History 478/ASLC 470 CHINA: THE PEOPLE AND THE STATE Amherst College, Spring 2013

Professor Jerry Dennerline Office hours: Tues/Thurs 1:30-2:00 Office: Chapin 12 Wed. 1:00-3:00 E-mail: [email protected]; phone (office hours): 542-2486 And by appointment

Course Materials

Available for purchase at Amherst Books:

Merle Goldman, From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China. Press, 2005.

Other required readings are either included in A Collection of Readings, Part I and Part II (available for purchase at the History Department office, Chapin 11), or on reserve at Frost Library, as indicated in the syllabus. Films are either streamed or on reserve.

Course Description and Requirements

This course is a research seminar. Enrollment is by permission of the instructor. Some familiarity with modern Chinese history is expected. For general narrative or reference, see Jonathan Spence, The Search for Modern China (1999, 2nd edition) or R. Keith Schoppa, Revolution and its Past: Identities and Change in Modern Chinese History (2006, 2nd edition). Students will develop skills in reading, analysis, interpretation, and basic research methods, resulting in independent research projects. The class will meet twice per week for 80 minutes. Class sessions will be devoted to 1) discussion of assigned readings, responses, and critiques and 2) presentation and assessment of various research exercises, in which everyone will be engaged on a regular basis. In addition, 3) each student will design and execute an independent research project in consultation with the professor and make an oral presentation to the class. The grade will be based on the following writing assignments:

Five concept papers (2-3 pages) 50% Research exercises, prospectus, and oral presentation 10% Final research paper (25 pages) 40%

Attendance and participation is mandatory; there will be no excused absences without prior permission and/or documentation of medical or family emergency. Regular positive contributions to class discussion will raise the grade; repeated unexcused absences will lower it. Plagiarism or other serious violation of the honor code will result in failure of the course.

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Syllabus

Thurs, Jan 24 Introduction: Time and Space

Tues, Jan 29 Past and Present

“Charter 08" text, tr Perry Link, in New York Review of Books 56.1 (Jan 15, 2009) E-reserve (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22210); Feng, Chongyi. “Charter 08: The Troubled History and Future of Chinese Liberalism,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, 41-5-10, October 11, 2010 (E-reserve). Jane Leung Larson with Feng Chongyi, “Charter 08’s Qing Dynasty Precursor,” The Asia- Pacific Journal Vol 9, Issue 27 No 2, July 5, 2011 (E-reserve).

Thurs, Jan 31 Past and Present

Paul Cohen, “Reflections on a watershed date: the 1949 divide in Chinese history,” in Wassertrom, Jeffery, ed, Twentieth Century China: New Approaches. London: Routledge, 2003, pp 27-36 Elizabeth Perry, “Permanent Rebellion? Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese Protest,” in Popular Protest in China,” ed by Kevin O’Brien (Cambridge: Harvard U Press, 2008), pp 205-215 Cheng Li, “The End of the CCP’s Resilient Authoritarianism? A Tripartite Assessment of Shifting Power in China,” China Quarterly 211 (Sept 2012): 595-623 (E-reserve).

Fri, Feb 1 First concept paper: “On Past and Present”

Tues, Feb 5 Religion, Gender, and Historical Contingency

Vincent Goosaert, and David A Palmer. The Religious Question in Modern China, pp 1-16, 393-404. Gail Hershatter, “Disquiet in the House of Gender,” JAS 71.4 (Nov 2012): 873-894. (E- reserve)

Thurs, Feb 7 Religion, Gender, and Historical Contingency

Carma Hinton, et al, “Small Happiness” (55 min film, 1984) Carma Hinton, et al, “To Taste a Hundred Herbs” (55 min film, 1986) Research exercise: reading data.

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Tues, Feb 12 Constructing the Past

Joseph Esherick, “Making Revolution in Twentieth-Century China,” in A Critical Introduction to Mao, pp 31-60. Rudolph Wagner, “Introduction,” Joining the Global Public, pp 1-12. David Cheng Chang, “Democracy is in its details: the 1909 Provincial Assembly Elections and the Print Media,” in China on the Margins, pp 267-88.

