China, 105-164, 211-225.
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Reading in turn #26 Kendra Mairs: Ebrey, “Mid-Century Rebels” in Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook
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* 32 Thomas Giles: Edward McCord, “Militia and Local Militarization in Late Qing and Early Republican China: The Case of Hunan,” Modern China (April 1988), 156-187.
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Reading in turn #27 Gavin Norton: Susan Naquin, Millenarian Rebellion in China, 1-8, 63-117.
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* 33 Trevor Ireland: Michael, Franz "Regionalism in Nineteenth Century China" in Stanley Spector, Li Hung-chang and the Huai Army, xxi-xliii.
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Reading in turn #28 Alexis Sagen: Elizabeth Perry, Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1-9, 48-95.
 
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Reading in turn #29 Glorydawn Vahai: Robert Weller, “Saturating the Movement” and “Too Many Voices,” 50-85.
 
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Reading in turn #30 Juan Anzar: Paul Cohen, History in Three Keys, 69-95. [Link to Google books]
 
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Discussion:  How does Naquin explain the rise of the White Lotus Rebellion?  How does Naquin’s view contrast to Perry’s explanation of why peasants rebel?  What role did religion play in shaping the emergence and development of the Taiping rebellion?  According to the selections by Ebrey, what were the motivations and goals of the rebels themselves?
 
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Assignment 12: Please read the texts for the next session (see beneath) and take the quiz on it (Assignment 12).
 
  
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W 09/28/2011 12-12.50 p.m. The Political and Social Effects of the Taiping Rebellion
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== Self-Strengthening and the Problem of Imperialism ==
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[Discussion on student request: "synarchy". It refers to Fairbank p. 205: "joint Sino-foreign administration of the
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* 34 Alexis: Paul Cohen, “Imperialism: Reality or Myth?,” Discovering History in China, 97-147.
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government of China under a foreign dynasty".]
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* 35 Trevor: James Hevia, English Lessons, 186-281.
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Required Reading: [Internet research]
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* Kendra = Kang Youwei (康有為, 1858-1927)
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Reading in turn #31 Jessica Breedlove: Philip Kuhn, Rebellion and its Enemies in Late Imperial China, 105-164, 211-225.
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* Talya = Liang Qichao (梁啟超, 1873-1929)
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Reading in turn #32 Thomas Giles: Edward McCord, “Militia and Local Militarization in Late Qing and Early Republican China: The Case of Hunan,” Modern China (April 1988), 156-187.
 
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Reading in turn #33 Trevor Ireland: Michael, Franz "Regionalism in Nineteenth Century China" in Stanley Spector, Li Hung-chang and the Huai Army, xxi-xliii.
 
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Discussion:  According to Kuhn, what were the causes and long-term consequences of militarization?  What are the implications of McCord’s research on this issue?  What was “regionalism”?  What were the key levers the Qing state used to control its generals?  How effective were these levers?
 
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Recommended reading: Liu Kwang-ching “The Limits of Regional Power in the Late Ch'ing Period: A Reappraisal,” in The Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, New Series, 207-223.
 
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Assignment 13: Please read the texts for the next session (see beneath) and take the quiz on it (Assignment 13).
 
  
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F 09/30/2011 12-12.50 p.m. Online Activities, Coaching
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== Problems at the End of the Qing ==
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WELCOME TO CLASS TODAY! Please enter the chatroom and work on the WIKI! Everybody who is online should at least chat with me, so that I can see the attendance rate.
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* 36 Juan: Douglas Reynolds, China, 1898-1912: The Xinzheng Revolution and Japan, 1-14.
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Today: working on wiki, teacher answers personal student questions regarding reading comprehension question in chat room
 
  
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M 10/03/2011 12-12.50 p.m. Self-Strengthening and the Problem of Imperialism
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== The 1911 Revolution ==
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Required reading: =ch.9
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* 37 Jessica: Mary Wright, China in Revolution, 1-62.
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Reading in turn #34 Alexis: Paul Cohen, “Imperialism: Reality or Myth?,” Discovering History in China, 97-147.
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* 38 Thomas: Ichiko Chuzo, “The Role of the Gentry: An Hypothesis,” China in Revolution, 297-318.
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Reading in turn #35 Trevor: James Hevia, English Lessons, 186-281.
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* 39 Trevor: Edward Rhoads, Manchu and Han, introduction and conclusion.
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Oral report: (8) Kendra = Kang Youwei (康有為, 1858-1927)
 
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Oral report: (5) Talya = Liang Qichao (梁啟超, 1873-1929)
 
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Recommended reading: DOC ch.9
 
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Discussion: When it comes to the effects of imperialism, is it more important to emphasize quantitative effects or qualitative ones?  Where does the historiography break down on this point?
 
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Assignment 14: Please read the texts for the next session (see beneath) and take the quiz on it (Assignment 14).
 
