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Final Exam MA: The Pool of Questions

Final Exam MA: The Pool of Questions

Enclosed is the pool of topics that will be covered in the final MA exam. Naturally, there is an overlap among some topics, and the questions can encompass several topics or periods. E.g., the question re local elites can touch upon their relations with foreign rulers of China, their role during the peasant rebellions, or their interactions with the Republican/Communist rulers of modern China. So, the list below is not of specific questions but of general topics that you must prepare in advance and on which you should focus when reading the source materials for the exam (the list of required reading is enclosed separately).

The students of the general MA (“Iyuni”) should prepare the entire list. For the research students: you shall be asked about either pre-1900 or post-1900 period (depending on your research focus). Namely, students of traditional China may ignore question 10 and the sections related to modern China from other questions; students of modern China may ignore sections related to traditional China from the questions 1-9. Yet we do expect of the students to have a basic understanding of another period (i.e., of modern period for students of pre-modern history and vice versa) on the level of introductory BA courses. See more in the explanations to the reading list.

For further clarifications, please do not hesitate to be in touch with the examiners (Gidi, Michal, Orna, Yuri).

 

  1. Cycles of Unification and Fragmentation in China
    1. Factors (geographic, economic, institutional, cultural, ideological) that contributed toward unification or political fragmentation
    2. Centralization vs. decentralization: modes of rule over provinces and prefectures; degree of local autonomy (economic, cultural, administrative); comparison between degrees of centralization vs. de-centralization in traditional vs. modern China.
    3. Unification vs. Fragmentation in Republican China and beyond. The Taiwan question.

 