Thurs, Feb 14 Reconstructing the Past

Kuhn, Philip A. Review of A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World (Oxford, 2004), by Rana Mitter, in China Review International 12.1 (2005): 201-203 (E-reserve) Lee, Leo Ou-fan, “Incomplete Modernity: Rethinking the May Fourth Intellectual Project,” in The Appropriation of Cultural Capital: China’s May Fourth Project. Ed. Dolezelova-Velingerova, Milena and David Der-wei Wang. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Asia Center, 2001, pp 31-65 (incl bibliography, packet). Hung, Chang-tai. Going to the People: Chinese Intellectuals and Folk Literature, 1918- 1937, “The Discovery of Folk Literature” and “Intellectuals and the Folk,” pp 1-31, 158-182.

Fri, Feb 15 Second concept paper: “On Constructing Historical Narrative”

Tues, Feb 19 Republican State and the People

Nara Dillon and Jean Oi, “Middlemen, Social Networks, and State-Building in Republican Shanghai,” in Dillon and Oi, ed, At the Crossroads of Empires: Middlemen, Social Networks, and State-Building in Republican Shanghai, pp 3-21. Wen-hsin Yeh, “Huang Yanpei and the Chinese Society of Vocational Education in Shanghai Networking, At the Crossroads, pp 25-44. Brian Martin, “Du Yuesheng, the French Concession, and Social Networks in Shanghai,” At the Crossroads, pp 65-83.

Thurs, Feb 21 Republican People and the State

Joseph Esherick, Ancestral Leaves: A Family Journey through Chinese History (2011), Preface, and ch 8-9 (pp 128-81). E-reserve One Day in China: May 21, 1936, tr and ed with introduction by Sherman Cochran, Andrew Hsieh, and Janis Cochran (Print copy, Reserve). Research Exercise: defining a topic.

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Tues, Feb 26 Mao Making Revolution

Averill, Stephen C., with a Preface and Introduction by Joseph W Esherick and Elizabeth J Perry. Revolution in the Highlands: China’s Jinggangshan Base Area, “Editor’s Introduction” and “Author’s Introduction,” pp xvii-xxxi, 1-9. Timothy Cheek, “Mao, Revolution, and Memory,” in A Critical Introduction to Mao, pp 3- 30.

Thurs, Feb 28 Mao and Historical Contingency

Peng Pai, "The Hai-feng Peasant Association" (1921-1923), Chinese Civilization and Society, Doc. #67. , “Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan,” March 1927, Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, vol 1, Foreign Languages Press (E-reserve) http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_2.htm Mao Zedong, Report from Xunwu (Print copy, Reserve). Research exercise: narrowing a topic and focusing questions.

Tues, Mar 5 War, Revolution, and the Party State

Lucien Bianco, “Peasant Responses to CCP Mobilization Policies, 1937-1945,” in New Perspectives on the Chinese Communist Revolution, pp. 175-187 Hans Van de Ven, “War, Cosmopolitanism, and Authority: Mao from 1937 to 1956,” in A Critical Introduction to Mao, pp 87-109

Thurs, Mar 7 War, Revolution, and the People’s Culture

Hung Chang-tai, War and Popular Culture, “A New Political Culture, pp 270-285. Timothy Cheek, “The Honorable Vocation: Intellectual Service in CCP Propaganda Institutions in Jin-Cha-Ji, 1937-45,” in New Perspectives, pp 235-56. Hung Chang-tai, Mao’s New World, “Introduction,” pp 1-24.

Fri, Mar 8 Third concept paper: “On Wartime Culture and Politics”

Tues, Mar 12 Making Cultural Revolution

Carma Hinton, et al, “Morning Sun” (film, 2003), 117 min DVD.

Thurs, Mar 14 Remembering Cultural Revolution

Joseph Esherick, Autumn Leaves: A Family Journey through Chinese History (family history, 2011), Preface and ch 12-13. (E-reserve) Ye, Weili, and Ma Xiaodong, Growing Up in the People’s Republic: Conversations between Two Daughters of China’s Revolution (memoirs, 2005), ch 4-5. (E-reserve) Research exercise: assessing the data and shaping the analysis. History 478/ASLC 470 China: The People and the State Page 5 Spring 2013

SPRING BREAK

Mon, Mar 25 View: Carma Hinton, et al, “All Under Heaven” (55 min film, 1985)

Tues, Mar 26 Socialism, Authoritarianism, and Autonomy

Cohen, Paul. “The Post-Mao Reforms in Historical Perspective,” Journal of Asian Studies 47.3 (August 1988): 518-540. Cheng, Tiejun, and Mark Selden, “The construction of spatial hierarchies: China’s hukou and danwei systems,” in Cheek and Saich. New Perspectives on State Socialism, pp 23- 50 (incl notes). Li, Huaiyin. “Confrontation and Conciliation under the Socialist State: Peasant Resistance to Agricultural Collectivization in China in the 1950s,” Twentieth Century China April 2008.

