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2020/2021

Современная история Восточной Азии

Статус: Дисциплина общефакультетского пула
Когда читается: 3 модуль
Язык: английский
Кредиты: 3
Контактные часы: 40

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

  • 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 analyze the impact of Neo-Confucian orthodoxy, bushi and bourgeois culture on the development of Japan.
  • 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 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 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 will be able to analyze China's economic development after 1949, ups and downs, and Deng Xiaoping
  • 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 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 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 economic and political development of North Korea, its closeness to the outside world, the reasons for this phenomenon
  • 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 the impact of the Unequal treaties on Japan, the development of Japanese expansionism and the first attempts to colonize nearby territories
  • 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 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 discuss modern territorial issues in East Asia, the reasons for their appearance and possible solutions
  • 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 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 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 operate the basic economic models, compare them and decide which of them are most applicable to East Asia.
  • 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 reproduce and discuss the basics of modernity in East Asia
  • 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 take part in a discourse regarding the rise of imperialism in Japan and its expansion in China
  • 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 be able to use the knowledge of East Asian history to analyze current trends and processes
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Course introduction. East Asia and its place in history. Historical thought and historiography in Europe VS Asia
    Course requirements. Approaches to periodisation of East Asian history. Academic discourse on the nature of historical inquiry; facts, narratives, and lessons.
  • Research methods in history. Approaches to modernity
    Methods of historical inquiry. An introduction to historical and philosophical dimensions of ‘modernity’. Readings: 1)Carr, Edward Hallett. What Is History? Camberwell, Vic.: Penguin, 2008. 2)“Modernity” by Matthew J. Lauzon in Bentley, Jerry H. The Oxford Handbook of World History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. 3)Bayly, Christopher Alan. The Birth of the Modern World: 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 2005., Introduction.
  • Сhinese civilisation: periodisation before the 17th century
    A dynastic approach to historical periodisation in China before its transition to modernity. Readings: 1)Fairbank, John K., ed. The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 10. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978., chapters 4, 6. 2)Lin Zexu, “Letter to the English Ruler” (SCT, 5–6).
  • Japanese and Korean civilisations: periodisation before the 17th century.
    Eras of Japanese history, periodisation of pre-modern Korean history. Readings: 1)Totman, Conrad D. Japan before Perry: A Short History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008., chapter 4. 2)Friday, Karl F. Japan Emerging: Premodern History to 1850. New York: Routledge, 2014., chapters 30–35, 38. 3)Hall, John W., ed. The Cambridge History of Japan. Vol. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989., chapter 8. 4)Jansen, Marius B., ed. The Cambridge History of Japan. Vol. 5. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989., chapter 12.
  • China and the West.
    The Opium Wars, Boxer Rebellion and attempts at reforms. Readings: 1)Immanuel C. Y. Hsu. The Rise of Modern China. Oxford University Press, 2000, chapters 15–17. 2)Balazs, Etienne. Chinese Civilization and Bureaucracy. New Haven: Yale Uni. Press, 1964, chapters 1–4 (pp. 3-54). 3)Perkins, Dwight H. "Government as an Obstacle to the Industrialization: The Case of Nineteenth Century China." The Journal of Economic History 27, no. 4 (December 1967): 478–492. 4)Levy, Marion J., Jr. "Contrasting Factors in the Modernization of China and Japan." Economic Development and Cultural Change 2 (1953–54). 5)Reischauer, Edwin O. "Modernization in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan." Japan Quarterly 10, no. 3 (July-September 1963): 298–307.
  • Modernisation in Japan – restoration or revolution?
    A transition to modernity in Japan. Meiji reforms and rapid Westernisation of Japan. Readings: 1)Stewart Lone, Japan's First Modern War: Army and Society in the Conflict with China, 1894-95. London: Macmillan, 1994., chapters 1, 6, 8. 2)Nagai, Yonosuke. "'In Spite of' or 'Because of'? Japan's Success and Japanese Culture." Speaking of Japan (December 1983): 7–11. 3)Levine, Solomon B., and Hirashi Kawada. Human Resources in Japanese Industrial Development. Princeton: Princeton Uni. Press, 1980, Ch. 2 (pp. 22–59).
  • Korea VS its neighbours in late-19th century
    Korea’s persecution of Catholicism and conflicts with the Western powers; forced opening of Korea. Readings: 1) Ki-baik Lee. A New History of Korea. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1984, chapter 13-14
  • The expansion of Japan: wars with China and Russia
    The First Sino-Japanese war and the Russo-Japanese war: origins, course and aftermath of the war. International image of Japan at the turn of the century. Russian, Japanese and international receptions of the war in politics and culture. Readings: 1)Antony Best. “The Anglo-Japanese alliance and international politics in Asia, 1902–23.” In The International History of East Asia, 1900–1968. Edited by Antony Best. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2010.
  • The Japanese occupation of Korea
    Korean society at the turn of the century, Korean-Japanese relations, and the occupation. Readings: 1)Sato, Seizaburo. "Response to the West: The Korean and Japanese Patterns." In Albert M. Craig, ed. Japan: A Comparative View. Princeton: Princeton Uni. Press, 1979, pp. 105–130. 2)Moulder, Frances V. Japan, China and the Modern World Economy: Toward a Reinterpretation of East Asian Development, ca. 1600 to 1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977). Skim the entire book. 3)Ki-baik Lee. A New History of Korea. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1984, chapter 15. 4)Ho, Samuel Pao-San. "Colonialism and Development: Korea, Taiwan, and Kwantung." In Ramon M. Myers and Mark Peattie, eds. The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945. Princeton: Princeton Uni. Press, 347–419. 5)Kohli, Atul. “Where do high growth political economies come from? The Japanese lineage of Korea's ‘developmental state’.” World Development, Vol. 22, No. 9 (1994): 1269–1293.
