KSCB029 Intellectual history of China in the 19th-20th century

Filozofická fakulta
jaro 2013
Rozsah
1/1/0. 4 kr. Ukončení: k.
Vyučující
MA. Oliver Weingarten, Ph.D. (přednášející), Mgr. et Mgr. Dušan Vávra, Ph.D. (zástupce)
Garance
doc. PhDr. Luboš Bělka, CSc.
Seminář čínských studií – Ústav religionistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Mgr. et Mgr. Dušan Vávra, Ph.D.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Seminář čínských studií – Ústav religionistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Rozvrh
Út 9:10–10:45 M24
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Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
At the end of the course the students will:
- be familiar with late 19th - early 20th century history of China
- be acquainted with the most important intellectual debates - be able to discuss and interpret the challenges of modernisation of China
- have improved their presentation skills in English
Osnova
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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., 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.
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • Fairbank, John K., China: A New History, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, Mass, and London: Belknap Pr., 2006)
  • Contemporary Chinese Philosophy, ed. Cheng Chung-ying and Nicholas Bunnin (Malden and Oxford: Blackwell, 2002).
  • Elman, Benjamin A., A Cultural History of Modern Science in China (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard UP)
  • Schram, Stuart, The Thought of Mao Tse-tung (Cambridge: CUP, 1989)
  • Tan, Chester T., Chinese Political Thought in the Twentieth Century (Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1972).
  • 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)
  • Yue, Meng, Shanghai and the Edges of Empire (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Pr., 2006).
  • Fung, Edmund S.K., The Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Modernity: Cultural and Political Thought in the Republican Era (New York: Cambridge UP, 2010)
  • Chow, Tse-tsung, The May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1964).
  • The Construction of Racial Identities in China and Japan, ed. Frank Dikötter (Hong Kong: Hong Kong UP, 1997).
  • Zarrow, Peter, China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949 (London and New York: Routledge, 2005)
  • 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)
  • Harrison, Henrietta, China, Inventing the Nation (London: Arnold, 2001)
    doporučená literatura
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Michael Lackner, Iwo Amelung, and Joachim Kurtz, ed., New Terms for New Ideas: Western Knowledge and Lexical Change in Late Imperial China (Leiden, Boston, and Köln: Brill, 2001)
  • 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.
  • Wagner, Rudolf G., “The Role of the Foreign Community in the Chinese Public Sphere”. China Quarterly 142 (June 1995)
  • Pong, David, Shen Pao-chen and China’s Modernization in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: CUP)
Výukové metody
-lecture
- class discussions
- students presentations
Metody hodnocení
- attendance (max. 2 unexcused absences)
- active participation in class discussion
- presentation (including submission of script/ppt)
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Angličtina
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