Readings

Please complete all readings before class.

S01: Introduction

Primary Sources

• Xi Jinping: Achieving Rejuvenation Is the Dream of the Chinese People, speech related to the exhibition The Road of Rejuvenation
• Liu Xiaobo: “I Have No Enemies” (Liu, 2012, pp. 321–326)

Secondary Sources

• Introduction of The Oxford Illustrated History (Wasserstrom, 2016, pp. 1–10)

S02: Eurasian Empire

Primary Sources

• Qing’s 29 Regulations for Reorganizing Tibet (1792) (Atwill & Atwill, 2021, pp. 9–11)
• Qianlong Emperor Thangka

Secondary Sources

• Matthew Mosca, The Expansion of the Qing Empire Before 1800 (Mosca, 2021)

S03: State and Society

Primary Sources

• Pu Songling: Three States of Existence
• Wang Xiang, from Twenty‑Four Filial Exemplars

Secondary Sources

• Chapter 4, “Society” (Rowe, 2009, pp. 90–121)

S04: Qing in the World

Primary Sources

• Qianlong’s Edict to King George III (Atwill & Atwill, 2021, pp. 18–21)

Secondary Sources

• The Qing Empire in the Fabric of Global History (Mosca, 2016)

S05: Imperial Decline

Primary Sources

• Letter from Lin Zexu to Queen Victoria (Atwill & Atwill, 2021, pp. 47–50)

Secondary Sources

• New Domestic and Global Challenges, 1792–1860 (Wasserstrom, 2016)

S06: Civil Wars

Primary Sources

• Taiping Plan for Reorganizing Chinese Society (Atwill & Atwill, 2021, pp. 67–68)

Secondary Sources

• Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom (Preface & Epilogue) (Platt, 2012)

S07: Self‑Strengthening and Its Limits

Primary Sources

• Zhang Zhidong: Exhortation to Learn (de Bary & Lufrano, 2001, pp. 244–249)
• Charles Daniel Tenney: Reminiscences of Li Hung‑chang

Secondary Sources

• Restoration and Reform (Wasserstrom, 2016)

S08: Boxer Rebellion

Primary Sources

• Ning, Prologue and “With the Missionaries” (Ning, 1945)
• Four Accounts of the Fate of Miss Han (J. Y. Chen et al., 2013)

Secondary Sources

• Drought and Foreign Presence (Cohen, 1997)

S09: Overseas Chinese

Primary Sources

• Qiu Jin: Address to 200 Million Fellow Countrywomen (Atwill & Atwill, 2021)
• Wong Chin Foo: Why Am I a Heathen? (Yung et al., 2006)

Secondary Sources

• The Chinese State and the Politics of Diaspora (Miles, 2020)

S10: From Empire to Nation‑State

Primary Sources

• Zhang Taiyan on Revolution (de Bary & Lufrano, 2001)
• Sun Yat‑sen: Three Principles of the People
• Charles Daniel Tenney: The Chinese Republic

Secondary Sources

• Felling a Dynasty, Founding a Republic (Wasserstrom, 2016)

S11: Chinese Enlightenment

Primary Sources

• Lu Xun: Story of Kong Yiji (Lu, 2009)

Secondary Sources

• The Rise of Nationalism and Revolutionary Parties (Wasserstrom, 2016)

S12: Birth of the Chinese Communist Party

Primary Sources

• Hu Shi: “On Pragmatism” (de Bary & Lufrano, 2001, pp. 368–369)
• Li Dazhao: “Victory of Bolshevism” (de Bary & Lufrano, 2001, pp. 404–406)
• He Zhen: “What Women Should Know About Communism” (de Bary & Lufrano, 2001)
• Resolution on the Question of Organization (1925) (Saich, 1995)

Secondary Sources

• Origins, Alliance, and Failure: 1920–1930 (Saich, 2021)

S13: One Party, One State, One Leader

Primary Sources

• Luo Longji: “What Kind of Political System Do We Want?”
• Jiang Tingfu: “Revolution and Absolutism”
• Chiang Kai‑shek: “Essentials of the New Life Movement”

Secondary Sources

• China in the 1930s (Cheek, 2016)

S14: Urban Modernity

Primary Sources

• The Goddess (Wu, 1934)

Secondary Sources

• Wakeman, Law and Order (Wakeman, 1996)

S15: Rural Decline

Primary Sources

• Mao Zedong: Report on an Investigation of the Hunan Peasant Movement
• Liang Shuming: Reconstructing the Community

Secondary Sources

• Harrison, “The Farmer” (Harrison, 2005)

S16: Sino‑Japanese War

Primary Sources

• Wang Jingwei’s Telegraph

Secondary Sources

• The War Years
• Harrison, Epilogue

S17: Civil War

Primary Sources

• Mao Zedong: On New Democracy
• CIA: The Current Situation in China (1948)

Secondary Sources

• The Chinese Civil War and the Cold War

S18: Communist Revolution

Primary Sources

• Farewell My Concubine (first half) (K. Chen, 1993)

Secondary Sources

• The Early Years of the PRC

S19: Half the Sky

Primary Sources

• Farewell My Concubine (second half) (K. Chen, 1993)

Secondary Sources

• Hershatter, Bad Transmission (Hershatter, 2015)

S20: Leap and Fall

Primary Sources

• Mao Zedong: Remarks at Beidaihe
• Peng Dehuai: Letter of Opinion

Secondary Sources

• Yang, An Everlasting Tombstone

S21: Cultural Revolution

Primary Sources

• “At the Center of the Storm” & “Red Guards Had No Sex”
• The Sixteen Points

Secondary Sources

• The Cultural Revolution Era

S22: Sent‑Down Generation

Primary Sources

• Liu Ping diary from the Dartmouth Rusticated Youth Collection:
  • November 10, 1969: “Our instructor proposed self-examinations in four areas”
  • November 19, 1969: “Something annoying and immoral happened”
  • December 1969 to February 1970: “A lot happened in the last two months”
  • July 25, 1970: “So much happened lately”

Secondary Sources

• None

S23: Farewell to Revolution

Primary Sources

• Feng Xiaogang, Youth

Secondary Sources

• Reform and Rebuilding

S24: Capitalism without Democracy

Primary Sources

• Deng Xiaoping: Build Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

Secondary Sources

• The Rong Family
• Origins of China’s Growth Model

S25: Tiananmen Protests

Primary Sources

• River Elegy, Episode 1
• Transcript of the May 18 Meeting

Secondary Sources

• Tiananmen and Its Aftermath

S26: China Model

Primary Sources

• Qin Hui: China’s Low Human Rights Advantage
• Pan Wei: Western System versus Chinese System

Secondary Sources

• China Rising

S27: Conclusion

Primary Sources

• Xu Jilin, The New Tianxia

Secondary Sources

• The Inevitable Rivalry

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Cohen, P. A. (1997). History in three keys: The boxers as event, experience, and myth. Columbia University Press.

de Bary, Wm. T., & Lufrano, R. (Eds.). (2001). Sources of Chinese Tradition: From 1600 Through the Twentieth Century. Columbia University Press.

Harrison, H. M. (2005). Driving the Soviets up the Wall: Soviet-East German Relations, 1953-1961. Princeton University Press.

Hershatter, G. (2015). Bad Transmission. In B. J. Bossler (Ed.), Gender & Chinese history : Transformative encounters (pp. 209–226). University of Washington Press.

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Saich, T. (2021). From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Wakeman, F. E. (1996). Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937. University of California Press.

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