History 200
HISTORY OF CHINA
Fall 2007
Instructor: James W. Crowl
Office: East Ruffner 246
Office Telephone: 395-2217
Office Hours: MWF: 2:00-2:50
TR: 3:15-4:00
E-mail: crowljw@longwood.edu
Course Description
Required Text
Course Objectives
Tentative Outline, Test Schedule, and Text Assignment
Grading
Map Key
Pinyin System
Research Paper
Termpaper Requirements and
Style Guide
Statement on Plagiarism
Course Description:
History 200 is a one-semester survey of the political,
social, and cultural history of
Required Text:
John King Fairbank
and Merle Goldman.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of the course, students will have gained an appropriate increase in:
1. knowledge of the significant political,
social, economic and cultural developments which mark Chinese history.
2. knowledge and understanding of the forces which
shaped Chinese history and civilization.
3. knowledge of historical study and methodology.
4. critical and analytical thinking skills, and an
increased ability to communicate the results of independent thought both orally
and in writing.
This course will fulfill these general education critera.
It will:
1. Teach a disciplinary mode of inquiry and provide students with practice in
applying inquiry, critical thinking, problem solving.
2. Provide examples of how disciplinary knowledge changes through creative
applications of the chosen mode of inquiry.
3. Consider questions of ethical values.
4. Explore past, current, and future implications of disciplinary knowledge.
5. Encourage consideration of course content from diverse perspectives.
6. Provide opportunities for students to increase information literacy through
contemporary techniques of gathering, manipulating, and analyzing information
and data.
7. Require at least one substantive written paper, oral report, or course
journal and also require students to articulate information or ideas in their
own words on tests and exams.
8. Foster awareness of the common elements among disciplines and the
interconnectedness of disciplines.
9. Foster awareness of the common elements among disciplines and the
interconnectedness of the disciplines.
This course will fill the requirements of General Education Goal 9 by fulfilling the following objectives.
Through this course, you will:
1. Understand the culture, society, and history of groups outside of Western
European traditions.
2. Employ an appropriate vocabulary and rational
argument to discuss issues involving race, nationality, gender, ethnicity,
class, or sexual orientation.
3. Understand the concepts of ethnocentricism.
At least one test question will ask students to apply their knowledge of gender
and politics to a global context, comparing first-world, post-communist, and
developing countries' conceptions of gendered ethnocentrism. We will
focus on both non-western and western concepts of ethnocentrism, which vary
widely throughout the world.
4. Differentiate between personal discomfort and intellectual disagreement in
situations where cultures may conflict.
5. Distinguish between facts and cultural assumptions relating to issues of
diversity.
Tentative Outline, Test Schedule, and Text Assignment:
Aug. 27- Introduction to the Course
Aug. 30 - Shang and Zhou (Chou) Dynasties
Sept. 4 - Political traditions and philosophy
Sept. 6 - Quiz; Qin (Ch'in) Dynasty
Sept. 11 - Map Quiz; Han Dynasty
Sept. 13- Buddhism; the Sui Dynasty
Sept. 18 - Tang (T'ang) Dynasty
Text Assignment for First Test: pp. 1 - 87.
Sept. 20 – Quiz; Song
(Sung) Dynasty
Sept. 25 - Mongols
September 27- FIRST TEST: This test makes up one-quarter of your final grade!
Oct. 2- Ming Dynasty
Oct. 4 - Quiz; Qing (Ch'ing) or Manchu Dynasty
Oct. 9 - The Opium War and the Arrow War
Oct. 11 - Quiz; Taiping (T'ai-p'ing) Rebellion
Fall Break: Oct. 16
Oct. 18 - Restoration; Empress Dowager
Oct. 23- Restoration; 1898 Reforms
Oct. 25- Quiz; Japanese Aggression; Boxer Rebellion
Oct. 30 - Revolution of l911; Era of the Warlords
Text Assignment for the Second Test, pp. 88-216
Nov. 1 – Nationalist Decade;
Japanese Aggression
Nov. 6 - Second Test: This test makes up one-quarter of your final grade
Nov. 8 -Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) and the Rise of Chinese Communism
Nov. 13 - The Civil War and Communist Victory
Nov. 15 – Quiz; PRC: The First Decade
Nov. 20 - Socialist Transformation and "Great Leap Forward"
Nov. 27- Cultural Revolution
Nov. 29 - Quiz; "Gang of Four"' Deng Xiaoping
. Dec. 4-6: Deng Xiaoping and
Dec. 6: Research Paper Due! A hard-copy
of your paper Must be submitted to the
instructor by the close of the day. Papers Must
also be submitted to Turnitin.com by the close of the week—Dec. 7!!
