{"id":14,"date":"2019-08-14T09:58:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T16:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asiahist270\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2024-01-08T23:38:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T06:38:45","slug":"schedule","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asiahist270\/schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students are expected to have completed all the required viewing (found under <a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.ubc.ca\/courses\/124705\/modules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Modules<\/a> in Canvas) and readings for each week before attending the weekly session. Items marked with an asterisk (*) are available through <a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.ubc.ca\/courses\/124705\/files\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Files<\/a> in Canvas; the rest can be found elsewhere online or on reserve. [P] denotes &#8220;primary source.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"week1\"><\/a>Week 1 (Sep. 5): Imagine UBC (no class)<\/h2>\n<h2><a id=\"week2\"><\/a>Week 2 (Sep. 12): Orientation<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Review all the sections (including <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asiahist270\/course-tools\/\">Course Tools<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asiahist270\/support\/\">Support<\/a>) of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asiahist270\/\">Course Blog\/Syllabus<\/a> (blogs.ubc.ca\/asiahist270\/). This is important and a good habit.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/history.ubc.ca\/undergraduate\/writing-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">History Writing Centre<\/a> (history.ubc.ca\/undergraduate\/writing-centre\/),\u00a0especially the section on &#8220;Sources.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/learningcommons.ubc.ca\/academic-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Academic Support<\/a> section (https:\/\/learningcommons.ubc.ca\/academic-support\/) of the Chapman Learning Commons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> What is the relationship between &#8220;primary&#8221; and &#8220;secondary&#8221; sources? And why is that important for historians?<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"week3\"><\/a>Week 3 (Sep. 19): The Idea of China<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Waley-Cohen, &#8220;Introduction&#8221; and &#8220;Early Chinese Cosmopolitanism&#8221; (up to &#8220;The Mongol Yuan, 1276\u20131368&#8221;), in <cite>Sextants of Beijing<\/cite>, pp. 3\u201310, 11\u201341 (assigned sections for this week are available under <a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.ubc.ca\/courses\/124705\/files?preview=9472850\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Files<\/a> in Canvas).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> How to think about &#8220;China&#8221; in world history?<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"week4\"><\/a>Week 4 (Sep. 26): China under Mongol Rule<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>*Valerie Hansen, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.ubc.ca\/courses\/124705\/files?preview=16182979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Mongols (ca. 1200\u20131368)<\/a>,&#8221; in <cite>The Open Empire<\/cite>, 2nd ed. (New York, 2015), pp. 309\u2013343.<\/li>\n<li>[P] Marco Polo (1254\u20131324), &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/source\/polo-kinsay.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Glories of Kinsay [Hangchow]<\/a>&#8221; (ca. 1300), from <cite>The Book of Ser Marco Polo the Venetian concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East<\/cite>, trans. and ed. Henry Yule, 3rd ed., rev. Henri Cordier (London, 1903), vol. 2, pp. 185\u2013193, 200\u2013205, 215\u2013216.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> Why are we still reading (about) Marco Polo?<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"week5\"><\/a>Week 5 (Oct. 3): The Great Ming<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>*Timothy Brook, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.ubc.ca\/courses\/124705\/files?preview=16158620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Eunuch and His Hostage<\/a>,&#8221; in <cite>Great State<\/cite> (New York, 2020), pp. 79\u2013108.<\/li>\n<li>*[P] FEI Hsin (1388?\u2013after 1436), <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.ubc.ca\/courses\/124705\/files?preview=16183928\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hsing-ch&#8217;a sheng-lan: The Overall Survey of the Star Raft<\/a><\/cite> (1436), trans. J. V. G. Mills, rev. and ed. Roderich Ptak (Wiesbaden, 1996), pp. 27\u201332, 63\u201369.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> How did the Great Ming view the world?<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"week6\"><\/a>Week 6 (Oct. 10): The Age of Silver<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>William Atwell, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www-cambridge-org.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca\/core\/books\/cambridge-history-of-china\/ming-china-and-the-emerging-world-economy-c-14701650\/F5864B4AE46B9DAC71D1B9B10E995615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ming China and the Emerging World Economy, c. 1470\u20131650<\/a>,\u201d in <cite>Cambridge History of China<\/cite>, vol. 8, ed. Denis C. Twitchett and Frederick W. Mote (New York and Cambridge, 1998), 376\u2013416.<\/li>\n<li>*[P-option A] Domingo de Salazar (1512\u20131594), \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.ubc.ca\/courses\/124705\/files?preview=16158618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Chinese and the Parian at Manila<\/a>\u201d (1590), in <cite>The Philippine Islands, 1493\u20131898<\/cite> (1903), ed. Emma Helen Blair and James A. Robertson (Cleveland, 1903), vol. 7, pp. 212\u2013238.<\/li>\n<li>[P-option B] FENG Menglong (1574\u20131646), \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca\/chapter\/1299870\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shi Fu Encounters a Friend at Tanque<\/a>,\u201d in <cite>Stories to Awaken the World<\/cite>\u00a0(1627), trans. Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang (Seattle and London, 2009), pp. 373\u2013395.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> How had trade transformed Chinese society in the sixteenth century?<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"week\"><\/a>Week 7 (Oct. 17): Encounters<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Waley-Cohen, &#8220;China and Catholicism in the Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries,&#8221; in <cite>Sextants of Beijing<\/cite>, pp. 55\u201391.