  • Early 20th : the Xinhai Revolution and the fall of the empire
    The 1911 Chinese Revolution and the fall of China's last imperial dynasty. Warlordism and nationalist rule, establishment of the Republic of China. Readings: 1)Lasek, Elizabeth. "Imperialism in China: A Methodological Critique." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 15, no. 1 (January-February 1983): 50–64.
  • East Asia in World War I
    The place of East Asia in the war and the reverberations of the conflict in the region. Readings: 1)Mikiso Hane and Louis G. Perez. Modern Japan: A Historical Survey. 5th Edition. Boulder, Colorado: The Westview Press, 2013. 2)Duus, Peter, ed. The Cambridge History of Japan. Vol. 6. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, chapter 5. 3)Haggard, Stephan, David Kang, and Chung-In Moon, “Japanese colonialism and Korean development: A critique.” World Development, Vol. 25, No. 6 (1997): 867–881. 4)Kohli, Atul. “Japanese colonialism and Korean development: A reply.” World Development, Vol. 25, No. 6 (1997): 883–888. 5)Cha, Myung Soo. “Facts and Myths About Korea’s Economic Past.” Australian Economic History Review, Vol. 44, No. 3 (November 2004): 278–293.
  • Midterm Exam
    Assessment: essay.
  • East Asia in the interbellum
    1920-1930s in China, Japan, Korea
  • Chinese revolutionary struggle 1921-1949, Chinese Communist revolution and leadership of Mao
    Explanation of Chinese political instability 1921-1949 ended up by Communist Revolution. The first political leader Mao Zedong and his policies: the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution. Readings: 1)Fairbank, John K., and Kwang-Ching Liu, eds. The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 11. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980, chapter 9. 2)MacFarquhar, Roderick, and John K. Fairbank, eds. The Cambridge History of China. Vol. 14. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, chapter 1.
  • The Pacific War: historical background, causes and stages.
    Manchukuo and the Second Sino-Japanese War. Tensions between Japan and the West. Japanese offensives. Campaigns and theatres of the war. Final stages and the surrender of Imperial Japan. The aftermath of the war and its legacies.
  • Japan during the Allied Occupation.
    Reforms and development of Japan under the administration of the SCAP: a unique experience.
  • The Cold War in Asia
    The interaction between the six powers - the US, USSR, China, Japan, North and South Korea - within the framework of the second front of the Cold War.
  • South and North Korea after the Korean War
    History of two Koreas after split during the Korean War. South Korea – from dictatorship to democracy. North Korea – a deviant case. Readings: 1)Ki-baik Lee. A New History of Korea. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1984, chapter 16. 2)Cha, Victor. The Impossible State: North Korea, past and Future. New York: Ecco, 2012.
  • China from the second to the fifth generation of political leaders
    China’s external relations in 1950-1970s. The Sino-Soviet split and its consequences. From Deng Xiaoping to Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping. Readings: 1)Zhao, Suisheng. “Foreign Policy Implications of Chinese Nationalism Revisited: the Strident Turn.” Journal of Contemporary China (2013), 22:82, 535–553. 2)Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China, “Diaoyu Dao, an Inherent Territory of China,” September 26, 2012, http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/topics_665678/diaodao_665718/t973774.shtml 3)Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan, “The Republic of China’s Sovereignty Claims over the Diaoyutai Islands and the East China Sea Peace Initiative” http://www.mofa.gov.tw/Upload/WebArchive/1384/a5646805-7335-43ea-b4b6-71d7058aa055.PDF
  • Japan after the 1970
    Japanese economic development since the 1970s and its receptions in Asia. Socio-economic issues and Japan as a world power. Readings: 1)Dudden, Alexis. Troubled Apologies among Japan, Korea, and the United States. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. 2)Lind, Jennifer M. Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010. 3)“Nationalism, Historical Legacies and Territorial Disputes as Obstacles to Cooperation in Northeast Asia” in Flake, E. Gordon. Toward an Ideal Security State for Northeast Asia 2025. The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, 2010.
  • Regional challenges in East Asia
    China’s economic expansion and the challenges it created. Legacies of Japanese colonialism: contested Histories and the apology diplomacy. Territorial disputes in East Asia. The Korean Nuclear crises as an international issue. Readings: 1)Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan, “The Basic View on the Sovereignty of the Senkaku Islands,” May 2013, http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/senkaku/basic_view.html. 2)Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan, “Japan’s Consistent Position on the Territorial Sovereignty over Takeshima,” April 11, 2014, http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/asia-paci/takeshima/index.html. 3)Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea, “Dokdo, Korean Territory,” http://dokdo.mofat.go.kr/upload/eng1.pdf. 4)Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan, “Overview of the Issue of the Northern Territories,” http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/europe/russia/territory/overview.html.
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Attendance
  • non-blocking Class Participation
  • non-blocking Essay
  • non-blocking Final Exam
  • non-blocking Presentation
    Depth of understanding of the subject, ability to put it in a wider international/historical context and assess its significance for the field of study.
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • Interim assessment (3 module)
    0.250 Essay 0.250 Class Participation & presentations 0.250 Final Exam 0.250 Attendance
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Binoche-Guedra Jacques. (1994). The Cambridge History of Japan, vol. 5 : The Nineteenth Century, edited by Marius B. Jansen. Revue Française d’histoire d’outre-Mer, 81(305), 535–537.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Huang, H.-Y. (2017). Rethinking Taiwanese nationality and subjectivity: implications from language issues in colonial Taiwan in the 1920s. Paedagogica Historica, 53(4), 428–440. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2017.1290662