National Foreign Affairs Training Center
China: Advanced Area Seminar
2004 - 2005
Fall Term
updated:
22 Nov 2004
[links to syllabi for previous and
upcoming terms]
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Date /Week * = "ART" days |
Speaker / Topic |
Room |
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*15 Sep |
01 |
Opening
Gathering of the 2004-2005 year Brief course introduction
Dr. Spendelow |
D building (gym) |
| 22 Sep |
02 |
The Origins of
"China"
(Spendelow) |
F-2720 |
| *29 Sep | 03 | Cultural Values in East Asian Society (Eugene Swanger) | D building (gym) |
| 06 Oct | 04 | China's Intellectual Tradition I: "Legalism" and pre-Imperial Confucianism (Spendelow) | F-2720 |
| *13 Oct | 05 | China's Intellectual Tradition II: The "Three Teachings" 三教 : Daoism, Buddhism, and the Development of Confucianism (Spendelow) | F-3420 |
| 20 Oct | 06 | China's
Bureaucratic Tradition: Emperor and Cabinet; Examination System; Local
Control (Spendelow) |
F-2720 |
| *27 Oct | 07 | The "Unequal Treaty" System: China and the World to 1898 (Spendelow) | C-3116 |
| 03 Nov | 08 | End of the Empire and the Search for a New Order (Spendelow) |
F-3420 |
| *10 Nov | 09 |
"May
Fourth": The Evolving Link Between Politics and Literature
in the "Warlord" Era
Introduction of Communism: Surviving the 1920s and the "First United Front" (Spendelow)
|
F-2720 |
| 17 Nov | 10 |
"Skin or Vital Organs"? - China's Multiple Confrontations in the Middle of the 20th Century
Legacy of the Yan'an Period and the Civil War (Spendelow) Video: "The Mao Years" (part I - 1949-1960 "Catch the Moon and Stars") |
F-2720 |
| 24 Nov | 11 | The
U.S. Role in China's Civil War (Spendelow) The Early Years of the PRC (Spendelow) Video: "The Mao Years" (part II - 1961-1976) |
F-2720 |
| *01 Dec | 12 | China's Artistic Heritage (visit to the Freer/Sackler galleries; Lorraine Torres, docent) meet @ 10:30, Sackler ground-floor entrance hall |
[off-site]
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| 08 Dec | 13 |
Film: "To Live" 活者(1994),
by
Zhang Yimou 张艺谋 (a family's changing circumstances from the 1940s through the 1970s) |
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| *15 Dec | 14 | William Malm: Traditional Music of East Asia | |
| 22 Dec |
15 | Independent Study | |
| 29 Dec |
16 | Independent Study | |