Admission requirements
Successful completion of BA1 Modern Chinese History.
Description
This course surveys transformations in Chinese society in its transition from agrarianism to communist industrialism, with special focus on experiences of urban workers and their families at work and home, and in public. Specific topics examined include migration for work, the labor movement in the 1920s, changes in standards of living, gender relations, and the politicization of work under Nationalist and Communist regimes. Primary source documents, ranging from official reports to individual memoirs, augment readings in secondary historical literature.
Course objectives
Identify key events, concepts and personalities in the social history of Modern China;
Effectively read various genres of historical documents and scholarly literature;
Analyze how historians construct arguments with primary source documents;
Compose in discussion and writing cogent and substantiated arguments .
Timetable
The timetable is available on the Chinastudies website
Mode of instruction
Seminar
Course Load
Total course load: 140 hours
Weekly seminars: 12 × 2 hours (24 hours total )
Class preparation (complete assignments and readings): 12 × 6 hours (72 hours total)
Final paper: 44 hours
Assessment method
Class assignments and participation: 50%
Final paper: 50%
The final grade consists of the weighted average of all course components. A resit for the essay component is allowed if a student scores a non-passing grade (5,49 or lower) on the first attempt.
Blackboard
Blackboard is used for posting complete reading list, class communications, and essay submission.
Reading list
The booktitles and / or syllabi to be used in the course, where it can be purchased and how this literature should be studied beforehand.
Registration
Enrolment through uSis is mandatory.
General information about uSis is available on the website