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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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