CHIN 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: One-China Policy, Communist Party Of China, 2008 Summer Olympics
CHINESE40: Popular Culture in Modern Chinese Societies
Spring 2018
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Professor Michael Berry!
Royce Hall 246B Thu 9:30-11:30pm!
Requirements and Grading
•Attendance and Participation (Lecture and Discussion) = 30%!
•2 Short (2-3pages) Essay = 20%!
•Final Paper = 20% !
•Final Quiz and Pop Quiz = 20%!
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Week 1, Tuesday!
What is Popular Culture?!
•complicated, different meanings!
What is “Chinese”?!
•Places 中國，台灣，中華國，香港!
•People 中國，華，漢，華僑!
•Culture and languages 中華，華語，華，中!
Modern China, Introduction
•Origin of Modern China?!
•1840-1842 Opium War!
•Formation of Republic of China, the Revolution 1911!
•Founding of PRC in 1949!
•1978, after 鄧平 open economic to the world!
•Modern Chinese History!
•1. The Opium Wars 1840-42!
•Western country got Chinese addicted, and Chinese government try to stop
the trade, then UK start the war, and then China was forced to peon trade!
•2. Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 1850-64 太平天國!
•洪秀全 constant fail in examination, Christian (Western encounter)!
•largest peasant rebellion !
•3. The hundred Day Reforms 1898 !
•attempt of Qing to reform itself, shot down by 慈禧 after 100 days!
•4. End of the Official Examination System 1905 !
•High shock to Chinese officials and intellectuals!
•5. The Republican Revolution 1911 辛亥運動!
•6. The May Fourth Movement 五四運動 1919!
•Chinese enlightenment !
•Lu Xun and canonical writer!
•period when all kind of ideas flourish, in this case Communism !
•學為主的學運動，以及包括廣公、市和商等中基層廣泛與
的次威遊、請願、罷課、罷和對抗政府等多形式的動!
•Germany gives Shangdong to Japan!
