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Department of East Asian Studies
University of Toronto
EAS364H (Spring 2010)
China's Cultural Revolution
Professor: Yiching Wu
Class Time and Location: Thursday 5-7, SS1073
Offices: 14133 Robarts Library, 104N Munk Center
Office Hour: Tuesday 2-4 (Robarts), Wednesday 4-6 (Munk Center)
Email: yiching.wu@utoronto.ca
Course Description
No understanding of contemporary Chinese is possible without understanding the ramifications of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). This course seeks to consider the tumultuous episode as a field of historical research and conceptual inquiry: What was the meaning of "culture" in the Cultural Revolution? To what extent was it "revolutionary?" What did it mean to talk about "class" and "class struggle" during the movement? How is the Cultural Revolution remembered and represented? And how do we understand China's globalizing present in the historical context of the Cultural Revolution? This course invites you to explore such questions by critically examining a wide variety of sources.
Required Textbooks Available for Purchase
• Maurice Meisner. Mao’s China and After: A History of the People’s Republic. 3rd ed. New York: Free Press, 1999.
• Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals. Mao's Last Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.
• Michael Schoenhals, ed. China's Cultural Revolution: Not a Dinner Party. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1996.
Required books are available for purchase from Toronto Women’s Bookstore at 73 Harbord Street, Toronto. Materials available in electronic format will be posted online.
Course Grading Requirements
• 5% Class attendance. For illness-related absence, please inform the instructor.
• 10% Online participation. You must post minimally one question AND one response per week based on readings and lectures, totally thoughtless posts will not receive points.
• 35% Quiz 1 (Feb. 25, 15%), Quiz 2 (Mar. 25, 20%).
• 50% Take-home essay questions. Answer three questions out of five (2-3 double-space pages per question), due Apr. 1.
Course Communication
Students should update ROSI with their utoronto email address to receive email through the Portal. Students MUST use their @utoronto.ca address (or a university email address given by your department, for example @physics.utoronto.ca). The University communicates with students ONLY through University email addresses.
Course Outline
Session 1 (Jan. 7). Introduction and Organizational Matters
• Joseph Escherick, et al. “The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History: An Introduction.” In The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History (Stanford University Press, 2006), 1-28.
Session 2 (Jan. 14). The Chinese Revolutionary History
• Meisner, Mao’s China and After, 3-51.
• Lu Xun. “A Madman’s Diary.” In Selected Stories of Lu Xun. Translated by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang (W. W. Norton & Company, 1977), 7-18.
• Jack Belden. China Shakes the World: A Classic Account of the Chinese Revolution (Monthly Review Press, 1970), “Mission Murder,” “Gold Flower’s Story,” “Sex and Revolution,” 253-317.
• Mao Zedong. “Report on the Peasant Movement in Hunan.” In Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, Vol.1 (Foreign Languages Press, 1965), 23-59.
Session 3 (Jan. 21). The New Republic and Early Tensions
• Meisner, Mao’s China and After, 55-74, 103-28, 155-90.
• Elizabeth J. Perry. “Shanghai's Strike Wave of 1957.” The China Quarterly 137 (1994): 1-27.
• Rene Goldman. “The Rectification Campaign at Peking University: May—June 1957.” The China Quarterly, no. 12 (1962): 138-53.
• Sylvia Chan. “The Image of a ‘Capitalist Roader’—Some Dissident Short Stories in the Hundred Flower Period.” Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, no. 2 (1979): 77-102.
Session 4 (Jan. 28). Late Maoism: Ideology of the Cultural Revolution
• Meisner, Mao’s China and After, 245-53, 291-311.
• Richard Kraus. “Class Conflict and the Vocabulary of Social Analysis in China.” The China Quarterly, no. 69 (1977): 54-74.
• Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals. Mao's Last Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2006), 1-13.
• Michael Schoenhals, ed. China's Cultural Revolution: Not a Dinner Party (M. E. Sharpe, 1996), #2.
• Mao’s speeches, collected in Stuart Schram, ed. Mao Tse-Tung Unrehearsed, Talks and Letters: 1956-1971. (Penguin, 1974), 158-96, 234-52.
