Thursday, September 5, 2013

The Search for Modern China and the Concept of the Sinophone


 A visual sourcebook of Chinese civilization
timeline and maps
Prof. Patricia Buckley
Ebrey
University of Washington
The Late Qing

The Search for Modern China: The first clash with the West 

The response of China's scholars

China's political response

Britain's military response

The new treaty system

Lecture review (Google doc group exercise)
 
The Taipings (Hong)
The battle over opium (Lin)
Missionary activities
Self-strengthening movement
Limits of change
The Concept of the Sinophone (extra credit individual presentation)

P710 Sinophone studies—conceived as the study of Sinitic- language cultures on the margins of geopolitical nation- states and their hegemonic productions—locates its objects of attention at the conjuncture of China’s internal colonialism and Sinophone communities everywhere immigrants from China have
settled.

Coming attractions

Passion and Duty in the Late Qing
WU Jianren, The Sea of Regret

1 comment:

  1. May I share an article about the Singing Dong Tribe in http://stenote.blogspot.com/2017/12/the-singing-dong-tribe.html
    Watch the video in youtube https://youtu.be/2GWQc1Aq3WE

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