This course provides an introductory overview of key thinkers, debates, and issues in modern Chinese intellectual history starting from the late 1880s up to around ca. 1950. The course will provide a (chronological) survey of modern Chinese intellectual history.
We will focus on the issues of continuity and change in the way Chinese intellectuals and politicians perceived China and the world, formulated their ideas on history and the ideal society, and linked their ideas to practice against the background of the historical and institutional environment in which these ideas arose and which they tried to influence and shape.
Rooster
First semester; two hours per week. See timetable for time and location.
Onderwijsvorm
Seminar
Leerdoelen
The goal is to introduce basic knowledge about key issues in modern Chinese intellectual history on the basis of selected examples up to the 1950s.
This course aims at training the critical reading of academic texts, participation in class in the discussion of these texts, and the writing of an end-term paper.
Literatuur
*Wolfgang Bauer, China and the search for happiness: recurring themes in four thousand years of Chinese cultural history. New York: Seabury Press, Part V (1976).
Toetsing
*Participation (40%) *Paper (60%)
Informatie
Prof. dr. A. Schneider, e-mail: a.schneider@mearc.eu, phone: 071-527 2216.
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Blackboard/webpagina
Yes.
Enrollment
For enrollment, visit the website Blackboard (http://www.blackboard.leidenuniv.nl/). Then click on: courses > Faculteit der Letteren > China, Talen en Culturen van > 2008-2009 > Registreer/enroll.