List of pages with the weekly schedule, including course materials, assignments, due dates etc. NOTE: also available as a drop-down menu from the menu bar.
Tentative schedule: pending a few changes based on library sessions to help you become better researchers!
- Week 1: Orientation, basics of Chinese history; modernity and Chinese history. (Jan. 18 – 20)
- Module 1: Conquest and Consolidation
- Show and Tell project 1 due Feb. 7
- Module 2: Fragmentation and Reform
- Week 4: Library session 2; Confrontations with the West and the crisis within (Feb. 8 – Feb. 10)
- Week 5: Late Qing reforms; Boxer Rebellion (Feb. 17 – Feb. 19)
- Reflection 1 due Feb. 17.
- Show and Tell project 2 due Feb. 28
- Module 3: Envisioning State and Society
- Module 4: War and Revolution:
- Week 9: WWII (GMD- CCP) (March 22 – March 24)
- Show and Tell project 3 due March 27
- Week 10: Civil War, Founding of the People’s Republic; (March 29 – March 31)
- Week 11: Planning the new society, Great Leap Forward (April 5 – April7)
- Week 12: Cultural Revolution and Nixon visits China (April 12 – April 14)
- Show and Tell project 4 due April 21
- Week 9: WWII (GMD- CCP) (March 22 – March 24)
- Module 5: Re-entering the world:
- Week 13: Four (or five) Modernizations, Tian’anmen (April 19 – April 21)
- Week 14: After 1989 (April 26 – April 28)
- Week 15: Conclusions (May 3)
- Third reflection (due May 5)
- Show and Tell project 5 due May 9