"A New History for a New China, 1700-2000: New Data and New Methods, Part 1" Hong Kong University. About the Course Our course demonstrates how a new scholarship of discovery is redefining what is singular about modern China and modern Chinese history. The current understanding of human history and social theory is based largely on Western experience or on non-Western experience seen through a Western lens. This course offers alternative perspectives derived from Chinese experience during the last three centuries. We present specific case studies of the new scholarship of discovery divided into three independent parts, which means that students can take any Part without prior or subsequent attendance of the other Parts. Part 1 addresses the issue of “Who Gets What” and covers sequentially inequality and education, education and social mobility, social mobility and wealth distribution, and wealth distribution and regime change. Part 2 turns to the related issue of “Who Survives” and includes studies of inequality and population behavior, population behavior and human development, human development and social organization, and social organization and social stratification. Part 3 deals with issues of identification and motivation and presents studies of religion and gender, ethnicity, and nationalism from late imperial times to the present-day. Our class eschews the standard chronological narrative arc for an analytic approach that focuses on specific discoveries and on how these new facts complicate our understanding of comparative societies, human behavior, and the construction of individual and group identities. That being said, while we do not emphasize the temporal narratives of late imperial, early modern and contemporary China, we of course also discuss change over time as China progresses from a largely domestic imperial history to the shared stories of imperialism and semi colonialism, communism and collectivization, and reform and globalization. Course Syllabus Part 1 will cover the following subjects: Social Structure and Education in Late Imperial China Education and Social Mobility in Contemporary China Social Mobility and Wealth Distribution in China Wealth Distribution and Regime Change Recommended Background No requirements. Everyone is welcome. Course Format For each subject, we present a 45-60 minute lecture, which incorporates recent, often on-going, research on these issues, and suggest 50 to 100 pages of relevant reading followed by peer mentored online discussions of the lecture and assigned reading. https://youtube/watch?v=eIM5xFCfj2M&feature=player_embedded https://coursera.org/course/newchinahistory1
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