  1. Local elites (“gentry”)
    1. Characteristics of local elites in traditional China
    2. Sources of elite power: social (in local community) and political (vis-à-vis the state)
    3. Fluctuations in the elite’s composition and in its relations with the imperial government over longue duree of Chinese history.
    4. Examinations and elites. Examination success and elite belonging; examinations as the focus of interaction between the elites and the throne; changes in the nature and content of exams over history.
    5. Elite ideologies (with specific focus on Neo-Confucianism). Ideological interaction between the elites and the throne.
    6. The fate of local elites in the 20th century.
  2. State and society: the power of the state and its limits
    1. Imperial (and pre-imperial) bureaucracy: how deeply did it penetrate society at different periods? Which non-bureaucratic groups assisted the governance?
    2. The government’s (in)ability to control economic, legal, ideological, and religious spheres.
    3. Fluctuations in the power of the state from Zhou to the end of Qing
    4. The Republican state and the state in the People’s Republic: similarities and differences in the degree of penetration of society below, and of peripheral regions. Changes and continuities from Mao to Deng to Xi.
    5. The question of “civil society” in China: did/does it exist?
  3. Economic policy
    1. Economic policies from the Warring States period on: ways of developing economy; agricultural policies; attitude toward domestic and foreign trade; monopolies
    2. Objective factors that influence economy: demography, technology, new crops, etc
    3. Fiscal problems and the ways to deal with them
    4. Economic reforms from Han Wudi to Wang Mang, to Xiaowendi of N. Wei, to Wang Anshi, to Zhang Juzheng, to Yongzheng, to 1898…. What were the reformers’ goals; the focus of their efforts; opposition to the reforms; the extent to which the reforms were successful?
    5. Chinese economy vis-à-vis the West in late imperial China: similarities and differences.
    6. Major aspects of economic policies under Mao and in the post-Mao period (see also more in Question 10)
  4. Ethnicity and China’s relations with internal and external “Others”
    1. Ideological background: view of “us” and “them” throughout Chinese history, and changes in perceptions of the Other. Traditional Chinese nationalism. New ideas of belonging from the late Qing onwards. The impact of ideologies on foreign policy and on the attitudes toward domestic national minorities
    2. China’s foreign relations’ patterns: before and after the Opium wars. Theory vs. praxis of foreign relations in different periods (e.g., Song) and in different spatial directions (e.g. Qing’s policies in the north vis-à-vis the south). The “tribute system”: its intellectual foundations and practical aspects.
    3. Foreign rulers in China (especially Yuan and Qing). The problems they faced; their cultural peculiarities; their relations with Chinese elites; modes of governing the multi-ethnic policy. The impact of the Manchu rule on modern China?
    4. China’s notions of territoriality and their transformation throughout the different dynastic periods. China’s boundaries and frontiers. The differences between “China proper” and “outer” areas. Success and failure in assimilating newly acquired territories.
    5. Ethnic minorities in China: government policies, responses and outcomes
    6. China and the great powers in the 20th century: the impact of Britain, France, Germany, Japan, USA, USSR (before and after 1949). Aspects of current foreign policy (1978-).
  5. Military and military policies
    1. Historical changes in the army’s composition, attitudes toward the military, civil-military relations. Peculiarity of “alien” dynasties and their views of the military
    2. Late Qing military reform and their impact (especially on politicization of the army)
    3. The Warlords era: relations between the army and the political realm (especially analysis of the Guomindang’s approach under Sun Yat-sen and then during Chiang Kai-shek’s era)
    4. Army and the Party in the PRC (under Mao and afterwards). Political role of the PLA in Mao’s years and today.
  6. Rebellions in Chinese history (from Chen She until the Boxers): economic, social, political, ideological (religious) factors. How did rebels organize themselves? The role of local elites in fostering/suppressing the rebellion. Compare between traditional rebellion and the rural activities of the CPC.
  7. Family and kinship units in traditional and modern China
    1. Traditional China: kinship units and their social and political roles. Family-related ideology
    2. Changes in the kinship units during the Republican era: political, social, and economic background
    3. CPC policy toward the kinship units and their impact on kinship structures in Mao’s era.
    4. Post-1978 developments: the emergence of new familial patterns and new relations within the family. Analyze the background for these changes.
  8. Political thought, political culture, and the role of intellectuals in traditional and modern China
    1. Pre-imperial foundations of the imperial rule. Fundamentals of political thought: views of political order, of the ruler, of the ruler-minister relations; of state-society relations; of the military; of the commoners’ political roles, and the like. Traditional ideological orientations and their modern fate.
    2. Ideological changes in the unified empire (especially Neo-Confucianism and its role in Late Imperial China).
    3. Western ideologies in modern China (from the late 19th century on): their impact; their relation to traditional values; their major proponents in China. Views of Marxism and liberalism and changes in “Chinese Marxism”.
    4. Intellectuals and the state: imperial and Republican background. Intellectuals in the People’s Republic: their position under Mao and thereafter. Freedom of expression and its limits. Educational policies. Attitudes toward politically involved intellectuals.
  9. Modern China: major issues (see also relevant parts of the questions above)
    1. The Republican era. The Guomindang’s attainments and failures (in the context of China’s international position, military policy, domestic stability, economic developments, cultural policies, and state-society relations)
    2. The CPC way to power (1921-1949): changing modes of struggle; tensions between the policy of “united front” and that of class radicalism; relations with the Comintern and the USSR. The legacy of Party’s early years and its impact in the PRC.
    3. The Soviet model of development and its fate. Characteristics of the Soviet model; problems of its implementation; debates over its relevance; attempts to amend its weaknesses. The applicability of the Soviet model in post-Mao’s years, especially in the 21st century. The impact of the Soviet model on development challenges in China after Mao.
    4. Mao’s peculiar policies: from the Great Leap Forward (GLF) to the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (GPCR). Objective factors behind these policies (which problems did Mao try to solve?) and subjective factors (Mao’s personality). Intellectual and practical aspects of GLF and GPCR.
    5. Deng’s reforms: ideological foundations and justifications; the reforms’ short-term and long-term goals; their historical background; debates over the reforms and their current vector of development.
    6. Agrarian policies under Mao and in post-Mao years. Changes in landownership, in rural organization, in the degree of the state’s (party’s) control over the villagers. New trends in China’s rural economy under Deng.
    7. Fundamentals of economic policies under Mao and in post-Mao years. Major factors (demographic, ecological, international) that influence policy fluctuations. How China’s peculiar political system influences its modes of economic development?

