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. Harvard University 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. History 478/ASLC 470 China: The People and the State Page 2 Spring 2013 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. History 478/ASLC 470 China: The People and the State Page 3 Spring 2013 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. History 478/ASLC 470 China: The People and the State Page 4 Spring 2013 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. Mao Zedong, “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. History 478/ASLC 470 China: The People and the State Page 6 Spring 2013 Tues, Apr 9 Citizenship and Liberal Democracy Merle Goldman, From Comrade to Citizen, ch 5-6.