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| CONTEMPORARY CHINA: 1949 TO PRESENT (2012/2013, Semester 2) |
| MODULE OUTLINE | Created: 05-Dec-2012, Updated: 05-Dec-2012 | | |
| Module Code | CH3248 | | Module Title | CONTEMPORARY CHINA: 1949 TO PRESENT | | Semester | Semester 2, 2012/2013 | | Modular Credits | 4 | | Faculty | Arts & Social Sciences | | Department | Chinese Studies | | Timetable | Timetable/Teaching Staff | | Module Facilitators | | DR Nicolai Volland | Coordinator | | DR Yang Lijun | Co-Lecturer |
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[table=1263px][tr][td] AIMS & OBJECTIVES[/td][td=1,1,4%]Top[/td][/tr][/table]This module provides a comprehensive overview of the political, social, economic and cultural developments in China since 1949. It 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. The topics covered include the revolution of 1949 and its interpretations, the construction of socialist "New China," the Great Leap Forward (1958-60), the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), as well as the political, economic, and cultural trajectory of China in the Reform Era (1978 to present). This module is taught in CHINESE.
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[table=1263px][tr][td] PREREQUISITES[/td][td=1,1,4%]Top[/td][/tr][/table]Students must have obtained:
1) at least a B4 for (a) Higher Chinese at GCE ‘O’ level, or (b) Chinese Language at GCE ‘AO’ level (at GCE ‘A’ level examination); OR
2) at least a pass for (a) Chinese at GCE ‘A’ level, or (b) Higher Chinese at GCE ‘A’ level; OR
3) at least C grade for Chinese Language (H1CL) at GCE ‘A’ level; OR
4) at least a pass for (a) Chinese Language and Literature (H2CLL) at GCE ‘A’ level, or (b) Chinese Language and Literature (H3CLL) at GCE ‘A’ level.
5) Equivalent qualifications may be accepted. |
[table=1263px][tr][td] PRECLUSIONS[/td][td=1,1,4%]Top[/td][/tr][/table]CH3244 Topics in Contemporary China
HY3248 People’s Republic of China, 1949-1989
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[table=1263px][tr][td] SCHEDULE[/td][td=1,1,4%]Top[/td][/tr][/table]Lecture: Monday, 1600-1800, Room AS7-01-19
Tutorials: Weekly, from week 2:
Group 1: Wed, 1300-1400, Room AS2-04-13
Group 2: Wed, 1400-1500, Room AS2-04-13
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[table=1263px][tr][td] TEACHING MODES[/td][td=1,1,4%]Top[/td][/tr][/table]This module is taught in CHINESE
Lectures: 2 hours per week
Tutorials: 45 mins. weekly (10 tutorials)
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[table=1263px][tr][td] WORKLOAD[/td][td=1,1,4%]Top[/td][/tr][/table]
[table=1263px][tr][td] ASSESSMENT[/td][td=1,1,4%]Top[/td][/tr][/table]Continuous Assessment: 60%
- regular and active participation in classes, tutorials, and IVLE Forum: 10%
- two oral presentation in tutorials: 10%
- group project presentation (week 13): 10%
- group project essay ( due 12 Apr. 2013, 6 pm): 30%
Final Examination 40% (Closed Book Examination) |
[table=1263px][tr][td] SYLLABUS[/td][td=1,1,4%]Top[/td][/tr][/table]Week 1: “中国人民站起来了”——1949
Seminar: 14/01/2013 [Dr Volland]
No tutorial in week 1!
Reading:
• Paul A. Cohen. “Reflections on a Watershed Date: The 1949 Divide in Chinese History,” in Wasserstrom (ed.), Twentieth-Century China, p. 27-36.
• 〈中国人民政治协商会议共同纲领〉，载《人民日报》1949/09/30 [in IVLE workbin]
Week 2: “一边倒”——学习苏联
Seminar: 21/01/2013 [Dr Volland]
Tutorial: 23/01/2013
Reading:
• Kirby, “China’s Internationalization in the Early People’s Republic.”
• Volland, "Translating the Socialist State."
Week 3: “中国农村的社会主义高潮”——从土地改革到农业合作化
Seminar: 28/01/2013 [Dr Volland]
Tutorial: 30/01/2013
Reading:
• Meisner, Mao's China and After, p. 90-102, 129-52.