 

Final MA exam: China Section
  1. The exam will be held twice a year (summer and December). A student should register for the final exam with the department secretary. A student can take the exam only after finishing all his/her MA assignments. In exceptional cases, and with the approval of the department chair and of the MA advisor, the student will be allowed to take the exam before submitting his/her final assignments. A student who had registered but cancelled his/her participation less than two weeks before the exam’s date will not be allowed to take it before the finalization of all the assignments (and the receipt of all the grades).
  2. There are three types of exam. One for the students of a general MA route, the second for the research MA in traditional (pre-1900) China, and the third for the research MA in modern (post 1900) China. Research students’ exam focuses on their research period (but basic knowledge of the second period—on the level of introductory courses in HUJI—is still required).
  3. The exam comprises of written exam, oral exam, and a book report as follows:
    1. The written exam is based on the reading list below
    2. Written exam is a take-home 24-hours exam. The submission is by mail (or physically, the typed version) to the department’s secretary.
    3. For general MA students: you must answer one integrative question (45% of the final grade) and one of two focused questions (one focuses on traditional, and one on modern China; each is 25% of the final grade).
    4. For research MA students there will be two questions of 35% each.
    5. The orals will be held within two weeks from the final exam. They will focus primarily on the questions you were asked in the written form (but other questions may be asked from time to time).
    6. The written + oral exam are 70% of the final grade.
    7. By the day of the written exam (or earlier) you should submit a book report on a book of your choice (approved by the teachers of China section). The book report should be 5-8 pp. length (use China Review International as your model).
    8. A month before the final exam (i.e., no later than May 31 or November 30) you must submit to the department’s MA advisor a list of five books from which we shall select one that will be the topic of your book report.
    9. The submission date for the book report is the date of the written exam. Earlier submissions are welcome.

To clarify: book report is your independent study. You are welcome to consult other publications (including relevant book reviews), but whenever you borrow from them, you must acknowledge this according to the norms of academic citations. Plagiarism of other studies may bring about cancellation of the book report and further disciplinary actions.

  1. Most of the reading materials for the exam appear on the MOODLE site.
  2. For further questions, please contact the department’s MA advisor.

Good luck!

Reading list for the General MA route (מסלול עיוני)

General

יורי פינס וגדעון שלח, עם יצחק שיחור (עורך ראשי): כל אשר מתחת לשמיים: סין הקיסרית (רעננה: הוצאת האוניברסיטה הפתוחה, כרך א' מ-2011; כרך ב' מ-2013; פרקים מכרך ג' ב –MOODLE

 (for students who cannot read Hebrew: any good introductory-level book in English or Chinese for the history before the Ming dynasty, such as Harold M. Tanner, China: A History [Indianapolis: Hackett, 2009], parts I-III [to the end of Qing]). See also Political History section, items with asterisks.

Jonathan D. Spence, The Search for Modern China (New York: Norton, 1999), sections III and IV (from “The New Republic” to “The Birth of the People’s Republic”). For those who cannot read Hebrew also sections I-II. [DS 754 S65 1999]

Mark Elvin, The Pattern of the Chinese Past (Stanford 1973), chapters 1, 14, 17 (pp. 17-22; 203-234; 285-316). [DS 735 E48]

Roderick MacFarquhar, ed., The Politics of China, 1949-1989 (Cambridge, 1993 or 1997).   [DS 777.75 P64]

 

Political History: Pre-Imperial to Republican Period

[Items with asterisks are for those who do not read Hebrew]:

* Mark Edward. Lewis, “Warring States: Political History.” In The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C., ed. Michael Loewe and Edward L. Shaughnessy, 587–650. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

* Vincent S. Leung, “The Former Han Empire.” In: Routledge Handbook of Early Chinese History, ed. Paul R. Goldin, 160-179. London: Routledge 2018.

* Wicky W.K. Tse, “The Latter Han empire and the end of antiquity.” In: Routledge Handbook of Early Chinese History, ed. Paul R. Goldin, 180-196. London: Routledge 2018.

Herbert Franke and Dennis Twitchett, “Introduction”, in idem, eds. The Cambridge History of China Vol. 6: Alien Rule and Border Regimes 907-1368      (Cambridge, 1994), 1-42. [DS 735 C31]

Willard J. Peterson, "Introduction: New Order for the Old Order", in idem, ed.,

The Cambridge History of China, Volume 9: The Ch'ing Empire to 1800, Pt 1 (Cambridge, 2002), 1-9. [DS 735 C31]

Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski, Chinese Society in the 18th Century (New Haven,

         1987) [DS 754 N46], chapters 1, 4, 6.

* Philip A. Kuhn, "The Taiping Rebellion," in John K. Fairbank, ed., The Cambridge

History of China, Volume 10: Late Ch'ing, 1800-1911, Pt 1 (Cambridge, 1978), 264-317. [DS 735 C31]

John K. Fairbank, "Introduction: Maritime and Continental in China's History", in John K.

