| LEC # | TOPICS | READINGS/VIDEOS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction: Personal and Collective Experiences in Modern China | Video: The King of Masks (1996). |
| 2 | Qing China, 1644-1911 |
 Spence, Jonathan. The Search for Modern China. New York, NY: Norton, 1991. pp. 1-137. ISBN: 9780393307801. |
| 3 | Decline of the Qing; Rise of Nationalism |
Spence, Jonathan. The Search for Modern China. New York, NY: Norton, 1991. pp. 141-263. ISBN: 9780393307801. Chang, Jung. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. New York, NY: Anchor, 1992. pp. 21-94. ISBN: 9780385425476. |
| 4 | The Republic of China, 1911-1949 |
Spence, Jonathan. The Search for Modern China. New York, NY: Norton, 1991. pp. 267-375. ISBN: 9780393307801. Cochran, Sherman, and Andrew Hsieh, eds. One Day in China: May 21, 1936. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985. pp. 3-68, 201-264. ISBN: 9780300034004. |
| 5 | Origins and Development of the Chinese Communist Party |
Spence, Jonathan. The Search for Modern China. New York, NY: Norton, 1991. pp. 375-409. ISBN: 9780393307801. Chang, Jung. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. New York, NY: Anchor, 1992. pp. 95-140. ISBN: 9780385425476. Mao Writings Xun, Lu. "Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan." In Selected Stories of Lu Xun. Beijing: Beijing Foreign Languages Press, 2000. pp. 23-56. ISBN: 9787119026985.Schram. "External and Internal Contradictions" and "Appeal to the Ke Lao Hui." In The Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung. pp. 202-249. Xun, Lu. "Medicine" and "New Year's Sacrifice." In Selected Stories of Lu Xun. Beijing: Beijing Foreign Languages Press, 2000. ISBN: 9787119026985. |
| 6 | The People's Republic: From Great Leap Forward to Cultural Revolution |
Spence, Jonathan. The Search for Modern China. New York, NY: Norton, 1991. pp. 489-586. ISBN: 9780393307801. Chang, Jung. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. New York, NY: Anchor, 1992. pp. 140-255. ISBN: 9780385425476. Friedman, Edward, Paul G. Pickowicz, and Mark Selden. Introduction in Chinese Village, Socialist State. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991. pp.214-245. ISBN: 9780300046557. |
| 7 | Midterm Exam | |
| 8 | From the Cultural Revolution to the Reform Period |
Spence, Jonathan. The Search for Modern China. New York, NY: Norton, 1991. pp. 589-646. ISBN: 9780393307801. Chang, Jung. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. New York, NY: Anchor, 1992. pp. 256-505. ISBN: 9780385425476. |
| 9 | Tiananmen and After |
Spence, Jonathan. The Search for Modern China. New York, NY: Norton, 1991. pp. 647-728. ISBN: 9780393307801. Nathan, Andrew, and Perry Link, eds. The Tiananmen Papers. New York, NY: Public Affairs, 2002. pp. 121-74, 365-98. ISBN: 9781586481223. |
| 10 | Family Problems in Village Taiwan |
Wolf, Margery. The House of Lim. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1960. pp. 3-148. ISBN: 9780133949735. |
| 11 | Women's Issues in the PRC in the 1980s |
Honig, Emily, and Gail Hershatter. Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980s. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1988. pp. 1-136, 308-33. ISBN: 9780804714310. Xinran. The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2003. ISBN: 9780099440789. |
| 12 | Communist Cadres in the Reform Period |
Zhu, Xiao Di. Thirty Years in a Red House. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. pp. 154-247. ISBN: 9781558492165. Shu-min, Huang. Spiral Road: Change in a Chinese Village Through the Eyes of a Communist Party Leader. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. pp. 105-227. ISBN: 9780813334479. |
| 13 | Current Issues: Environment, the Development of the West, and Foreigners |
Shapiro, Judith. Mao's War Against Nature. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780521786805. Hessler, Peter. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2001. ISBN: 9780060195441. |