Main Program - Winter

Syllabus for Changing China, Winter 2009                                       

Week 1 (1/5-1/9) -- Introduction: Review and further argument on China's scientific contributions          

Reading: Winchester, Simon. The Man Who Loved China

Handout: 1st Research Project Assignment (research paper abstract, outline and bibliography) posted on webpage

Week 2 (1/12-1/16) -- Late Qin stories: China's interaction with the world             

Reading: Spence, Jonathan. God's Chinese Son

Assignment: 1st bi-weekly integrative paper due Thursday (2 pages)

Week 3 (1/20-1/23) -- Early History of Chinese Americans (No Monday Class)     

Reading: Fleming, Anne Marie.  The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam

Special Guest: Anne Marie Fleming

Special Event: Evergreen Expressions featuring Anne Marie Fleming, Wed, Jan 21 (admission: $5)

Assignment: 1st research assignment (research paper abstract, outline and bibliography) due Thursday

Handout: 2nd research project assignment (1st draft of research paper) posted on webpage

Week 4 (1/26-1/30) -- From Imperial China to the Republican Era

Reading:

Chapters 1 & 2, "The Legacies of Imperial China" and "The Republican Era"; pp. 3-26, 27-56, In Governing China: From Revolution Through Reform

Introduction, pp. 1-14; and Chapters 1, 2, "The Geographical Setting", "The Chinese Economy before 1949"; pp. 15-32, and 33-54. In: Naughton, Barry. (2007). The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth.

Special Event: ASDP Symposium Thurs through Sat. 1/19-1/31 SEM II B1105.

your participation in Edward Slingerland's session on Friday, 1/30, 1:30-3:30 is free and required.   

 The first lecture on Thursday at 7:30 PM is also free and open to all students. 

2009 Chinese New Year Celebration will be held at Olympia High School on Sunday (Feb. 1). For more information and directions, go to Olympia Area Chinese Fellowship website.

Assignment: 2nd bi-weekly integrative paper due Thursday (2 pages)

Week 5 (2/2-2/6) -- Intellectual Crisis and Chinese Enlightenment from late Qing to early Republic

Reading:

Introduction, Chapter 1 and Conclusion. pp. 1-93; pp. 283-302. In Vera Schwarcz. (1986). The Chinese Enlightenment: Intellectual and the Legacy of the May Fourth Movement of 1919. University of California Press. Available on E-reserve. 

Introduction, Chapter 1-2. pp. xvii-64. In Michael Gasster. (1969). Chinese Intellectuals and the Revolution of 1911: The Birth of Modern Chinese Radicalism. University of Washington Press. Available on E-reserve.   

Introduction, Chapter 1-5. pp.1-134. In Guy Alitto. (1979). The Last Confucian: Liang Shu-ming and the Chinese Dilemma of Modernity. University of California Press. Available on E-reserve.   

Assignment: 1st draft of research paper (4-7 page) with bibliography due Thursday

Handout: 3rd and final research project assignment (10-12 page research paper with bibliography) posted on webpage

Week 6 (2/6-2/13) -- Mao Zedong and Communist China

Reading:

Chapters 3-4, "The Maoist System: Ideas and Governance", and "The Maoist Era"; 59-83 and 84-122. In: Lieberthal, Kenneth. (2004). Governing China: From Revolution Through Reform

Chapter 3, "The Socialist Era, 1949-1978: Big Push Industrialization and Policy Instability"; pp. 55-84. In: Naughton, Barry. (2007). The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth.

Special Event: Lunar New Year Celebration, Sunday, February 15, 7:30 PM in Washington Center for Performing Arts (admission: $8)

Assignment: 3rd bi-weekly integrative essay due Thursday (2 pages)

Week 7 (2/17-2/20) -- Intellectual Crisis and Cultural Transformation Revisited (No Monday Class)

Reading: Lao She. Camel Xiangzi (Rickshaw Boy)

Week 8 (2/23-2/27) - The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)

Reading: Yu Hua, To Live

Assignment: 4th bi-weekly integrative essay due Thursday (2 pages)

Week 9 (3/2-3/6)

Reading TBA

Special Guests: Six professors from the Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing    

Research Project Oral Presentation (10 minutes each person)

Assignment: Final Research Paper due Thursday (10-12 page) with bibliography

Week 10 (3/9-3/13)

No Reading

Research Project Oral Presentation (10 minutes each person)