HIGR 210: Historical Scholarship on Modern China Fall Quarter 2009 Professor Paul G. Pickowicz History Department, UC San Diego Monday, 9-12 HSS 3086 All students will write two ten-page historiography essays (due October 30 and December 4 respectively). All students will write two two-page book reviews (19 books available to review) All students will write two one-page article reviews (16 articles available to review) Part I: Is There a UC San Diego School of Modern Chinese Historical Studies? All of the following books and articles have been published by former or current PhD students in UCSD s Modern Chinese History PhD Program. Sept. 28 Book: Joshua Goldstein, Drama Kings: Players and Publics in the Re- Creation of Peking Opera, 1870-1937 (Berkeley: UC Press, 2007). Assignment 1: Read Drama Kings closely and be prepared to share your views with the group. Assignment 2: Each seminar member should be prepared to make a seven minute introduction of his or her favorite book on the cultural history of modern China. Oct. 5 Book: Michael Chang, A Court on Horseback: Imperial Touring and the Construction of Qing Rule, 1680-1785 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007). *Article 1: David Cheng Chang, Democracy Is in Its Details: The 1909 Provincial Assembly Elections and the Print Media, in S. Cochran and P. Pickowicz, eds., China on the Margins (Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Series, 2010), 195-219. *Article 2: Madeleine Yue Dong, Communities and Communication: A Study of the Case of Yang Naiwu, 1873-1877, Late Imperial China, 16.1 (June 1995), pp. 79-119.
*Article 3: Julie Broadwin, Walking Contradictions: Chinese Woman Unbound at the Turn of the Century, in Journal of Historical Sociology, 10.4 (December 1997), pp. 418-443. *Article 4: Dahpon Ho, The Men Who Would Not Be Amban and the One Who Would: Frontline Officials and Qing Tibet Policy, 1905-1911, Modern China, 4.2 (April 2008), pp. 210-246. Oct. 12 Book: Andrew Morris, Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China (Berkeley: UC Press, 2004). *Article 1: Zhiwei Xiao, Constructing a New National Culture: Film Censorship and the Issues of Cantonese Dialect, Superstition, and Sex in the Nanjing Decade, in Y. Zhang, ed., Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999), pp. 183-199. *Article 2: Justin Jacobs, Confronting Indiana Jones: Chinese Nationalism, Historical Imperialism, and the Criminalization of Aurel Stein and the Raiders of Dunhuang, in S. Cochran and P. Pickowicz, eds., China on the Margins (Ithaca: Cornell East Asia Series, 2010), pp. 65-90. *Article 3: Michael Chang, The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Movie Actresses and Public Discourse in Shanghai, 1920s-1930s, in Y. Zhang, ed., Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai, 1922-1943 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999), pp. 128-159. *Article 4: Susan Fernsebner, A People s Playthings: Toys, Childhood and Chinese Identity, Postcolonial Studies, 6.3 (November 2003), pp. 269-293. Oct. 16-18 Oct. 19 Marion Mountain Camping Retreat Book: Madeleine Yue Dong, Republican Beijing: The City and its Histories (UC Press, 2003). *Article 1: Liping Wang, Tourism and Spatial Change in Hangzhou, 1911-1927, in J. Esherick, ed., Remaking the Chinese City: Modernity and National Identity, 1900-1950 (Honolulu: University of Hawai i Press, 2000), pp. 107-120. *Article 2: Liu Lu, Sorrow after the Honeymoon: The Controversy over Domesticity in Late Republican China, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 13.1 (Spring 2001), pp. 1-34.
