KSCB031 "Revolutionizing" the Chinese World: Movements, Campaigns, and Reforms, 1895-1937

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2012
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Prof. Raoul Findeisen (lecturer), Mgr. et Mgr. Dušan Vávra, Ph.D. (deputy)
Mgr. Táňa Dluhošová, Ph.D. (alternate examiner), Mgr. Pavel Šindelář, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Luboš Bělka, CSc.
Center for Chinese Studies – Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Táňa Dluhošová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Center for Chinese Studies – Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 2. 4. 15:50–17:25 M22, Tue 3. 4. 17:30–19:05 K12 nerezervovat, Wed 4. 4. 15:50–17:25 zruseno C21, Thu 5. 4. 15:50–17:25 zrusena M25, Fri 6. 4. 14:10–15:45 M24, Mon 16. 4. 15:50–17:25 M22, Tue 17. 4. 17:30–19:05 K12 nerezervovat, Wed 18. 4. 15:50–17:25 zruseno C21, Thu 19. 4. 15:50–17:25 zrusena M25, Fri 20. 4. 14:10–15:45 M24
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus (in Czech)
  • This course intends to flashlight some turning-points in modern Chinese history, emphatically taking into account economic, political, sociological, educational, cultural and intellectual perspectives.
  • 1 “Modernity” in China: Problems of Definition
  • 2 A New Empire in the Far East: Territorial Losses and the Final Awakening of the Elites
  • 3 Key-Technology of the 19th Century: Railroad Construction and Centrifugal Tendencies
  • 4 China’s Debt Crisis and the Banking System
  • 5 The Educational System and Constitutionalism
  • 6 Synchronical Perspectives: The Post-Versailles Period
  • 7 Preserving ‘National Essence’ (guocui), ‘Reassessing the Heritage’ (zhengli guogu) or ‘Smashing the Confucius Store’ (daodao Kongdian)
  • 8 Domestic Migration and Revolutionary Hopes (May 30, 1925)
  • 9 The “Nanjing Decade”: Mass Society and Guerilla Wars
  • 10 Stereotypes in Marxist and Post-Marxist Historiography
Literature
  • Fairbank, John K. China. A New History. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1992.
  • Zarrow, Peter. Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990 (Studies of the East Asian Institute).
  • Hu Shih. The Chinese Renaissance [1933]. Repr. New York: Paragon Book, 1963.
  • Fröhlich, Thomas M. Staatsdenken im China der Republikzeit (1912–1949). Die Instrumentalisierung philosophischer Ideen bei chinesischen Intellektuellen. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus, 2000.
  • Chow Tse-tsung. The May Fourth Movement. Intellectual Revolution in Modern China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1960.
  • Hsü, Immanuel Chung-yüeh. The Rise of Modern China. New York [etc.]: Oxford University Press, 1970; 5th ed. 2000.
  • Fairbank, John K. Teng Ssu-yü (eds.). China’s Response to West. A Documentary Survey, 1839–1923. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953; 5th ed. 1979.
  • Fairbank, John K.. The Great Chinese Revolution, 1800–1985. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.
  • Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture
  • FAIRBANK, John F. Dějiny Číny. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 1998, 656 s. ISBN 9788074220074. info
Language of instruction
English
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