Week 1 (Jan. 7): Orientation
Week 2 (Jan. 14): State of the Field
Survey the last three volumes (three years) or more of a top-tier journal in your field (or choose one from below) and prepare an oral report on the state of your field.
- Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
- Journal of Asian Studies
- Journal of Chinese History
- Ming Studies
- Late Imperial China
Week 3 (Jan. 21): The Idea of China
- Ge, Zhaoguang 葛兆光. He wei Zhongguo: Jiang yu, min zu, wen hua yu li shi 何為中國 : 疆域, 民族, 文化與歷史. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Ge Zhaoguang. What is China? Territory, Ethnicity, Culture, and History. Translated by Michael Hill. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
- Related titles by 葛兆光:
- 宅兹中国 : 重建有关”中国”的历史论述 (2011)
- 歷史中國的內與外 : 有關「中國」與「周邊」概念的再澄清 (2017)
Week 4 (Jan. 28): In/And the World
- Brook, Timothy. Great State: China and the World. London: Profile, 2019.
Week 5 (Feb. 4): World Order Revisited
- Wang, Sixiang. Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritual in Early Chosŏn Diplomacy with Ming China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023.
- Robinson, David M. Ming China and Its Allies. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Baldanza, Kathlene. Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Fairbank, John King, ed. The Chinese World Order: Traditional China’s Foreign Relations. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968.
Week 6 (Feb. 11): Individual Meetings
Week 7 (Feb. 25): The Global Turn
- Gerritsen, Anne. The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and the Early Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Brook, Timothy. Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World. New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2008.
Week 8 (Mar. 4): The Maritime Turn
- Po, Ronald C. The Blue Frontier: Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Week 9 (Mar. 11): The Philological Turn
- Söderblom Saarela, Mårten. The Early Modern Travels of Manchu: A Script and Its Study in East Asia and Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
Week 10 (Mar. 18): The Sensory Turn
- Huang, Xuelei. Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Week 11 (Mar. 25): In the Age of Anthropocene
- Mostern, Ruth. Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021.
Week 12 (Apr. 1): The DH/AI Turn
- Readings to be confirmed