  
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W 10/05/2011 12-12.50 p.m. Problems at the End of the Qing
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== The New Republic ==
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Required reading: ch.10
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* 40 Trevor: Cheng and Lestz, “Yuan Shikai: Two Documents,” “Feng Yuxiang: Praising the Lord,” and “Zhang Zongchang: With Pleasure Rife” in DOC 214-216
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Reading in turn #36 Juan: Douglas Reynolds, China, 1898-1912: The Xinzheng Revolution and Japan, 1-14.
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* 41 Talya: Arthur Waldron, “The Warlord: Twentieth Chinese Understandings of Violence, Militarism, and Imperialism,” American Historical Review 96:4 (1991) 1073-1100.
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Recommended reading: Ebrey, “Rural Education” in Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook
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* 42 Gavin: James Sheridan, Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yu-hsiang, 1-30.
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“Reform Edict of January 29, 1901,” in Debary, ed., Sources of the Chinese Tradition.
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* 43 Alexis Shelley Yomano, "Reintegration in China under the Warlords, 1916-1927.”  In Republican China, vol. 12, no. 2 (April 1987), pp. 22-27.
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Roxann Prazniak, Of Camel Kings and Other Things, 15-44.
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* Sun Yat-sen (孫逸仙 = Sun Zhongshan 孫中山, 1866-1925)
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Assignment 15: Please read the texts for the next session (see beneath) and take the quiz on it (Assignment 15).
 
  
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F 10/07/2011 12-12.50 p.m. Online Activities, Coaching
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== The New Culture and May Fourth ==
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working on wiki, teacher answers personal student questions regarding reading comprehension question in the Chatroom.
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* 44 Juan: Ebrey, “Spirit of May Fourth” and “Ridding China of Bad Customs” in Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook
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* 45 Jessica: Lu Xun, “Ah Q: The Real Story” and “My Old Home”
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* 46 Thomas: Henrietta Harrison, The Making of the Republican Citizen, 49-92.
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* 47 Trevor: Rudolf Wagner, “The Canonization of May Fourth,” The Appropriation of Cultural Capital.
  
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M 10/10/2011 12-12.50 p.m. 
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== The Guomindang in Power ==
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Wiki coaching on students' request.
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* 48 Trevor: Lloyd E. Eastman, “New insights into the nature of the nationalist regime” Republican China 9.2: 8-18
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Make-up: Reading in turn #35 Trevor: James Hevia, English Lessons, 186-281.
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* 49 Talya: Joseph Fewsmith “Response to Eastman's review article New Insights into the Nature of the Nationalist Regime” Republican China 9.2 (February 1984), 19-27.
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* 50: Bradley Geisert “Probing KMT rule: reflections on Eastman's new insights,” Republican China 9.2: 28-39.
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W 10/12/2011 12-12.50 p.m.  The 1911 Revolution.
 
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CHAT 10/12/2011. Your participation is graded.
 
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Required reading: ch.11
 
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Reading in turn #37 Jessica: Mary Wright, China in Revolution, 1-62.
 
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Reading in turn #38 Thomas: Ichiko Chuzo, “The Role of the Gentry: An Hypothesis,” China in Revolution, 297-318.
 
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Reading in turn #39 Trevor: Edward Rhoads, Manchu and Han, introduction and conclusion.
 
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Discussion: According to these authors, what was the nature of the 1911 Revolution?  Who were the primary actors in the revolution, and what were they “revolting” against?
 
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Recommended reading: “A Symposium on the 1911 Revolution,” Modern China 2.2 (1977), 129-226, selections.
 
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- Survey
 
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- Please remember: Write your mid-term paper in Wiki, and don't forget to make comments to other Wiki articles!
 
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Assignment 16: Please read the texts for the next session (see beneath) and take the quiz on it (Assignment 16).
 
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F 10/14/2011 The New Republic
 
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CHAT 10/14/2011. Your participation is graded.
 
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Online session: Please access the chatroom, paste your reading in turn notes, discuss along the questions and beyond, make at least 3 useful statements
 
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Required reading: ch.12
 
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Reading in turn #40 Trevor: Cheng and Lestz, “Yuan Shikai: Two Documents,” “Feng Yuxiang: Praising the Lord,” and “Zhang Zongchang: With Pleasure Rife” in DOC 214-216
 
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Reading in turn #41 Talya: Arthur Waldron, “The Warlord: Twentieth Chinese Understandings of Violence, Militarism, and Imperialism,” American Historical Review 96:4 (1991) 1073-1100.
 
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Reading in turn #42 Gavin: James Sheridan, Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yu-hsiang, 1-30.
 
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Reading in turn #43 Alexis Shelley Yomano, "Reintegration in China under the Warlords, 1916-1927.”  In Republican China, vol. 12, no. 2 (April 1987), pp. 22-27.
 
