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LEE WOO SING COLLEGE
THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
GEWS 2031 China and The World
Second Term of 2016-2017
Venue (lecture):
Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room, WS1_LG104
Time:
Tuesday 2:30 pm – 5:15 pm
Medium of Instruction:
English (lecture)
1. Course Description:
This introductory course aims to develop an understanding and appreciation of global cultural
interactions. Students will gain understanding about how people, flora and fauna, commodities,
techniques and ideas travelled in different avenues of contact and how these contacts advance
development in world civilization.
Students will be able to acquire knowledge about how Chinese discoveries and inventions promote world
progress and how foreign ideas and commodities, in turn, shape Chinese civilization.
Multidisciplinary teaching approaches (such as traditional lecture, small group discussion, journal
writing and PowerPoint presentation) will encourage the development of critical thinking and foster
effective partnership with other students in class.
2. Course Instructor: Kamling Wong
([email protected])
3. Course Content:
Week Date
Topic
Venue
1
Course Introduction.
Agnes H.Y. Lau Seminar Room,
WS1_LG103
10/1
Geography of China
2
17/1
Cultural History of China
Agnes H.Y. Lau Seminar Room,
WS1_LG103
3
24/1
Han dynasty:
Agnes H.Y. Lau Seminar Room,
WS1_LG103
Silk: Trade between China and the Roman
Empire
Ferghana horses: Silk Road
1
4
31/1
Holiday
5
07/2
Tang dynasty:
Spread of Buddhism. India-China-Korea-Japan.
Chang’an: Cosmopolitanism
6
14/2
Song dynasty: Chineseness amid Nomadic
Encroachment.
Agnes H.Y. Lau Seminar Room,
WS1_LG103
Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
WS1_LG104
Printing, compass and gunpowder.
7
21/2
Yuan dynasty:
Mongols- Greatest empire on earth. Spread of
guns and explosives to Europe.
Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
WS1_LG104
Marco Polo.
8
28/2
Ming dynasty: Porcelain Sea Route. Blue and
White porcelain.
Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
WS1_LG104
Zheng He and Age of Chinese maritime
adventure
9
07/3
Qing dynasty: Manchu rule. Foreign missionaries Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
and the introduction of western scientific
WS1_LG104
thinking.
East-West Confrontation: Tea and Opium Trade
10
14/3
Republic of China: Dr. Sun Yat-Sun. World War Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
I and II.
WS1_LG104
People’s republic of China 1: Inward-looking
(1949-1976).
11
21/3
People’s republic of China 2: 1980~present:
China opens up: Deng Xiao Ping.
12
28/3
Contemporary China, the next world
Superpower?
13
04/4
Holiday
Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
WS1_LG104
Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
WS1_LG104
2
14
11/4
Student presentations
Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
WS1_LG104
15
18/4
Students presentations
Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
WS1_LG104
Final Examination
4. Assessment Method:
Item
Percentage
1.
Journal writing, class discussion of
readings
30%
2.
Powerpoint presentation
30%
3.
Final Examination
40%
5. Required Readings:
1. Paul S. Ropp, China in World History. Oxford University Press, 2010.
ISBN 978-0-19-53195-5
2. Robert Temple, The Genius of China 3000 Years of Science Discovery and Invention. Inner
Tradition, 2007.
ISBN: 97-1594772177
3. S.A.M. Adshead, China in World History. Palgrave Macmillan.1988.
ISBN 978-1-349-19264-3. ISBN 978-1-349-19264-9 (eBook)
6. Policy on Academic Honesty
Attention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work, and to the
disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and regulations. Details may
be found at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/. With each assignment, students will be
required to submit a signed declaration that they are aware of these policies, regulations, guidelines and
procedures. In the case of group projects, all students of the same group should be asked to sign the
declaration, each of whom is responsible should there be any plagiarized contents in the group project,
irrespective of whether he/she has signed the declaration. For assignments in the form of a computergenerated document that is principally text-based and submitted via VeriGuide, the statement, in the
form of a receipt, will be issued by the system upon students' uploading of the soft copy of the assignment.
Assignments without the properly signed declaration will not be graded by teachers. Only the final
version of the assignment should be submitted via VeriGuide.
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