• Hinton, Fanshen, p. 280-87.
Week 4: 运动政治——肃反、胡风、百花齐放
Seminar: 04/02/2013 [Dr Volland]
Tutorial: 06/02/2013
Reading:
• Julia Strauss, “Morality, Coercion, and State Building by Campaign in the Early PRC.”
• Esherick, Ancestral Leaves, p. 250-77.
Week 5: Chinese New Year--no class! [11 & ??/02/2013]
Week 6: “人民公社好！”——从大跃进到大饥饿
Seminar: 18/02/2013 [Dr Volland]
Tutorial: 20/02/2013
Reading:
• Meisner, Mao's China and After, p. 214-241.
• Kenneth Walker. “Food and Mortality in China During the Great Leap Forward, 1958-1961,” in Ash (ed.). Agricultural Development in China, 1949-1989, p. 106-47.
Recess week - no class! [25 & ??/02/2013]
Week 7: “老子英雄儿好汉”——文化大革命的制度根源
Seminar: 04/03/2013 [Dr Yang]
Tutorial: 06/03/2013
Reading:
• Documentary Film: The Morning Sun, prod. Carma Hinton （《八九点钟的太阳》）.
• Lynn T. White, Policies of Chaos, Chapter1.
• 《五・一 六通知》 [in IVLE workbin]。
• 仲维光〈“清华附中红卫兵小组”诞生史实〉，《北京之春》1996年10月号[in IVLE workbin]。
• 郑义〈清华附中、红卫兵与我〉，《北京之春》1996年11月号[in IVLE workbin]。
Week 8: "文攻武卫"——文化大革命中的派系斗争
Seminar: 11/03/2013 [Dr Yang]
Tutorial: 13/03/2013
Reading:
• Andrew G. Walder, “Beijing Red Guard Factionalism", in Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement.
• 〈北京大兴县惨案调查〉，《文革大屠杀》第113-204页。
• (学生打老师的革命）、（打老师和打同学之间）《文化大革命：史实与研究》 [in IVLE workbin]。
Week 9: 从批林到批邓——70年代的政治变动
Seminar: 18/03/2013 [Dr Yang]
Tutorial: 20/03/2013
Reading:
• Documentary Film: China: A Century of Revolution (中国：世纪的解放)，Part 3.
• 〈毛的接班人问题和毛主义的终结〉，《剑桥中华人民共和国史》（下）第四章、第315-426页。
• 湖南省无联〈中国向何处去？〉，《文化大革命和它的异端思潮》 [in IVLE workbin]。
• 李一哲大字报〈关于社会主义的民主和法制〉[in IVLE workbin]。
Week 10: “让一部分人先富起来”——80年代的经济改革
Seminar: 25/03/2013 [Dr Yang]
Tutorial: 27/03/2013
Reading:
• Naughton, The Chinese Economy, p. 85-113.
• 〈经济体制改革和经济建设〉赵紫阳《改革历程》第105-178页。
Week 11: 保卫球籍——80年代的政治改革
Seminar: 01/04/2013 [Dr Yang]
Tutorial: 03/04/2013
Reading:
• 〈1988年的经济和政治〉、〈政治体制改革〉赵紫阳《改革历程》第239-300页。
• Documentary Film: The Gate of Heavenly Peace, prod. Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon （《天安门》）.
Week 12: 走向未来——江泽民时代与胡锦涛时代
Seminar: 08/04/2013 [Dr Volland]
Tutorial: 10/04/2013
Reading:
• Perry and Selden. Chinese Society [3 rd ed. = 2010!], p. 1-30.
• One chapter of your choice from the same book--not more than 3 students per chapter; please announce your choice on the IVLE discussion board before 05/04/2013, 6 pm.