Fairbank, ed., The Cambridge History of China, Volume 12: Republican China 1912-1949, Pt 1 (Cambridge, 1983), 1-27. [DS 735 C31]

James E. Sheridan, "The Warlord Era: Politics and Militarism under the Peking

Government, 1916-1928", in John K. Fairbank, ed., The Cambridge History of China, Volume 12: Republican China 1912-1949, Pt 1 (Cambridge, 1983), 284-321. [DS 735 C31]

Mary B. Rankin, John K. Fairbank and Albert Feuerwerker, "Introduction: Perspectives

on  Modern China's History", in Albert Feuerwerker and John K. Fairbank, eds.,

The Cambridge History of China, Volume 13: Republican China 1912-1949, Pt 2

(Cambridge, 1986), 1-73. [DS 735 C31]

Lloyd Eastman et al, eds., The Nationalist Era in China, 1927-1949 (Cambridge, 1991)

[DS 774 N38], chapters 1, 3 (1-52, 115-176).

 

Society and the State

Benjamin A. Elman, “Political, Social and Cultural Reproduction via Civil Service

Examinations in Late Imperial China,” Journal of Asian Studies, 50. 1 (1991): 7-28

Mary B. Rankin and Joseph E. Esherick, “Concluding Remarks,” in: idem, Chinese Local

Elites and Patterns of Dominance (Berkeley, 1990), 305-346 [HN 740 Z9 E426].

Liu Kwang-ching, “Introduction. Orthodoxy in Chinese Society” in Liu Kwang-ching, ed.,    Orthodoxy In Late Imperial China (Berkeley, 1990), 1-24 [DS 754.14 O78]).

Lucian Bianco, "Peasant Movements", in Albert Feuerwerker and John K. Fairbank, eds., The

            Cambridge History of China, Volume 13: Republican China 1912-1949, Pt 2

(Cambridge, 1986), 270-328.  [DS 735 C31]

Strauss, Julia C. “The Evolution of Republican Government,” The China
Quarterly, No. 150, Special Issue: Reappraising Republic China (1997): 329-351.

Selden, Mark, and Elisabeth J. Perry. 2010. "Introduction." In Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance (3rd edition). Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden (eds.). Pp. 1-30. London: Routledge. [HN 733.5 C46 2010]

Perry, Elisabeth J. "Permanent Rebellion? Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese Protest." In Popular Protest in China. Kevin J. O'Brien (ed.). Pp. 205-216. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. [HN 737 P66 2008]

 

Chinese Family and Society

Ebrey, Patricia, "Conceptions of the Family in the Song Dynasty," Journal of Asian Studies  43. 2 (1984): 219-245.

Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski, Chinese Society in the 18th Century (New Haven,     1987) [DS 754 N46], chapters 2, 5.

Glosser, Susan L. Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915-1953. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. “Introduction,” pp. 1-26.  [HQ 684 G56 2003]

Yan, Yunxiang. Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village 1949-1999. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. “Conclusion,” pp. 217-235 [HQ 684 Z9 X539 2003]

Greenhalgh, Susan & Edwin Winckler. Governing China's Population. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. “Chapter 7: The Shifting Local Politics of Population," pp. 212-244. [HQ 766.5 C6 G68 2005]

 

Intellectual History, Political Culture

Pines, Yuri, The Everlasting Empire: Traditional Chinese Political Culture and Its Enduring Legacy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. [ordered]

Peter K. Bol, Neo-Confucianism in History. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008: chapters 1, 3, 4, 7+ Afterword. [B 127 N4 B65 2008]

Peter K. Bol, “Government, Society and State: On the Political Visions of Ssu-ma Kuang and Wang An-shih,” in: Robert  R. Hymes and Conrad Schirokauer, eds., Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China (Berkeley, 1993), 128-192 [DS 751 O73].

Liu Kwang-ching, “Socioethics as Orthodoxy,” in Liu Kwang-ching, ed., Orthodoxy in Late Imperial China (Berkeley, 1990), 53-100 [DS 754.14 O78]).

