HIST 608 SOCIALISM AND REVOLUTION IN EAST ASIA 1895-1945
Course Description
This course is intended as a graduate colloquium on socialism and revolution
in Eastern Asia. The term socialism is used here to cover radical ideologies
from anarchism to social democracy to revolutionary Marxism, which accords
with the understanding of the term by most Eastern Asian radicals. Eastern
Asia is understood to encompass both East and Southeast Asia, although
the emphasis is primarily on China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam (Other Southeast
and some South Asian societies will be brought in in the second half of
the course in the Winter quarter). The premise of the course is that even
if revolutionaries were guided by specific national goals, revolutionary
activity in Eastern Asia was transnational in process and ideological
formations. Hence, it is possible to speak not just of Japanese, Chinese
or Vietnamese but also of an Eastern Asian revolutionary discourse.
Course Policies
The two quarters have been conceived as a single course, and course requirements
have been determined accordingly. Aside from leading and participating
in class discussions, course requirements will consist of(a)book review
essays on the sessions for which a particular student is responsible,
and, (b)a research paper that will be due at the end of the second quarter
of the course(the Winter quarter). The review papers should be roughly
10-15 pp in length, the research papers around 25-30 pp. The theme of
the review paper will depend on student interests, and will be determined
in consultation with the instructor. Students will be expected to submit
a research proposal with a bibliography the first session of the first
quarter. Please expect a full day session at the end of the second quarter
to discuss the research papers. This also means that finished papers need
to be submitted the 8th week of classes during the Winter quarter.
The course is organized as a two-quarter course. The first quarter traces
socialism from its arrival in Eastern Asia in the late nineteenth century
through World War II. The second quarter takes up the post-World War II
period, tapering off in the 1980s and 1990s as socialism ceased to be
a vital force in Eastern Asian politics-at least for the time being. The
goal of the course is to provide a foundation for further graduate level
study in the issues discussed by providing a comprehensive coverage of
important English- language literature on the subject.
One person will be leading the discussion each week, and will be responsible
for presenting to the class a full discussion of all the items listed
for the session(it would be advisable to write and distribute the review
essay to the class ahead of time to facilitate discussion). Where there
is a reading listed first, separated from the others by an additional
space, this is a reading recommended for the whole class, and available
for purchase. In other cases, students should feel free to read one of
the items listed that accords most closely with their particular interests.
Students are also welcome to add to the list items of their choice, including
Chinese language materials.
Course Schedule of Readings and Discussions
| Week 1 |
Reading |
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September 29 - Introduction to the Course
"Mapping Socialism in Eastern Asia"
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| Week 2 |
Reading |
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October 6 - Revolutionary Nationalism and Socialism in Eastern
Asia
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H. C. D'Encausse and S.
Schram, Marxism and Asia, pp.1-203
David Marr, Vietnamese Anti-Colonialism
Phan Boi Chau, Reflections from Captivity
Rebecca Karl, Staging the World
Don Price, Russia and the Roots of the Chinese Revolution, 1896- 1911
Mary Rankin, Early Chinese Revolutionaries
Michael Robinson, Cultural Nationalism in Colonial Korea, 1920- 1925
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| Week 3 |
Reading |
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October 13 - Socialism in Japan
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Peter Duus and Irwin Scheiner, "Socialism, Liberalism and
Marxism, 1901-1931"
Gail Bernstein, Japanese Marxist
Germaine Hoston, Marxism and the Crisis of Development in Prewar
Japan
Fred Notehelfer, Kotoku Shusui: Portrait of a Japanese Radical
Miriam Silverberg, Changing Song
Thomas Stanley, Osugi Sakae: Anarchist in Taisho Japan
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| Week 4 |
Reading |
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October 20 - Nationalism, Anarchism and Revolution in China
A. Dirlik, "Socialism and Capitalism in Chinese Socialist Thinking:
The Origins"
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Martin Bernal, Chinese Socialism to 1907
Arif Dirlik, Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution
John Fitzgerald, Awakening China
Edward Krebs, Liu Shifu
Li Yu-ning, The Introduction of Socialism Into China
Peter Zarrow, Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture
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| Week 5 |
Reading |
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October 27 - Chinese Communism: The Origins
A. Dirlik, " National Development and Social Revolution in
Early Chinese Marxist Thought"
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Arif Dirlik, The Origins
of Chinese Communism
Thomas Kuo, Chen Tu-hsiu and the Chinese Communist Movement
Marilyn Levine, The Found Generation
Michael Luk, The Origins of Chinese Bolshevism
Maurice Meisner, Li Ta-chao and the Origins of Chinese Marxism
Hans Van de Ven, From Friend to Comrade
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| Week 6 |
Reading |
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November 3 - From Urban to Rural Revolution
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Arif Dirlik, "Narrativizing Revolution: The Guangzhou Uprising
(11-13 December 1927)in Workers' Perspective"
Christina Gilmartin, Engendering the Chinese Revolution
Harold Isaacs, The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution
Ilpyong Kim, The Politics of Chinese Communism
Daniel Kwan, Marxist Intellectuals and the Chinese Labor Movement:
A Study of Deng Zhongxia
Angus McDonald, The Urban Origins of Rural Revolution
Marcia Ristaino, China's Art of Revolution
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| Week 7 |
Reading |
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November 10- Vietnam and Korea
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William Duiker, The Rise of Nationalism in Vietnam, 1900-1941
Christopher Goscha, Thailand and the Southeast Asian Networks of
the Vietnamese Revolution, 1885-1954, pp. 1-141
Ho Chi-minh, Selected Writings 1920-1969
Kim Il, et.al., Twenty-Year-Long Anti-Japanese Revolution Under
the Red Sunrays, 4 Vols.
Nym Wales and Kim San, The Song of Ariran: A Korean Communist in
the Chinese Revolution
Hue-tam Ho Tai, Radicalism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Revolution
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| Week 8 |
Reading |
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17 Marxism and Socialism in Chinese Intellectual Life
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Ming K. Chan and Arif Dirlik, Schools Into Fields and Factories
Arif Dirlik, Revolution and History
John Israel, Rebels and Bureaucrats
Roger Jeans, Roads Not Taken
Olga Lang, Pa Chin and His Writings
Laikwan Pang, Building a New China in Cinema
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| Week 9 |
Reading |
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November 24 - Mao Zedong
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A. Dirlik, "Mao Zedong and `Chinese Marxism'";
"The Predicament of Marxist Revolutionary Consciousness"
Jerome Chen, Mao and the Chinese Revolution
Joshua Fogel, Ai Ssu-ch'i's Contribution to the Development of Chinese
Marxism
Nick Knight, Li Da and Marxist Philosophy in China
Stuart Schram, Mao Tse-tung
Benjamin Schwartz, Chinese Communism and the Rise of Mao
Raymond Wylie, The Emergence of Maoism
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| Week 10 |
Reading |
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December 1 - War and Communism
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David Apter, Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic
Chen Yung-fa, Making Revolution
Chang-tai Hung, War and Popular Culture
John Israel, Lianda: A Chinese University in War and Revolution
Chalmers Johnson, Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power
Mark Selden, The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China
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