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21G.191

Smashing the Iron Rice Bowl: Chinese East Asia

Undergraduate · Historical course

Fall 2004

Topics

  • Introduction: Personal and Collective Experiences in Modern China
  • Qing China, 1644-1911
  • Decline of the Qing; Rise of Nationalism
  • The Republic of China, 1911-1949
  • Origins and Development of the Chinese Communist Party
  • The People’s Republic: From Great Leap Forward to Cultural Revolution
  • From the Cultural Revolution to the Reform Period
  • Tiananmen and After
  • Family Problems in Village Taiwan
  • Women’s Issues in the PRC in the 1980s
  • Communist Cadres in the Reform Period
  • Current Issues: Environment, the Development of the West, and Foreigners

Readings

  • LEC #: 1 · TOPICS: Introduction: Personal and Collective Experiences in Modern China · READINGS/VIDEOS: Video: The King of Masks ↗
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  • LEC #: 2 · TOPICS: Qing China, 1644-1911 · READINGS/VIDEOS: Spence, Jonathan. The Search for Modern China . New York, NY: Norton, 1991. pp. 1-137. ISBN: 9780393307801.
    Reading assignment
  • Spence, Jonathan. The Search for Modern China . New York, NY: Norton, 1991. pp. 141-263. ISBN: 9780393307801.
    Listed reading
  • Chang, Jung. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China . New York, NY: Anchor, 1992. pp. 21-94. ISBN: 9780385425476.
    Listed reading
  • Spence, Jonathan. The Search for Modern China . New York, NY: Norton, 1991. pp. 267-375. ISBN: 9780393307801.
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  • Cochran, Sherman, and Andrew Hsieh, eds. One Day in China: May 21, 1936 . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985. pp. 3-68, 201-264. ISBN: 9780300034004.
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  • Spence, Jonathan. The Search for Modern China . New York, NY: Norton, 1991. pp. 375-409. ISBN: 9780393307801.
    Listed reading
  • Chang, Jung. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China . New York, NY: Anchor, 1992. pp. 95-140. ISBN: 9780385425476.
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  • Mao Writings
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  • Xun, Lu. “Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan.” In Selected Stories of Lu Xun. Beijing: Beijing Foreign Languages Press, 2000. pp. 23-56. ISBN: 9787119026985.
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  • Schram. “External and Internal Contradictions” and “Appeal to the Ke Lao Hui.” In The Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung. pp. 202-249.
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  • Xun, Lu. “Medicine” and “New Year’s Sacrifice.” In Selected Stories of Lu Xun. Beijing: Beijing Foreign Languages Press, 2000. ISBN: 9787119026985.
    Listed reading
  • Spence, Jonathan. The Search for Modern China . New York, NY: Norton, 1991. pp. 489-586. ISBN: 9780393307801.
    Listed reading
  • Chang, Jung. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China . New York, NY: Anchor, 1992. pp. 140-255. ISBN: 9780385425476.
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  • Friedman, Edward, Paul G. Pickowicz, and Mark Selden. Introduction in Chinese Village, Socialist State . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991. pp.214-245. ISBN: 9780300046557.
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  • Spence, Jonathan. The Search for Modern China . New York, NY: Norton, 1991. pp. 589-646. ISBN: 9780393307801.
    Listed reading
  • Chang, Jung. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China . New York, NY: Anchor, 1992. pp. 256-505. ISBN: 9780385425476.
    Listed reading
  • Spence, Jonathan. The Search for Modern China . New York, NY: Norton, 1991. pp. 647-728. ISBN: 9780393307801.
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  • Nathan, Andrew, and Perry Link, eds. The Tiananmen Papers . New York, NY: Public Affairs, 2002. pp. 121-74, 365-98. ISBN: 9781586481223.
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  • LEC #: 10 · TOPICS: Family Problems in Village Taiwan · READINGS/VIDEOS: Wolf, Margery. The House of Lim . Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1960. pp. 3-148. ISBN: 9780133949735.
    Reading assignment
  • Honig, Emily, and Gail Hershatter. Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980s . Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1988. pp. 1-136, 308-33. ISBN: 9780804714310.
    Listed reading
  • Xinran. The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices . New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2003. ISBN: 9780099440789.
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  • Zhu, Xiao Di. Thirty Years in a Red House . Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. pp. 154-247. ISBN: 9781558492165.
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  • Shu-min, Huang. Spiral Road: Change in a Chinese Village Through the Eyes of a Communist Party Leader . Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. pp. 105-227. ISBN: 9780813334479.
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  • Shapiro, Judith. Mao’s War Against Nature . Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780521786805.
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  • Hessler, Peter. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze . New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2001. ISBN: 9780060195441.
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