Infusing Modern China into the
Undergraduate Curriculum
Infusing Korean Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum
Institute Daily Readings
Presenting faculty will assign readings for their sessions, and the full citation information will be accessible below. Each presenter will prepare a bibliography that includes assigned readings and optional additional readings. These bibliographies along with other materials will be available in the Presenter Session Materials under Resources in the coming weeks.
Infusing Modern China into the Undergraduate Curriculum:
A Faculty and Program Development Summer Institute
July 19, 2021-July 30, 2021
Week 1
July 19-23, 2021
Monday, July 19, 2021
George Tsai: Confucianism, Humanism, and Daoism Naturalism
Required:
Ivanhoe, Philip J., and Bryan W. Van Norden, editors. (2005). Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy. 2nd ed., Hackett Publishing.
- Chapter One Kongzi (Confucius) “The Analects” pp.1-54
- Chapter Three Mengzi (Mencius) pp.111-156
- Chapter Four Laozi (“The Daodejing”) pp.157-202
- Chapter Five Zhuangzi pp.203-246
Optional:
Wong, David. (2020). "Chinese Ethics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2020/entries/ethics-chinese/.
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
Peter Hershock: Chinese Buddhism and the Ideal of Responsive Virtuosity
Required:
Hershock, Peter D. (2005).Chan Buddhism. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. Pp.46-65
Optional:
Hershock, Peter. (2019). "Chan Buddhism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2019 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2019/entries/buddhism-chan/>.
Mitchell, Donald W., and Sarah Jacoby. (2013). Buddhism: Introducing the Buddhist experience. New York: Oxford University Press.
Required:
Andrews, Bridie. (2014). The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960. Toronto: UBC Press. vi-24, pp.89-111
Rogaski, Ruth. (2021). The Manchurian Plague and COVID-19: China, the United States, and the "Sick Man," Then and Now. American journal of public health, 111(3), pp.423–429. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305960
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Kate Lingley: Chinese Art in a Century of Change
Required:
Lizhong, Zhang. (2000). "Cai Yuanpei (1868-1940)." Prospects: the quarterly review of comparative education 1/2: pp.157-167.
Wm. Theodore de Bary and Richard Lufrano, eds. (2000). Sources of Chinese Tradition, 2nd. ed. v. II. Columbia University Press, pp. 356-363.
Lu Xun. (1922). Preface to Call to Arms Selected Stories of Lu Hsun, Published by Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1960, 1972
Mao Tse-Tung. (1939). The May 4th Movement. Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_13.htm
Required:
Wang Ning. (2012). Chinese Literary and Cultural Trends in a Postrevolutionary Era. Comparative Literature Studies, 49(4), pp. 505-520. doi:10.5325/complitstudies.49.4.0505
Jing Guo: Family and Gender in Contemporary China
Required:
Ji, Yingchun (2015). Between tradition and modernity: “Leftover” women in Shanghai. Journal of Marriage and Family, 77(5), 1057-1073.
Ji, Yingchun, Xiaogang Wu, Shengwei Sun, & Guangye Hu (2017). Unequal care, unequal work: Toward a more comprehensive understanding of gender inequality in post-reform urban China. Sex Roles, 77(11), 765-778.
Chris McNally: Sino-US Relations at the Twilight of the Liberal Order
Required:
McNally, Christopher A. (2018) (“Tracing the Emergence of Sino-Capitalism: Social Change and Development in Contemporary China,” in Ronaldo Munck and Honor Fagan, eds. The Handbook on International Development and Social Change, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Press.
McNally, Christopher A. (2019) Theorizing Sino-capitalism: implications for the study of comparative capitalisms, Contemporary Politics, 25:3, 313-333, DOI: 10.1080/13569775.2018.1553125
McNally, Christopher A. (2019): Chaotic mélange: neo-liberalism and neo-statism in the age of Sino-capitalism, Review of International Political Economy, DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2019.1683595
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
John Osburg: Spiritual
Crisis and Religious Revival in Urban China
Required:
Johnson, Ian. (2017). The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao. (New York: Pantheon Books). pp.16-32
Yan, Yunxiang. (2009). “The Good Samaritan's new trouble: A study of the changing moral landscape in contemporary China.” Social Anthropology 17: pp.9-24.
Recommended:
Yan, Yunxiang, Arthur Kleinman, Jing Jun, Sing Lee, Everett Zhang, Pan Tianshu, Wu Fei, and Guo Jinhua. (2011)."The Changing Moral Landscape." In Deep China: The Moral Life of the Person, pp. 36-77. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press.
Palmer, David A. (2003). Modernity and Millenialism in China: Qigong and the Birth of Falun Gong, Asian Anthropology, 2:1, 79-109, DOI: 10.1080/1683478X.2003.10552531
Osburg, John. (2013). Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality Among China's New Rich. Stanford University Press, 1-142, 183-192.
