History 487/587:
Spring 2006
Ina Asim
CRN 38402
Office: 317 McKenzie Hall
UH 10-11:20
Phone: 346-6161
PAC 30 inaasim@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Office Hours: TR
Hist 487mingqingBibliography
TimelineMingQing
M ing1China's Northern Neighbors
Ming2Winter
Ming3 summing
up Spring
Ming4 Summer
Ming5Jesuits
Ming6Art
Ming7Summary
Tibet-Yuan
Qing1
Qing2
Ming Religion Philosophy
Qing3
Qing4
Qing5
Qing 6Taiping Rebellion to Boxer Uprising
Presentations
Women
The Jesuits
Chinese Porcelain for Export
Eunuchs and Officials (handout)
Biography of Admiral Zheng
He
Treasure Fleet
Chinese African contacts
Forced Migration
Qing Emperor Portraits
Japanese Pirates in the
Ming
Ming rebellions
Taiping Chronology
Taiping Summary
About the Boxer Movement
Please
continue to read the texts on electronic reserve.
The username to access the library site for electronic reserves is spring06,
the password is breeze.
FINAL EXAM
The final exam will be given in PAC 30 on Wednesday, June 14 at 8 am.
The exam will have 8 questions.
Please
be prepared to describe one object from the Jordan Schnitzer of Art Collection
of Ming and Qing artifacts and contextualize it with reference to our course.
In case you want to visit the museum again remember that it is closed on Mondays
and Tuesdays. No admission fee for students!
Hist 487 Final Review questions: The Ming and Qing Dynasties
3. Which role did the Jesuits play in
Chinese population in the beginning of the Jesuit mission?
8. What is a banner in the Qing administration?
9. Which function had the Imperial Household Department in the Qing government?
from Roman and Greek mythology)?
This is the second part of a series of four
upper-division courses that give a survey of late imperial and modern Chinese
history (10th to 20th centuries); it covers the period from the founding of
the Ming dynasty in 1368 through the end of the Manchurian Qing dynasty in 1911. Within
a chronological framework the first part of the course will focus on a series
of topics that show how the dramatic changes in the economy
caused the development of a diversified social fabric in Ming China. The second part portraits the rules of the three most eminent
Manchu emperors who created a highly pervasive centralized bureaucracy for
their cosmopolitan empire. It will conclude with an outlook towards
the intellectual, commercial, and military confrontation with the West.
Paper topics:
Carla Anderson: Biography of a Ming Lady
Robin Jones: Ming painting and Ming painters
Jane Kirkland: Women Writers in Late Imperial China
Megan Salsbury: The Cult of Chastity
Prairie Yang: Dangerous Women
Christopher Wittich: Eunuchs and Officials in the Ming
Kelly Moffatt: The Role of the Eunuchs
Dainean Nelson: The Treasure Fleet
Corey Howland: Did the Chinese discover America? The Map Controversy.
Dylan Kaiser: China's Expedition to the African Coast
Stefanie Loh: Admiral Zheng He
Robert Bick: Feng Menglong's 'Stories to Caution the World'
Zachary Brown-Silverstein: Forced Migration during the Ming
Jonathen Reiter: Ming city and countryside
Josgua Coe: The Jesuit Mission in China
Neil Randol: Coxinga and Japanese Piracy
Matthew Greene: The Military Conquest of the Ming
Jessica Horowitz: Peasant Rebellions in the Ming
Ben DeLong: The Taiping Rebellion
Bryan Mann: The Boxer Rebellion
Kyle Tuttle: The Boxer Uprising
Paul Nolan: China's Transition from Empire to Republic
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discussions and museum visit.
(20%)
A visit to a pottery kiln in
fired
(mid-April). Participation in the field trip is voluntary.
· Midterm (May 4th) and final exam (June 14th):
each 25%, total 50%
· You will have to write a term paper of 8 – 10 pages
on a topic of your choice. A
short presentation of
the topic in class will inform the other class participants of
the
topic chosen by you. The presentations will be coordinated in groups of related
topics.
Cooperation between class participants for the presentation is
recommended.
