Chinese Civilization

History 6

Fall 2012
Instructor: 
Location: 
106 STANLEY
Day & Time: 
TuTh 1230-2P
CCN: 
39072
Units: 
4

History of China from earliest times to the present day. Topics to be covered include the formation of Chinese culture and its philosophic and religious traditions; the development of the bureaucracy and other structures of empire; China's evolving place in the world (the Silk Road, the Great Wall, the Opium War, etc.); traditions of political reform, from Confucianism to Communism; twentieth-century revolutions; and Chinese modernity and nationalism.

Course Books

Lives of Confucius by Nylan, Michael Harmony. ISBN: 978-0385510691 Required
Six Chapters from My Life Downunder by Yang, Jiang University of Washington Press. ISBN: 978-0295966441 Required
Diary of a Madman, and Other Stories by Lu, Xun University of Hawaii Press. ISBN: 978-0824813178 Required
Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen, Fu Penguin Classics. ISBN: 978-0140444292 Required
A Tale of Two Melons by Schneewind, Sarah Hackett Publishing. ISBN: 978-0872208247 Required
Sources of Chinese Tradition, 2nd ed., Vol. 1 by de Bary, William Theodore Columbia University Press. ISBN: 978-0231109390 Required
Cambridge Illustrated History of China, 2nd ed. by Ebrey, Patricia Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0521124331 Required