Course Date: Saturday, May 1, 2021 (All day) to Tuesday, August 31, 2021 (All day)
Course Name: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Course ID: 02.108DH
Registrar Course ID: Digital Humanities
Instructor: Yang Huei Pang
Term: Term 2

This survey course explores the history of Modern China from the perspective of China’s interaction with modernity from within and without. In particular, it examines this dialectical relationship whereby China is seemingly “simultaneously enchanted and repelled” by changes either introduced to it. This course introduces key events, personages, and documents and provides students with an “inside perspective,” cultivating a detailed understanding, based on original sources, of the evolution of contemporary China. It further surveys theories and concepts that help analyse Chinese history. It will also familiarise students with past and current scholarships on China, and considers debates about the nature of China’s historical developments.

Titles Location
Week 1  
Wang Guangwu, “Greater China and the Chinese Overseas,” CQ (1993): 926-948.
Takeshi Hamashita, “The Intra-regional System in East Asia in Modern Times,” in Peter J. Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi, eds., Network Power: Japan and Asia (1997), 113-128.		  
Week 2  
Timothy Brook, The Confusions of Pleasure, (1998), pp. 153-237.

Chan Wing-tsit, “Dynamic Idealism in Wang Yang-ming,” in A source book in Chinese Philosophy (NJ: Princeton University Press, 1963), 654-691 .

Strassberg, Inscribed Landscapes: Travel writing from Imperial China (UCP, 1994), sections 36-38. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft2m3nb15s/

Ray Huang, 1567, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986), pp. 1-41		  
Week 3  
Thomas H. Reilly, “The Protestant Bible and the Birth of the Taiping Christian Movement,” in The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire (University of Washington Press, 2004), 54-77.

The Heavenly Kingdom of the Taipings,” Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 through the Twentieth Century, William T. de Bary and Richard Lufrano, eds., 213-230.

“The Crisis Within,” in The Search for Modern China, ed. Spence.

“Mid-century Rebels,” in Chinese Civilization, ed. Ebrey.

G.J. Wolseley, Narrative of the War with China in 1860 (1862), chp 14.

Crossley, Pamela Kyle. The wobbling pivot, China since 1800 (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2007), 100-125.		  
Week 4  
Elman, On their own Terms: Science in China 1550-1900 (Harvard, 2005), chp 10.

“On the Adoption of Western Learning,” in Changing China: Readings in the History of China from the Opium War to the Present, by J. Mason Gentzler (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1977), 68-75.

Yung Wing 容閎, My Life In China & America (1909), chp 19.

United States. Embassy (China), Progress of western education in China and Siam (Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1880).

Benjamin A. Elman, “Naval Warfare and the Refraction of China's Self-Strengthening Reforms into Scientific and Technological Failure, 1865-1895,” Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 38, No. 2 (May, 2004), pp. 283-326.		  
Week 5  
Arif Dirlik & Roxann Prazniak, “The 1911 Revolution: An end and a beginning,” China Information, November 2011 vol. 25, no. 3: 213-231

Sun Yat-Sen, “The Three People’s Principles,” in Sources of Chinese Tradition, compiled by Wm.

Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom, 2nd ed., vol. 2, 320-323. 
Joseph W. Esherick, “1911: A Review”, Modern China, 2.2 (Apr 1976): 141-184.   		  
Week 6  
Mitter, Rana. "Flashpoint 4 May 1919: The Making of a New China." In A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World , 3-40. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, 3-34.

'21 Demands' Made by Japan to China, 18 January 1915

Chen Duxiu, “Our Final Awakening” (February 1916), in Changing China: Readings in the History of China from the Opium War to the Present, by J. Mason Gentzler (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1977), 168.

Chen Duxiu (1917), "On Literary Revolution." 
Deng Yingchao (1989), “The Spirit of the May Fourth Movement,” in Chinese Civilization: A source book, ed. PB Ebrey (NY: The Free Press).

Hu Shih (1934), The Chinese Renaissance.

Li Dazhao (1918), " The victory of Bolshevism"  

Andrew Nathan, Chinese Democracy (University of California Press, 1986), pp. 45-66.		  
Week 7 - NIL  
Week 8  
Frederic Wakeman, Jr., “A Revisionist View of the Nanjing Decade: Confucian Fascism,” The China Quarterly, No. 150, Special Issue: Reappraising Republic China (Jun., 1997), pp. 395-432.

