HU Credits: 4

Degree/Cycle: 1st degree (Bachelor)

Responsible Department: asian studies

Semester: 2nd Semester

Teaching Languages: Hebrew

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: Prof. Michal Biran

Coordinator Email: biranm@huji.ac.il

Coordinator Office Hours: Wednesday 1115-1215

Teaching Staff:
Prof Michal Biran

Course/Module description:
The course continues the "Introduction to Chinese History and Culture" course. It reviews the main political, socio-economical, cultural and intellectual in the last 1000 years of Imperial China, from the fall of the Tang to the fall of the Qing (906-1911), highlighting China's position in the world and its encounter with both the Central Asian Steppe People and the West.

Course/Module aims:
To recognize and analyze main processes, events and figures in Chinese hoistory and culture in the 2nd millenium (906-1911)

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
By the end of this course students should be able to analyze major processes in the second millenium of Chinese history (907-1911); to identify the major events and figure in this period and to familiarize themselves with recent trends in this era's Sinological research

Attendance requirements(%):
100%

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Lectures will be given with plenty of use of visual aids, videos and films and lot's of space for students' questions.

Course/Module Content:
1. Orientation: the meaning of the Term "Late Imperial China" and the unique last millennium of the Imperial History in China.The five Dynasties and the establishment of the Song Dynasty

2. Northern Song - Modernization and its fall: the establishment of Government; technological, economic, social and educational changes.

3. Between Northern and Southern Song : Wang-Anshi's reforms, their failures and consequents : the transition to Southern Song.

4. Southern Song: On the way of seclusion; The rise of Neo-Confucianism; economics and society

5. The Nomadic Alternative: The Liao Dynasty (Khitans) (907-1125)

6. The Multi- State System: The Tanguts- The Xi-Xia (1038-1227), the Fall of the Liao and the rise of the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234).

7. The Jurchens – Jin Dynasty- from the Tribal System to Sinization : Society, Economy and Daily Life from the 12th century Until The Eve of the Mongol Conquest.

8. The Rise of the Mongols : from Chinggis Khan to Qubilai Khan

9. The Yuan Dynasty- the Unification of China ; Political and Administrative History

10. The Yuan Dynasty: Cosmopolitan China: Economy, Society, Religions and Science under the Mongols; the Chinese response.

11. The fall of the Yuan Dynasty and the Rise of The Ming Dynasty

12. The Early Ming Dynasty: from the Heirs of the Mongols to the Heirs of Song: Zhu Yuan Zhang and the establishment of Dynasty: Yongle emperor , the Exams, the Sea expeditions; Tu-Mu incident and Abandoning the steppe.

13. Ming at its mature state: The Exams, autocracy, the way to seclusion ; The Great wall; economy and philosophy

14. Literature and Urban Culture under Ming

15. The calamities of the Ming Dynasty and the rise of the Manchus

16. Quiz
The First contact with the West- the Jesuits in the Chinese Court- Matthew Ricci his followers and the consequences of their arrival on China and on the west; Reasons for the failure of the Christian mission in China.
17. The Stabilization of the Manchu Rule: Kangxi and the "Great Peace"

18. Splendor and decay: Qianlong and the 18th century

19. Dream of the Red Chamber: Literature of the Qing Dynasty as a Summary of the Spiritual like of Imperial China


20. On the verge of the confrontation with the West : the beginning of the 19th century and the structural Crisis

21. The Opium Wars.

22. The Taiping Rebellion and the Collapse of the Internal order.


23. The Confucian rehabilitation attempt: the Tongzhi Restoration (1862-1874) and its failure

24. The beginning of the Collapse : The Sino Japanese War: the 100 days reform and its Failure; the Boxer Rebellion

25. The Rise of the Republic Movement.

26. The Fall of Imperial China: 1911 Revolution and its Results; Conclusions

Required Reading:
Reading:
The Reading is arranged by lessons- all readings that are not listed as recommended are mandatory. All mandatory readings - and most of the recommended items- are available at the course's moodle, where maps, ppts and other resources are also located.

