Modern China
Mike Godley
8 points
* Two lectures and one tutorial per week
* Second semester
* Clayton
* Prohibitions: HSY2210, HSY3210
Objectives It is expected that, on the successful completion of this subject, students will have come to appreciate the complex and diverse influences which have shaped contemporary China.
Synopsis Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Chinese have been searching for new political forms and values, for wealth and power, together with a sense of national identity. This subject will focus on the role played by historians, peasants, politicians, scholar-officials, soldiers, students, women, and writers. Topics studied include the Taiping rebellion; the self-strengthening and new culture movements; Chinese Marxism; civil war; the revolutions of both 1911 and 1949; the Cultural Revolution as well as recent economic reforms and protest movements.
Assessment second year Short essay (1000 words) and Long essay (3000
words): 60%
* Examination (2 hours): 40%
Assessment third year Short essay (1000 words) and Research essay (3000
words): 60%
* Examination (2 hours): 40%
* Third-year students are
expected to use primary sources (in translation) in their long essay and answer
a document-based question on the examination.
Recommended texts
Fairbank J K China: A new history Harvard, 1992
Hibbert C The dragon wakes: China and the west Penguin, 1987
Hsu I The rise of modern China Oxford, 1995
Leiberthal K Perspectives on modern China M E Sharpe, 1991
Meiisner M Mao's China and after: A history of the people's republic Collier Macmillan, 1986
Spence J The search for modern China Norton, 1990
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