<\/li>\n<li>*[P] &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.ubc.ca\/courses\/124705\/files?preview=16184182\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese Responses to Early Christian Contacts<\/a>,&#8221; in\u00a0<cite>Sources of Chinese Tradition<\/cite>, 2nd ed., vol. 2, ed. Wm. Theodore de Bary and Richard Lufrano (New York, 2000), pp. 142\u2013154.\n<ul>\n<li>Note that this selection is made up of four separate documents, one each by LI Zhizao (d. 1630), XU Guangqi (1562\u20131633), YANG Guangxian (1597\u20131669), and ZHANG Xingyao (1633\u2013after 1715), each of which is preceded by a translator&#8217;s introduction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> What accounted for the different responses to Christianity in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century China?<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"week8\"><\/a>Week 8 (Oct. 23\u201327): Mid-term Checkup<\/h2>\n<p>No assigned materials\/class this week. Students will sign up for individual meetings with the instructor.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"week9\"><\/a>Week 9 (Oct. 31): &#8220;Like the Sun at Mid-day&#8221;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Waley-Cohen, &#8220;Foreign Goods and Foreign Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century,&#8221; in <cite>Sextants of Beijing<\/cite>, pp. 92\u2013128.<\/li>\n<li>*[P] Voltaire (1694\u20131778), &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.ubc.ca\/courses\/124705\/files?preview=16158621\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">China: Its Antiquity, Strength, and Laws<\/a>,&#8221; in <cite>The Works of Voltaire: A Contemporary Version<\/cite> (Paris, 1901), vol. 13, pp. 19\u201331.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> How did China and Europe view each other in the eighteenth century?<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"week10\"><\/a>Week 10 (Nov. 7): Entanglements<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Waley-Cohen, &#8220;The Turning of the Tables, 1796\u20131860,&#8221; in <cite>Sextants of Beijing<\/cite>, pp. 129\u2013165.<\/li>\n<li>*[P] Selections from <a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.ubc.ca\/courses\/124705\/files?preview=16184711\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;China and the Eighteenth-Century World&#8221; and &#8220;The First Clash with the West,&#8221;<\/a> in\u00a0<cite>The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection<\/cite>, 3rd ed., ed. Janet Chen and others (New York, 2014), pp. 87\u201393, 94\u2013110.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> What were the sources of Sino-Western entanglements in the nineteenth century?<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"week11\"><\/a>Week 11 (Nov. 13\u201315): Mid-term break (no class)<\/h2>\n<h2><a id=\"week12\"><\/a>Week 12 (Nov. 21): Revolutions<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Waley-Cohen, &#8220;Overcoming Habits of Mind, 1914\u20131949,&#8221; in <cite>Sextants of Beijing<\/cite>, pp. 207\u2013246.<\/li>\n<li>*[P] Selections from <a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.ubc.ca\/courses\/124705\/files?preview=16184713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cNew Tensions in the Late Qing,\u201d \u201cThe End of the Dynasty,\u201d and \u201cA Road is Made,\u201d<\/a> in\u00a0<cite>The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection<\/cite>, pp. 155\u2013158, 179\u2013187, 219\u2013225.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> How was the Chinese revolution framed and understood?<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"week13\"><\/a>Week 13 (Nov. 28): Mao&#8217;s China and Beyond<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Waley-Cohen, &#8220;Culture and Conflict, 1949\u20131997,&#8221; in <cite>Sextants of Beijing<\/cite>, pp. 247\u2013282.<\/li>\n<li>[P] Selections from <cite>Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung<\/cite> (Beijing, 1966; marxists.org\/reference\/archive\/mao\/works\/red-book\/):\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/reference\/archive\/mao\/works\/red-book\/ch01.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Communist Party<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/reference\/archive\/mao\/works\/red-book\/ch02.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Classes and Class Struggle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marxists.org\/reference\/archive\/mao\/works\/red-book\/ch06.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Imperialism and All Reactionaries are Paper Tigers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>[Strongly recommended] Priya Lal, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www-cambridge-org.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca\/core\/services\/aop-cambridge-core\/content\/view\/1DD215512D168A050F8FB922AC30ADE9\/9781107298576c6_p96-116_CBO.pdf\/maoism_in_tanzania.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maoism in Tanzania: Material Connections and Shared Imaginaries<\/a>,\u201d in <cite>Mao&#8217;s Little Red Book<\/cite>, ed. Alexander C. Cook (New York and Cambridge, 2014), pp. 96\u2013116.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> Why was Maoism appealing?<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"week14\"><\/a>Week 14 (Dec. 5): The Chinese Dream<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Klaus M\u00fchlhahn, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi-org.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca\/10.4159\/9780674916067-019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ambitions and Anxieties<\/a>,&#8221; in <cite>Making China Modern<\/cite> (Cambridge, Mass., 2019), pp. 560\u2013591 (up to &#8220;Growing Uncertainties&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li>[P] &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncuscr.org\/content\/full-text-president-xi-jinpings-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full Text from President Xi Jinping&#8217;s Speech<\/a>,&#8221; 22 September 2015.<\/li>\n<li>[P?] Peter Hessler, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/search-proquest-com.ezproxy.library.ubc.ca\/docview\/1707526850?accountid=14656&amp;pq-origsite=summon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Learning To Speak Lingerie<\/a>,&#8221; <cite>New Yorker<\/cite>, 10 August 2015 (original article, with illustrations, can be found at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/08\/10\/learning-to-speak-lingerie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Yorker website<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> Whose &#8220;Chinese Dream&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students are expected to have completed all the required viewing (found under Modules in Canvas) and readings for each week before attending the weekly session. 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