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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. 3