National Foreign Affairs Training Center
China: Advanced Area Seminar
2005 - 2006
Spring/Summer Term
updated:
25 Aug 2006
[links to syllabi for previous and
upcoming terms]
(course homepage)
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Date / Week * = "ART" days |
Speaker/Topic
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Room |
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04 Jan |
17 |
James V. Feinerman (GU Law School): "China and the Law: The Historical Legacy of the Imperial and Republican Periods" |
F-2235 |
| 11 Jan* | 18 |
"China and the Law: Current Practice, Problems, & Prospects" (Feinerman) |
F-2235 |
| 18 Jan | 19 | "China and the International Legal Arena: WTO Membership and other Issues" (Feinerman) | F-2235 |
| 25 Jan* | 20 |
春節: Festivals
and the Passage of Time in Traditional China (Spendelow)
Year of the Dog begins 29 Jan 2006 video: " To Taste a Hundred Herbs " (Long Bow Trilogy) |
F-2235 |
| 01 Feb | 21 |
Film: "Qiu Ju Da Guansi" 秋菊打官司 (The Story of Qiu Ju) ( Zhang Yimou 张艺谋, 1992) |
F-2235 |
| 08 Feb* | 22 | Bruce Dickson: (GWU) nuts & bolts of the Chinese political system | F-2235 |
| 15 Feb | 23 | F-2235 | |
| 22 Feb | 24 | Steven Phillips : Taiwan's Earliest History and the Issue of "Independence" / Introducing the "Taiwan Issue" | F-2235 |
| 01 Mar* | 25 | Steven Phillips : Taiwan: From Retrocession 光復(1945) through Lee Teng-hui 李登輝 (2000) | F-3420 |
| 08 Mar | 26 | Video: "Tug of War: The Story of Taiwan" |
F-3420 |
| 15 Mar* | 27 |
Changing Roles of Women in China: The Legacy of Pre-Revolutionary Society (Spendelow) Video: "Sparrow Village" (girls' education in Guizhou, 2003) } Video: "Small Happiness: Women of a Chinese Village " (Long Bow Trilogy, 1984) |
F-2235 |
| 22 Mar | 28 | Douglas Spelman (former Consul General): Practicing Diplomacy in China: The View from Shanghai | F-3420 |
| 29 Mar* | 29 | Film: "Morning Sun" (八九点钟的太阳) - Long Bow Group, 2003 - on the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 |
F-2235 |
| 05 Apr | 30 |
Literature in 20th Century China: an overview -
(Spendelow) Film: "Return from Silence" (1982, by 時鐘雯, GWU) -5 writers who survived the Cultural Revolution |
F-2235 |
| 12
Apr* |
31 | Elizabeth Larus (University of Mary Washington), Taiwan: Domestic Politics and Cross-Strait Relations since 2000 | F-2235 |
| 19 Apr | 32 | Carl Minzner (CECC): The Growth of "Civil Society" in Today's PRC |
F-2235 |
| 26 Apr* | 33 | Anne Thurston: Mao's China [joint session with two-week China class] | F-1210 |
| 03 May | 34 | film: "Gate of Heavenly Peace" - part 1 (Carma Hinton & Richard Gordon) - on-the-Square and behind-the-scenes documentary of the 1989 student demonstrations in Beijing | F-1210 |
| 10 May* | 35 | film: "Gate of Heavenly Peace" - part 2 (Carma Hinton & Richard Gordon) | F-1210 |
| 17 May | 36 | Steven Marshall (CECC): Tibet: Its History and Role in the PRC and in Sino-American Relations | F-2235 |
| 24 May* | 37 | video: "China in the Red" (Frontline/PBS, first broadcast 13 Feb 2003: 10 stories of the human impacts of the late 20th century reforms) | F-2235 |
| 31 May | 38 |
"Changing Concepts of Status and Class" (Spendelow) |
C-3116 |
| 07 Jun* | 39 | Karen Sutter (CIA): "China in the Global Economy: Current Issues" | F-2235 |
| 14 Jun | 40 |
Film: "To Live" 活者(1994),
by
Zhang Yimou 张艺谋 (a family's changing circumstances from the 1940s through the 1970s) [133 min.] |
F-1210 |
| 21 Jun* | 41 | Eric A. McVadon:: How "Operational" is the Current PLA "Modernization"? | F-1210 |
| 28 Jun | 42 |
China's
Intellectual Tradition I: "Legalism" and pre-Imperial Confucianism (Spendelow)
|
D-1103 |
| 05 Jul | 43 | China's Intellectual Tradition II: The "Three Teachings" 三教 : Daoism, Buddhism, and the Early Development of Confucianism (Spendelow) | F-3420 |
| 12 Jul* | 44 | Kara Abramson (CECC): "China's National Minorities - the Northwest and Beyond" | F-2235 |
| 19 Jul | 45 |
Food and Trade: China's Agricultural Sector in the Early 21st Century"
Wade Sheppard, China Desk, Foreign
Agricultural Service, USDA |
F-3420 |
| 26 Jul* | 46 | Confucianism and Chinese Politics: The Dynamics of Development over the Most Recent Millennium (Spendelow) | F-1210 |
| 02 Aug | 47 | The "Unequal Treaty" System: China and the World to 1898 (Spendelow) | F-1210 |
| 09 Aug* | 48 | From the Boxers to May Fourth: China's Tumultuous Entry into the 20th Century (Spendelow) | F-3420 |
| 16 Aug | 49 | Introduction of Communism: Surviving the 1920s and the "First United Front" (Spendelow) | F-2235 |
| 23 Aug* | 50 |
China in the 1930s & 1940s: (Spendelow) Competing Domestic Visions in the Context of Japanese Expansion Resisting Japan and the Civil War; Role of the United States until 1949 |
F-2306 |
| 30 Aug | 51 | Early
Years of the PRC: (Spendelow) Video: "The Mao Years" (part I - 1949-1960 "Catch the Stars and Moon"; part II - 1961-1976 "It's Right to Rebel!" ) |
F-3109 |