National Foreign Affairs Training Center
China: Advanced Area Seminar
2006 - 2007
Fall Term
 updated: 15 Dec 2006
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Date /Week

* = "ART" days

                                     Speaker / Topic

Room 

13 Sep*

 01

Opening Remarks for the 2006-2007 year:       Deputy Assistant Secretary Eric John  - "U.S. Challenges and Policies in East Asia" (10:00-11:30)

 

Brief course introduction (Dr. Spendelow)

C-3114
20 Sep
 02 The Origins of "China" (Spendelow)
F-2235
27 Sep* 03 The Confucian Legacy: Cultural Values in East Asian Societies (Eugene Swanger) [archive videotape] F-2235
04 Oct 04 Video:  "The Mao Years" (part I - 1949-1960 "Catch the Moon and Stars")

Video:  "The Mao Years" (part II - 1961-1976 - "Right to Rebel")

 F-2235
11 Oct 05 China's Intellectual Tradition I:  "Legalism" and pre-Imperial Confucianism   (Spendelow) F-2235
18 Oct* 06 China's Intellectual Tradition II:  The "Three Teachings"  三教  : Daoism, Buddhism, and the Development of Confucianism (Spendelow) F-2235
25 Oct 07 China's Bureaucratic Tradition: Emperor and Cabinet; Examination System; Local Control (Spendelow) F-2235
01 Nov* 08 Stability and Reform in Imperial China (Spendelow)

 

Significance of the Ming-Qing Transition (Spendelow)

 F-2235
08 Nov 09 The "Unequal Treaty" System:  Restructuring the World of the Qing to 1898  (Spendelow) F-2235
15 Nov* 10 China's Artistic Heritage (visit to the Freer/Sackler galleries; Ann Ling, docent) meet @ 10:30, Sackler ground-floor entrance hall [off-site]
22 Nov 11

China meets the World:  1842 to 1901

(Spendelow)

 F-2235
29 Nov* 12 End of the Empire and the Search for a New Order

F-1619
06 Dec 13 Film: "Qiu Ju Da Guansi" 秋菊打官司  (The Story of Qiu Ju)  ( Zhang Yimou  张艺谋, 1992) C-3116
12 Dec*

[note = Tuesday]

 14 The Challenges Confronting US Diplomats in Advancing Religious Freedom, Human Rights and Tolerance:  Presentation by representatives of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation  (09:15 start-time...)

14:00 - address by Rep. Tom Lantos

 C-3114

Kennan Auditorium
20 Dec
 15

"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-2235
27 Dec
 16 Independent Study (n/a)