HIST5610 China and the West

Lecture 01: Introduction: Methodology and Imagination: Modern China and the metaphors of ship

J. L. Cranmer-Byng ed., An Embassy to China: Lord Macartney’s Journal, 1793-1794 (1962), in Patrick Tuck ed., Britain and the China Trade 1635-1842 (London and New York: Routledge, 2000), vol. VIII.

Liu E (857-1909), trans. Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang, The travels of Lao Can (Beijing: Chinese Literature, 1983), pp. 16-22.

Lecture 02:  Western International Law

Lin Xuezhong林學忠, Cong wanguo gongfa dao gongfa waijiao: wanqing guojifa de chuanru, quanshi yu yingyong從萬國公法到公法外交：晚清國際法的傳入、詮釋與應用(Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2009).

Lam Hok-chung (Lin Xuezhong)林學忠, trans. Puk Wing-kin, “Learning the new law, envisioning the new world: Meiji Japan’s reading of Henry Wheaton”, Japanese Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 56 (2013), pp. 4-36.

The Bridge on the River Kwai, directed by David Lean (Horizon Pictures, 1957).

Lecture 03: New State

Hans van de Ven, Breaking with the Past: the Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014).

Lecture 04: New Nation, New Citizen

Lu Xun, trans. Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang, Call to Arms (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1981, 1^st ed), “The Story of Hair頭髮的故事”, pp.  39-44.

Henrietta Harrison, China (Inventing the Nation series, London: Arnold; New York: Co-published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press, 2001).

Lecture 05: Money and everyday life in early Republican era

Lu Xun, trans. Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang, “Some Notions Jotted Down By Lamplight燈下漫筆”, in Lu Xun, Selected Works (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1980, 3^rd ed.), Vol. 2, pp. 148-150.

Lecture 06: Chinese workers in WWI

Xu Guoqi, Strangers on the Western Front: Chinese Workers in the Great War (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011).

Lecture 07: Semester Paper Workshop (I)

Anthony Grafton, The Footnote: a Curious History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997).

Lecture 08: Semester Paper Workshop (II)

Lecture 09: Semester Paper Workshop (III)

Lecture 10: Semester Paper Workshop (IV)

Lecture 11: Semester Paper Workshop (V)

Lecture 12: Semester Paper Workshop (VI)

Lecture 13: Semester Paper Workshop and Conclusion (VII)

Semester Paper: 100%

• Minimum 5,000 English words including footnotes.
• No bibliography is needed.
• To be submitted to Veriguide on or before 2020.05.08 Friday (one week after the last lecture). 
• Delay of submission by one day lead to deduction of 10 marks, for instance, from 90 to 80, and so forth.

Total Mark: 100%

Topic of the semester paper: to be announced soon

Archives for tutorial presentation and discussion: to be announced soon.

Tutorial: Friday 8:30pm – 9:15pm

* There will be eight sessions, all students are expected to attend all tutorials and make one oral presentation of about 10 minutes.

* The oral presentation covers assigned pages of

* The oral presentation covers assigned pages of designated historical archives.

* Tutorial counts for 10% of the total mark (100). Ten percent might mean little, but is vital to the writing of semester paper. So do please make an effort to attend all the tutorial sessions.

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• 如屬小組習作，則所有組員均須簽署聲明；所有組員（不論有否簽署聲明及不論有否直接或間接撰寫有問題的內容）均須負上集體責任及受到懲處。
• 如作業以電腦製作、內容以文字為主，並經由大學「維誠」系統 (VeriGuide) 提交者，學生將作業的電子檔案上載到系統後，便會獲得收據，收據上已列明有關聲明。

未有夾附簽署妥當的聲明的作業，老師將不予批閱。

學生只須提交作業的最終版本。

學生將作業或作業的一部份用於超過一個用途（例如：同時符合兩科的要求）而沒有作出聲明會被視為未有聲明重覆使用作業。學生重覆使用其著作的措辭或某一、二句句子很常見，並可以接受，惟重覆使用全部內容則構成問題。在任何情況下，須先獲得相關老師同意方可提交作業。