Merle Goldman and Leo Ou-Fan Lee, eds., An Intellectual History of Modern China          (Cambridge, 2002), chps 2 and 5-7. [DS 775.2 I56 2002]

Ogden, Suzanne. 2004. “From Patronage to Profits: The Changing Relationship of Chinese Intellectuals with the Party-State”. In Edward Gu and Merle Goldman (eds.). Chinese Intellectuals between State and Market. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon. Pp 111-137 [DS 779.23 C46 2004]

                                                                                  

 

Economy

Kang Chao, "Conclusions" in idem, Man and Land in Chinese History: An Economic

     Analysis (Stanford: 1986), 221-228. [HB 2114 A3 C45]

Richard von Glahn, "Conclusion" in idem, Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1000-1700 (Berkeley, 1996), 246-257 [HG 1282 V66].

Pomeranz, Kenneth, “Calamities without Collapse: Environment, Economy, and society in China, ca. 1800-1949,” in Patricia A. McAnany and Norman Yoffee,  eds., Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability and the Aftermath of Empire. (Cambridge, 2010),  71-110.

Christopher Howe, China's Economic Reforms (London: Routledge Curzon, 2003), ch. 1, "China's Economic Reform Strategy" (pp. 1-29) [HC 427.92 C4648 2002].

Barry Naughton, The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth (London and Cambridge, 2007), 86-111. [HC 427.95 N38 2007]

 

Foreign Relations, the Other, Alien Rule, Minorities, Nationalism

Morris Rossabi, “Introduction,” in idem, ed., China Among Equals (Berkeley,

1983), pp. 1-13 [DS 750.82 C46]

Thomas J. Barfield. “Inner Asia and Cycles of Power in China’s Imperial History,” in G. Seaman and D. Marks, eds. Rulers from the Steppe (Los Angeles, 1991), 21-63. [DS 329.4 N66]

Evelyn S. Rawsky, “Re-invisioning the Qing: The Significance of the Qing Period in Chinese History,” Journal of Asian Studies, 55.4 (1996), 829-850.

Yen-p'ing Hao and Erh-min Wang, "Changing Chinese Views of Western Relations, 1840-95", in John K. Fairbank and Liu Kwang-ching, eds., The Cambridge History of China, Volume 11: Late Ch'ing, 1800-1911, Pt 2 (Cambridge, 1978), 142-201. [DS 735 C31]

Colin Mackerras, China’s Minorities (Oxford, 1994), pp. 260-278 [DS 730 M33].

Zhao Suisheng. A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism (Stanford, 2004), Chapters 1-2, pp. 8-78. [DS 779.26 Z43 2004]

 

Current China (1978-)

 

Li Cheng, Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era: Reassessing Collective Leadership (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2016), 1-76 [DS 779.46 L53 C44 2016].

Shambaugh, David L., "Civil-Military Relations," in idem, Modernizing China's military: progress, problems, and prospects (Berkeley, 2002), pp. 11-55 [UA 835 S46 2004]

 

 

Reading list for the research MA route: Traditional China

General (including working knowledge of modern period)

יורי פינס וגדעון שלח, עם יצחק שיחור (עורך ראשי): כל אשר מתחת לשמיים: סין הקיסרית (רעננה: הוצאת האוניברסיטה הפתוחה, כרך א' מ-2011; כרך ב' מ-2013; פרקים נבחרים מכרך ג' ב –MOODLE

(for students who cannot read Hebrew: Read sections I-II of Spence, The Search for Modern China [New York: Norton, 1999]; add any good introductory-level book in English or Chinese for the history before the Ming dynasty, such as Harold M. Tanner, China: A History [Indianapolis: Hackett, 2009], parts I-III [to the end of Qing])

Mark Elvin, The Pattern of the Chinese Past (Stanford 1973), chapters 1, 14, 17 (pp. 17-22; 203-234; 285-316). [DS 735 E48]

Political History: Late Imperial Period

Herbert Franke and Dennis Twitchett, “Introduction”, in idem, eds. The Cambridge History of China Vol. 6: Alien Rule and Border Regimes 907-1368      (Cambridge, 1994), 1-42. [DS 735 C31]

Willard J. Peterson, "Introduction: New Order for the Old Order", in idem, ed.,

The Cambridge History of China, Volume 9: The Ch'ing Empire to 1800, Pt 1 (Cambridge, 2002), 1-9. [DS 735 C31]

Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski, Chinese Society in the 18th Century (New Haven,

         1987) [DS 754 N46], chapters 1, 4, 6.

