Paul Cohen, Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984), intro.
“New Qing History”
Evelyn S. Rawski, “Presidential Address: Reenvisioning the Qing: The Significance of the Qing Period in Chinese History,” Journal of Asian Studies 55, No. 4 (1996), 829-850
Ping-Ti Ho, “In Defense of Sinicization: A Rebuttal of Evelyn Rawski’s ‘Reenvisioning the Qing,” Journal of Asian Studies 57, No. 1 (1998), 123-155.
“The Great Divergence”
Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), intro.
Philip C.C. Huang, “Development or Involution in Eighteenth-Century Britain and China? A Review of Kenneth Pomeranz’s ‘The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy’,” Journal of Asian Studies 61, No. 2 (2002), 501-538.
“The 1949 Divide”
Joseph Esherick, “Ten Theses on the Chinese Revolution,” Modern China 21, No. 1 (1995), 45-76.
Postmodernism and Modern Chinese History
Joseph Esherick, “Cherishing Sources from Afar,” Modern China 24, No. 2 (1998), 135-161.
James Hevia, “Postpolemical Historiography: A Response to Joseph W. Esherick,” Modern China 24, No. 3 (1998), 319-327.
Diaspora and Modern Chinese History
Shelly Chan, “The Case for Diaspora: A Temporal Approach to the Chinese Experience,” Journal of Asian Studies 74, No. 1 (2015), 107-128.
Madeline Hsu, “Decoupling Peripheries from the Center: The Dangers of Diaspora in Chinese Migration Studies,” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 20, No. 2 (2019), 204-215.
“Global Maoism” & the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars
Fabio Lanza, The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies (Duke: Durham University Press, 2017), Chapter 1, 4.
Week 3 (9/27): 全球史（一）
Henrietta Harrison, The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022) （Intro + 部分章節）
Week 4 (10/4): 全球史（二）
Mae Ngai, The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (New York: W.W. Norton, 2021) （Intro + 部分章節）
Week 5 (10/11): 全球史（三）
John Delury, Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China (Cornell: Cornell University Press, 2022) （Intro + 部分章節）
Week 6 (10/18): 性別史與家庭史（一）
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023) （Intro + 部分章節）
Week 7 (10/25): 性別史與家庭史（二）
Yue Du, State and Family in China: Filial Piety and its Modern Reform (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) （Intro + 部分章節）
Week 8 (11/1): 環境史（一）
Jonathan Schlesinger, A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017) （Intro + 部分章節）
Week 9 (11/8): 環境史（二）
Victor Seow, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022) （Intro + 部分章節）
Week 10 (11/15): 科技史（一）
Thomas Mullaney, The Chinese Typewriter: A History (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2017) （Intro + 部分章節）
Week 11 (11/22): 科技史（二）
Sigrid Schmalzer, Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016) （Intro + 部分章節）
Week 12 (11/29): 歷史與記憶（一）
Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang, The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) （Intro + 部分章節）
Week 13 (12/6):歷史與記憶（二）
Bin Xu, Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) （Intro + 部分章節）
Week 14 (12/13): 社會運動史
Jeremy Brown, June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) （Intro + 部分章節）
Henrietta Harrison, The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022)
Jonathan Schlesinger, A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017).
Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Yue Du, State and Family in China: Filial Piety and its Modern Reform (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Bin Xu, Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Thomas Mullaney, The Chinese Typewriter: A History (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2017)
John Delury, Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China (Cornell: Cornell University Press, 2022)
Sigrid Schmalzer, Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016)
Victor Seow, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022).
Mae Ngai, The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (New York: W.W. Norton, 2021).
Jeremy Brown, June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).
Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang, The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).