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Approved by University Studies Sub-committee. A2C2 action pending. Department: History
Date:
February 17, 2003 Proposal for:
New
Course: XX
Course
change: __
New/Revised
Program: __ Course/Program Title:
Modern China
New Course Proposal Course Number
343 Course title:
Modern China
Credits: 3_ Frequency of Offering:
Every Other
Year Prerequisites
Grading: XX Grade
Only
__P/NC Only
__P/NC
Option Applies to
_XX Major
__XX_
Minor
__
General Education
_XX_ Elective
_XX_
Elective
_____Required ____Required
A. Course Description
1.
Catalog
Description This course permits
in-depth study of the major events and issues in China's dynamic transformation from the
world's oldest and largest bureaucracy to a revolutionary state-and its subsequent
evolution to the contemporary political and economic phenomenon we know today. Tracing
pre-modern legacies that have helped shape China, the course covers the decline and fall
of the Qing dynasty through the creation of Communist China and the unfolding of the
post-Mao, so-called “reform era.” The course will also address the lesser-known
areas of Tibet and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan,
2.
Statement of
major focus and objectives of the course The course will address
the main lines of modern Chinese development and challenge students to place documents
drawn from China’s past into historical context. By the end of the course, students
should have a greater understanding of modern China, how it came to be as it is, and
historians attempt to identify the continuities and changes that made China what it has
become.
3.
Course Outline
I. The
Setting of Modern China
A.
China’s
Geography and the Conditions it places on Chinese society
B.
Pre-modern
Political and Social Traditions
C.
Pre-modern
Cultural and Religious Traditions
II. The Qing
(Ch’ing) Dynasty, 1644-1911
A.
Manchu Conquest
and Consolidation
B.
Qing State and
Political Culture
C.
Qing Social
Order and Popoular Culture
III. The 18th
and 19th-CenturyWestern Invasion
A.
Ming Dynasty
Relations with the West
B.
Western Trade
Contacts and Qing Response
C.
The Opium Wars
and Unequal Treaty System
IV. Internal Challenges
A.
Taiping
Rebellion of the Mid-19th Century
B.
The Muslim
Rebellion in the West
C.
Qing Military
Reform
V. Qing Reform and Collapse
A.
Late 19th-Century
Reform Attempts
B.
Early 20th-Century
Collapse of the Qing Dynasty
VI. Revolution and
Disintegration
A.
Development of
the Guomindong (Kuomintang) [Nationalist] Party
B.
1911 Revolution
and its Failure
C.
Post-Revolutionary
Warlordism and Chaos
VII. Early 20th-Century
Radicalism
A.
Chinese
Anarchism
B.
Cultural
Revolutionaries
C.
Birth of the
Communist Party
D.
Communist
Doctrine
VIII. Comintern and Coalition
Politics
A.
Nationalist-Communist
Cooperation in Mid 1920s
B.
1927 Nationalist
Assault on Communism
IX. The Japan Problem
A.
Development of
Japan’s Interest in China
B.
1930-1940s
Sino-Japanese War
X. Mao’s Communist Party
and China
A.
Mao’s
Version of Marxism
B.
Mao’s
Revolutionary Strategy
C.
Mao’s
Sino-Japanese War
D.
The Post War
Civil War
XI. Mao’s China
A.
Factional Strife
within the Chinese Communist Party
B.
The Korean War
C.
Mao’s Rural
Policy and the Soviet-style Five Year Plan
D.
The Great Leap
Forward
E.
The Great
Proletarian Cultural Revolution
XII. Post Mao China Reform
A.
Deng Xiaoping
and the Retreat from Utopianism
B.
Open Door to
Foreign Investment and the “Responsibility System”
XIII. Towards Contemporary China
A.
The Democracy
Movement and The Tiananmen Disaster
B.
Free Markets and
Economic Development
C.
The Sagging
State Sector and the New Labor Problem
D.
An Assertive
Foreign Policy
XIV. The Other Chinas
A.
Tibet and
Xinjiang
B.
Taiwan
C.
Hong Kong
4.
Basic
Instruction Methods The course will employ
both traditional lecture and discussion. Discussions will challenge students to place
documents drawn from China’s past into their historical context.
5.
Course
Requirements Each student will
complete two exams, a paper on a topic approved by the instructor, and participate in
class discussions.
6.
Textbooks. Lloyd Eastmen, Family, Field and Ancestors, Constancy and
Change in China’s Social and Economic History, 1550-1949 Arif Dirlik, . The
Origins of Chinese Communism Jonathan Spence, Mao Pei-kai Cheng, et al, The
Search for Modern China, A Documentary Collection Maurice Meisner, The
Deng Xiaoping Era John Avedon, In Exile
from the Land of the Snows
7.
