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Welcome to our course wiki. Thank you for your registration. Please register with at least 2 names, one should be your historical figure (if you know it yet) and the other an anonymous alias which allows you to peer review your fellow students' articles without making them angry.Root 00:48, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Please sign everything you write (the article on your historical figure, your comments to others, your entries here) with "~ ~ ~ ~" (without spaces). Wiki will turn that into your alias name and set a time stamp there. Thanks! It looks like this then: Root 18:43, 7 October 2011 (UTC) - the time indicated is a universal time since people might contribute from different time zones

How to write an article? 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 citation style when citing within your wiki articles. Root 00:48, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Foreword

The book in hand is in many respects unique: It has been written by the students attending a course on Modern Chinese History at Utah Valley University in Fall 2011. Using a Wikipedia writing tool, the students picked historical figures and wrote chapters on them using the I-perspective. Fellow students peer reviewed the articles and helped them to improve. I thank all authors, who made this venture come true: 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 links are their alias used for the summaries of secondary sources. Following the links, you can find a description of the historical figures they chose as their alias. We tried in our class to make history become alive again, applying a learner-centred approach. We hope, the readers enjoy the outcome of this team work.

Martin Woesler, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, Orem, Utah - Root 01:38, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

The Qing Dynasty

The Manchus overthrow the Ming Dynasty

• 02 Juan: Cheng and Lestz, Two edicts on wearing the hair, Glorifying the origins of the Manchus” in DOC, Cheng and Lestz
• 03 Thomas: Joanna Waley-Cohen The New Qing History in Radical History Review 88 (Winter 2004), 193-206
• 04 Evelyn: Presidential Address: Reenvisioning the Qing: The Significance of the Qing Period in Chinese History in The Journal of Asian Studies 55.4 (Nov., 1996), 829-850
• 05 Kendra: Ho Ping-ti, In Defense of Sinicization: A Rebuttal of Evelyn Rawski's ‘Reenvisioning the Qing’ in The Journal of Asian Studies, 57.1 (Feb., 1998), 123-155

Kangxi's Consolidation

• 06 Gavin: 1st edition of Cheng and Lestz, The Sacred Edict in The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection. Cheng and Lestz
• 07 Oboi Regency Cixi 20:59, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
• 08 Ruling from Sedan Chair: Wei Yijie (1616-1686) and the Examination Reform of the ‘Oboi’ Regency Liang Qichao 21:47, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
• 09 The Sacred Edict Chiang Kai-shek 19:12, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Qianlong's Wisdom / State and Governance in China

• 10 Juan: Huang Liuhong, A Complete Book Concerning Happiness and Benevolence, 60-68
• 11 States and society in 18th century china Chiang Kai-shek 19:10, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Elites and Social Power

• 12 Thomas: Chang Chung-li, The Chinese Gentry, 3-32.
• 13 Local Government in China under the Ching 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 Liang Qichao 21:36, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Late Imperial Culture

• 15 Naquin and Rawski, Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century, 55-93.
• 16 Kendra: Ebrey, Exhortations on Ceremony, in Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook
• 17 Gavin: Watson, Standardizing the Gods: The Promotion of T’ien-hou (Empress of Heaven) along the South China Coast, 960-1960
• 17a 1768- Philip Kuhn, Soulstealers: The Chinese Socery Scare of 1768 (HUP, 1990) - Qianlong

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

• Empress Dowager Cixi (慈禧, 1835-1908)

China and the Outside World

• 19 Glorydawn Vahai: John K. Fairbank, ed., The Chinese World Order, 1-19
• 20 Juan: Kenneth Pomeranz, Political Economy and Ecology on the Eve of Industrialization: Europe, China, and the Global, American Historical Review 107.2 (2002), 425-446 - Mao Zedong 20:59, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
• 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: 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 Xi Jinping 05:20, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
• 24 Talya: James Polachek, The Inner Opium War, 1-16, 273-287 Liang Qichao 21:51, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
• 25 Katheryn: Fairbank, “Synarchy Under the Treaties,” 204-231.

The Crisis Within

• 26 Kendra: Ebrey, “Mid-Century Rebels” in Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook
• 27 Gavin: Susan Naquin, Millenarian Rebellion in China, 1-8, 63-117.
• 28 Alexis: Elizabeth Perry, Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China 1845-1945 by Elizabeth Perry, 1-9, 48-95 Cixi 00:32, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
• 29 Glorydawn: Robert Weller, “Saturating the Movement” and “Too Many Voices,” 50-85.
• Tian hou - Deng Xiao Ping 20:56, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
• The eight trigrams - Deng Xiao Ping 20:56, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
• 30 1900 - Juan: Paul Cohen, History in Three Keys: The Boxers As Event, Experience, and Myth, 69-95. [Link to Google books] - Mao Zedong 20:59, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

 The Political and Social Effects of the Taiping Rebellion

• 31 Jessica: Philip Kuhn, Rebellion and its Enemies in Late Imperial China, 105-164, 211-225.
• 32 Thomas: 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: 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, Discovering History in China, 97-147 - Cixi
• 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 1898-1912 Juan: Douglas Reynolds, China, 1898-1912: The Xinzheng Revolution and Japan, 1-14 - Mao Zedong 20:59, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

The 1911 Revolution

• 37 Jessica: Mary Wright, China in revolution, 1-62 - Chiang Kai-shek 19:15, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
• 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 Republic of China

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-Century Chinese Understanding of Violence, Militarism & Imperialism, American Historical Review 96:4 (1991) 1073-1100 - Liang Qichao 21:42, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
• 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, Republican China, vol. 12, no. 2 (April 1987), pp. 22-27 - Cixi 02:08, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
• Sun Yat-sen (孫逸仙 = Sun Zhongshan 孫中山, 1866-1925)

The New Culture and May Fourth

• 44 Juan: Ebrey, Ebrey,“Spirit of May Fourth” and “Ridding China of Bad Customs” in Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook - Mao Zedong 19:15, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
• 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 - Liang Qichao
• 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 - Cixi 05:54, 26 October 2011 (UTC)
• 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”
• 57 Convergence or Divergence? Recent Historical Writings on the Rape of Nanjing The American Historical Review 104.3 (June 1999), 842-865.Yang Daqing --Kang Youwei 00:02, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
• 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: Chalmers Johnson, Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power, 1-30 - Cixi 23:00, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
• 60 Juan: Stephen Averill, Party, Society, and Local Elite in the Jiangxi Communist Movement, Journal of Asian Studies 46.2 (May 1987), 279-303 - Mao Zedong 19:45, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
• 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.

The People's Republic of China on the mainland and the Republic of China on Taiwan

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, Edward Friedman, Paul Pickowicz, Chinese Village, Socialist State New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991, pp.80-159 [first part Silent Sound] - Liang Qiacho
• 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: The Gamble, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991, pp.80-159 [third part Gamble] - Cixi 18:12, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

 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
• Woesler, "China as the new soft superpower and the global impact of its culture" 2011
• 70 Talya: Jonathan McClory, The new persuaders - An international ranking of soft power, in: (2010.12) - Liang Qiacho
• 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