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Oral report: (5) Sun Yat-sen (孫逸仙 = Sun Zhongshan 孫中山, 1866-1925)
 
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Discussion: According to these authors, what were the causes of Chinese militarism?  Is there one of these interpretations you find more convincing?  Why is Yomano’s observation important?
 
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Recommended reading: Edward A. McCord, “Civil War and the Emergence of Warlordism in Early Twentieth Century China,” War and Society, 10.2 (Oct. 1992), 35-56.
 
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Assignment 17: Please read the texts for the next session (see beneath) and take the quiz on it (Assignment 17).
 
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SUN 10/16/2011 11.59 p.m. mid-term paper due
 
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mid-term paper due on wiki, consisting out: article on historical figure from the I-perspective, edits or comments on other articles, pasting your reading in turn notes (the notes itself are not graded here, but all notes so far must be posted)
 
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M 10/17/2011 12-12.50 p.m. The New Culture and May Fourth
 
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CHAT 10/17/2011. Your participation is graded.
 
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Online session: Please access the chatroom, paste your reading in turn notes, discuss along the questions and beyond, make at least 3 useful statements
 
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MAKE ANYWHERE YOUR CLASSROOM: Unmoderated but recorded virtual discussion in chat.
 
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Required reading: ch.13
 
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Reading in turn #44 Juan: Ebrey, “Spirit of May Fourth” and “Ridding China of Bad Customs” in Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook
 
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Reading in turn #45 Jessica: Lu Xun, “Ah Q: The Real Story” and “My Old Home”
 
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Reading in turn #46 Thomas: Henrietta Harrison, The Making of the Republican Citizen, 49-92.
 
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Reading in turn #47 Trevor: Rudolf Wagner, “The Canonization of May Fourth,” The Appropriation of Cultural Capital.
 
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Discussion: What were the major themes of the “new culture” movement?  How do Lu Xun’s stories reflect these themes?  How were these themes embodied in fashion and behavior during the republic?  What was the spirit of May Fourth, according to the selections by Ebrey?  How does the canonization of May Fourth shape our interpretation of the history both before and after the event?
 
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Assignment 18: Please read the texts for the next session (see beneath) and take the quiz on it (Assignment 18).
 
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W 10/19/2011 12-12.50 p.m. Alliances and Betrayals
 
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CHAT 10/19/2011. Your participation is graded.
 
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Online session: Please access the chatroom, paste your reading in turn notes, discuss along the questions and beyond, make at least 3 useful statements
 
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MAKE ANYWHERE YOUR CLASSROOM: Unmoderated but recorded virtual discussion in chatroom, minimum participation proof: 3 constructive contributions in the chat.
 
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Required reading: ch.14
 
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Recommended reading: Ebrey, “The General Strike” in Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook
 
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Jean Chesneaux, The Chinese Labor Movement, 1919-1927, 151-178.
 
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Emily Honig, Sisters and Strangers, 1-8, 79-131, 202-209.
 
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David Strand, Rickshaw Beijing, 142-166.
 
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Discussion: How does Chesneaux characterize the origins of the labor movement?  In what ways did the experience of women in the Shanghai cotton mills not fit this characterization?  What about the labor situation in Beijing?
 
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Assignment 19: Please read the texts for the next session (see beneath) and take the quiz on it (Assignment 19).
 
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F 10/21/2011 12-12.50 p.m. Fall Break
 
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M 10/24/2011 12-12.50 p.m. The Guomindang in Power
 
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Required reading: ch.15
 
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Reading in turn #48 Trevor: Lloyd E. Eastman, “New insights into the nature of the nationalist regime” Republican China 9.2: 8-18
 
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Reading in turn #49 Talya: Joseph Fewsmith “Response to Eastman's review article New Insights into the Nature of the Nationalist Regime” Republican China 9.2 (February 1984), 19-27.
 
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Reading in turn #50: Bradley Geisert “Probing KMT rule: reflections on Eastman's new insights,” Republican China 9.2: 28-39.
 
 
Reading in turn #51 Gavin: Parks Coble, “The Kuomintang Regime and the Shanghai Capitalists, 1927-1929,” China Quarterly 77 (March 1979), 1-24.
 
Reading in turn #51 Gavin: Parks Coble, “The Kuomintang Regime and the Shanghai Capitalists, 1927-1929,” China Quarterly 77 (March 1979), 1-24.
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Oral report: (7) Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石, 1887-1975): Jessica
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* Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石, 1887-1975): Jessica
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Recommended reading: John Fitzgerald, “Did the National Revolution Succeed or Fail:  A Point of Difference in Chinese and Western Perspectives on Republican Chinese History,” Republican China 14.1 (November 1988), 15-29. 
 
