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Бакалавриат 2019/2020

Новая история стран Восточной Азии

Лучший по критерию «Полезность курса для Вашей будущей карьеры»
Лучший по критерию «Полезность курса для расширения кругозора и разностороннего развития»
Лучший по критерию «Новизна полученных знаний»
Направление: 41.03.01. Зарубежное регионоведение
Когда читается: 1-й курс, 3, 4 модуль
Формат изучения: без онлайн-курса
Язык: английский
Кредиты: 4
Контактные часы: 84

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course presents a general introduction to the history of East Asia from the 17th century through the present with a focus on the process of modernization in China, Japan, and Korea. Adopting a comparative and international perspective, the course covers not only the domestic events in each of these countries, but also how they shaped and were shaped by the international developments in the region. Emphasis falls on a comprehensive understanding of the efforts of people across East Asia to respond to profound cultural, social and economic challenges of the 19th century and 20th century and to devise viable solutions. The course will prepare students for higher-level courses dealing with modern East Asia.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • Students gain a working knowledge of the history of modem China, Japan, and Korea. This knowledge will serve both as a foundation for further study and as a tool for more effectively understanding today's world.
  • Students learn to think critically and comparatively about historical events in modern East Asia. They are able to understand and identify historical themes, causes, and effects.
  • Students are able to use their knowledge and critical thinking abilities to intelligently consider journalism, published works, and scholarly articles on topics related to modem East Asia.
  • Students acquire a perspective on history and an understanding of the factors that shape human activity.
  • Students display knowledge about the origins and nature of contemporary issues and develop a foundation for future comparative understanding.
  • Students think and speak critically about primary and secondary historical sources by examining diverse interpretations of past events and ideas in their historical contexts.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • The students will be able to use the knowledge of East Asian history to analyze current trends and processes
  • Students will be able to participate in an academic discourse on the nature of historical inquiry; analyze facts, narratives, and lessons and historical and philosophical dimensions of “modernity”
  • Students will be able to analyze historical events and their impact on economic, political and socio-cultural development of Qing China
  • Students will be able to evaluate Joseon Korea's relations with China
  • Students will be able to evaluate the Tokugawa events, from national unification to a new political order
  • Students will be able to analyze the impact of Neo-Confucian orthodoxy, bushi and bourgeois culture on the development of Japan
  • Students will be able to reproduce and discuss the basics of modernity in East Asia
  • Students will be able to analyze causes and consequences of the Opium War; postwar Chinese response to the West; causes and consequences of the Taiping Rebellion. Post-Perry political struggle and collapse of the Tokugawa Shogunate; Korea’s persecution of Catholicism and conflicts with the Western powers; forced opening of Korea.
  • Students be able to discuss the roots of Meiji restoration in Japan, its causes, development, results and impact on neighboring countries of the region
  • Students will be able to analyze the impact of the Unequal treaties on Japan, the development of Japanese expansionism and the first attempts to colonize nearby territories
  • Students will gain the ability to discuss the failed Westernization attempts in China and Korea, the reasons for the failure and subsequent impact on these countries
  • Students will gain the ability to discuss the colonialism in Asia, its forms, the process of penetration and the impact on the countries of the region
  • Students will be able to analyze the causes, the course of hostilities, the results and place of Korea in Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895
  • Students will be able to analyze the causes of Russo-Japanese War, the course of hostilities, the process of negotiations in the Portsmouth with the mediation of the United States and the results of this conflict
  • Students will be able to discuss the history of the Sunset of the Joseon Empire, attempts to modernize the country, their failures, creeping colonization of Japan and annexation in 1910
  • Students will be able to take part in a discourse regarding the rise of imperialism in Japan and its expansion in China
  • Students will be able to analyze the politics of colonialism in Japan in Korea and Taiwan, achievements and crimes committed during colonial rule
  • Students will be able to analyze the history of Japan’s participation in the Second World War, the reasons, the course of hostilities and the results of this conflict
  • Students will be able to analyze on the causes and results of the hegemony of Japan in East Asia in the first half of the 20th century
  • Students will be able to review and discuss the history of China after the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, the development of military cliques, the confrontation between the Communist Party of China and the Kuomintang, the common front against Japan and the resumption of the counterattack after WWII
  • Students will be able to analyze the reasons for the formulation of the San-Francisco Settlement as is, the main provisions and non-participation of the USSR in this agreement
  • Students will be able to discuss the events of the Korean War, the confrontation of the USA and the USSR in the context of this conflict
  • Students will be able to analyze the processes of economy development in Japan, Korea and Taiwan after the Second World War as well as the reasons for their rise
  • Students will be able to operate the basic economic models, compare them and decide which of them are most applicable to East Asia.
  • Students will be able to analyze China's economic development after 1949, ups and downs, and Deng Xiaoping