Individual contributions to group presentations must be indicated
on a one-page
handout which is due one week before the presentation date. (30 %)
The paper should be based on the material of the course readings as well as further primary and secondary sources available in Knight Library. In week 5 you will provide a draft of your topic which consists of:
1. the title and a short description of your topic,
2. an introduction of the main sources which you will consult in order to answer the questions raised by your topic,
3. the bibliographical data of the sources you intend to use.
The paper is due in week 9 in order to avoid delays and collisions with preparations for the finals. Papers handed in late will be accepted only with documented medical justification.
All quotations and paraphrases must be documented properly. This includes web pages you might plan to consult. The complete URL web address of any web page used is mandatory. For correct citations please follow the guidelines provided on http://www.libweb.uoregon.edu/network/citing.html
Participation, and short report on reading in week 8.
Each student will prepare a three
to five page, double-spaced, book review of each of the three books
assigned to her or him. Reviews are due on the dates given in the course outline.
In your reviews you should demonstrate a command
of the content of the book and the sources the author relies on. Explain the
objective of the main thesis developed in the book and the methodology applied
by the author. Consult as many professional reviews in relevant periodicals for Asian Studies (Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Journal of Asian Studies, T’oung Pao etc.) as possible but cite and
acknowledge wherever you refer to them.
When preparing the review you can follow the general outline
pattern given below. Add other important information that will enhance
the understanding of the reader of your review whenever further aspects of
the book need to be covered.
The following texts are available for purchase at
Black Sun Books
(
Timothy Brook, The Confusions of Pleasure. Commerce
and Culture in Ming
Susan Naquin and Evelyn
S. Rawski, Chinese Society
in the Eighteenth Century.
Louise Levathes, When
Throne, 1405-1433.
Additional readings required for graduate students:
Craig Clunas, Superfluous
Things. Material Culture and Social
Status in Early
Modern
Richard J. Smith,
Further readings are on reserve as books (articles
in journals and additional texts will be available in a course packet in the Copyshop on
Spring term possibilities to improve writing skills:
1. The American English Institute offers writing classes for students who want to improve their writing skills. The AEI is located in 107 Pacific Hall. Leonard Terrible (346-1090) in 109 Pacific Hall is head of the Intensive English Program.
For international students there is the option of courses offered by the program "Academic English for International Students" in 112C Pacific Hall (346-0513).
2. The Writing Lab in the Center for Academic Learning Services is located in 68 PLC (Prince Lucien Campbell Hall). The Writing Lab offers assistance in the process of writing term papers etc. You can drop in, usually it is not necessary to make an appointment (346-3226).
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Booklist
A bibliography of relevant literature that may be useful for your papers will be handed out on the first day of the course. All listed books that are available in Knight Library are indicated on the list, some of them have been selected and will be on (traditional) reserve to be accessible for all class participants throughout the course.
Course Outline
Week 1
04/04 T 1. Introduction: Bibliography of Ming-related literature available in
Knight Library
04/06 R
2. Introduction: Northern Neighbors of
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Week 2
04/11 T 3. The Founding of the Ming
04/13 R 4. The State-run Economy: Price Control and Labor Service
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Week 3
04/18 T 5. International Trade and Public Culture
04/20 R 6. Religion and Scholarly Life in an Age of Commerce
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Week 4
04/25 T 7. Production for Consumption - The Role of Daughters, Wives, and
Courtesans
04/27 R 8. Ming Artisans and Artists
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Week 5
05/02 T 9. The Fall of the Ming
05/04 R 10. MIDTERM (covers lectures, sections, and readings of weeks 1-5)
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Week 6
05/09 T 11. The Manchu Takeover
05/11 R 12. Kinship Organization and Work
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Week 7
05/16 T 13. Culture and Ritual
05/18 R 14. The Social Fabric of Regional Society I
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Week 8
05/23 T 15. The Social Fabric of Regional Society II
05/25 R 16. Qing Scholarship
Group presentations: Group 2 Influential Forces at Court
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Week 9
05/30 T 17. The Confrontation with the West
[ Art: Objects from the Scholar’s Studio;
Ritual robes
of the Qing
06/01 R 18. The Decline of the Qing
Group presentations: Group 4: Ming and Qing Rebels
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Week 10
06/06 T 19. Concluding summary, review and Group presentations:
Group 5 Ideology in Practice
06/08 R 20. Group presentations: Group 6: The Great Transition from Empire to Republic
and review
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Week 11
06/14 W 8.00 Final Exam