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Discussion: How do the positions of Eastman, Fewsmith, and Geisert differ?  According to these authors, who were the key constituents for the Nationalist regime?  What were the roots of Nationalist failure?
 
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Assignment 20: Please read the texts for the next session (see beneath) and take the quiz on it (Assignment 20).
 
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W 10/26/2011 12-12.50 p.m. Mao and the Rise of the CCP
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== Mao and the Rise of the CCP ==
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Required reading: ch.16
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* 52 Alexis: Benjamin Schwartz, Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao, 7-27.
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Reading in turn #52 Alexis: Benjamin Schwartz, Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao, 7-27.
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* 53 Juan: Hans van de Ven, From Friend to Comrade, 9-54.
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Reading in turn #53 Juan: Hans van de Ven, From Friend to Comrade, 9-54.
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* 54 Trevor: Stuart Shram, The Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung, 15-73.
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Reading in turn #54 Trevor: Stuart Shram, The Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung, 15-73.
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* Mao Zedong (毛泽东, 1893-1976)
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Oral report: (11) Chen Duxiu (陳獨秀, 1879-1942)
 
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Oral report: (1) Mao Zedong (毛泽东, 1893-1976)
 
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Discussion: How do the interpretations of the rise of the CCP differ?  How important was Mao’s reformulation of Chinese communism to the success of the movement?
 
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Recommended reading: Arif Dirlik, The Origins of Chinese Communism, 23-54.
 
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Assignment 21: Please read the texts for the next session (see beneath) and take the quiz on it (Assignment 21).
 
  
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F 10/28/2011 12-12.50 p.m. Online Activities, Coaching
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== World War Two ==
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working on wiki, teacher answers personal student questions regarding reading comprehension question in chat room. Hello, today we have an online session. You may work on the Wiki and chat with me in the chat room.
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* 56 Katie Bowers ---: Lloyd Eastman, “Facets of an Ambivalent Relationship: Smuggling, Puppets, and Atrocities During the War, 1937-1945”
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* 58 Gavin Norton: Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, The Nanjing Atrocity, 1937-38: Complicating the Picture, chapters by Wakabayashi, 3-28; Askew, 86-114; Fogel, 267-284; and Yamamoto, 285-303.
  
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M 10/31/2011 12-12.50 p.m. The Chinese Economy
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== The Communist Revolution ==
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required readings 39 pp.:
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* 59 Alexis Sagen: Chalmers Johnson, Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power, 1-30.
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MRamon Myers, “How did the odern Chinese Economy Develop?” Journal of Asian Studies 50.3 (1991), 604-628.
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* 60 Juan Anzar:  Stephen Averill, “Party, Society, and Local Elite in the Jiangxi Communist Movement,” Journal of Asian Studies 46.2 (May 1987), 279-303.
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Philip Huang, “A Reply to Ramon Myers,” JAS 50.3 (1991), 629-633.
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* 61 Jessica Breedlove: K.K. Shum, “The Communist Party’s Strategy for Galvanizing Popular Support, 1930-1945,” in Pong and Fung, eds., Ideal and Reality: Social and Political Change in Modern China.
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R. Bin Wong, “A Note on the Myers-Huang Exchange,” JAS 51.3 (1992), 600-611.
 
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Reading in turn #55 Trevor: Philip Huang, “Development of Involution in Eighteenth Century Britain and China?,” Journal of Asian Studies 61.2 (2002), 501-538.
 
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Discussion: What are the key issues in this debate?  Why is Wong’s cautionary note important to keep in mind?  What are your thoughts on Pomeranz’s “great divergence” argument in light of these readings?
 
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Assignment 22: Please read the texts for the next session (see beneath) and take the quiz on it (Assignment 22).
 
  
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W 11/02/2011 12-12.50 p.m. World War Two
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== Birth of the PRC ==
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required reading: ch.17
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* 62 Trevor Ireland: Donald Gillin, “‘Peasant Nationalism’ in the History of Chinese Communism,” Journal of Asian Studies 23.2 (Feb. 1964), 269-289.
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Reading in turn #56 Katie Bowers ---: Lloyd Eastman, “Facets of an Ambivalent Relationship: Smuggling, Puppets, and Atrocities During the War, 1937-1945”
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* 63 Gavin Norton:  Joseph Esherick, “Ten Theses on the Chinese Revolution”
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Reading in turn #58 Gavin Norton: Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, The Nanjing Atrocity, 1937-38: Complicating the Picture, chapters by Wakabayashi, 3-28; Askew, 86-114; Fogel, 267-284; and Yamamoto, 285-303.
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* 64 Talya: Edward Friedman, Paul Pickowicz, Chinese Village, Socialist State (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991), pp.80-159 [first part Silent Sound]
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Discussion:  According to Yang, where does the current historiography stand?  What is it about atrocities that make them so amenable to appropriation for political purposes?
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* 65 Jessica: Edward Friedman, Paul Pickowicz, Chinese Village, Socialist State (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991), pp.80-159 [second part Honeymoon]
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Assignment 23: Please read the texts for the next session (see beneath) and take the quiz on it (Assignment 23).
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* 66 Alexis: Edward Friedman, Paul Pickowicz, Chinese Village, Socialist State (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991), pp.80-159 [third part Gamble]
  
