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Part I: Republican Revolution and May Fourth Enlightenment

Week 1, January 11, Thursday

• Introduction; e.g. Racism in America by Robinson
• Three Principles of the People by Sun Yet-sen
• Guo Songtao as diplomat of the Qing Empire
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • Yu Dafu, Sinking (1921)
  • Wang Hui, The Idea of “Asia”
  • Zhou Zuoren: Humane Literature
  • Chen Duxiu: On Literary Revolution

Week 2, January 16, Tuesday

• Abolition of Chinese Culture by Lu Xun
• Fukuzawa Yukichi: Datsu-A (text);
• Paradigms of representing China in the West;
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • A Madman’s Diary and True Story of Ah Q by Lu Xun
  • Zhang Xudong: Will to Allegory
  • Lydia Liu: Translating Chinese Character: Lu Xun and Arthur Smith

Week 2, Janurary 18, Thursday

• The May Fourth New Cultural Movement;
• China in Eurocentric Global History;
• Jameson: Third-World Literature in the Era of Global Capitalism
• Roland Barthes, Mythologies;
• First Quiz
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • Ba Jin: Family the novel (the film);
  • On Destruction of the Family by Han Yi
  • On Ancestor Revolution by Li Sizeng

Week 3, January 23, Tuesday

• Human Nature and Natural Equality by Donald Munro
• The Classical Legacy in The Concept of Man in Early China
• Irene Bloom: On the Matter of the Mind
• The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler (p.32)
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • Xiaoxiao (a.k.a. Girl from Hunan) by Shen Congwen
  • Shen Congwen: Universal or Restricted
  • Lao She: The Soul-Slaying Spear;

Week 3, January 25 Thursday

• Tu Chenglin: Asiatic Mode of Production in World History;
• The Unequal Treaties: The Treaty of Tientsin 天津条约；Treaty of Wanghia, 望夏条约；Treaty of the Bogue, 虎门条约；Treaty of Whampoa, 黄埔条约； Treaty of Aigun, 瑷珲条约；Treaty of Shionoseki, 马关条约；Treaty of Nanjing，南京条约;
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • Lao She: Black Li and White Li;
  • China and the Human, by Eng, Ruskola and Shen;
  • Chad Hansen: Punishment and Dignity in China;
  • Quiz 2;

Week 4, January 30, Tuesday

• Clips from A Tale of Two Cities;
• Thomas Mann: Culture and Civilization;
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • Novella by Mao Dun: The Family Shop of Mr. Lin (film)
  • Novella by Mao Dun: The Spring Silkworms;
  • Mao Dun on Marxism;

Part II, Marxism and the Communist Revolution

Week 4, February 1st, Thursday

• Kautski: agricultural versus industrial societies;
• Qian Xingcun: The Bygone Age of Ah Q;
• History of Imperialism and Colonialism;
• Alexander Statman: A Global Enlightenment;
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • The New Woman, dir. Cai Chusheng;
  • Regret for the Past by Lu Xun;
  • Stephen Chan: May Fourth Feminism;

Week 5, February 6, Tuesday

• Zhang Ailing: On Women;
• Schwartz: Marx and Lenin in China:
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • Ding Ling: When I Was in Hsia Village;
  • Red Brigade of Women, dir. Xie Jin
  • Teshale Tibebu: Hegel and the Third World;
  • Quiz 3

Week 5, February 8, Thursday

• Mao Zedong on People’s Democracy;
• Marx and Engles: Manifesto of the Communist Party;
• English Civil War , Diggers and Levelers;
• Alain Badiou on Victor Hugo; and his Les Miserables;
• Clips of Red Detachment of Women;
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • Watch film White Haired Girl and a clip of Ballet;
  • Henry Sumner Maine: Ancient Law;
  • Dixie Mission, 1944;
  • Quiz 4

Part III, The Mao Era and High Socialism

Week 6, February 13, Tuesday

• Excerpts from Fanshen by William Hinton;
• Excerpts from The Great Union of the Masses by Mao
• Rule by Law; parable of Ten Bulls;
• Edgar Snow;
• Hannah Arendt: On Revolution;
• Burtrand Russell: Problem of China;
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • Watch film Lei Feng (1963) or screening DVD;
  • Mao Zedong on international communists: Borman Bethume: Agnes Smedley, Israel Epstein, Sydney Ritternberg (The Revolution);

Week 6, February 15, Thursday

• Mao Zedong on communist humanism;
• What’s Love Got to do with communism?
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • View film Breaking with Old Ideas, dir. Li Wenhua;
  • Dai Jinhua: Culture in Afterlives of Chinese Communism (pp.49-53);
  • Weng Leihua: Revolution and Event: Mao in Alain Badiou’s Plato’s Republic;
  • Quiz 5

Week 7, February 20, Tuesday

• Foucault and Sartre on Maoism;
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • The Execution of Mayor Yin by Chen Ruoxi;
  • Watch documentaries In Search of Lin Zhao’s Soul, Yu Luoke, Zhang Zhixin and her tragedy;