  • Students will be able to analyze the economic and political development of North Korea, its closeness to the outside world, the reasons for this phenomenon
  • Students will be able to discuss modern territorial issues in East Asia, the reasons for their appearance and possible solutions
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Course Introduction
    Course Introduction. The Sinosphere before the 17th century: a recap
  • History and Modernity
    What is history? What is modernity?
  • The Qing Empire
    Qing China (Ming-Qing transition, domestic and foreign policy, intellectual and material developments)
  • Joseon Korea
    The History of Joseon Korea
  • Early-Modern Japan: The Tokugawa Peace
    The Tokugawa settlement. Foreign relations in the age of sakoku
  • Early-Modern Japan: An Intellectual History
    Intellectual and cultural developments
  • Colloquium: The Advent of Modernity in East Asia
    Manifestations of modernity in Early Modern East Asia
  • External Threat and Internal Turmoil
    Opium War and Taiping Rebellion. Japan from Black Ship to Meiji Restoration; Seclusion of Korea
  • Meiji Japan: Domestic Reforms and the End of the Ancien Regime
    Meiji Reforms. Rapid Westernization
  • Japan’s External Relations in the Meiji Period
    Unequal treaties and Meiji diplomacy. First steps toward territorial expansion
  • Failed Reforms in Qing China and Joseon Korea
    Failed Reforms in Qing China. Failed Reforms in Joseon Korea
  • Colloquium: Colonialism in East Asia
    The vicissitudes of exogenous modernization
  • The Sino-Japanese War of 1894
    Peasant rebellion in Korea and the Sino-Japanese war. Aftermath of the war
  • The Russo-Japanese War and the Rise of Japanese Imperialism
    Origins of the War. Consequences of the War
  • The Last Days of Joseon Korea: From an Empire to a Colony
    Korea in the interbellum: modernization and enlightenment. Japanese policy in Joseon Korea until 1910
  • Debate
    Why did Japan succeed in modernization, while China and Korea failed?
  • Imperial Expansion of Japan
    Manchukuo and the Second Sino-Japanese War
  • Colonial Rule in Korea and Taiwan
    Colonial Korea. Colonial Taiwan
  • The Pacific War
    Japan in the Pacific War
  • Colloquium: Echoes and Legacies of Pax Japonica in East Asia
    The rise and fall of the Japanese Empire
  • From One Revolution to Another in China
    Revolution of 1911, Warlordism, and Nationalist Rule. Communist Movement, Anti-Japanese War, Communist Revolution
  • The San-Francisco Settlement
    The San-Francisco treaty system
  • The Korean War
    Revolutionary Pressure, Counterrevolutionary Measures, and Korean War. Impacts of the Korean War
  • Economic Developments in Capitalist Asia
    Postwar Japan. Postwar Korea and Taiwan
  • Colloquium: The Developmental State in East Asia
    The East Asian economic model
  • Economic Reforms in Communist China
    Economic Reforms and Development in China
  • North Korea: The Impossible State
    The history of North Korea after the Korean War
  • Long Shadows of the Past
    Contested Histories and the Apology Diplomacy. Territorial Disputes
  • Debate
    The consequences of the advent of modernity in East Asia
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Class Participation
  • non-blocking Attendance
  • non-blocking Class Test
  • non-blocking Final Exam
    Modern History of East Asia examination will be delivered online via the following platforms simultaneously: • Socrative: https://socrative.com/, the link to the test to be sent out in due course • Zoom: the link is the same as during the term time: https://zoom.us/j/9023795601?pwd=ZUFkd1pYSkQ4ZDRCVDVXcmhmeE5lQT09) The examination will be a multiple choice test without proctoring. It is a strict requirement that students log in to both Socrative and Zoom simultaneously at the stated start time, use their video throughout the examination and remain online until confirming the completion of the test with the professor and receiving the permission to log out. Please note that there will not be a separate opportunity to test either of the platforms beforehand due to everyone having done so on multiple occasions during the course. Students are required to provide a suitable device with a working camera/webcam and stable internet connection which is able to ensure the successful simultaneous use of Socrative and Zoom. In order to participate in the examination, it is required that a student logs in to both Socrative and Zoom no later than the stated start time (11:00am on 17 June 2020), fills in their first and last name in both platforms and completes the examination before the stated finishing time (13.30pm on 17 June). The examination will thus take 2h30mins. It is permitted to use any materials students might find useful, however oral communication between them during the exam is not allowed. Disqualification and void results. Please note that long-term connection failure results in disqualification of a student from the examination. Short-term connection failure is a failure under 1 minute, and everything above it is considered long-term connection failure. Those who switch off their video during the exam or use their static image/photo of themselves instead of the actual video during the examination will also be disqualified. The results of those who only complete the test in Socrative without logging into Zoom will also be void and they will be required to retake the examination. Those who log out of Zoom before completing the test in Socrative will also have to retake the examination. Retaking the examination. Those who fail the assessment or are required to retake it for other reasons, will do so orally in a form of complex course Q&A with the professor. The topics will not be provided separately and the discussion will progress along the lines of the issues addressed during the course. Please bear in mind that the examination grade is not the same as the final course grade. The formula for the latter has been sent out earlier and can be found in the course description.
  • non-blocking Presentation
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • Interim assessment (4 module)
    0.1 * Attendance + 0.25 * Class Participation + 0.25 * Class Test + 0.35 * Final Exam + 0.05 * Presentation
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

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