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School of Culture History and Language · ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
This 3000-level seminar subject analyses the modern history of the People's Republic of China in the wider context of world and global history from its foundation in 1949 to its entry into the World Trade Organization at the end of the twentieth century to the rise of the China Dream and Belt and Road Initiative of recent years. The subject format is chronological, although themes and dates more or less overlap. Its aims are to encourage students to identify and explore the multiple and intricate connections that the Chinese state has forged historically and with the wider world throughout its recent history, and to help students build on their craft skills of critical reading, thinking, and writing about the past. The subject also aims to situate modern Chinese history in global and regional perspectives.
Critical analytical reading response #1 (750 words)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 4, 5
Critical analytical reading response #2 (750 words)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 4, 5
One seminar presentation with handouts/powerpoint slides submitted
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 4, 5, 6
Research proposal
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Annotated Bibliography
Learning outcomes 1, 3, 4, 5, 6
3,000-word research essay
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
A three-hour weekly seminar, with an additional eight hours of reading and research per week. This course requires 130 hours of study, including time for self-study.
Lists of prescribed and recommended primary and secondary readings, specific to the overarching theme of each year's version of the course, will be supplied by the course convenor. These will vary from year to year to fit the focus of the current Yearbook and, as a corollary, of the present thematic framework of the course.