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PLEASE NOTE: In the week you are doing your presentation, you do not need to prepare the
general readings as well.
1. Preliminaries, Historical Background (Feb. 19)
No readings.
2. Crises of the 19th
Century (Feb. 26)
Fairbank, John K., China: A New History, 2nd
ed. (Cambridge, Mass, and London: Belknap
Pr., 2006), ch. 11.
Presentations
Fairbank, China, ch. 9.
Harrison, Henrietta, China, Inventing the Nation (London: Arnold, 2001), 55-86.
3. Early Modernisation Efforts (Mar. 5)
Fairbank, China, ch. 11.
Presentations
Pong, David, Shen Pao-chen and China’s Modernization in the Nineteenth Century
(Cambridge: CUP), 109-128
Spence, Jonathan, To Change China: Western Advisers in China, 1620-1960 (Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1980), 106-128.
4. Newspapers (March 12)
Mittler, Barbara, “Domesticating an Alien Medium”, in Joining the Global Public: Word,
Image, and City in Early Chinese Newspapers, 1870-1910 (Albany: SUNY Pr., 2007),
13-46.
Presentations
Nathan, Andrew J., and Leo Ou-fan Lee, “The Beginnings of Mass Culture: Journalism and
Fiction in the Late Ch’ing and Beyond”, in: David Johnson, Andrew J. Nathan and
Evelyn S. Rawski, ed., Popular Culture in Late Imperial China (Berkeley and Los
Angeles: Univ. of California Pr., 1985), 360-395.
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Wagner, Rudolf G., “The Role of the Foreign Community in the Chinese Public Sphere”.
China Quarterly 142 (June 1995): 423-443.
5. The Hundred Days Reform (March 19)
Zarrow, Peter, China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949 (London and New York: Routledge,
2005), ch. 1.
Presentations
Kwong, Luke S.K. 2000. “Chinese Politics at the Crossroads: Reflections on the Hundred
Days Reform of 1898”. Modern Asian Studies 34.3 (2000): 663-695.
Van Ess, Hans, “The Old Text/New Text Controversy: Has the 20th
Century Got It Wrong?”
T’oung Pao 80.1-3 (1994): 146-170.
6. Nation and Ethnicity (March 26)
Harrison, Henrietta, China, Inventing the Nation (London: Arnold, 2001), 88-110.
Presentations
Chow, Kai-wing, “Imagining Boundaries of Blood: Zhang Binglin and the Invention of the
Han ‘Race’ in Modern China”, in The Construction of Racial Identities in China and
Japan, ed. Frank Dikötter (Hong Kong: Hong Kong UP, 1997), 34-54.
Dikötter, Frank, “Racial Discourse in China: Continuities and Permutations”, in The
Construction of Racial Identities, 12-33.
7. The Xinhai Revolution (April 2)
Fairbank, China, 235-254.
Presentations
Harrison, China, 132-150.
Zarrow, China in War and Revolution, ch. 2.
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8. Science and Education (April 9)
Weston, Timothy B., The Power of Position: Beijing University, Intellectuals, and Chinese
Political Culture, 1898-1929 (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: Univ. California Pr.,
2004), 12-39.
Presentations
Elman, Benjamin A., A Cultural History of Modern Science in China (Cambridge, Mass., and
London: Harvard UP), ch. 5.
Yue, Meng, Shanghai and the Edges of Empire (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Pr., 2006),
31-61.
9. Intellectuals and the Republic (April 16)
Zarrow, China in War and Revolution, ch. 7.
Presentations
Hu, Xinhe, “Hu Shi’s Enlightenment Philosophy”, in Contemporary Chinese Philosophy, ed.
Cheng Chung-ying and Nicholas Bunnin (Malden and Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), ch 2.
Xiao, Yang, “Liang Qichao’s Political and Social Philosophy”, in Contemporary Chinese
Philosophy, ch. 1.
10. May Fourth (April 23)
Zarrow, China in War and Revolution, ch. 8.
Presentations
Chow, Tse-tsung, The May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1964), 289-313.
Harbsmeier, Christoph, “May Fourth Linguistic Orthodoxy and Rhetoric: Some Informa
Comparative Notes”, in Michael Lackner, Iwo Amelung, and Joachim Kurtz, ed., New
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Terms for New Ideas: Western Knowledge and Lexical Change in Late Imperial China
(Leiden, Boston, and Köln: Brill, 2001), 373-410.
Mitter,Rana, A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World (New York:
Oxford UP, 2004): 41-68.
11. Radical Ideologies (April 30)
Zarrow, China in War and Revolution, ch. 9.
Presentations
Schram, Stuart, The Thought of Mao Tse-tung (Cambridge: CUP, 1989), 13-42.
Tan, Chester T., Chinese Political Thought in the Twentieth Century (Newton Abbot: David
and Charles, 1972), ch. 5: “Sun Yat-sen”, 116-140.
12. Conservative Reactions (May 7)
Fung, Edmund S.K., The Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Modernity: Cultural and
Political Thought in the Republican Era (New York: Cambridge UP, 2010), ch. 2: “The
Pull of Cultural Conservatism”.
Presentations
Dirlik, Arid, “The Ideological Foundations of the New Life Movement: A Study in
Counterrevolution”, Journal of Asian Studies 34.4: 945-980.
13. Concluding Discussion (May 14)
No readings.