FF:KSCA012 History of China I - Course Information
KSCA012 History of China I
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2017
The course is not taught in Autumn 2017
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Lucie Olivová, MA, Ph.D., DSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Lucie Olivová, MA, Ph.D., DSc.
Department of Chinese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Jana Vávrová Mašková, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Chinese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites
- basics of Chinese geography, pinyin transcription of Chinese
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Culture Studies of China (programme FF, B-HS)
- Culture Studies of China (programme FF, B-MS) (2)
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course students should be able to:
understand the basics of Chinese historical politics and culture;
understand the essential terminology of Chinese historiography;
understand the importance of Chinese history for contemporary problems - Syllabus
- 1) introduction, neolithic cultures
- 2) Shang and Zhou dynasties up to the Chunqiu Period
- 3) The Warring States Period and Qin Dynasty
- 4) Han Dynasty, disunity
- 5) Sui and Tang Dynasties
- 6) the Silk Road, Buddhist artI
- 7) mid-term revision
- 8) the rise of the Song
- 9) Mongol expansion, the Yuan Dynasty
- 10) the Ming dynasty, exmination system
- 11) the rise of the Manchus, Jesuit missions
- 12) The High Qing Period up to 1800
- Literature
- required literature
- ROSSABI, Morris. A History of China. Blackwell Publ. 2014. 426 s. ISBN 978-1-55786-078-1.
- KOLMAŠ, Josef. Pojednání o věcech čínských. Vydání první. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2015, 271 stran. ISBN 9788074296291. info
- ŠKODA, Milan. Velké říše kočovníků : dvě tisíciletí ve stepích Evropy a Asie. Vydání první. Praha: Vyšehrad, 2015, 280 stran. ISBN 9788074294730. info
- MALINA, Jaroslav. První císař: Tvůrce Číny a osmého divu světa (The First Emperor: Creator of China and of the World’s Eighth Wonder). 2. přepracované vydání. Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2004, 295 pp. bez edice. ISBN 80-7204-298-X. info
- PALÁT, Augustin and Jaroslav PRŮŠEK. Středověká Čína : společnost a zvyky v době dynastií Sung a Jüan. Praha: DharmaGaia, 2001, 379 s. ISBN 8085905396. info
- EBREY, Patricia Buckley. The Cambridge illustrated history of China. 1st pbk. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 352 s. ISBN 9780521669917. info
- recommended literature
- BROOK, Timothy. The troubled empire : China in the Yuan and Ming dynasties. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010, 329 s. ISBN 9780674046023. info
- China between empiresthe northern and southern dynasties. Edited by Mark Edward Lewis. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009, 340 p. ISBN 0674026055. info
- LEWIS, Mark Edward. China's cosmopolitan empire : the Tang dynasty. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009, 356 s. ISBN 9780674033061. info
- ROWE, William T. China's last empire : the great Qing. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009, 360 s. ISBN 9780674036123. info
- KUHN, Dieter. The age of Confucian rule : the song transformation of China. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009, 356 s. ISBN 9780674031463. info
- LEWIS, Mark Edward. The early Chinese empires : Qin and Han. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007, 321 s. ISBN 9780674057340. info
- OLIVOVÁ, Lucie and XU SHU´AN. Vývoj správního systému v Číně. 1st ed. Praha: Karlova univerzita, 2000, 110 pp. ISBN 80-246-0093-5. info
- Chinese civilization : a sourcebook. Edited by Patricia Buckley Ebrey. 2. ed., rev. and expanded. New York: Free Press, 1993, xix, 524. ISBN 002908752X. info
- not specified
- KOLMAŠ, Josef and Jaroslav MALINA. Panoráma biologické a sociokulturní antropologie 21: Čína z antropologické perspektivy (Panorama of Biological and Sociocultural Anthropology 21: China from Anthropological Perspective). Editor: Jaroslav Malina. Brno (CZ): Nadace Universitas Masarykiana v Brně, nakladatelství a vydavatelství Nauma v Brně, 2005, 475 pp. Modulové učební texty pro studenty antropologie. ISBN 80-210-3218-9. info
- FAIRBANK, John King. Dějiny Číny. Praha: Lidové noviny, 1998, 656 s. ISBN 80-7106-249-9. info
- POKORA, Timoteus. Čchin Š'chuang-ti. 1. vyd. V Praze: Orbis, 1967, 218 s. URL info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures
- Assessment methods
- Written test (mid-term and final) consisting of ca 20 questions, minimum pass level 60 %.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every other week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2017, recent)
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