Chiang Kaishek, “Essentials of the New Life Movement” (Speech, 1934),  in Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century, 341-344.

Soong Mayling (1935)- Foreword to New Life in Kiangsi

Liu Shaoqi, "How to Be a Good Communist (1939)”, in  Selected Works of Liu Shaoqi, Volume I, chp 1, 6 & 7,http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/liu-shaoqi/1939/how-to-be/inde...

Wu Tien-wei, “The Chinese Communist Movement,” in James C. Hsiung and Steven I. Levine, eds. China’s Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937-1945 (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1992), pp. 79-106.		  
Week 9  
Rana Mitter, Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937-1945 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013)

Brook, “Hesitating before the Judgment of History,” JAS 71, no. 1 (Feb 2012): 103-114.

Cochran (ed.), “Chinese Traitors and the Enemy,” in One Day in China (New haven: Yale University Press, 1983), 201-263.

The Tanaka Memorial (1927)

F. Tillman, "All Captives Slain,'' The New York Times, December 18, 1937, pp. 1, 10.

Timothy Brook, ed. Documents on the Rape of Nanking, (University of Michigan Press, 1999)

Parks M. Coble, “China’s New Remembering” of the Anti-Japanese War of Resistance, 1937 – 1945,” China Quarterly 190 (June 2007): 394 – 410. 		  
Week 10  
Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickowicz, Mark Seldon. Chinese Village, Socialist State. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.  Chapter 9.

“The Great Leap Forward and the Sino-soviet Split,”  Cheng, ed., The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection (1999), 400-413.

“Speech at Lushan Conference,” (23 July, 1959), in Chairman Mao Talks to the People: Talks and letters: 1956-1971 (NY: Pantheon Books, 1974), 131-146.

“On Widening The Scope Of Women's Work In The Agricultural Co-Operative Movement” (Nov 1955); “Women Joining In Production Solve The Labour Shortage” (May 1955), in Socialist Upsurge In china's Countryside (Foreign Languages Press Peking, 1957), 274-291.

Kimberley Manning, “Marxist Maternalism, Memory and the Mobilization of Women in the Great Leap Forward,” The China Review, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2005): 83-110.		  
Week 11  
Qiang Zhai, China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000), chp 5.

Liu, Binyan. A Higher Kind of Loyalty: A Memoir by China’s Foremost Journalist (1990), chapters 6-9.

**Jonathan Unger, “The Cultural Revolution At The Grass Roots,” The China Journal, NO. 57, (January 2007): 109-137.

Thomas Heberer, “The ‘Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution’: China's modern trauma,” Journal of Modern Chinese History 3, Issue 2, 2009: 165-181.		  
Week 12  
Harvey, David. "Neoliberalism ‘with Chinese Characteristics’ " In A Brief History of  Neoliberalism , 120-51. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.4.

Wikileaks Tiananmen cables (2014)

Deng Xiaoping's Explanation of the Crackdown, June 9, 1989;

Yang Jianli, “The Beijing Massacre,” in The China Reader: The Reform Era, ed. Orville Schell, 205-212 (Vintage Books, 1999),

Timothy Brook. Quelling the people: The military suppression of the Beijing democracy movement (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998), pp. 195-218.		  
Week 13  
Mackie, J. (2003). Five Southeast Asian Chinese Empire-Builders: Commonalities and Differences. In
M. Charney (Ed.), Chinese migrants abroad cultural, educational, and social dimensions of the Chinese diaspora (pp. 3-22). Singapore: Singapore University Press.

Philip A. Kuhn, Chinese among others: Emigration in Modern Times. Lanham, MD, 2009. chp 7

Seth Mydans, “Wave of Riots Against Chinese and Christians Sets Indonesia on Edge,” NYT, April 8, 1997.

“In Jakarta, Reports Of Numerous Rapes Of Chinese in Riots,” NYT, June 10, 1998.

Edward Wong, “China's Export of Labor Faces Scorn,” NYT. Dec 21, 2009.

Eva Dou, “Behind Vietnam's Anti-China Riots, a Tinderbox of Wider Grievances,” WSJ, June 17, 2014.

Jemma Purdey, Anti-Chinese Violence in Indonesia 1996–1999 (Singapore, NUS Press, 2006)		  
Week 14 - NIL