 | Schedule:
 | Week 1: The 17th Century Crisis, The Founding of the Qing, The High Qing
(18th Century) [90] Search, pp. 26-48
 | Frederic Wakeman, Jr., "Gentry," from The Fall of Imperial
China, pp. 19-35 |
| Susan Mann, "Gender," from Precious Records: Women in
China’s Long Eighteenth Century, pp. 19-44 |
| Huang Liu-hung, "Author’s Preface," Chüan 1 & 3, from
A Complete Book Concerning Happiness and Benevolence: A Manual for Local Magistrates in
Seventeenth-Century China, pp. 53-59, 80-83, 107-115, 122-125 |
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| Week 2: The Early 19th Century and The Coming of the West [88] Search,
pp. 117-136 (Optional: pp. 49-116)
| Esherick, pp. 38-67 (Optional: pp. 1-37) |
| Huang Liu-hung, Chüan 11, 17, 21 & 25, pp. 251-259, 378-383,
465-473, 525-538 |
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| Week 3: The Opium War [133]
| Film: "Lin Tse-Hsu" |
| Search, pp. 137-164 |
| Chinese Son, pp. 3-95 |
| Wm. de Bary, Wing-Tsit Chan, and Chester Tan, "The Lesson of Lin
Tse-Hsü" and "Wei Yüan and the West" from Sources of Chinese Tradition,
Volume II, pp. 4-15 |
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| Week 4: The Mid-Century Rebellions [201]
| Search, pp. 165-193 |
| Chinese Son, pp. 96-267 |
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| Week 5: Borders of Empire, Meanings of Imperialism [65] |
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| MIDTERM THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29 (Covering Weeks 1-5. Bring blue books!)
| Esherick, pp. 68-95 |
| Harry Lamley, "Subethnic Rivalry in the Ch’ing Period,"
from Emily Martin Ahern and Hill Gates, eds., Anthropology of Taiwanese Society, pp.
282-318 |
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| Week 6: The Tongzhi Restoration and the Self-Strengthening Movement [107]
| Search, pp. 194-215 |
| Chinese Son, pp. 268-332 |
| Ssu-Yü Teng and John K. Fairbank, "The Desire for Western
Technology" 1861-1870," from China’s Response to the West, pp. 61-67, 74-79 |
| de Bary & Chan & Tan, "Self-Strengthening and the Theme of
Utility," pp. 45-51 |
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| Week 7: The Sino-Japanese War, The 1898 Reforms [109]
| Search, pp. 216-244 |
| Esherick, pp. 115-135 (Optional: pp. 96-115) |
| * de Bary & Chan & Tan, "Reform and Reaction Under the
Manchus" (continued), pp. 59-91 |
| * Laurence G. Thompson, trans., "Abolishing National Boundaries and
Uniting the World," from Ta T’ung Shu: The One-World Philosophy of K’ang
Yu-wei, pp.79-104 |
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| Week 8: Social Changes, Secret Societies, The Boxer Uprising [159]
| Esherick, pp. 136-270 (Optional: pp. 271-313) |
| * Ono Kazuko, "Between Footbinding and Nationhood," from
Chinese Women in a Century of Revolution, pp. 23-46 |
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| Week 9: Late Qing Reform, Sun Yat-sen, Overseas Chinese [100]
| * Teng & Fairbank, "Reform and Revolution, 1901-1912," pp.
195-201, 206-209 |
| * de Bary & Chan & Tan, "Liang Ch’i-ch’ao,"
Sun Yat-sen essays, pp. 92-97, 106-117 |
| * Tsou Jung, "Origins of Revolution," from The Revolutionary
Army: A Chinese Nationalist Tract of 1903, pp. 65-97 |
| * Roger Daniels, "The Anti-Chinese Movement," from Asian
America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States since 1850, pp. 29-66 |
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| Week 10: The 1911 Revolution and the Fall of Imperial China [24]
| Search, pp. 245-268 |
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