Text Assignment for Exam : pp. 294-311; 368-469.
Final Grade:
The final grade in the course will be determined as follows: each of the two tests will count as twenty-five percent (25%), the final examination will count as twenty-five percent (25%), and the combined quiz grade will count as twenty-five percent (25%). The final examination will not be comprehensive.
If you have questions concerning the course or your progress, please do not hesitate to confer with your instructor.
Students who come late to class can expect to lose a point off their
final grade in the class, up to a maximum of 10 points. Students who talk
among themselves during class will be similarly penalized or even asked to
leave the classroom!
Students who need to leave the classroom while class is in session are asked
not to return until the following class.
Failure to comply will cost students a point off their final grade.
Students are also asked NOT to come to class with the intention of leaving
during the class to make another appointment. If that appointment is more
important than the class, then do not come to class in the first place.
Art Notebook: The Lancaster Building, the Administrative
Building on campus, and the Fine Arts Center downtown house an excellent
collection of Chinese pottery, bronzes, and porcelain, the gift of a Longwood
alumna and her husband. Students who wish to create a notebook which
includes about a paragraph description of these items on display will be given
up to five points of extra credit for the final grade in the
class. Descriptions should include an analysis of how the object reflects
the spirit of the dynasty in which it was produced. Notebooks are due by
Reading Day at the close of the semester.
MAP KEY:
l. Inner Mongolian A.R.
2. Xinjiang (Sinkiang) A.R.
3. Xizang or
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Pinyin System
Since l979 most Western journals and newspapers have begun to use the Pinyin system of romanizing Chinese adopted by the People's Republic. Its essential features are as follows, with corresponding letters used in the Wade-Giles system in parenthesis:
a (a) as in father p ('p) as in pan
b (b) as in boy q (ch') as in chin
c (ts) as in its r (j) as in run
d (t) as in dip s (s, ss,sz) as in sister
e (e) as in uh t ('t) as in tip
ei (ei) as way u (u) as in too
g (k) as in go u (u) as in the German u
i (i) as in eat x (hs) as in she
j (ch) as in jeep y (y) as in yet
k ('k) as in king z (ts, tz) as in zero
o (o) as in saw zh (ch) as in jump
Research Paper:
Students are required to write a research paper of five to ten (5-10) pages on a topic
concerning
For Turnitin.com:
History 200-01 2081494 Tongzhi
No more than ONE (1) electronic source may be used for every five sources
used over-all. Be certain that the source(s) that you do use are
reputable! Many electronic sources are of dubious value!
Term Paper Requirements and Style Guide
Students should NOT use the Longwood Style Manual or the MLA Style Sheet. Thus, do NOT use parenthetical notes!! Only footnotes and endnotes will be acceptable! Please consult Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers. 6th ed.
Students should likewise never cite encyclopedias, textbooks, or class notes in a termpaper.
The following are some useful examples from Turabian:
Footnoting a book:
1Arthur Waley, The Analects of Confucius (
If the same work by Waley is used again for the second footnote, Ibid. should be used. Thus,
2Ibid., 37. (Note that Ibid. is not underlined)
If Waley is cited later, after other works have been cited, students should use a short title. Thus,
17Waley, The Analects, 130.
Footnoting a multi-volume work:
3Tucker Brooke, The Renaissance, vol. 2 in University of
Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, ed. John W. Boyer (
Footnoting a Review:
4Steven Spitzer, review of The Limits of Law Enforcement, by Hans Zeisel, in American Journal of Sociology 91 (November l985): 726-29.
