教學大綱 Syllabus

每周課程進度與作業要求 Course Schedule & Requirements

 

1– February 15: Introduction to the course/Ancient and Medieval Visions of China

– Colin Mackerras, Western Images of China [abbreviated Western Images hereafter], chapters 1 & 2

 

2 – February 22: Jesuits, Philosophes, and Chinoiserie

– Mendoza, The China of China (1585)

– Matteo Ricci, Journals (1615, posthumous)

– DuHalde, General History of China (1741)

– François Quesnay, “Le despotisme de la Chine” (1767)

– Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)

– “War and Empire: Images of Battle during the Qianlong Reign,” in Petra Chu and Ding Ning eds., Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West, pp. 158-172.

 

3 – March 1: Changing Fashions: Nineteenth-Century Images 

– John Barrow, Travels in China (1804) excerpts  

– Rev. Arthur Smith, Chinese Characteristics (1894) excerpts

 

4 – March 8: Western Images of Early Republican China

– Frank J. Goodnow, “Reform in China,” American Political Science Review (May 1915)

– Adam Warwick, “A Thousand Miles Along the Great Wall of China,” National Geographic (February 1923)

– Herge, Tintin: Blue Lotus (1936)

– Tobias Grey, “What Tintin Taught Europeans About China,” Wall Street Journal (December 25, 2020)

– Lin Yutang, My Country and My People (1936)

– Eliot Janeway, “Japan’s Partner: Japanese Dependence Upon the United States,” Harper’s Magazine (June           1938)

– “The Sack of Nanjing,” Reader’s Digest (June 1938)

– “We were in Nanjing,” Reader’s Digest (October 1938)

 

5 – March 15: Early Western Images of Taiwan; Psalmanazar’s Fraud

– George Psalmanazar, Description of Formosa (1704-5) http://www.romanization.com/books/psalmanazaar/index.html

– George Mackay, From Far Formosa (1895)

– Janet B. Montgomery, Among the Head-Hunters of Formosa (1922)

– Jerome F. Keating, The Mapping of Taiwan: Desired Economies, Coveted Geographies (2011) excerpts

 

6 – March 22: Edgar Snow’s Red Star over China

– Edgar Snow, Red Star over China (1938) excerpts

– Jerry Israel, ““Mao’s Mr. America”: Edgar Snow’s Image of China,” Pacific History Review (February 1978)

 

7 – March 29: Allies: China and World War II

– Theodore H. White, “Life Looks at China,” Life (May 1, 1944), pp. 99-110 (Google Books)

– Qian Suoqiao, “Representing China: Lin Yutang vs. American "China Hands" in the 1940s,” The Journal of American-East Asian Relations, Vol. 17 (October 2010)

– Video (in class): “Why We Fight: The Battle of China” (Frank Capra, 1944)

 

8 – April 5 Holiday

 

9 – April 12: The Civil War and Communist Takeover of China, KMT and Taiwan

– Derk Bodde, Peking Diary (1950) excerpts

– Edgar Snow, The Other Side of the River: Red China Today (1961) excerpts

– “Progress on Formosa,” Time (July 28, 1952)

– “Formosa: A Question of Justice,” Time (June 3, 1957)

– “Formosa: Ten Years Later,” Time (November 30, 1959)

– “Formosa: Success Story,” Time (March 8, 1963)

– George Kerr, Formosa Betrayed (1965) (recommended – Part Four: Formosa Becomes “Free China”)

Reflective essay due

 

10 – April 19: guest lecturer Professor Jean-Pascal Gay, UC Louvain

 

11 – April 26: The Cultural Revolution and the West

– Jann Myrdal, China: The Revolution Continued (1970)

– Felix Greene, Awakened China: The Country Americans Don't Know (1961)

– Paul Hollander, Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba 1928-1978 (1981) excerpts

 

12 – May 3: The Cultural Revolution and the West – part 2

– Julia Lovell, Global Maoism (excerpts)

– Robin D.G. Kelley and Betsy Esch, “Black like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution,” Souls (Fall 1999)

– “Visualizing Early 1970s China through the Lens of the Committee of Concerned Asian

Scholars (CCAS) Friendship Delegations,” Cross-Current: East Asian History and Culture Review