Part IV: Post-Mao and Post-Socialist Era

Week 7, February 22, Thursday

• Reign of Terror during the French Revolution;
• Yi Xiaocuo: Blood Lineage in Afterlives of Chinese Communism (pp.17-22);
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • Zhang Xianliang: Half of Man Is Woman;
  • Novella by Zhang Xianliang: Old Man Xing and His Dog;
  • Quiz 6;

Week 8, February 27, Tuesday

• Sydney Rittenberg: the Revolution;
• Resolution adopted in 1981 at the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party;
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • Lu Xinhua: The Scar; (pp.108-122)
  • Feng Shengping: Revolutions Degrade the Revolutionaries;

Week 8, February 29, Thursday

• Line Struggle (pp.115-8) and Collectivism (pp.37-41) of the Central Committee of the Communist Party;
• The Concealment Law;
• Barbara Mittler: The Culture of Cultural Revolution;
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • View Blue Kite, dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang;
  • Zhang Xudong: National Trauma Global Allegory: Construction of Collective Memory in Blue Kite;
  • Barbara Mittler: Popular Propaganda;
  • Quiz 7

Week 9, March 5, Tuesday

• The Three Represents;
• Xu Xing: My Cultural Revolution;
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • Novel by Gu Hua: Hibiscus Town and film;
  • The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli;
  • Book of Lord Shang: 1, 2, 3, and 4;

Week 9, March 7, Thursday

• Rene Girard: Sacrificial Violence;
• Guo Jian: Resisting Modernity in Contemporary China;
• Wang Qiushe in Hegel’s vision of history;
• Terry Pinkard: Does History Make Sense?
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • Rebecca E. Karl: Cultural Revolution and the Times of History;
  • View film Farewell My Concubine, dir. Chen Kaige;
  • Quiz 8

Week 10, March 26, Tuesday

• Mao’s Great Famine and Great Leap Forward;
• Xu Youyu: Reflections of the Cultural Revolution;
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • view film Coming Home, dir. Zhang Yimou (2015);
  • Ba Jin and Wen Jieruo: Remembering Xiao Shan and Living Hell;
  • Mark Selden: Karl Marx, Mao Zedong and the Dialectives of Socialism;

Week 10, March 28, Thursday

• The Three Represents;
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • Novella by Zhang Jie: Love Must Not Be Forgotten;
  • Novella by Zhang Xian: The Corner Forsaken by Love;
  • Frank Dikotter: Mao’s Great Famine;

Week 11, April 2, Tuesday

• Debate between Hayek and Keynes;
• Quiz 9；
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • View film To Live, dir. Zhang Yimou;
  • Horkheimer and Adorno: Dialectics of Enlightenment;

Part V: Deng Xiaoping’s Reform and Capitalist Revolution

Week 11, April 4, Thursday

• Liu Xinheng: The Global View of History in China;
• Discuss To Live clips 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5;
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • View film Ermo, dir. Zhou Xiaowen;
  • view film Chinese Box, dir. Wayne Wang
  • Lucien Goldmann: The Problems of a Sociology of the Novel;

Week 12, April 9, Tuesday

• Ciecko and Lu: Ermo: Televisuality, Capital and the Global Village;
• read Alison Stone: Hegel and Colonialism;
• Quiz 10;
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • view film Happy Times, dir. Zhang Yimou;
  • read Yi Zhongtian: Sacred Right of private property;
  • What’s Love Got to do with communism?

Week 12, April11, Thursday

• Discuss clips from Happy Times and Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights;
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • View film Blind Shaft, dir. Li Yang;
  • read Michael Sandel: What Money Can’t Buy;
  • Karl Marx was Right;

Week 13, April 16, Tuesday

• Discuss clips of Blind Shaft and Charlie Chaplin’s Monsieur Verdoux;
• Georg Lukazc: The Theory of the Novel;
• Remarks by Laguardia;
• Quiz 11；
• Reading and viewing assignments
  • View film A World without Thieves, dir. Feng Xiaogang;
  • Karl Marx was Right;
  • Carl Jung: The Undiscovered Self and Modern Man in Search of a Soul;

Week 13, April 18, Thursday

• Discuss clips;
• Karl Marx was Right;
• Viewing and reading Assignments
  • view film Lost in Beijing, dir. Li Yu;
  • Ho Wingshan: Lost in Beijing;
  • Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity;
  • Quiz 12

Week 14, April 23, Tuesday

• Discuss clips; and Andrew Stuckey: Beyond Allegory;
• Daniel Vukovich: China in Theory;
• Arif Dirlik: History and Orientalism;

Week 14, April 25, Thursday

• Final presentations by Chive, Hawi and Haoxuan
• (April 30, Tuesday) Final presentations by Pem, Madeline, Jack and Maya
• Quiz 13 as our final, opening on May 2nd, 9am–3pm;