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Aug. 31 (T)
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Introduction:
Course Overview
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Discussion
Leader Sign-up List |
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Sept. 1 (W)
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The
“Orient”: Understanding
China (from the West)
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xxi;
Chinese
Language; Chinese
Names; |
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Sept. 3 (F)
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Sources
of East Asia
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Meet
in Library (Paterno 302) |
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Week
2
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The Glory of the Qing
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Sept. 6 (M)
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The Founding of the Qing
& Life Under the Manchus
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Forbidden City:
Visual Tour |
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Sept. 8 (W)
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Forbidden
City: Life in the Qing Court
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MAP
QUIZ [map;
term list; quiz map];
Ch. 1 (p. 26-48) |
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Sept. 10 (F)
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Discussion
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Doc
1 (Two
Edicts Concerning the Wearing of Hair) |
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Week
3
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Foreign Rule
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Sept. 13 (M)
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Ruling
China: The Chinese Civil Service |
Ch.
5 (p. 96-116) |
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Sept. 15 (W)
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Qianlong: The Sun at Midday |
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Sept. 17 (F)
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Discussion:
CROSSLEY, The Manchus
Response Paper #1 Due (Questions
& Guidelines)
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Doc
1 (He Shan Case
Files);
Doc 2 (Examination Life - Part
1 Part
2)
[Example
of 8-legged Essay (optional!)] |
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Week
4
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Arrival of the West
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Sept. 20 (M)
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China's
View of the World in 1790 |
Ch.
6 (p.117-137) |
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Sept. 22 (W)
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Macartney
Mission |
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Sept. 24 (F)
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Discussion:
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Doc
1 (Qianlong
Edicts);
Doc 2 (McCartney's
Commission) |
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Week
5
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View
from Below & Beyond |
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Sept. 27 (M)
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China's
Borderlands: Internal
Colonialism? |
Yunnan Bordertown:
Visual
tour |
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Sept. 29 (W)
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Managing
the Foreigners: The Canton System of Trade |
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Oct. 1 (F)
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Discussion |
New
Hardships: Doc
1 (Demographic Crisis); Doc 2 (Frontier
Politics) Tibet Map |
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Week
6
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The Opium War(s)
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Oct. 4 (M)
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The Opium
Debate |
Ch.
7 (p.145-166); Doc 1 (The Co-Hong) |
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Oct. 6 (W)
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The
Opium War |
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Oct. 8 (F)
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Discussion:
WALEY, The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes
Response Paper
#2 Due (Questions
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Opium
War:
Doc 1 (Treaty of Nanjing),
Doc 2 (Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria);
MAP |
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Week
7
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To Change China
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Oct. 11 (M)
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Making China In 'Our' Image |
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Oct. 13 (W)
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Westerners In China/China in the West |
Imperialism's
Effect on China |
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Oct. 15 (F)
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Fall Study Break (No Class) |
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Week
8
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Oct. 18 (M)
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Review
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Review
Sheet (pdf-format) |
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Oct. 20 (W)
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Mid-term
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Oct. 22 (F)
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The
China "Call:" Christianity in China
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East
Meets West: Doc 1 (Anti-Foreigner
Placard) |
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Week
9
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Domestic Rumblings
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Oct. 25 (M)
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Internal
Rebellion: Nian Rebellion
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Ch.
8 (p.167-191) |
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Oct. 27 (W)
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Panthay Rebellion:
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Oct. 29 (F)
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Discussion: Theorizing
Rebellion
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Doc
1 (Anderson, Mandalay
to Momien)
Doc 2 (Kung Lien-Chieh, Kung
Te joins the Nien) |
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Week
10
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Taiping Rebellion
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Nov. 1. (M)
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Hong Xiuquan
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Nov. 3 (W)
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Taiping Rebellion |
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Nov. 5 (F)
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Discussion:
SPENCE, God's Chinese Son
Response Paper
#3 Due (Questions
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Doc
1 (Taiping Plan); Doc
2 (Taiping Ode for the Youth) |
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Week
11
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Internal
Reforms
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Nov. 8 (M)
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Zeng Guofan: From Hunan Army to
Self-Strengthening
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Ch.
9 (p.192-214) |
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Nov. 10 (W)
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Zongli Yamen: Li Hongzhang
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Doc
1 (Zeng
Guofan & the
West), Doc 2 ,(Li Hongzhang & Western
Arms);
Doc 3 (Li & Western
Studies) |
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Nov. 12 (F)
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Discussion: China's "Restoration"?
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(Optional Readings:
Doc. 4 "Usefulness vs. Essence) |
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Week 12 |
"Rei(g)ning in China" |
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Nov. 15 (M)
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The Empress Dowager: Cixi
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Ch.
10 (p.215 - 229) |
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Nov. 17 (W)
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Failure of Self Strengthening?: Liang Qichao
& Kang Youwei |
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Nov. 19 (F)
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Discussion |
Doc1(Cixi)
; Doc 2 (Kang
Youwei); Doc 3 (Liang Qichao on
Reform) |
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Week
13
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A Dying Realm
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Nov. 22 (M)
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No Exit?: The Qing Court in 1899
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Doc
1( Sun
Yat-sen's Reform Proposal) |
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Nov. 24-26 (W/F) Thanksgiving Holiday
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Week
14
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Centuries End
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Nov. 29 (M)
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Boxer Rebellion:
Chinese Perspective |
Discussion
Questions |
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Dec. 1 (W)
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Boxer Rebellion: Foreign Perspective |
Ch.
10 (229-242) |
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Dec. 3 (F)
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Discussion:
HEVIA, English Lessons
Response Paper #4 Due (Questions)
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Doc 1 (Boxer
Memoirs); Doc 2 (Proclamations
of the Boxers) |
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Week
15
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Dec. 6 (M)
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Too Little Too Late: Late Qing
Imperial Reform |
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Dec. 8 (W)
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Looking Towards Revolution
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Dec. 10 (F)
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Review
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Final
Exam Review Sheet |
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Dec. 14
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FINAL
EXAM (8-9:50 a.m.) 208 ENGR E
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