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HU Credits:
4
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
School of History
Semester:
Yearly
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Orna Naftali
Coordinator Office Hours:
Wed. 12:15-13:15
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Orna Naftali
Course/Module description:
The course traces the development of modern Chinese nationalism and the construction of the idea of the nation in China from the late 19th-century to the present, while focusing on the political, social, and cultural aspects of these processes.
Course/Module aims:
• To trace the historical circumstances which led to the emergence of modern Chinese nationalism
• To consider the unique features, as well as points of convergence between modern Chinese nation-building processes and similar developments elsewhere in the world
• To trace the changing meanings of the ideas of the "nation" and "nationalism" among different political regimes; intellectual elites; and the wider public in China from the late 19th century to the present
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
• Present the major theoretical approaches to the study of nationalism in the modern era, and the study of modern Chinese nationalism more specifically
• Describe the historical circumstances under which the modern ideas of "nation" and "nationalism" first emerged in China
• Describe the changing meanings of these ideas for different political regimes and various social groups in China since the end of the 19th century
• Trace the influences of the nationalist ideology on China's foreign relations and on Chinese public conceptions of the foreign "other" since the end of the 19th century
• Identify patterns of change and continuity in the relationship between the Han majority and different ethnic minority groups in the history of modern China
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lecture and seminar
Course/Module Content:
1. Introduction
2. Nation and nationalism in the modern era: Main theoretical approaches
3. Nation and nationalism in modern China: Central themes and issues
4. The Emergence of modern Chinese nationalism: Elite discourses at the turn of the 20th century
5. The Emergence of modern Chinese nationalism: Popular discourses at the turn of the 20th century
6. Nation and nationalism in the Xinhai Revolution (1911)
7. Chinese nationalism in the "New Culture" and "May Fourth" Movements (~1915-1926)
8. Nationalism and militarism in the Nanjing Decade (1927-1937)
9. Chinese nationalism during the War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945)
10. Cross-topic: Nationalism, women and gender
11. Cross-topic: Nationalism, religion, and ritual culture
12. Cross-topic: Chinese nationalism and the ethnic minorities
13. Cross-topic: Nation and Race in the Republican period + conclusion of the first semester
Required Reading:
**First Semester**
Anderson, Benedict R. 1991. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Revised and extended edition. London: Verso. Pp. 1-8
Chatterjee, Partha 1991. "Whose Imagined Communities?" Millennium - Journal of International Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 521-525
Chu, Hong-yuan, and Peter Zarrow. 2002. "Modern Chinese Nationalism: The Formative Stage." In Exploring Nationalisms of China: Themes and Conflicts. C. X. George Wei and Xiaoyuan Liu (eds.). Pp. 3-26. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press
Cohen, Paul A. 2003. China Unbound: Evolving Perspectives On the Chinese Past. London: RoutledgeCurzon. Ch. 4: pp. 105-130
Dikötter, Frank. 1997. "Racial Discourse in China: Continuity and Permutations." In Frank Dikötter (ed.). The Construction of Racial Identities in China and Japan: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Honolulu, Hawaii: Honolulu, Hawaii : University of Hawaii Press. [DS 730 C66]. Pp. 12-25 (excerpt)
Duara, Prasenjit. 1996. "De-Constructing the Chinese Nation." In Jonathan Unger (ed.). Chinese Nationalism. New York: M. E. Sharpe. Pp. 31-55.
Esherick, Joseph W. 2012. "Reconsidering 1911: Lessons of a Sudden Revolution"
Journal of Modern Chinese History, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 1-14
Gellner, Ernest. 1983. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Excerpt: pp. 6-7.
Glosser, Susan L. 2003. Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915-1953. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 81-133
Judge, Joan. 2001. “Talent, Virtue, and the Nation: Chinese Nationalisms and Female
Subjectivities in the Early Twentieth Century.” American Historical Review, Vol. 106, No. 3, pp. 765-803
Kuo, Ya-pei. 2008. "Redeploying Confucius: The Imperial State Dreams of the Nation, 1902–1911." In Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui (ed.). Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation. Berkeley: UC Press. Pp. 65-84
Liu, Xiaoyuan. 2001. "Communism, Nationalism, Ethnicism, and China's 'National Question', 1921-1945." In Wei, C.X. George, and Liu, Xiaoyuan (eds.). Chinese Nationalism in Perspective: Historical and Recent Cases. Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood Press. Pp. 121-148
Schwarcz, Vera. 1986. The Chinese Enlightenment: Intellectuals and the Legacy of the May Fourth Movement of 1919. Berkeley: UC Press. Ch. 1: Pp. 12-54
Smith, Anthony D. 1991. "The Nation: Invented, Imagined, Reconstructed?" Millennium - Journal of International Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 353-368 (Note: article starts on 2nd page in scan)
van de Ven, Hans J. 2003. War and Nationalism in China: 1925-1945. Ch. 4: Pp. 131-169
Zarrow, Peter. 2005. China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949. London and New York: Routledge. Ch. 15: Pp. 295-323
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 30 %
Participation in Tutorials 20 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 50 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
*Optional assignment: Seminar paper (20-25 pages, double-spaced): students who wish to write a seminar paper may do so after consulting with the lecturer concerning the topic and scope of the paper. They must also sumbit a preliminary proposal (approx. 1 page), which will include a description of the seminar topic, and a list of at least 5 academic articles/books related to this topic. Students who intend to write a seminar paper will briefly present their seminar topic during the last lesson.
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