References Avedon, John. In Exile
from the Land of Snows, The Definitive Account of the Dalai Lama and Tibet Since the
Chinese Conquest (1997) Bernstein, Richard and
Munro, Ross, The Coming Conflict with China (1998) Bianco, Lucian. Origins
of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949 (1967) Binyan, Liu. Tell the
World What Happened in China and Why (1989) Brownell, Susan and
Wasserstrom, Jeffery. Chinese Femininities, Chinese Masculinities : A Reader (2002) Chen, Jack, The
Sinkiang Story (1977) Chesneaux, Jean. China
4 vols.(1974-1979) Cheng, Nien. Life and
Death in Shanghai (1986) Cheng, Pei-kai, Letstz,
Michael, and Spence, Jonathan, The Search for Modern China, A Documentary Collection
(1999). Chin, Pa. Family
(1931) Collected Works of Mao
Zedong. Confucius. The
Analects DeBary, Wm. Theodore et
al. Sources of Chinese Tradition (1960) Deyi, Zhang. Diary of
a Chinese Diplomat (1992) Dirlik, Arif. The
Origins of Chinese Communism (1989) Eastman, Lloyd. Family,
Field and Ancestors, Constancy and Change in China’s Social and Economic History,
1550-1949 (1988) Elisseeff, Vadime. The
Silk Roads, Highways of Culture and Commerce (2000) Evans, Harriet. Women and
sexuality in China : Female Sexuality and Gender since 1949 (1997) Evans, Richard. Deng
Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China (1997) Fanon, Frantz. The
Wretched of the Earth (1963) Fairbank, John King, The
Great Chinese Revolution, 1800-1985 (1987) Gilmatin, Christiana ed. Engendering
China : Women, Culture, and the State (1994) Goldstein, Melvyn. A
History of Modern Tibet, The Demise of the Lamaist State (1989) Goodman, David and Segal,
Gerald. China in the Nineties, Crisis Management and Beyond (1991) Gray, Jack. Rebellions
and Revolutions, China From the 1800s to the 1980s (1990) Grieder, Jerome B. Intellectuals
and the State in Modern China, A Narrative History (1981) Hinton, William.
Fanshen (1971) Hu, Fu. Tales of the
Qing Court (1990) Jacobs, Dan and Baerwald,
Hans. Chinese Communism, Selected Documents (1963) Jenner, W.J.F. The
Tyranny of History, The Roots of China’s Crisis (1992) Levathes, Louise. When
China Ruled the Seas, The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Thone, 1405-1433 (1994) Link, Perry. Evening
Chats in Beijing (1992) Lizhi, Fang. Bringing
Down rthe Great Wall, Writings on Science, Cultura and Democracy in China (1990) Meisner, Maurice, Mao’s
China (1979) Meisner, Maurice. Marxism,
Maoism and Utopianism (1982) Meisner, Maurice. The
Deng Xiaoping Era, An Inquirery into the Fate of Chinese Socialims, 1978-1994 (1996) Meyer, Karl and Brysac,
Shareen, Tournament of Shadows, The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia
(1999) Myrdal, Jan. Return to
a Chinese Village (1984) Nathan, Andrew and Link,
Perry, The Tiananmen papers, the Chnese Leadership’s Decision to Use Force Against
their Own people – In there Own Words (2001) Schell, Orville, Mandate
of Heaven, A New Generation of Entrepreneurs, Dissidents, Bohemians and Technocrats Lays
Claim to China’s Future (1994) Schell, Orville and
Shambaugh, David. The China Reader, The Reform Era (1999) Schell, Orville. Virtual
Tibet, Searching For Shangi-La from the Himalayas to Hollywood (2000) Schram, Stuart. The
Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung (1970) Schram, Stuart. Chairman
Mao Talks to the People, Talks and Letters, 1956-1971 (1974) Schurmann, Franz. Ideology
and Organization in Communist China (1966) Selden, Mark. The
Yenan Way in Revolutionary China (1972) Short, Philip. Mao, A
Life (1999) Snow, Edgar. Red Star
Over China (1938) Soucek, Svat. A History
of Inner Asia (2000) Spence, Jonathan, The
Search for Modern China (2nd ed. 1999) Siu, Hellen and Stern,
Zelda. Mao’s Harvest, Voices from China’s New Generation (1983) Waldron, Arthur. The
Great Wall of China, From History to Myth (1990) Wilson, Dick. The Long
March 1935, The Epic of Chinese Communism’s Survival (1971) Wolf, Eric. Peasant
Wars in the Twentieth Century (1969) Yu-ning, Li. Chinese
Women through Chinese Eyes (1992) Xun, Lu. Selected
Poems (1981)
B.
Rationale The department is
proposing this course to broaden the upper-level possibilities for History and Social
Science/History majors and as a contribution to the East Asian track of the Global Studies
program that is under development.
C.
Notification Approval of this course
will not change the number of credits required by any program.
D. G Courses The department is not
proposing this course for G or 500-level credit.
E. General Education The department is not
proposing this course for the General Education or University Studies programs.
Financial and Staffing Data Sheet For New Course Proposals PROPOSED COURSE: No.: 343 Title:
Modern China
Credits:
3
PROPOSED AS: Required Course _________ Elective Course _____X____ Specify titles of programs in which the course will be
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NARRATIVE STATEMENT AND SPECIFIC DATA TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.
1. Would this course be taught with
existing staff or with new/additional staff? This course would be
taught with existing staff. It would require no additional faculty.
2. How would this new course impact
on current course offerings (i.e. change the number of sections of current offerings,
dropping/banking of courses, etc.)? The department would
offer sections this course in place of other 300- 400-level courses. There would be no net
loss or addition to the number of 300- and 400-level courses the department would offer
each year on account of adding this course to the curriculum.
3. How would this new course impact
the department’s budget (e.g. equipment, supplies, instructional resources, etc.)? The course could have a
no impact on the department’s budget. It would simply take the place of another 300-
or 400-level course that we would have offered. Signed:
__________________________ Department Chairperson
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