The main books that accompany the course are:
Y. Schihor, Y. Pines and G. Shelach, eds. All Under Heaven: A History of Traditional China. Tel Aviv: Open University, forthcoming (Unpublished chapters of vol. 3; Hebrew.
C. Schirokauer, A Brief History of Chinese Civilization (Orlando, 1991).
.J. Spence, The Search for Modern China (2nd ed., New York, 1999)

Students who did not take the course "Traditional Chinese History and Culture) are requested to read Chapters 15 and 18 from All Under Heaven Vol 2. Before Lesson 4 you are requested to read from All Under Heaven Vol 1 Ch 9 ("Hundred schools of thought"), pp. 201-215, 237-244, 278-280.


Reading lesson1:
All Under heaven (Hebrew) Vol 3 Ch 1 ("Restoration of the Imperial order : China in the 10th century).

Recommended: Table of the five Dynasties and ten Kingdoms.


Lesson 2:
All Under heaven (Hebrew) Vol 3 Ch 2
or :
Schirokauer, 133-144 [DS 721 S36]


Lesson 3:
All Under heaven (Hebrew) Vol 3 Ch 3.

Recommended :
Schirokauer, 144-147

James T. C. Liu, Reform in Song China (Cambridge MA, 1959), 1-11, 40-58 [Recommended also 22-40]. [JQ 1502 L51].
The letters of Wang Anshi and Sima Guang.

P. B. Ebrey, Chinese Civilization and Society: A Source Book. (2nd ed. New
York, 1993), 151-154. [DS 721 C517]

Lesson 4:
All Under Heaven (Hebrew) Vol 3 Ch 4-5

Schirokauer, 147-161
F.W. Mote, Imperial China: 900-1800 (Cambridge MA, 1999), 333-346. [DS 750.64 M67]

Recommended:
J.T.C. Liu, China Turning Inward (Cambridge, 1988), 135-55 [DS 751 L56]

Sources
Zhu-Xi's conversations with his students
P. B. Ebrey, Chinese Civilization: A Source Book. (2nd ed. New York, 1993), 172-77. [DS 721 C517]


Lesson 5:

H. Franke, “The Forest People of Manchuria: Kitans and Jurchens,” in D. Sinor (ed.), The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia (Cambridge, 1990), 400-412.
[DS 329.4 C35]

Tao Jingshen, Two Sons of Heaven: Studies in Song-Liao Relations (Tuscon, 1988), 10-24. (Recommended also 34-52, 87-94). [DS 751 T34]
or
N. Di Cosmo, "Liao History and Society, " in Shen Hsueh-man, ed. Gilded Splendor: Treasures of China's Liao Empire (New York, 2007), 15-24.

Recommended
T. J. Barfield, The Perilious Frontier (Oxford, 1989), 164-177. [DS 329.4 B37]



Lesson 6:
All Under Heaven (Hebrew) Vol 3 The Xi-Xia

M. Rossabi, "Introduction," in idem (ed.), China Among Equals (Berkeley, 1983), 1-13 [DS 751 T34]
H. Franke, “The Forest People of Manchuria: Kitans and Jurchens,” in D. Sinor (ed.), The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia (Cambridge, 1990), 412-423.

Recommended:
T. J. Barfield, The Perilious Frontier (Oxford, 1989), 177-186. [DS 329.4 B37]
F.W. Mote, Imperial China: 900-1800 (Cambridge MA, 1999), 168-190, 249-264. [DS 750.64 M67]

Sources on the Tanguts
P. B. Ebrey, Chinese Civilization: A Source Book. (2nd ed. New York, 1993), 139-141. [DS 721 C517]

Lesson 7:
H. Franke, “The Forest People of Manchuria: Kitans and Jurchens,” in D. Sinor (ed.), The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia (Cambridge, 1990), 412-423.

