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History 210/Anthropology 275
Autumn 2013
TTh 10:00-11:50 a.m.
Robert André LaFleur Office
Hours:
Morse Ingersoll 111 Tuesday
12:00-1:30*
363-2005 Thursday
12:00-1:30
lafleur@beloit.edu …or by
appointment
*Office hours have reverted to the regular 12:00-1:30 time after autumn break.
Required Books
Brook, Timothy. The Confusions of Pleasure
Chan, Anita, et al. Chen Village: Revolution to
Globalization
Cohen, Paul. History in Three Keys
Ebrey, Patricia. Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook
Kipnis, Andrew. Producing Guanxi
Kuhn, Philip. Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of
1768
Lindqvist. Cecilia. China: Empire of Living Symbols
Liu Xin. In One’s Own Shadow
Mair, Victor. The Columbia Anthology of Traditional
Chinese Literature
Mann, Susan. The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
Spence, Jonathan. The Gate of Heavenly Peace
Hacker, Diana. A Pocket Style Manual (required in all
history classes
Character notebook (for practicing Chinese characters)
Character notebook (for practicing Chinese characters)
Round and Square (www.robert-lafleur.blogsot.com)
The New York Review of Books (NYRB)
Reserve Books (available for purchase, but multiple
copies are on reserve)
McNaughton, William. Reading and Writing Chinese
McNaughton, William. Reading and Writing Chinese
Wieger, James, Chinese Characters
Course Description
This course will examine Chinese history and culture in
the context of the wider East Asian world.
We will begin with early Chinese history and the influence of the Yellow
River valley on the development of Chinese institutions. We will then examine
the development of Chinese philosophical, literary, political, and economic
traditions during the imperial era. The
second half of the course deals with modern Chinese history and culture, paying
equal attention to historical and ethnographic materials, and taking a careful
look at the development of a strong Chinese state from the challenges of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Throughout the course we will use examples from the Chinese
language—Chinese characters and their etymologies, idiomatic phrases, and
classical allusions—to analyze Chinese history and culture in linguistic
context.
Evaluation
Quizzes 10%
Final exam 10%
Daily attendance and class participation are expected;
more than two absences during the semester will affect your grade. Late assignments will be penalized—see my late assignment policy.
HIST 210/ANTH 275: Weeks 1-8 HIST 210/ANTH 275: Weeks 9-16
Week IX
Midterm
Week
Tuesday, October 22
Midterm Assignment Handouts
Beijing Olympics 2008—Opening Ceremony (in-class 10/22)
Charles Hucker, China to 1850: A Short History (Dropbox)
Terry Collins, Ancient China: An Interactive History Adventure (Dropbox)
Charles Hucker, China to 1850: A Short History (Dropbox)
Terry Collins, Ancient China: An Interactive History Adventure (Dropbox)
*Please note that you should receive (on 10/14) an e-mail "invitation" to access the Hucker and Collins texts on Dropbox. Follow the instructions from there.
Thursday, October 24
Lindqvist, China: Empire of Living Symbols, 195-210
Wine and Jars
McNaughton:
151-170 or Wieger: 184-211
Characters 600-699 Lessons 72-81
Week X
Nineteenth
Century China
Tuesday, October 29
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Mann, The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
Genealogical Chart of the Zhang Family and Their
Collateral Kin
Prologue
Jining, Shandong
(1893-1895)
Tang Yaoqing, Guixiu
(1763-1831)
Zhang Qieying, Poet
(1792-after 1863)
Wang Caipin, Governess
(1826-1893)
Epilogue. The Historian
Says . . .
Zhang Family Chronology
Thursday, October 31
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 301-330
Village Organization
The Village Headman and
the New Teacher
Boat People
Placards Posted in
Guangzhou
Infant Protection Society
Mid-Century Rebels
The Conditions and
Activities of Workers
Genealogy Rules
Lindqvist, China: Empire of Living Symbols, 211-226
Hemp and Silk
McNaughton:
171-180 or Wieger: 212-225
Characters 700-749 Lessons 82-89
Week XI
China’s
Long Revolution
Tuesday, November 5
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Spence, The Gate of Heavenly Peace
Arousing the Spirits
Visions and Violence
Wanderings
The Far Horizon
The Land of Hunger
Extolling Nirvana
Whose Children Are Those?