Thurs, Mar 28 Socialism, Authoritarianism, Autonomy

Cheng Li, Rediscovering China (1997), ch. 1 and 6. Han, Dongping. “The Impact of the Cultural Revolution on Rural Education and Economic Development in Jimo County,” Modern China 27.1 (Jan 2001): 59-90.

Fri, Mar 29 Fourth concept paper: “On Revising History and Myth”

Mon, Apr 1: First Draft Prospectus Due

Tues, Apr 2 Citizenship and Organization

Merle Goldman, From Comrade to Citizen, ch 1-2. Cheng Li, “Introduction: Open Doors and Open Minds,” in Bridging Minds across the Pacific: U.S.-China Educational Exchanges, 1978-2003, ed by Cheng Li (Lexington Books, 2005), pp 1-24.

Thurs, Apr 4 Citizenship and Ideology

Merle Goldman, From Comrade to Citizen, ch 3-4. Rachel Murphy, “Citizenship Education in Rural China: The Dispositional and Technical Training of Cadres and Farmers,” in Chinese Citizenship: views from the margin, ed by Vanessa Fong and Rachel Murphy (Routledge, 2006), pp 9-26.

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Tues, Apr 9 Citizenship and Liberal Democracy

Merle Goldman, From Comrade to Citizen, ch 5-6. Zhou, Xiaohong and Qin Chen, “Globalization, Social Transformation, and the Construction of China’s Middle Class,” in China’s Emerging Middle Class: Beyond Economic Transformation, pp 84-103. Hannum, Emily, and Jennifer Adams, “Beyond cost: rural perspectives on barriers to education,” Creating Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China, ed by Deborah Davisand Wang Feng (Stanford, 2009), pp 156-71.

Thurs Apr 11 Citizenship and Rights

Merle Goldman, From Comrade to Citizen, ch 7-8. Ying Chan, “Introduction: The Journalism Tradition,” in Investigative Journalism in China. pp 1-18. Kevin O’Brien and Lianjiang Li, Rightful Resistance in Rural China (Harvard U Press, 2006), 116-29.

Fri, Apr 12 Fifth concept paper: “On the Meaning of Citizenship”

Tues, Apr 16 The State and the People: Who Does What?

Jonathan Schwartz and Shawn Shieh, “Serving the People? The Changing Roles of the State and Social Organizations in Social Service Provision,” in State and Society Responses to Social Welfare Needs in China (Routledge, 2009), pp 177-88. Hong Zhang, and Marsha Smith, “Navigating a Space for Labor Activism: Labor NGOs in the Pearl River Delta of South China,” in Schwartz, Jonathan, and Shawn Shieh, ed. State and Society Responses to Social Welfare Needs in China – Serving the People (Routledge 2009), pp 66-88 (incl notes). André Laliberté, “The Institutionalization of Buddhist Philanthropy in China,” in Schwartz, et al, State and Society Responses, pp 114-134

Thurs, Apr 18 The Past in the Present?

Xiao, Yanzhong, “Recent Mao Zedong Scholarship in China,” in A Critical Introduction to Mao, pp 273-87. Chen, Guidi, Will the Boat Sink the Water? The Life of China’s Peasants (2006), student selections (E-reserve).

Fri, Apr 19 Personal review: “Comment on Five Concept Papers”

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Mon, Apr 22: Second Draft Prospectus due

Tues, Apr 23

Paper conferences

Thurs, Apr 25

Paper conferences

Mon, Apr 29: Final Prospectus due

Tues, Apr 30

Student presentations

Thurs, May 2

Student presentations

Tues, May 7

Student presentations

Mon, May 13: Research papers due to the Moodle drop box AND hard copy by 12 noon.