National Foreign Affairs Training Center
China: Advanced Area Seminar
2009 - 2010
Fall Term
updated:
22 Dec 2009
[links to syllabi for previous and
upcoming terms]
(course homepage)
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Date / Week * = "ART" days |
Speaker / Topic |
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16 Sep* |
01 |
Students in place in the Kennan Auditorium by 09:15
Opening Remarks for the 2009-2010 year:
Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary
of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Joseph R.
Donovan, Jr. - "U.S. Challenges and Policies in
Brief course introduction (Dr. Spendelow - 10:45 - 11:15) |
√ | C-3114 |
| 23 Sep | 02 | The Confucian Legacy: Cultural Values in East Asian Societies (Eugene Swanger) (10:00 start-time) | √ | F-1210 |
| 30 Sep* | 03 | The Origins of "China" (Spendelow) | √ | D-Gym |
| 07 Oct | 04 | China's Intellectual Tradition I: "Legalism" and pre-Imperial Confucianism (Spendelow) | √ | F-1210 |
| 14 Oct | 05 |
China's
Intellectual Tradition II: The "Three Teachings"
三教 : Daoism, Buddhism, and the Development of Confucianism (Spendelow)
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-2235 |
| 21 Oct* | 06 | Karen Sutter: Current Trade Tensions between the US and PRC | √ | F-1210 |
| 28 Oct | 07 |
Stability and Reform in Imperial China (Spendelow)
Significance of the Ming-Qing Transition (Spendelow) |
√ | D-Gym |
| 04 Nov* | 08 | 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 | √ | C-3114 |
| 11 Nov | 09 | Veterans' Day - holiday | n/a | |
| 18 Nov* | 10 | The "Unequal Treaty" System: Restructuring the World of the Qing to 1898 (Spendelow) | √ | F-1210 |
| 25 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)
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√ | F-2235 |
| 02 Dec* | 12 | Introduction of Communism: Surviving the 1920s and the "First United Front" (Spendelow) | √ | F-2235 |
| 09 Dec | 13 |
Robert G. Sutter: China's Encumbered Rise -- Prominence, Contradictions, and Trade-Offs |
√ | F-2328 |
| 16 Dec* | 14 |
"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-1210 |
| 23 Dec | 15 | NFATC Holiday | √ | (n/a) |
| 30 Dec | 16 | Independent Study | √ | (n/a) |