Wake the Spring
Farewell to Beautiful Things
Refugees
Rectifications
A New Order
The Noise of the Renegades
Thursday, November 7
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 335-384
Liang Qichao on His Trip to America
Ridding China of Bad Customs
Rural Education
My Old Home
The Spirit of the May Fourth Movement
The Haifeng Peasant Association
The Dog-Meat General
The General Strike
Lindqvist, China: Empire of Living Symbols, 227-246
Bamboo and Tree
McNaughton:
181-190 or Wieger: 225-238
Characters 750-799 Lessons 90-96
Week XII
Historiography,
“Ethnography,” and
Mythology in Modern China
Mythology in Modern China
Tuesday, November 12
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Cohen, History in Three Keys
Part 1: The Boxers as Event
Prologue: The Historically Reconstructed Past
The Boxer Uprising: A Narrative History
Part
2: The Boxers as Experience
Prologue: The Experienced Past
Drought and the Foreign Presence
Mass Spirit Possession
Magic and Female Pollution
Rumor and Rumor Panic
Death
Part 3: The Boxers as Myth
Prologue: The Mythologized Past
The New Culture Movement and the Boxers
Anti-Imperialism and the Recasting of the Boxer Myth
The Cultural Revolution and the Boxers
Thursday, November 14
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 385-400
Funeral Processions
My Children
The Life of Beggars
Lindqvist, China: Empire of Living Symbols, 247-264
Tools and Weapons
McNaughton:
191-200 or Wieger: 239-256
Characters 800-849 Lessons 97-105
Week XIII
Chinese
Ethnography III
Tuesday, November 19
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Chan, Chen Village: Revolution to Globalization
Prologue
Chen Village and Its Leaders
The Big Four Cleanups
Studying Chairman Mao
The Cultural Revolution
The Cleansing of the Class Ranks
A Leftward Lurch and a Solid Footing
The Great Betrothal Dispute
Plunging into a New Decade
The Troubled Seventies
The New Era
The Midas Touch
Entrepreneurs and Gamblers
Globalization and Transformation
Lifestyles of a Middle-Class Community
Outsiders
Epilogue: An Unbroken Thread: The Sent-Down Youths and
Chen Village
Other Writings on Chen Village
Thursday, November 21
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 401-469
Generalissimo
Jiang on National Identity
The
Communist Party
Land
Reform
Hu Feng
and Mao Zedong
A New
Yong Man Arrives at the Organization Department
Peng
Dehuai’s Critique of the Great Leap Forward
Developing
Agricultural Production
Lei
Feng, Chairman Mao’s Good Fighter
Housing
in Shanghai
Red
Guards
Victims
McNaughton:
201-210 or Wieger: 271-285
Characters 850-899 Lessons 117-122
Week XIV
Rewriting
Rewriting
Tuesday, November 26
Week XV
Chinese
Ethnography IV
Tuesday, December 3
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Liu, In One’s Own Shadow
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Liu, In One’s Own Shadow
Exotic Familiarity
Part One: The Culture of Predicament—The
Uses of Confusion
Resisting Ideology
Marriage as a Mirror of Change
Meaning and Eating
Part Two: The Logic of Practice
The Practice of Everyday Life
The Pliable Emotions
Immoral Politics
Conclusion: A History of the Future
Thursday, December 5
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 470-504
The
Changing Course of Courtship
The One-Child
Family
Economic
Liberalization and the New Problems for Women
Peasants
in the Cities
Posters
Calling for Democracy
Defending
China’s Socialist Democracy
Lindqvist, China: Empire of Living Symbols, 301-330
Week XVI
Wrap-up
Tuesday, December 10
In-class Final
All Late Work Due by Wednesday, December 11 by 10:00 p.m.
You must e-mail these to me (lafleur@beloit.edu) as attachments!
Ethnography Paper Due Tuesday, December 17 by 5:00 p.m.
You must e-mail this to me (lafleur@beloit.edu) as an attachment!
You must e-mail these to me (lafleur@beloit.edu) as attachments!
Ethnography Paper Due Tuesday, December 17 by 5:00 p.m.
You must e-mail this to me (lafleur@beloit.edu) as an attachment!
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