KSCA012 History of China I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 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
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.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2018.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2017, recent)
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