Footnoting a Journal:
8Don Swanson, "Dialogue with a Catalogue," Library Quarterly 34 (December l963): ll3-25.
Electronic Documents
56Rosabel Flax, Guidelines for Teaching Mathematics K-12 (Topeka: Kansas State Department of Education, 1979) [database on-line]; available from Dialog, ERIC, ED 178312
57Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed., s.v. "glossolalia" [CD-ROM] (Oxford University Press, 1992).
58Joanne C. Baker and Richard W. Hunstead, "Revealing the Effects of Orientation in Composite Quasar Spectra," Astrophysical Journal 452:L98, 20 October 1995 [journal on-line]; available from http://ww.aas.org/ApJ/v452n2/5309.html; Internet; accessed 29 September 1995.
Footnoting a Magazine;
9Anne B. Fisher, "Ford Is Back on the Track," Fortune, 23 December l985, l8.
Footnoting a Newspaper:
10Michael Norman, "The Once-Simple Folk Tale Analyzed by Academe," New York Times, 5 March l984, p. 3.
Bibliography: Your bibliography should be entitled "Works Cited," and it should only include works which you have cited in your footnotes/endnotes.
Examples of works cited:
Books:
McDougall, Walter A. The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space
Age.
________ . The Moon.
Articles:
Gibaldi, Joseph, ed. "Information for IEEE Authors." IEEE Spectrum l2
(August l965): ll-15.
Newspapers:
Smith, Herbert. "
l8 July l970.
Electronic Document:
Flax, Rosabel. Guidelines for
Teaching Mathematics K-12.
Kansas Department of Education, 1979. Database on-line. Available from
Dialog ERIC, ED 178312.
Plagiarism:
Students should be reminded that the use of an author's ideas in a student paper without giving proper credit to the author constitutes plagiarism. Likewise the use of an author's words without placing those words in quotation marks and providing proper citation is plagiarism. Students sometimes believe that by changing an occasional word or two or even three in a sentence, they are avoiding plagiarism. This is NOT the case. The information and ideas taken from a source must be re-formed into your own words! And after re-forming it into your own words, you must use a footnote or endnote giving proper credit to the author.
Papers must be submitted to Turnitin.com.or they
will not be accepted for the course.
Select Bibliography:
Balazs,
E., Chinese Civilization and Bureaucracy. (1964)
Barme, Geremie R.
Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader. (1996)
Barnett, A. Doak. Communist
Barnett, A. Doak.
Bernstein, Richard, and Ross H. Munro. The
Coming Conflict with
Brown, Lester R. Wo
Will Feed
Bodde, Derk.
Bonavia, David.
Chen, Jack. Inside the Cultural Revolution.
(19750
Creel, H.G. Chinese Thought from Confucius to
Mao-Tse-tung. (1959)
Creel, H.G. The Birth of
Davis, Michael C. ed. Human Rights and
Chinese Values: Legal, Philosophical and Political Perspectives.
(1995)
Fan, K.H., ed. The Chinese
Cultural Revolution. (1968)
Fairbank, John King.
Fairbank, J.K., and Reischauer, E.O.,
Fairbank, Wilma. Liang and Lin:
Partners in Exploring
Fitzgerald, John. Awakening
Gernet, J., Daily Life in
Gompertz,
Hobson, R.L. Chinese Pottery and Porcelain.
2 vols. (1915)
Hobson, R.L. The Later Chinese Wares of
Hu, Chang-tu, ed.
Loewe, M., Everyday Life in Early Imperial
Loewe, M., Imperial
Medley, Margaret. The Chinese Potter. (1976)
Schram, Stuart. ThePolitical
Thought of Mao Tse-tung. (1963)
Schwartz, Benjamin I. Chinese Communism and
the Rise of Mao. (1952)
Solinger, Dorothy J.
Sutter, Robert G. Chinese Foreign Relations: Developments After Mao. (1986)
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