Recommended:

H. C. Tillman, "An Overview of Chin History and Institutions," in idem and S.H. West (eds.), China under Jurchen Rule (New York, 1995), 23-38.
[DS 751.92 C56]

Lesson 8:
All Under Heaven (Hebrew) Vol 3 The Mongol Empire
Or
Schirokauer 163-167

D.O.Morgan, The Mongols (Oxford, 1986 or 2007), 55-83 [DS19 M67]

Recommended:
M. Rossabi, Khubilai Khan (Berkeley, 1989).


Lesson 9:
John D. Langlois, "Introduction," in idem (ed.), China under Mongol Rule (Princeton, 1981), 1-21 [DS 752 C48].

Recommended:
Th.T. Allsen, Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia (Cambridge, 2001), esp. 189-211.[DS 22.3 A45 C8 2001]


Schirokauer, 167-176

Lesson 10
All under Heaven (Hebrew) Vol 3 Ch 12 [Zhu Yuan Zhang and the Turing point in the Imperial History

Recommended :
F. W. Mote, Imperial China: 900-1800, 517-541 [DS 750.64 M67]

J. W. Dardess, “Did the Mongols Matter? Territory, Power and the Intelligencia in China from the Northern Song to the Early Ming,” in P. J. Smith and R. von Glahn, The Song-Yuan-Ming transition (Cambridge MA, 2003), 111-134.


Lesson 11
All Under Heaven (Hebrew) Vol 3 Ch. 13 [From openness to seclusion]
Or
Schirokauer, 183-192

E. L. Dreyer, Early Ming China (Stanford, 1982), 1-11 [DS753.2 D73].


Recommended :
The decree of the founder of Ming :
E. L. Farmer, Zhu Yuanzhng and Early Ming Legislation (Leiden, 1995), 2.
[DS 753.2 Z48]


Lesson 12
All Under Heaven (Hebrew) Vol 3 Ch. 13 [society, economy and spiritual life during the Ming Dynasty]
Or
Schirokauer, 192-203
E. L. Dreyer, Early Ming China, 259-264 (recommended also 237-258).
[DS753.2 D73]

Recommended :

B.A. Elman, "Political, Social and Cultural Reproduction via Civil Service Examinations in Late Imperial China," Journal of Asian Studies, 50 (1991), 7-28.

J. F. Handlin, "The Historical Context of the Ming," in eadem, Action in Late Ming Thought (Berkeley, 1983), 20-32. [B128 L854 H36].

Various sources translated to Hebrew:
פנג מנג –לונג, "דו שה-ניאנג משליכה לנהר את אוצרותיה" בתוך כתונת הפנינים (תרגמה: אמירה כץ; תל-אביב, 1993), 87-114. [PL 2698 F4 S351]
לי יו', "אם למופת ממין זכר" בתוך ד. דאור. המלומד והזונה (ירושלים, 1995), 143-176 PL] 2659 H4 M45]
Recommended:
וו צ'נג-אן, קוף ודלעת הקסמים (מתוך המסע למערב, תרגם ועבד, מאיר שחר, תל אביב, 2008), עמ' 5-43.


Lesson 13:
Schirokauer, 226-31 206-208

Recommended:
F. Wakeman, The Great Enterprise (Berkeley, 1985), vol. 1, 225-240, 257-266.
[DS 754.5 W35]


Lesson 14:
The First contact with the West- the Jesuits in the Chinese Court- Matthew Ricci his followers and the consequences of their arrival on China and on the west; Reasons for the failure of the Christian mission in China.

Reading:
Schirokauer, 210-224

Recommended:
Shu "The Rise of Modern China" [Translated to Hebrew] 104-117



Lesson 15:
Schirokauer, 231-250

Recommended:
Shu "The Rise of Modern China" [Translated to Hebrew] 49-58
E.S. Rawsky, “Re-invisioning the Qing: The Significance of the Qing Period in Chinese History,” Journal of Asian Studies, 55.4 (1996), 829-850.
W. T. Rowe, China's Last Empire (Cambridge MA, 2009), 63-90.

