Course schedule (Spring ’23)

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 
  • Week 2: Manchu conquest, Kangxi’s consolidation, Yongzheng’s authority (Jan. 25 – Jan. 27)
  • Week 3: Library session 1; China and the 18th century world/Qianlong emperor (Feb. 1 – Feb. 3)
• 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
  • Week 6: Power up your Domain; Boxer Rebellion (Feb. 22 – Feb. 24)
  • Week 7: End of the dynasty and May 4 movement(March 1 – March 3)
  • Week 8: , CCP and [Nationalist] GMD fragile alliance; GMD in power?; (March 8 – March 10)
  • Spring Break: March 15 – March 17: no class
• 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
• 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