National Foreign Affairs Training Center
China: Advanced Area Seminar
2010 - 2011
Fall Term
updated:
10 Dec 2010
[links to syllabi for previous
and upcoming terms]
(course homepage)
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Date / Week * = "ART" days |
Speaker / Topic |
confirmed? |
Room |
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15 Sep* |
01 |
Students in place in the Kennan Auditorium by 09:15
Opening Remarks for the 2010-2011 year:
Deputy Assistant Secretary
of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Kurt M. Campbell - "U.S. Challenges and Policies in
Brief course introduction (Dr. Spendelow - 10:45 - 11:10) |
√ | C-3114 |
| 22 Sep | 02 | The Confucian Legacy: Cultural Values in East Asian Societies (Eugene Swanger) (start-time 10:00) Joint Session: China, Japan, and Korea | √ | C-3114 |
| 29 Sep* | 03 |
The Origins of
"China"
(Spendelow)
General Geography; follow-up on "The Confucian Legacy" |
√ | F-1210 |
| 06 Oct | 04 |
Dynastic Overview China's Intellectual Tradition I: "Legalism" (Spendelow) |
√ | F-1210 |
| 13 Oct | 05 | China's Intellectual Tradition II: Pre-Imperial Confucianism Confucius and Mencius (Spendelow) | √ | K-1108 |
| 20 Oct* | China's Intellectual Tradition III: Two More of the "Three Teachings" 三教 : Daoism and Buddhism, | √ | F-1210 | |
| 27 Oct | 07 |
China's Intellectual Tradition IV: Confucianism's Encounter with Buddhism in the Tang and Song: China's Intellectual Tradition V: 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 |
| 03 Nov* | 08 |
Stability and Reform in Imperial China (Spendelow) Significance of the Ming-Qing Transition (Spendelow) Early Foreign Trade in Qing China and the Collapse of the Canton System |
√ | F-1210 |
| 10 Nov | 09 | Karen Sutter: "China in the Global Economy: Current Issues" | √ | F-1210 |
| 17 Nov* | 10 | The "Unequal Treaty" System: Restructuring the World of the Qing to 1898 (Spendelow) | √ | F-1210 |
| 24 Nov | 11 | James C. Mulvenon (DGI / CIRA): China's Computer Capacity and Cyber-Security | √ | F-1210 |
| 01 Dec* | 12 |
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-1210 |
| 08 Dec | 13 |
Robert G. Sutter: Positive Equilibrium in China-US Relations: Enduring or Not? |
√ | F-1210 |
| 15 Dec* | 14 |
Introduction of Communism: Surviving the 1920s and the "First United Front" (Spendelow)
"Skin or Vital Organs"? - China's Multiple Confrontations in the First Third of the 20th Century (Spendelow) |
√ | F-3420 |
| 22 Dec | 15 | NFATC Holiday | √ | (n/a) |
| 29 Dec | 16 | NFATC Holiday | √ | (n/a) |