Lesson 16:
S. Naquin and E. Rawski, Chinese Society in the 18th Century (New Haven, 1987), 3-32. [ DS 754 N46]

Recommended:
Shu "The Rise of Modern China" [Translated to Hebrew] 58-62


Tsao Hsueh-chin (Cao Xueqin), A Dream of Read Mansions (tr. Yang Hsien-I and Gladys Yang), ch. 1, pp. 1-18 [PL 2727 S2 H83, 1978] OR (tr. David Hawkes, The Story of the Stone, 47-66 [PL 2727 S2 H83 1973].

Sources translated to Hebrew:

"חולם על זאבים" בתוך דו דאור (מתרגם), המלומד והזונה (ירושלים, 1995), 109-114 [PL 2659 H4 M45]

Lesson 17:
Schirokauer, 254-261

Recommended:
Shu "The Rise of Modern China" [Translated to Hebrew] 129-142
J.K. Fairbank, "Introduction: The Old Order," in The Cambridge History of China vol. 10: Late Ch'ing (Qing), 1800-1911, Part 1 (Cambridge, 1978), 1-34. [DS 735 C31]

Sources: the delegation of Lord MaCartney (1792) and Qianlong's response in:
P. Cheng and M. Lestz, comp. The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection (New York and London, 1999), 92-109.

Lesson 18:
J. Spence, The Search for Modern China , 145-166 [143-164 in the 1st ed] [DS 754 S65 1999.]
Or
Shu "The Rise of Modern China" [Translated to Hebrew] 169-216


Lesson 19:
J. Spence, The Search for Modern China 183-167 [recommended until p. 191] [first edition : 165-184 or until 193]
Or
Shu "The Rise of Modern China" [Translated to Hebrew] 216-52


Recommended: sources on the Taiping and other texts:

P. Cheng and M. Lestz, comp. The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection, 139-45.


Lesson 20:
J. Spence, The Search for Modern China 194-210, 216-224 [recommended pp. 210-224] [first edition : 192-208, 215-223 recommended 208-214]
Or
Shu "The Rise of Modern China" [Translated to Hebrew] 253-81

Lesson 21
J. Spence, The Search for Modern China 224-244 [first edition : 223-243
Or
Shu "The Rise of Modern China" [Translated to Hebrew] 297-381

Recommended:
"Kang Youwei and the Reform Movement," in W. T. de Barry, ed. Sources of Chinese Tradition (New York, 1999), vol.2 , pp. 261-270. [DS 703 D4 1999]


Lesson 22
J. Spence, The Search for Modern China 245-261
Or
Shu "The Rise of Modern China" [Translated to Hebrew] 421-433

Recommended: Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People
"Sun Yat-sen," in W. T. de Barry, ed. Sources of Chinese Tradition (New York, 1999), vol.2 , pp.320-330. [DS 703 D4 1999].


Lesson 23
J. Spence, The Search for Modern China 262-268
Or
Shu "The Rise of Modern China" [Translated to Hebrew] 433-443

Recommended :The Manchu Abdication Edict in

P. Cheng and M. Lestz, comp. The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection, 209-213.

Additional Reading Material:
Recommended reading is attached to every class in the moodle site.



J. K. Fairbank and D. Teitchett (eds.). The Cambridge History of China. (1978- ) Vols. 5-11. [DS 735 C31]
F.W. Mote, Imperial China: 900-1800 (Cambridge MA, 1999) [DS 750.64 M67]

W. T. de Barry, ed. Sources of Chinese Tradition (New York, 1999), 2 vols.
[DS 703 D4 1999]

Translated sources:

Patricia B. Ebrey, Chinese Civilization and Society: A Source Book (2nd ed., New York, 1993( [DS 721 C517]
P. Cheng and M. Lestz, comp. The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection (New York and London, 1999), 92-109 [DS 754 S66 1999].

Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 90 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 0 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 10 %
Other 0 %

Additional information:
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