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F 11/04/2011 12-12.50 p.m. Online Activities, Coaching
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== The occupation of Tibet and Han-Chinese settlement policy ==
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working on wiki, teacher answers personal student questions regarding reading comprehension question in chat room
 
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M 11/07/2011 12-12.50 p.m. The Communist Revolution
 
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Required reading: ch.18
 
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Reading in turn #59 Alexis Sagen: Chalmers Johnson, Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power, 1-30.
 
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Reading in turn #60 Juan Anzar:  Stephen Averill, “Party, Society, and Local Elite in the Jiangxi Communist Movement,” Journal of Asian Studies 46.2 (May 1987), 279-303.
 
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Reading in turn #61 Jessica Breedlove: K.K. Shum, “The Communist Party’s Strategy for Galvanizing Popular Support, 1930-1945,” in Pong and Fung, eds., Ideal and Reality: Social and Political Change in Modern China.
 
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Discussion: According to Johnson, what is the relationship between peasant nationalism and CCP success?  Why is this view wrong in Gillin’s view (next session)?  How do Averill’s comments help to reframe this debate? What methods did the CCP use to mobilize the people and how were these methods received?
 
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Assignment 24: Please read the texts for the next session (see beneath) and take the quiz on it (Assignment 24).
 
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W 11/09/2011 12-12.50 p.m. Birth of the PRC
 
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Required reading: ch.19
 
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Reading in turn #62 Trevor Ireland: Donald Gillin, “‘Peasant Nationalism’ in the History of Chinese Communism,” Journal of Asian Studies 23.2 (Feb. 1964), 269-289.
 
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Reading in turn #63 Gavin Norton:  Joseph Esherick, “Ten Theses on the Chinese Revolution”
 
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Reading in turn: #64 Talya: Edward Friedman, Paul Pickowicz, Chinese Village, Socialist State (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991), pp.80-159 [first part Silent Sound]
 
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Reading in turn: #65 Jessica: Edward Friedman, Paul Pickowicz, Chinese Village, Socialist State (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991), pp.80-159 [second part Honeymoon]
 
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Reading in turn: #66 Alexis: Edward Friedman, Paul Pickowicz, Chinese Village, Socialist State (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991), pp.80-159 [third part Gamble]
 
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Questions for the discussion: Why did the Chinese Communist Revolution did not occur in the cities by the workers, as Marx had predicted, but in rural areas? What were the reasons for the Chinese Communist Revolution? What were the characteristics of the "Socialist Country with Chinese characteristics"? How far were they Chinese?
 
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F 11/11/2011 12-12.50 p.m. Online Activities, Coaching
 
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working on wiki, teacher answers personal student questions regarding reading comprehension question in chat room
 
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M 11/14/2011 12-12.50 p.m. The occupation of Tibet and Han-Chinese settlement policy
 
 
Guest lecturer: Dr. Kathreen Brown, Professor and Dean of the History Dept.
 
Guest lecturer: Dr. Kathreen Brown, Professor and Dean of the History Dept.
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Required reading: internet research on ethnic groups and minorities, occupations, settlement policies, independence movements, divide et impera policies etc.
 
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Assignment 26: Please read the texts for the next session (see beneath) and take the quiz on it (Assignment 26).
 
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W 11/16/2011 12-12.50 p.m. Campaigns and the Cultural Revolution
 
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Required reading: 507-514, 536-553, 565-586=ch. 22
 
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Reading in turn #67 Trevor: Frank Dikoetter, Mao’s Great Famine: the History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 (New York: Walker, 2010), pp.127-144, 324-334
 
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Reading in turn #68 Gavin: Roderick MacFarquhar, Michael Schoenhals, Mao’s Last Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), pp.1-18 - part I
 
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Reading in turn #69 Jessica: Roderick MacFarquhar, Michael Schoenhals, Mao’s Last Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), pp.19-36 - part II
 
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Assignment 27: Please read the texts for the next session (see beneath) and take the quiz on it (Assignment 27).
 