[For non-Hebrew readers] Philip A. Kuhn, "The Taiping Rebellion," in John K. Fairbank, ed., The Cambridge History of China, Volume 10: Late Ch'ing, 1800-1911, Pt 1 (Cambridge, 1978), 264-317. [DS 735 C31]

Society and the State

Benjamin A. Elman, “Political, Social and Cultural Reproduction via Civil Service

Examinations in Late Imperial China,” Journal of Asian Studies, 50. 1 (1991): 7-28

Mary B. Rankin and Joseph E. Esherick, “Concluding Remarks,” in: idem, Chinese Local

Elites and Patterns of Dominance (Berkeley, 1990), 305-346 [HN 740 Z9 E426].

Liu Kwang-ching, “Introduction. Orthodoxy in Chinese Society” in Liu Kwang-ching, ed.,    Orthodoxy In Late Imperial China (Berkeley, 1990), 1-24 [DS 754.14 O78]).

Chinese Family and Society

Ebrey, Patricia, "Conceptions of the Family in the Song Dynasty," Journal of Asian Studies  43. 2 (1984): 219-245.

Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski, Chinese Society in the 18th Century (New Haven,     1987) [DS 754 N46], chapters 2, 5.

Intellectual History, Political Culture

Pines, Yuri, The Everlasting Empire: Traditional Chinese Political Culture and Its Enduring Legacy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. [JQ 1510 P56 2012]

Peter K. Bol, Neo-Confucianism in History. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2008: chapters 1, 3, 4, 7+ Afterword. [B 127 N4 B65 2008]

Peter K. Bol, “Government, Society and State: On the Political Visions of Ssu-ma Kuang and Wang An-shih,” in: Robert  R. Hymes and Conrad Schirokauer, eds., Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China (Berkeley, 1993), 128-192 [DS 751 O73].

Liu Kwang-ching, “Socioethics as Orthodoxy,” in Liu Kwang-ching, ed., Orthodoxy in Late Imperial China (Berkeley, 1990), 53-100 [DS 754.14 O78]).

 

Economy

Kang Chao, "Conclusions" in idem, Man and Land in Chinese History: An Economic

     Analysis (Stanford: 1986), 221-228. [HB 2114 A3 C45]

Richard von Glahn, "Conclusion" in idem, Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1000-1700 (Berkeley, 1996), 246-257 [HG 1282 V66].

Pomeranz, Kenneth, “Calamities without Collapse: Environment, Economy, and society in China, ca. 1800-1949,” in Patricia A. McAnany and Norman Yoffee,  eds., Questioning Collapse: Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability and the Aftermath of Empire. (Cambridge, 2010), 71-110.

 

Foreign Relations, the Other, Alien Rule, Minorities, Nationalism

Morris Rossabi, “Introduction,” in idem, ed., China Among Equals (Berkeley,

1983), pp. 1-13 [DS 750.82 C46]

Thomas J. Barfield. “Inner Asia and Cycles of Power in China’s Imperial History,” in G. Seaman and D. Marks, eds. Rulers from the Steppe (Los Angeles, 1991), 21-63. [DS 329.4 N66]

Evelyn S. Rawsky, “Re-invisioning the Qing: The Significance of the Qing Period in Chinese History,” Journal of Asian Studies, 55.4 (1996), 829-850.

Yen-p'ing Hao and Erh-min Wang, "Changing Chinese Views of Western Relations, 1840-95", in John K. Fairbank and Liu Kwang-ching, eds., The Cambridge History of China, Volume 11: Late Ch'ing, 1800-1911, Pt 2 (Cambridge, 1978), 142-201. [DS 735 C31]

 

 

Reading list for the research MA route: Modern China

General (including working knowledge of traditional China)

יורי פינס וגדעון שלח, עם יצחק שיחור (עורך ראשי): כל אשר מתחת לשמיים: סין הקיסרית (רעננה: הוצאת האוניברסיטה הפתוחה, כרך א' מ-2011; כרך ב' מ-2013; פרקים נבחרים מכרך ג' ב -

MOODLE

(for students who cannot read Hebrew: Read sections I-II of Spence; add any good introductory-level book in English or Chinese for the history before the Ming dynasty)

Jonathan D. Spence, The Search for Modern China (New York: Norton, 1999), sections III and IV (from “The New Republic” to “The Birth of the People’s Republic”).

