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.
- Week 1: Orientation, and setting up digital tools; basics of Chinese history. (Feb. 8 – 14)
- Module 1: Conquest and Consolidation
- Week 2: Manchu conquest, Kangxi’s consolidation, Yongzheng’s authority- (Feb. 15 – 21)
- Week 3: Chinese society and the reign of Qianlong; China and the 18th century world (Feb. 22 – 28)
- Show and Tell project 1 due March 5
- Module 2: Fragmentation and Reform
- Week 4: The first clash with the West; the crisis within (Mar. 1 – 7)
- Week 5: Restoration through reform; New tensions in the late Qing/ Focus on the “Chinese Exclusion Act” (Mar. 8 – 14)
- Week 6: the end of the dynasty (Mar. 15 – 21) [see also first section of the next module]
- Show and Tell project 2 due March 26
- Module 3: Envisioning State and Society
- Week 6: the new Republic (Mar. 15 – 21) [see also last section of previous module]
- Week 7: May 4 movement, CCP and [Nationalist]GMD fragile alliance (Mar. 22 – 28)
- Week 8: GMD in power; Communist survival (Mar. 28 – Apr. 4)
- Show and Tell project 3 due April 9
- Module 4: War and Revolution:
- Module 5: Re-entering the world:
- Week 12: thaw in relations with the US, and the four (or five) modernizations (Apr. 26 – May 2)
- Week 13: China opening up? Levels of power; testing the limits (May 3 – May 9)
- Week 14: century’s end; breakthrough? Up to the present (if you like) (May 10 – May 14)
- Show and Tell project due May 19
