National Foreign Affairs Training Center
China: Advanced Area Seminar
2006 - 2007
Spring/Summer Term
updated:
23 Aug 2007
[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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03 Jan |
17 |
"Skin or Vital Organs"? - China's Multiple Confrontations in the First Third of the 20th Century |
F-2235 |
| 10 Jan* | 18 |
Legacy of the Yan'an Period and the Civil War (Spendelow)
The U.S. Role in China's Civil War (Spendelow)
The Early Years of the PRC (Spendelow) |
F-2235 |
| 17 Jan | 19 | James V. Feinerman (GU Law School): "China and the Law: The Historical Legacy of the Imperial and Republican Periods" | F-1210 |
| 24 Jan* | 20 | "China and the Law: Current Practice, Problems, & Prospects" (Feinerman) |
F-3420 |
| 31 Jan | 21 | "China and the International Legal Arena: Trade, WTO Membership and other Issues" (Feinerman) | F-1210 |
| 07 Feb* | 22 | Nuts and Bolts of the Chinese Political System: How the Government and Party Interact | F-1210 |
| 14 Feb | 23 |
春節: Festivals
and the Passage of Time in Traditional China (Spendelow)
Year of the Pig begins 18 Feb 2007 video: "To Taste a Hundred Herbs" (Long Bow Trilogy)
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F-1210 |
| 21 Feb | 24 | Steven Phillips : Taiwan's Earliest History and the Issue of "Independence" / Introducing the "Taiwan Issue" | F-2235 |
| 28 Feb* | 25 | Steven Phillips : Taiwan: From Retrocession 光復(1945) through Lee Teng-hui 李登輝 (2000) | F-1210 |
| 07 Mar | 26 | Shelley Rigger: "Chen Shui-bian's Legacy and the 2008 Presidential Election on Taiwan |
F-1720 |
| 14 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-2720 |
| 21 Mar | 28 | Karen Sutter: "China in the Global Economy: Current Issues" | F-2235 |
| 28 Mar* | 29 | Film: "Morning Sun" (八九点钟的太阳) - Long Bow Group, 2003 - on the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 |
F-3420 |
| 04 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-3420 |
| 11
Apr* |
31 | Steven Marshall (CECC): Tibet: Its History and Role in the PRC and in Sino-American Relations | F-2235 |
| 18 Apr | 32 | video: "China in the Red" (Frontline/PBS, first broadcast 13 Feb 2003: 10 stories of the human impacts of the late 20th century reforms) |
D-1103 |
| 25 Apr* | 33 | James Millward - Xinjiang in historical perspective | F-1210 |
| 02 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 |
| 09 May* | 35 | Anne Thurston: "The Role of NGOs in Today's PRC: The View from Qinghai" | C-3114 |
| 16 May | 36 | film: "Gate of Heavenly Peace" - part 2 (Carma Hinton & Richard Gordon) | F-3420 |
| 23 May* | 37 | Eric A. McVadon: "PLA Modernization: Status and Implications for the U.S. and the Region" | C-3114 |
| 30 May | 38 |
"Changing Concepts of Status and Class" (Spendelow) |
D-1103 |
| 06 Jun* | 39 | Robert Sutter: China's Complex Rise--Prominence, Contradictions, and Trade-Offs | F-1210 |
| 13 Jun | 40 |
Videos from the BBC series "Heart of the Dragon": -- Correcting -- Mediating |
F-1210 |
| 20 Jun* | 41 | Thinking about "China": early origins in a global context (Spendelow) | F-1210 |
| 27 Jun | 42 | Independent Study | n/a |
| 04 Jul | 43 | Holiday | n/a |
| 11 Jul | 44 | Institutional Continuities: Enduring Features of China's Imperial and Post-Imperial Government (Spendelow) | F-1210 |
| 18 Jul* | 45 |
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-2235 |
| 25 Jul | 46 | Confucianism and Chinese Politics: From Formation in the Zhou to Imperium in the Han (Spendelow) | F-2235 |
| 01 Aug* | 47 |
Confucianism and Chinese Politics: The Dynamics of
Development over the Most Recent Millennium
(Spendelow)
The "Unequal Treaty" System: China and the World to 1898 (Spendelow) |
F-2235 |
| 08 Aug | 48 | China
under the Treaties: Conflicting Visions of the Future
(Spendelow)
From the Boxers to May Fourth: China's Tumultuous Entry into the 20th Century (Spendelow) |
F-1210 |
| 15 Aug* | 49 | Independent Study | n/a |
| 22 Aug* | 50 | Introduction of Communism:
Surviving the 1920s and the
"First United Front"
(Spendelow)
China in the 1930s & 1940s: (Spendelow) Competing Domestic Visions in the Context of Japanese Expansion (Spendelow) Resisting Japan and the Civil War; Role of the United States until 1949 (Spendelow) |
F-1210 |
| 29 Aug | 51 | Early Years of the PRC: Video: "The Mao Years" (part I - 1949-1960 "Catch the Stars and Moon"; part II - 1961-1976 "It's Right to Rebel!" ) WGBH, 1994 | F-1210 |