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F 11/18/2011 12-12.50 p.m. Online Activities, Coaching
 
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working on wiki, teacher answers personal student questions regarding reading comprehension question in chat room
 
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M 11/21/2011 12-12.50 p.m. The Open-Door Policy, Remodeling Laws and Legal System
 
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required reading 13 pp.: 669-677, 696-704
 
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Oral report: Gavin (2) Deng Xiaoping (邓小平, 1904-1997)
 
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All: Please prepare panel discussion with (4) Zhao Ziyang (赵紫阳, 1919-2005); (10) Wei Jingsheng (魏京生, 1950-)
 
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W 11/23/2011 12-12.50 p.m. Thanksgiving Holidays
 
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F 11/25/2011 12-12.50 p.m. Thanksgiving Holidays
 
  
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M 11/28/2011 12-12.50 p.m. Democratic Reforms
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== Campaigns and the Cultural Revolution ==
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Guest Lecturer: Dr. Danny Damron, "The Democratization process in China and 1989"
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* 67 Trevor: Frank Dikoetter, Mao’s Great Famine: the History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 (New York: Walker, 2010), pp.127-144, 324-334
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required reading 8 p.: internet research on democratization in China, the Peking Spring 1979, the Democracy Movement in 1989.
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* 68 Gavin: Roderick MacFarquhar, Michael Schoenhals, Mao’s Last Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), pp.1-18 - part I
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Required preparation: internet research, film screening
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* 69 Jessica: Roderick MacFarquhar, Michael Schoenhals, Mao’s Last Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), pp.19-36 - part II
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Assignment 28: Please read the texts for the next session (see beneath) and take the quiz on it (Assignment 28).
 
  
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== The Open-Door Policy, Remodeling Laws and Legal System ==
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* Gavin (Deng Xiaoping (邓小平, 1904-1997)
  
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W 11/30/2011 12-12.50 p.m. The special economic zones, Taiwan and the economical miracle
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== The Democratization process in China and 1989 ==
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Required reading 16 pp.: 631-640, 705-709, 714-717
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Guest Lecturer: Dr. Danny Damron
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Oral report: Trevor (13) Xi Jinping (习近平, 1953-)
 
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All: Please prepare panel discussion with: (12) Hu Jintao (胡锦涛, 1942-); (9) Wen Jiabao (温家宝, 1942-)
 
  
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F 12/02/2011 12-12.50 p.m. Online Activities, Coaching
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== The special economic zones, Taiwan and the economical miracle ==
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working on wiki, teacher answers personal student questions regarding reading comprehension question in chat room
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* Trevor (13) Xi Jinping (习近平, 1953-)
  
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== China's impact on the world today: The global economical powerhouse and the new soft superpower ==
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Final interactive panel discussion with all historical figures (a rare chance!)
 
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W 12/07/2011 12-12.50 p.m. China's impact on the world today: The global economical powerhouse and the new soft superpower
 
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Required readings (all short articles):
 
 
Fish 2011: Isaac Stone Fish, “China’s Failed Charm Offensive” in: Newsweek (1/19/2011), http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/01/19/china-s-failed-charm-offensive.html
 
Fish 2011: Isaac Stone Fish, “China’s Failed Charm Offensive” in: Newsweek (1/19/2011), http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/01/19/china-s-failed-charm-offensive.html
 
Gates 2007, Thom Shanker, "Defense Secretary Urges More Spending for U.S. Diplomacy", in: New York Times (2007.11.27), http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/washington/27gates.html
 
Gates 2007, Thom Shanker, "Defense Secretary Urges More Spending for U.S. Diplomacy", in: New York Times (2007.11.27), http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/washington/27gates.html
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Reading in turn #70 Talya: McClory 2010, Jonathan McClory, “The new persuaders - An international ranking of soft power”, in: (2010.12), http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/20/the-new-persuaders
 
Reading in turn #70 Talya: McClory 2010, Jonathan McClory, “The new persuaders - An international ranking of soft power”, in: (2010.12), http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/20/the-new-persuaders
 
Reading in turn #71 Alexis: Nye/Wang 2009, Joseph S. Nye/Jisi Wang, „Hard decisions on soft power“, in: Harvard International Review, http://hir.harvard.edu/agriculture/hard-decisions-on-soft-power
 
Reading in turn #71 Alexis: Nye/Wang 2009, Joseph S. Nye/Jisi Wang, „Hard decisions on soft power“, in: Harvard International Review, http://hir.harvard.edu/agriculture/hard-decisions-on-soft-power
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Nye 1990, Joseph S. Nye, Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power, 1990
 
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Final exam
 

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Foreword

- Historical Figures: Licia = Qianlong, Alexis = Cixi, Kendra = Kang Youwei, Talya = Liang Qichao, Thomas = Sun Yat-sen, Juan = Mao Zedong, Gavin = Deng Xiaoping, Jessica = Chiang Kai-shek, Trevor = Xi Jinping.

