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21G.991

Korean I

4-0-8 units · Graduate

Introduction to modern standard Korean with emphasis on developing conversational skills by using fundamental grammatical patterns and vocabulary in functional and culturally suitable contexts. Basic reading and writing are also taught. Placement interview with instructors on or before Registration Day required of students who have had prior exposure to Korean elsewhere. Same as 21G.901 but for graduate credit. Limited to 16 per section for pedagogical reasons.

Fall 2004 · Smashing the Iron Rice Bowl: Chinese East Asia

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 ↗
    Reading assignment
  • 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.
    Listed reading
  • 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.
    Listed reading
  • 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.
    Listed reading
  • Mao Writings
    Listed reading
  • 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.
    Listed reading
  • Schram. “External and Internal Contradictions” and “Appeal to the Ke Lao Hui.” In The Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung. pp. 202-249.
    Listed reading
  • 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.
    Listed reading
  • 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.
    Listed reading
  • 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.
    Listed reading
  • Nathan, Andrew, and Perry Link, eds. The Tiananmen Papers . New York, NY: Public Affairs, 2002. pp. 121-74, 365-98. ISBN: 9781586481223.
    Listed reading
  • 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.
    Listed reading
  • Zhu, Xiao Di. Thirty Years in a Red House . Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. pp. 154-247. ISBN: 9781558492165.
    Listed reading
  • 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.
    Listed reading
  • Shapiro, Judith. Mao’s War Against Nature . Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780521786805.
    Listed reading
  • Hessler, Peter. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze . New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2001. ISBN: 9780060195441.
    Listed reading

Prerequisites & course information

Subject meets with 21G.901 Prereq: None G (Fall, IAP) 4-0-8 units

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