Week 13: 小组报告——红卫兵报刊研究 (Presentations) [Dr Volland / Dr Yang]
Seminar: 15/04/2013
No tutorial
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[table=1263px][tr][td] TUTORIALS[/td][td=1,1,4%]Top[/td][/tr][/table]
Week 7: “老子英雄儿好汉”——文化大革命的制度根源
Tutorial: 29/09/2011
Reading:
• Documentary Film: The Morning Sun, prod. Carma Hinton （《八九点钟的太阳》）
• 遇罗克〈出生论〉（一、二）、血统论〈自来红们站起来〉等[in IVLE workbin]。
• 《五・一六通知》http://wenku.baidu.com/view/541c94c558f5f61fb73666fd.html
• 仲维光〈“清华附中红卫兵小组”诞生史实〉，《北京之春》1996年10月号[in IVLE workbin]。
• 郑义〈清华附中、红卫兵与我〉，《北京之春》1996年11月号[in IVLE workbin]。
课前自行观看Documentary Film: The Morning Sun, prod. Carma Hinton （《八九点钟的太阳》），结合另外四篇历史资料讨论一下问题：
讨论问题：1）文化大革命的起源是什么？
2）红卫兵为什么跟随毛泽东，打击党和国家机构？
Week 8: "文攻武卫"——文化大革命中的派系斗争
Tutorial: 06/10/2011
Reading:
• 〈学生打老师的革命〉、〈打老师和打同学之间〉[in IVLE workbin]
• 〈北京大兴县惨案调查〉，《文革大屠杀》第113-204页。[in IVLE workbin]
• 〈67年夏季武斗〉[in IVLE workbin]
讨论问题：1）文革中出现过哪些类型的暴力？
2）如何理解文革中广泛存在的暴力现象？
Week 9: 从批林到批邓——70年代的政治变动
Tutorial: 13/10/2011
Reading:
• Documentary Film: China: A Century of Revolution (中国：世纪的解放)，Part 3.
• 湖南省无联〈中国向何处去？〉，《文化大革命和它的异端思潮》。[in IVLE workbin]
• 李一哲大字报〈关于社会主义民主和法制〉。[in IVLE workbin]
Week 10: “让一部分人先富起来”——80年代的经济改革
Seminar: 17/10/2011 [Dr Yang]
Tutorial: 20/10/2011
Reading:
• 〈经济体制改革和经济建设〉赵紫阳《改革历程》第105-178页。
Week 11: 保卫球籍——80年代的政治改革
Tutorial: 27/10/2011
Reading:
• Documentary Film: The Gate of Heavenly Peace, prod. Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon （《天安门》）.
讨论问题；1）如何看待1989年天安门运动？
2）天安门运动的发生与当时中国的政治经济改革以及国际环境有什么样的关系？
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费正清主编《剑桥中华人民共和国史》（上海：上海人民出版社，1987）。
宋永毅《文革大屠杀》（香港：开放杂志社，2002）。
宋永毅《文化大革命和它的异端思潮》（香港：田园书屋，1997）。
赵紫阳《改革历程》（香港：新世纪出版社，2009）。
Ash, Robert F. Agricultural Development in China, 1949-1989: The Collected Papers of Kenneth R. Walker (1931-1989) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Esherick, Joseph W. Ancestral Leaves: A Family Journey Through Chinese History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011).
Hinton, William. Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997 [1966]) [available as e-book through LINC].
Kirby, William C. “China’s Internationalization in the Early People’s Republic: Dreams of a Socialist World Economy,” in The China Quarterly 188 (Dec. 2006), p. 870-90.
Meisner, Maurice. Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic (3rd ed.) (New York: The free Press, 1999).
Naughton, Barry. The Chinese Economy (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006).
Perry, Elizabeth J., and Mark Selden. Chinese Society: Change, Conflict, and Resistance (3rd ed.) (London: Routledge, 2010).
Strauss, Julia. "Morality, Coercion and State Building by Campaign in the Early PRC: Regime Consolidation and After, 1949-1956," in The China Quarterly 188 (2006), p. 891-912.
Volland, Nicolai. "Translating the Socialist State: Cultural Exchange, National Identity, and the Socialist World in the Early PRC" in Twentieth-Century China 33.2 (April 2008), p. 51-72.
Walder, Andrew G. "Beijing Red Guard Factionalism: Social Interpretations Reconsidered," in Journal of Asian Studies 61.2 (2002): 437-71.
Wasserstrom, Jeffrey A. (ed.). Twentieth-Century China: New Approaches (London: Routledge, 2003).
White, Lynn T. III. Policies of Chaos: The Organizational Causes of Violence in China’s Cultural Revolution (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989).
Films:
China: A Century of Revolution [chin. 《中国：世纪的解放》].
The Morning Sun [chin. 《八九点钟的太阳》], prod. Carma Hinton.
The Gate of Heavenly Peace [chin. 天安门], prod. Carma Hinton and Richard Gordon.
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