National Foreign Affairs Training Center
China: Advanced Area Seminar
2007 - 2008
Fall Term
 updated: 27 Dec  2007
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Date /Week

* = "ART" days

                                     Speaker / Topic

Room 

12 Sep*

 01

Opening Remarks for the 2006-2007 year:       Deputy Assistant Secretary Scot Marciel  - "U.S. Challenges and Policies in the EAP Region" (09:45-12:00)

 

Brief course introduction (Dr. Spendelow - 12:05 - 12:25)

C-3114
19 Sep 02 The Origins of "China" (Spendelow) F-3420
26 Sep* 03 The Confucian Legacy: Cultural Values in East Asian Societies (Eugene Swanger) C-3116
03 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-1210
10 Oct 05 China's Intellectual Tradition I:  "Legalism" and pre-Imperial Confucianism   (Spendelow) F-1210
17 Oct* 06 China's Intellectual Tradition II:  The "Three Teachings"  三教  : Daoism, Buddhism, and the Development of Confucianism (Spendelow) F-1210
24 Oct 07 China's Intellectual Tradition III:  State and Ideology in the Ming, Qing, and Early Republic (Spendelow)

China's Bureaucratic Tradition: Emperor and Cabinet; Examination System; Local Control (Spendelow)

 F-1210
31 Oct* 08 Stability and Reform in Imperial China (Spendelow)

 

Significance of the Ming-Qing Transition (Spendelow)

 F-2235
07 Nov 09 The "Unequal Treaty" System:  Restructuring the World of the Qing to 1898  (Spendelow) F-1210
14 Nov 10

China meets the World:  1842 to 1901

(Spendelow)

"Brown Bag Briefing" by DAS Thomas J. Christensen

 F-1210
21 Nov 11

End of the Empire and the Search for a New Order (Spendelow)

"May Fourth":  The Evolving Link Between Politics and Literature in the "Warlord" Era (Spendelow)

1905 - new paradigms

1911 - new government

1919 - new culture

 F-1210
28 Nov* 12 Introduction of Communism: Surviving the 1920s and the "First United Front" (Spendelow)

F-2235
03 Dec

[note = Monday]

 13 The Challenges Confronting US Diplomats in Advancing Religious Freedom, Human Rights and Tolerance:  Presentation by representatives of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation  (09:00 start-time; please be seated by 08:45)

Keynote speaker:  Lynn Pascoe - former Ambassador to Indonesia, now Under Secretary  of Political Affairs at the UN

 C-3114

Kennan Auditorium
12 Dec*

 

 14 The Yan'an Model: practical experience for the CCP (Spendelow)

 

Under the Snow Mountain: The Development of a Sustainable Tourism Model in Yunnan (student presentation by Alys Spensley)

F-2235
19 Dec
 15

"Skin or Vital Organs"? - China's Multiple Confrontations in the First Third of the 20th Century (Spendelow)

 

The U.S. Role in 1940s China (Spendelow)
F-2235
26 Dec
 16 Independent Study (n/a)