Session 5 (Feb. 4). Beginning of the Cultural Revolution: Bureaucratic Mobilization
• Meisner, Mao’s China and After, 312-15.
• MacFarquhar and Schoenhals. Mao's Last Revolution, 52-85.
• Hong Yung Lee. The Politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: A Case Study (University of California Press, 1978), 26-63.
Session 6 (Feb. 11). Rise of the Red Guard Movement
• Meisner, Mao’s China and After, 315-24.
• MacFarquhar and Schoenhals. Mao's Last Revolution, 86-135.
• Schoenhals. China's Cultural Revolution, #4, #5, #6, #26, #28, #41, #42, #43, #44, #45.
Session 7 (Feb. 25). Power Seizures: Expansion of Mass Mobilization
• Meisner, Mao’s China and After, 324-33.
• MacFarquhar and Schoenhals. Mao's Last Revolution, 136-83
• Elizabeth J. Perry, and Li Xun. Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution. (Westview, 1997), 97-118.
• Schoenhals. China's Cultural Revolution, #8, #9, #10, #11, #13
Session 8 (Mar. 4). The Wuhan Incident: Military’s Resistance and Its Ramifications
• Meisner, Mao’s China and After, 333-39.
• MacFarquhar and Schoenhals. Mao's Last Revolution, 199-238.
• Thomas Robinson. “The Wuhan Incident: Local Strife and Provincial Rebellion during the Cultural Revolution.” The China Quarterly 47 (1971): 413-38.
Session 9 (Mar. 11). Demobilization and Restoration of Order
• Meisner, Mao’s China and After, 339-351.
• MacFarquhar and Schoenhals. Mao's Last Revolution, 239-72, 284-307.
• Yang Su. “Mass Killings in the Cultural Revolution: A Study of Three Provinces.” In The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History, 96-123.
• Jonathan Unger. “Whither China—Yang Xiguang, Red Capitalists, and the Social Turmoil of the Cultural Revolution.” Modern China 17, no. 1 (1991): 3-37.
• Schoenhals. China's Cultural Revolution, #15, #17.
Session 10 (Mar. 18). The Social Impact and Aftermath of the Cultural Revolution
• Meisner, Mao’s China and After, 352-407.
• MacFarquhar and Schoenhals. Mao's Last Revolution, 324-36.
• Dongping Han. “Impact of the Cultural Revolution on Rural Education and Economic Development: The Case of Jimo County.” Modern China 27, no. 1 (2001): 59-90.
• Jeremy Brown. “Staging Xiaojingzhuang: The City in the Countryside, 1974-1976.” In The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History, 153-84.
Session 11 (Mar. 25). The End of the Maoist Era and Rise of Deng Xiaoping
• Meisner, Mao’s China and After, 427-48.
• Maurice Meisner. The Deng Xiaoping Era: An Inquiry into the Fate of Chinese Socialism, 1978-1994 (Hill and Wang, 1996), 104-36.
• MacFarquhar and Schoenhals. Mao's Last Revolution, 413-49.
• Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard. “The Democracy Movement in China, 1978-1979: Opposition Movements, Wall Poster Campaigns, and Underground Journals.” Asian Survey 21, no. 7 (1981): 747-74.
Session 12 (Apr. 1). The Cultural Revolution: Legacy and Politics of History
• Craig Calhoun and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom. “The Cultural Revolution and the Democracy Movement of 1989: Complexity in Historical Perspectives.” In The Chinese Cultural Revolution Reconsidered: Beyond Purge and Holocaust, Kam-yee Law, ed. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 241-61.
• Elizabeth J. Perry. “‘To Rebel Is Justified’: Cultural Revolution Influences on Contemporary Chinese Protest.” In The Chinese Cultural Revolution Reconsidered, 262-81.
•   eter Zarrow. “Meanings of China’s Cultural Revolution—Memoirs of Exile.” Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 7, no. 1 (1999): 165-91.
• Schoenhals. China's Cultural Revolution, #57, #59, #63. |
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