Semester | Fall Semester, 2023 | ||
Department | General Education Courses in Humanities General Education Courses in Social Sciences | ||
Course Name | Western Images of China and Taiwan | ||
Instructor | EATON WILLIAM JOSEPH | ||
Credit | 2.0 | ||
Course Type | Selectively | ||
Prerequisite |
Course Objective |
Course Description |
Course Schedule |
1 - September 13 – Introduction to the Course; Early Images; Jesuits, Philosophes, and Chinoiserie – Colin Mackerras, Western Images of China chapters 1 & 2 – DuHalde, General History of China (1741) – Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique (1764) – François Quesnay, Le despotisme de la Chine (1767)
2 – September 20 – Changing Fashions: Nineteenth Century Images of China – John Barrow, Travels in China (1804) – Rev. Arthur Smith, Chinese Characteristics (1894)
3 – September 27 – Early Western Images of Taiwan; Psalmanazar’s Fraud – George Psalmanazar, Description of Formosa (1704-5) http://www.romanization.com/books/psalmanazaar/index.html – George Mackay, From Far Formosa (1895) – Janet B. Montgomery, Among the Head-Hunters of Formosa (1922)
4 - October 4 – Western Images of Republican China/Imperial Japan – Frank J. Goodnow, “Reform in China,” American Political Science Review (May 1915) – Adam Warwick, “A Thousand Miles Along the Great Wall of China,” National Geographic (February 1923) – Herge, Tintin: Blue Lotus (1935) – Tobias Grey, “What Tintin Taught Europeans About China,” Wall Street Journal (December 25, 2020) – “The Sack of Nanjing,” Reader’s Digest (June 1938) – “We were in Nanjing,” Reader’s Digest (October 1938)
5 - October 11 – Edgar Snow’s Red Star over China – Edgar Snow, Red Star over China (1937)
6 – October 18 – Allies: China and World War II – Theodore H. White, “Life Looks at China,” Life (May 1, 1944), pp. 99-110 (Google Books) – Video (in-class): “Why We Fight: The Battle of China” (Frank Capra 1944) and discussion
7 – October 25 – The Civil War and Communist Takeover of China, KMT and Taiwan – Derk Bodde, Peking Diary (1950) – Edgar Snow, The Other Side of the River: Red China Today (1961) – “Progress on Formosa,” Time (July 28, 1952) – “Formosa: A Question of Justice,” Time (June 3, 1957) – “Formosa: Ten Years Later,” Time (November 30, 1959) – “Formosa: Success Story,” Time (March 8, 1963)
8 – November 1: The Cultural Revolution and the West – Jan Myrdal, China: The Revolution Continued (1970) – Julia Lovell, Global Maoism (2019) – Paul Hollander, Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba 1928-1978 (1981) – Robin D.G. Kelley and Betsy Esch, “Black like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution,” Souls (Fall1999) – “Visualizing Early 1970s China through the Lens of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) Friendship Delegations,” Cross-Current: East Asian History and Culture Review – “Repudiating Antonioni’s Anti-China Film,” Peking Review (February 22, 1974) – Video (excerpts, in class): “Chung Kou” (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1972)
9 – November 8 – Midterm examination
10 – November 15 – Nixon in China – Video (in-class): “Nixon in China (The Film)” (1972) and discussion – “An Unacceptable Deal,” Washington Post (December 11, 1974) – James Mann, About Face excerpts
11– November 22 – Western Feminism and Maoist China – Shirley MacLaine, You Can Get There from Here (1975) – Michael J. Hathaway, “China’s Forgotten Role in Western Second-Wave Feminism,” Asian Perspectives (2018)
12 – November 29 – Post-Mao: Deng Xiaoping’s opening to the World/Taiwan’s Democratization – Jay Mathews, “China, U.S. Steel Sign Contract for $1 Billion Plant,” Washington Post (January 6, 1979) – Edward Friedman, “Exploding the China Myth,” Washington Post (June 13, 1982) – Joseph Kraft, “Don’t Overrate China,” Washington Post (April 24, 1984) – Arnold Isaacs, “Lost in the Translation: AMC’s Failed Experiment in China,” Washington Post (January 30, 1990) – “Taiwan: The other China Changes Course,” National Geographic (1993) – James Mann, About Face selections
13 – December 6 – Western Eyes and Tiananmen Square June 4, 1989 – Daniel Southerland, “Students Press Deng for Rapid Changes,” Washington Post (January 4, 1987) – James Mann, About Face selections
14 – December 13 – China’s Rise/Beijing 2008 – John Pomfret, “China Making Life Tougher for Foreign Firms,” Washington Post (December 19, 1998) – Carla Hills, “Seize the Deal,” Washington Post (November 21, 1999) – E.J. Dionne, “China: Profit and Principle,” Washington Post (September 15, 2000) – “After the China Vote,” Washington Post (September 23, 2000) – Nicholas Kristof, “China’s Rise Goes Beyond Gold Medals,” New York Times (August 21, 2008) – Keith Bradsher, “Speedy Trains Transform China,” New York Times (September 23, 2013)
15 – December 20 – After Beijing 2008: From Soft Power/“China’s Rise” to “Sharp Power” – Joshua Ramo, Brand China (2007) – “Buying love; Soft power,” Economist (March 25, 2017) – “Sharp power; China and the West,” Economist (December 16, 2017) – “A Chinese Mirror,” Economist (April 4, 2020)
16 – December 27 – Final Examination
Flexible learning weeks (17&18): to be announced
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Teaching Methods |
Teaching Assistant |
does not apply |
Requirement/Grading |
Evaluation criteria:
– late essay accepted December 28 – 10% reduction; January 4 – 20% reduction – 4-6 double-spaced, typed pages – Subject: “Critical analysis of one source of Western Images of China and/or Taiwan” – more details to be announced in class
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Textbook & Reference |
see course syllabus |
Urls about Course |
Course Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1hAfDAN3H4cVeM9xmpUHq7nd6W3L_Ly3z |
Attachment |
revised Western images of China syllabus fall 2023.pdf |