The Qing overthrow the Ming

The Manchu Conquest

Kangxi's Consolidation

Qianlong's Wisdom / State and Governance in China

Elites and Social Power

Late Imperial Culture

Women and Gender

* 18 Grace Fong, Signifying Bodies: The Cultural Significance of Suicide Writing by Women in Ming-Qing China By Grace S. Fong, in Ropp, ed., Passionate Women: Female Suicide in Late Imperial China (Special issue of the journal Nan/Nü 3.1 [2001]), 105-142 Cixi

Material from Syllabus

China and the Outside World

  • 19 Glorydawn Vahai: John K. Fairbank, ed., The Chinese World Order, 1-19
  • 20 Juan Anzar: Kenneth Pomeranz, “Political Economy and Ecology on the Eve of Industrialization,” American Historical Review 107.2 (2002), 425-446.
  • 21 Jessica Breedlove: Evelyn Rawski, “The Qing Formation and the Early Modern Period,” The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time, 207-241.
  • 22 Thomas Giles: R. Bin Wong, “The Search for European Differences and Domination in the Early Modern World,” American Historical Review 107.2 (2002), 447-469.

China and the Outside World / Clash with the West

  • 23 Trevor Ireland: Dilip Basu, “The Opium War and the Opening of China: An Historiographical Note,” and Tan Chung, “Interpretations of the Opium War (1840-1842): A Critical Reappraisal,” in Ch’ing-shih wen-t’i (December 1977), 2-16, 32-46.
  • 24 Talya Trunnel: James Polachek, The Inner Opium War, 1-16, 273-287.
  • 25 Katheryn Kriek: Fairbank, “Synarchy Under the Treaties,” 204-231.

The Crisis Within

  • 26 Kendra Mairs: Ebrey, “Mid-Century Rebels” in Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook
  • 27 Gavin Norton: Susan Naquin, Millenarian Rebellion in China, 1-8, 63-117.
  • 28 Alexis Sagen: Elizabeth Perry, Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1-9, 48-95.
  • 29 Glorydawn Vahai: Robert Weller, “Saturating the Movement” and “Too Many Voices,” 50-85.
  • 30 Juan Anzar: Paul Cohen, History in Three Keys, 69-95. [Link to Google books]

 The Political and Social Effects of the Taiping Rebellion

  • 31 Jessica Breedlove: Philip Kuhn, Rebellion and its Enemies in Late Imperial China, 105-164, 211-225.
  • 32 Thomas Giles: Edward McCord, “Militia and Local Militarization in Late Qing and Early Republican China: The Case of Hunan,” Modern China (April 1988), 156-187.
  • 33 Trevor Ireland: Michael, Franz "Regionalism in Nineteenth Century China" in Stanley Spector, Li Hung-chang and the Huai Army, xxi-xliii.

Self-Strengthening and the Problem of Imperialism

  • 34 Alexis: Paul Cohen, “Imperialism: Reality or Myth?,” Discovering History in China, 97-147.
  • 35 Trevor: James Hevia, English Lessons, 186-281.
  • Kendra = Kang Youwei (康有為, 1858-1927)
  • Talya = Liang Qichao (梁啟超, 1873-1929)

 Problems at the End of the Qing

  • 36 Juan: Douglas Reynolds, China, 1898-1912: The Xinzheng Revolution and Japan, 1-14.

The 1911 Revolution

  • 37 Jessica: Mary Wright, China in Revolution, 1-62.
  • 38 Thomas: Ichiko Chuzo, “The Role of the Gentry: An Hypothesis,” China in Revolution, 297-318.
  • 39 Trevor: Edward Rhoads, Manchu and Han, introduction and conclusion.

The New Republic

  • 40 Trevor: Cheng and Lestz, “Yuan Shikai: Two Documents,” “Feng Yuxiang: Praising the Lord,” and “Zhang Zongchang: With Pleasure Rife” in DOC 214-216
  • 41 Talya: Arthur Waldron, “The Warlord: Twentieth Chinese Understandings of Violence, Militarism, and Imperialism,” American Historical Review 96:4 (1991) 1073-1100.
  • 42 Gavin: James Sheridan, Chinese Warlord: The Career of Feng Yu-hsiang, 1-30.
  • 43 Alexis Shelley Yomano, "Reintegration in China under the Warlords, 1916-1927.” In Republican China, vol. 12, no. 2 (April 1987), pp. 22-27.
  • Sun Yat-sen (孫逸仙 = Sun Zhongshan 孫中山, 1866-1925)

The New Culture and May Fourth

  • 44 Juan: Ebrey, “Spirit of May Fourth” and “Ridding China of Bad Customs” in Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook
  • 45 Jessica: Lu Xun, “Ah Q: The Real Story” and “My Old Home”
  • 46 Thomas: Henrietta Harrison, The Making of the Republican Citizen, 49-92.
  • 47 Trevor: Rudolf Wagner, “The Canonization of May Fourth,” The Appropriation of Cultural Capital.