Roderick MacFarquhar, ed., The Politics of China, 1949-1989 (Cambridge, 1993 or 1997)  [DS 777.75 P64]

Tony Saich, Governance and Politics of China (New York: Palgrave, 2001) [DS 777.75

        S25 2001]

Li Cheng, Chinese Politics in the Xi Jinping Era: Reassessing Collective Leadership (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2016), 1-76 [DS 779.46 L53 C44 2016]. (optional: pp. 351-398).

 

Political History: Republican Period

John K. Fairbank, "Introduction: Maritime and Continental in China's History", in John K.

Fairbank, ed., The Cambridge History of China, Volume 12: Republican China 1912-1949, Pt 1 (Cambridge, 1983), 1-27. [DS 735 C31]

James E. Sheridan, "The Warlord Era: Politics and Militarism under the Peking

Government, 1916-1928", in John K. Fairbank, ed., The Cambridge History of China, Volume 12: Republican China 1912-1949, Pt 1 (Cambridge, 1983), 284-321. [DS 735 C31]

Mary B. Rankin, John K. Fairbank and Albert Feuerwerker, "Introduction: Perspectives

on  Modern China's History", in Albert Feuerwerker and John K. Fairbank, eds.,

The Cambridge History of China, Volume 13: Republican China 1912-1949, Pt 2

(Cambridge, 1986), 1-73. [DS 735 C31]

Lloyd Eastman et al, eds., The Nationalist Era in China, 1927-1949 (Cambridge, 1991)

[DS 774 N38], chapters 1, 3 (1-52, 115-176).

 

Society and the State

Lucian Bianco, "Peasant Movements", in Albert Feuerwerker and John K. Fairbank, eds., The

            Cambridge History of China, Volume 13: Republican China 1912-1949, Pt 2

(Cambridge, 1986), 270-328.  [DS 735 C31]

Strauss, Julia C. “The Evolution of Republican Government,” The China
Quarterly, No. 150, Special Issue: Reappraising Republic China (1997): 329-351.

Selden, Mark, and Elisabeth J. Perry. 2010. "Introduction." In Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance (3rd edition). Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden (eds.). Pp. 1-30. London: Routledge. [HN 733.5 C46 2010]

Perry, Elisabeth J. "Permanent Rebellion? Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese Protest." In Popular Protest in China. Kevin J. O'Brien (ed.). Pp. 205-216. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. [HN 737 P66 2008]

Chinese Family and Society

Glosser, Susan L. Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915-1953. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. “Introduction,” pp. 1-26.  [HQ 684 G56 2003]

Yan, Yunxiang. Private Life under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village 1949-1999. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. “Conclusion,” pp. 217-235 [HQ 684 Z9 X539 2003]

Greenhalgh, Susan & Edwin Winckler. Governing China's Population. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. “Chapter 7: The Shifting Local Politics of Population," pp. 212-244. [HQ 766.5 C6 G68 2005]

Intellectual History, Political Culture

Merle Goldman and Leo Ou-Fan Lee, eds., An Intellectual History of Modern China (Cambridge, 2002), chpts. 2 and 5-7. [DS 775.2 I56 2002]

Ogden, Suzanne. 2004. “From Patronage to Profits: The Changing Relationship of Chinese Intellectuals with the Party-State”. In Edward Gu and Merle Goldman (eds.). Chinese Intellectuals between State and Market. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon. Pp 111-137 [DS 779.23 C46 2004]

Economy

Christopher Howe, China's Economic Reforms (London: Routledge Curzon, 2003), ch. 1, "China's Economic Reform Strategy" (pp. 1-29) [HC 427.92 C4648 2002].

Barry Naughton, The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth (London and Cambridge, 2007), 86-111. [HC 427.95 N38 2007]

Foreign Relations, the Other, Alien Rule, Minorities, Nationalism

Colin Mackerras, China’s Minorities (Oxford, 1994), pp. 260-278 [DS 730 M33].

Zhao Suisheng. A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism (Stanford, 2004), Chapters 1-2, pp. 8-78. [DS 779.26 Z43 2004]

Zhao, Suisheng. 2013. “Foreign Policy Implications of Chinese Nationalism Revisited: The Strident Turn,” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 22, No. 82, pp. 535-553

 

Military

Shambaugh, David L., "Civil-Military Relations," in idem, Modernizing China's military: progress, problems, and prospects (Berkeley, 2002), pp. 11-55 [UA 835 S46 2004]

 

 

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