HISTORY OF CHINESE  CULTURE AND INSTITUTIONS 
HISTORY 255

 

 History 255 Index l Getting Started on the Web I  Syllabus I  Requirements  I  Bibliography  I  Museum Field Trip  I  Cultural Project  I  Required Paper  I  Maps  I  Chronology I Websites  I  Videos and DVD's 

 

TEXTBOOKS

  • Shirokauer, Conrad and Miranda Brown, A Brief History of Chinese Civilization,  Thomson-Wadsworth Publishers, ISBN 0-534-64305-1

  • Ogden, Suzanne, Global Studies, China, latest edition, paperback, McGraw Hill publishers,  ISBN 0007-243297, latest edition, paperback

  • Targear, Chinese Art, Revise Edition, Norton Publishers, ISBN 0-500-20299-0, latest edition, paperback

  • Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking, the Forgotten Holocaust, Penguin, latest edition

Week Number

Reading Assignment

Submittals
Lecture Topic

First Week
August 25, 2009

 Study Guide 1

 

 SThe Western Zhou
Spring and Autumn Period
The Warring States
The Hundred Schools
The Classics
Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, Xunzi, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Han Feizi

The Neolithic Age
The Origins of Chinese Writing
The Rise of Bronze Age
The Shang Dynasty
The Zhou Dynasty
The Odes

Review the Course Requirements Complete "Introduction on Blackboard"

Library Assignment
 

Second Week
September 1, 2009


Study Guide 2

 		 Schirokauer, Chapter 2
Tregear: Chapter 2

The Western Zhou
Spring and Autumn Period
The Warring States
The Hundred Schools
The Classics
Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, Xunzi, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Han Feizi


 

 


Complete the Library Assignment
Use the Library Assignment to explore topic for paper and cultural project

 

Third Week
September 8, 2009

 Study Guide 3

Study Guide
Sackler Gallery

Schirokauer, Chapter 3
Tregear: Chapter 3

The First Chinese Empire:  The Qin
The Han
The formative Years
The Quality of Han Rule
The Xiongnu
The Fall of the Han
 

Library Assignment should be copied into Word, completed and sent  to me as an attachment by email
Friday of the Third Week

 

Fourth Week
September 15, 2009

 Guide 4

Study Guide to Freer Gallery

 

 Schirokauer, Chapter 3
Tregear: Chapter 4

China During the Period of Disunity
The Fundamentals of Buddhism
The Northern Wei
Daoism
Poetry, Calligraphy, Painting

Turn in topic for required paper with a partial bibliography.

 Last Day for Library Assignment

September 15, 20009

Fifth Week
September 22, 2009
Guide 5
 


 

 Schirokauer, Chapter 5
Tregear: Chapter 5
The Sui Dynasty
 The Tang Dynasty
The Rebellion of An Lushan
Li Bai and Du Fu
Flowering of Chinese Culture



 

Sixth Week
September 29, 2009

 Study Guide 6

 

 Schirokauer, Chapter 6
Tregear: Chapter 6

The founding of the Song Dynasty
The Northern Song
Reforms of Wang An-Shih
Urban Culture
Southern Song

 





Chapters 1-5
Shirokauer
Chapters 1-5
Tregear 

Seventh Week
October 6, 2009
 


 Study Guide 7 

Schirokauer, Chapter 6
Tregear: Chapter 6

The Mongols
Yuan Dynasty
Decline of the Mongols

First Examination
October 6, 2009

Eighth Week
October 20, 2009
Study Guide 8

 

 Schirokaur,Chapter 7
Tregear: Chapter 8

China in the Ming Period
Establishment of the Dynasty
Foreign Policy
Ming Culture, China in the 16th Century
The Coming of the Europeans

 



 

First Cultural Reports
(15 Minutes)

Ninth Week
October 27, 2009

Study Guide 9


 

 

Schirokauer, Chapter 9

East Asia and Modern Europe:  First Encounters
The Portuguese
The jesuits
The Decline of Chritianity
The Canton System
 



Last Day for First Museum Project,


October 27, 2009


 

 
Tenth Week
November 3, 2009


 Guide 10

 

 Schirokauer, Ch. 10
Tregear: Chapter 9

Coming of the Manchu 
The Qing Dynasty
Invasion & Rebellion in the 19th Century
China's Response to the West
 

 

Research Paper or Book Report must be turned in to the office  (Room 252, Bisdorf Building) or sent by email between November 3 and November 17, 2009




 

 

Eleventh Week
November 10, 2009


 Guide 11

 Schirokauer,Chapter 11
Tregear: Chapter 10

The Opium War and Taiping Rebellion
Foreign Aggression on China's Periphery
China's Defeat by France in Vietnam
China's Defeat by Japan in Korea
The Boxer Rebellion
Imperialism & the Chinese Response

Papers will be penalized after 
November 17, 2009

Twelfth Week
November 17, 2009


 


 Guide 12

 

 
 

 

 Schirokauer,Chapter 12
Tregear: Chapter 11

From Monarchy to Warlordism
The Late Qing  Reforms
The Revolution of 1911
Sun Yet-sen
Rise and Decline of Nationalist China
Revolution in Thought and Culture
Republic's Decline into Warlordism

 



Chapters 6-11
Schirokauer
Chapters 5-8

Thirteenth Week
November 24, 2009

Guide 13

 

 Schirokauer, Chapter  13
The Chinese Communists
The Long March
China and World War II
Civil War and Communist Triumph

Second Examinaton
Tuesday
November 24, 2009


Fourteenth Week
December 1, 2009



Guide 14

 

 

Guide 15

 

 Schirokauer,
Chapter 14
and Chapter 15
Consolidation and Construction Soviet Style
The Revolution Continued (1958-1976)
Deng Xiaoping
The Four Cardinal Principles
Modern China 		 


Fifteenth Week
December 8, 2008
 



 
 		  

Sixteenth Week

December 16, 2009

  

Final Examination
Chapters 12-15
Schirokauer
 

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