The Guomindang in Power

  • 48 Trevor: Lloyd E. Eastman, “New insights into the nature of the nationalist regime” Republican China 9.2: 8-18
  • 49 Talya: Joseph Fewsmith “Response to Eastman's review article New Insights into the Nature of the Nationalist Regime” Republican China 9.2 (February 1984), 19-27.
  • 50: Bradley Geisert “Probing KMT rule: reflections on Eastman's new insights,” Republican China 9.2: 28-39.

Reading in turn #51 Gavin: Parks Coble, “The Kuomintang Regime and the Shanghai Capitalists, 1927-1929,” China Quarterly 77 (March 1979), 1-24.

  • Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石, 1887-1975): Jessica

Mao and the Rise of the CCP

  • 52 Alexis: Benjamin Schwartz, Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao, 7-27.
  • 53 Juan: Hans van de Ven, From Friend to Comrade, 9-54.
  • 54 Trevor: Stuart Shram, The Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung, 15-73.
  • Mao Zedong (毛泽东, 1893-1976)

World War Two

  • 56 Katie Bowers ---: Lloyd Eastman, “Facets of an Ambivalent Relationship: Smuggling, Puppets, and Atrocities During the War, 1937-1945”
  • 58 Gavin Norton: Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi, The Nanjing Atrocity, 1937-38: Complicating the Picture, chapters by Wakabayashi, 3-28; Askew, 86-114; Fogel, 267-284; and Yamamoto, 285-303.

The Communist Revolution

  • 59 Alexis Sagen: Chalmers Johnson, Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power, 1-30.
  • 60 Juan Anzar:  Stephen Averill, “Party, Society, and Local Elite in the Jiangxi Communist Movement,” Journal of Asian Studies 46.2 (May 1987), 279-303.
  • 61 Jessica Breedlove: K.K. Shum, “The Communist Party’s Strategy for Galvanizing Popular Support, 1930-1945,” in Pong and Fung, eds., Ideal and Reality: Social and Political Change in Modern China.

Birth of the PRC

  • 62 Trevor Ireland: Donald Gillin, “‘Peasant Nationalism’ in the History of Chinese Communism,” Journal of Asian Studies 23.2 (Feb. 1964), 269-289.
  • 63 Gavin Norton:  Joseph Esherick, “Ten Theses on the Chinese Revolution”
  • 64 Talya: Edward Friedman, Paul Pickowicz, Chinese Village, Socialist State (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991), pp.80-159 [first part Silent Sound]
  • 65 Jessica: Edward Friedman, Paul Pickowicz, Chinese Village, Socialist State (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991), pp.80-159 [second part Honeymoon]
  • 66 Alexis: Edward Friedman, Paul Pickowicz, Chinese Village, Socialist State (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991), pp.80-159 [third part Gamble]

 The occupation of Tibet and Han-Chinese settlement policy

Guest lecturer: Dr. Kathreen Brown, Professor and Dean of the History Dept.

Campaigns and the Cultural Revolution

  • 67 Trevor: Frank Dikoetter, Mao’s Great Famine: the History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 (New York: Walker, 2010), pp.127-144, 324-334
  • 68 Gavin: Roderick MacFarquhar, Michael Schoenhals, Mao’s Last Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), pp.1-18 - part I
  • 69 Jessica: Roderick MacFarquhar, Michael Schoenhals, Mao’s Last Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), pp.19-36 - part II

The Open-Door Policy, Remodeling Laws and Legal System

  • Gavin (Deng Xiaoping (邓小平, 1904-1997)

The Democratization process in China and 1989

Guest Lecturer: Dr. Danny Damron

The special economic zones, Taiwan and the economical miracle

  • Trevor (13) Xi Jinping (习近平, 1953-)

China's impact on the world today: The global economical powerhouse and the new soft superpower

Fish 2011: Isaac Stone Fish, “China’s Failed Charm Offensive” in: Newsweek (1/19/2011), http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/01/19/china-s-failed-charm-offensive.html Gates 2007, Thom Shanker, "Defense Secretary Urges More Spending for U.S. Diplomacy", in: New York Times (2007.11.27), http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/27/washington/27gates.html Hu 2007, Xinhua News Agency „Hu Jintao calls for enhancing ‘soft power’ of Chinese culture“, in: People’s daily (2007.10.15) http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-10/15/content_6883748.htm And the longer article: Woesler, "China as the new soft superpower and the global impact of its culture" 2011 Reading in turn #70 Talya: McClory 2010, Jonathan McClory, “The new persuaders - An international ranking of soft power”, in: (2010.12), http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/20/the-new-persuaders Reading in turn #71 Alexis: Nye/Wang 2009, Joseph S. Nye/Jisi Wang, „Hard decisions on soft power“, in: Harvard International Review, http://hir.harvard.edu/agriculture/hard-decisions-on-soft-power

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