*Article 3: Christian Hess, Big Brother is Watching: Local Sino-Soviet Relations and the Building of New Dalian, 1945-1955, in J. Brown and P. Pickowicz, eds., Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People s Republic of China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), pp. 160-183. *Article 4: Dahpon Ho, Night Thoughts of a Hungry Ghost Writer: Chen Bulei and the Life of Service in Republican China, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 19.1 (Spring 2007), pp. 1-59. Oct. 26 Book: Sigrid Schmalzer, The People s Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008). *Article 1: Jeremy Brown, From Resisting Communists to Resisting America: Civil War and Korean War in Southwest China, 1950-51, in J. Brown and P. Pickowicz, eds., Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People s Republic of China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), pp. 105-129. *Article 2: Elya Zhang, To Be Somebody: Li Qinglin, Run-of-the-Mill Cultural Revolution Showstopper, in J. Esherick, P. Pickowicz, and A. Walder, eds., The Chinese Cultural Revolution as History (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), pp. 211-239. *Article 3: Andrew Morris, Baseball, History, the Local and the Global in Taiwan, in D. Jordan, A. Morris, and M. Moskowitz, eds., The Minor Arts of Daily Life: Popular Culture in Taiwan (Honolulu: University of Hawai i Press, 2004), pp. 175-203. *Article 4: Joshua Goldstein, Remains of the Everyday: One Hundred Years of Recycling in Beijing, in M. Dong and J. Goldstein, eds., Everyday Modernity in China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006), pp. 260-302. Oct. 30 Paper 1 due. Nov. 1 Seminar Dinner: Paper 1 Presentations and Discussions
Part II: Cultural History: Twentieth Century China MUSIC Nov. 2 Book 1: Richard Kraus, Pianos and Politics in China: Class, Nationalism, and the Controversy over Western Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989). Book 2: Andrew Jones, Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001). Book 3: Andrew Field, A Dazzling Dance: Cabaret Culture and Modernity in Old Shanghai, 1919-1954 (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2009). FILM Nov. 9 Book 1: Zhang Zhen, An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema, 1896-1937 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). Book 2 : Poshek Fu, Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003). Book 3: Paul G. Pickowicz articles: a. Melodramatic Imagination and the May Fourth Tradition of Chinese Cinema, in E. Widmer and D. Wang, From May Fourth to June Fourth: Fiction and Film in Twentieth Century China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993), pp. 295-326. b. The Theme of Spiritual Pollution in Chinese Films of the 1930s, Modern China, vol. 17, no. 1 (January 1991), pp. 38-75. c. Victory as Defeat: Postwar Visualizations of China s War of Resistance, in W. Yeh, ed., Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond, 1900-1950 (Berkeley: UC Press, 2000), pp. 365-398. d. Acting Like Revolutionaries: Shi Hui, the Wenhua Studio, and Private Sector Filmmaking, 1949-52, in J. Brown and P. Pickowicz, eds., Dilemmas of Victory: The Early Years of the People s Republic of China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), pp. 256-287.
e. Huang Jianxin and the Notion of Postsocialism, in N. Browne, P. Pickowicz, V. Sobchack, and E. Yau, eds., New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 57-87. ART Nov. 16 Book 1: Julia Andrews, Painters and Politics in the People s Republic of China, 1949-1979 (Berkeley: UC Press, 1994). Book 2: Richard Kraus, Brushes with Power: Modern Politics and the Chinese Art of Calligraphy (Berkeley: UC Press, 1991). Book 3: Michael Sullivan, Art and Artists of Twentieth-Century China (Berkeley: UC Press, 1996). Nov. 19 Shanghai Symphony Performance LITERATURE Nov. 23 Book 1: Perry Link, The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000). Book 2: Perry Link, Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: Popular Fiction in Early Twentieth-Century China (Berkeley: UC Press, 1981). Book 3: Ci Jiwei, Dialectic of the Chinese Revolution: Dialectic of the Chinese Revolution: From Utopianism to Hedonism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994). THEATER Nov. 30 Book 1: Xiaomei Chen, Acting the Right Part: Political Theater and Popular Drama in Contemporary China (Honolulu: University of Hawai i Press, 2002) Book 2: Xiaomei Chen, Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
Book 3: Jianying Zha, China Pop: How Soap Operas, Tabloids, and Best- Sellers Are Transforming a Culture (New York: New Press, 1995). Dec. 4 Dec. 7 Paper 2 Due Final Meeting: Paper 2 Presentations and Discussions