– “Repudiating Antonioni’s Anti-China Film,” Peking Review (February 22, 1974)

– Video (excerpts, in class): “Chung Kou” (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1972)

 

13 – May 10: The Diplomatic openings to the PRC/Nixon in China

– Garret Martin, “Playing the China Card?” Journal of Cold War Studies (2008)

– Richard Nixon, "Asia After Viet Nam,” Foreign Affairs (1967)

– Xu Guoqi, “The Sport of Ping-Pong Diplomacy,” from Olympic Dreams (2008)

– “Inside China,” Life (April 30, 1971), 22-47 (includes Snow, “A Conversation with Mao Tse-Tung”) (Google Books)

– Theodore H. White, “Journey Back to Another China,” Life (March 17, 1972), pp. 46-52 (Google Books)

– James Mann, About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship with China from Nixon to Clinton excerpts

– Video (in-class): “Nixon in China (The Film)” (1972), and discussion

– Joseph Craft, The Chinese Difference (1972) excerpts

– Harrison Salisbury, To Peking – And Beyond (1973)

– Stanley Karnow, "Changing (Mis)Conceptions of China,” Atlantic Monthly (October 1973), 73-76

– William F. Buckley Jr., “Veni, Vidi, Victus,” National Review (March 17, 1972)

– “An Unacceptable Deal,” Washington Post (December 11, 1974)

– Simon Leys, Chinese Shadows (1974) excerpts

 

14 – May 17: Feminism and the PRC

– Shirley MacLaine, You Can Get There from Here (1975) (excerpts)

– Michael J. Hathaway, “China’s Forgotten Role in Western Second-Wave Feminism,” Asian Perspectives (2018)

 

15 – May 24: After-Mao: Deng Xiaoping’s opening to the World; Democratizing Taiwan

– Jay Mathews, “China, U.S. Steel Sign Contract for $1 Billion Plant,” Washington Post (January 6, 1979)

– Memorandum, Brzezinski, “We are very sexy people” (June 4, 1980)

– Edward Friedman, “Exploding the China Myth,” Washington Post (June 13, 1982)

– Harry Harding, “From China, with Disdain: New Trends in the Study of China,” Asian Survey (1982)

– Beverly Hooper, “Popular Books on China: The New Journalistic Wave,” Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs (July 1983)

– Joseph Kraft, “Don’t Overrate China,” Washington Post (April 24, 1984)

– Arnold Isaacs, “Lost in the Translation: AMC’s Failed Experiment in China,” Washington Post (January 30, 1990)

– “Taiwan: The other China Changes Course,” National Geographic (November 1993)

– Video (in-class): “China Assignment: The 1980s” and discussion

– James Mann, About Face selections

 

16 – May 31: Tiananmen Square and Aftermath

– Daniel Southerland, “Students Press Deng for Rapid Changes,” Washington Post (January 4, 1987)

– James Mann, About Face selections

– John Pomfret, “China Making Life Tougher for Foreign Firms,” Washington Post (December 19, 1998)

– Carla Hills, “Seize the Deal,” Washington Post (November 21, 1999)

– E.J. Dionne, “China: Profit and Principle,” Washington Post (September 15, 2000)

– After the China Vote,” Washington Post (September 23, 2000)

– Nicholas Kristof, “China’s Rise Goes Beyond Gold Medals,” New York Times (August 21, 2008)

– Keith Bradsher, “Speedy Trains Transform China,” New York Times (September 23, 2013)

 

17 – June 7: China in the Movies/China in Hollywood

– Naomi Greene, From Fu Manchu to Kung Fu Panda: Images of China in American Film (excerpts)

– Phoebe Chen, “What Does Hollywood Lose When It Works with China?” Nation (2020)

Recommended: Dan Senor, “Call Me Back” podcast:

https://unlocked.fm/episodes/hollywood-china-cold-war-2-with-the-wall-street-journals-erich-scwartzel

Research essay due

 

18 – June 14: From Soft Power to “Sharp Power”

–  Joshua Ramo, “Brand China” (2007)

– “Buying love; Soft power,” Economist (March 25, 2017)

– “Sharp power; China and the West,” Economist (December 16, 2017)

– “China is not an Enemy,” Washington Post (July 3, 2019)

– “A Chinese Mirror,” Economist (April 4, 2020)