Reform and Revolution in Modern China (1800 - 1949) 近代中國的改革及變革：自十九世紀起的一百五十年變遷

持續進修課程

課程簡介：

This course covers the history of China from 1800 to the early years of the People’s Republic. Pressured by both domestic unsettlement and foreign incursions, this period of momentous crises began with the unravelling of the traditional order of imperial China in the nineteenth century, only to be followed by the escalation of revolutionary urgency in the twentieth. By the time of the Communist revolution in 1949, this historical process of “national survival” and “becoming modern” had profoundly and irretrievably transformed China’s political, social, and cultural landscape. In this course, we examine a number of the overarching themes and issues that have preoccupied the Chinese in their march towards modern nationhood.

課程內容：

Introduction
- Issues and themes
- State and Society in Traditional China
Challenge of the West
- China Trade, Indian Opium, and British Gunboats, I
- China Trade, Indian Opium, and British Gunboats, II
Unraveling of the Traditional Order
- Dynastic Crises in Mid-Century
- The Limits of Dynastic Reforms, 1861-1895
The Republican Experiment
- The 1911 Revolution
- Strongman, Warlords, and the Party-State, I
- Strongman, Warlords, and the Party-State, II
Culture and Revolution
- Radical Anti-traditionalism and New Culture
- Lu Xun and the Critique of the Chinese National Character
The People’s Revolution
- The Chinese Communist Movement: The Orthodox Phase
- The Chinese Communist Movement: The Maoist Phase
- Social Origins of the People’s Revolution
- Towards the People’s Republic

課程目標：

Acquire good, solid knowledge of the major themes and issues in the history of China from 1800 to the early decades of the People’s Republic
Examine and assess the historical forces, both domestic and foreign, that led to the unraveling of China’s traditional order in the nineteenth century
Examine and assess China’s modern social and cultural experience against the overarching demand of revolution in the twentieth century
Chinese national formation under the imperatives of reform and revolution

書籍及參考資料：

Zarrow, Peter. China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949. 1st ed. Routledge, 2005.