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Week 9 (Mar. 3/4/6) China and the Cold War

REQUIRED READINGS: Fairbank and Goldman, China, pp. 343-64; Ebrey, Chinese

Civilization, sections 86-88.

(Due to class cancellation in week 2, this weekly schedule of lectures is slightly different

from that in the syllabus)

The Founding of the Communist State (Mar. 3)

- Complete the lecture on “The Pacific War, Civil War & CCP’s Victory”

*For details, see Week 8 Lecture outline for Feb. 28.

Yin-Yang Evolution of Modern China & Foreign Powers

1A. Relative unity: Late Qing-Early Republic 1839-1916

1B Disunity by warlords’ civil wars/Entry in WWI 1916-27

2A Relative unity under GMD regime [with German back] 1927-37

2B Disunity by Japanese war & GMD-CCP civil wars 1937-49

3. Relative unity under PRC vs. Taiwan (+US) 1949-

-People's Republic of China (PRC)

*Mao: People's democratic dictatorship [vs. USSR’s proletarian dictatorship]

* “New democracy”: Mass line+ United front

*Dictatorship ____-state /_____-army)

1. United front

- “Democratic parties”: Song Qingling 宋庆龄 (GMD): ________ of PRC

-Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference 中国人民政治协商会议

*Common Program 共同纲领 *Elected __________ of PRC

-National People’s Congress 中国人民全国代表大会 *Constitution

2. Mass politics

-Land Reform Movement

*Confiscated _______ of China’s land from _________ and ____________

*Distributed land to ___________ and ____________

*Untouched: _________ peasant class

3. CCP party-state

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-_________________ CCP party committees

People’s governments

at the ___________________________________ levels

*_______ municipalities (+___________)

*_______ provinces (+ __________ )

*_______ minority regions (+___________)

*_____ prefectures/_________ counties/__________townships

4. CCP’s Party-army

-CCP's _________________>Defense ministry

-_______Military regions: Regional commander

Political___________

*Dual leadership to the ___________________ level

5. Mao’s dictatorship

-Chairman of CCP’s ____________________

of PRC’s ____________________ [ Liu Shaoqi (Liu Shao-ch’i) 刘少奇] of CCP's _____________________

-Mao’s Chinese communism: For classless society + Public ownership via class struggle

*Mao’s China: Classless society?

*___________ classes vs. ___________classes

-Mao’s China: Public ownership?

Question: what was Mao’s greatest fear?

-Mao’s choices of successors:

- Liu Shaoqi (Liu Shao-ch’i, 1898-69) 刘少奇: PRC chairman 1959-69

* Lin Biao 林彪 (1907-1971): CCP’s vice chairman 1969-71

*Hua Guofeng （华国锋）（1921-2008）: CCP chairman 1976-81

Yin/Yang dialectic of CCP & GMD

: Why CCP succeed in revolution but failed in modernization (-1978)?

*Why GMD lost Mainland China but modernized Taiwan?

Presentations of group discussions on Jan. 29 & Feb. 26 (Mar. 4)

Question 1: Group 1 (leader) presents (7 minutes); Group 3 criticizes (3 minutes)

Question 2: Group 2 (leader) presents (7 minutes); Group 4 criticizes (3 minutes)

Question 3: Group 3 (leader) presents (7 minutes); Group 1 criticizes (3 minutes)

Question 4: Group 4 (leader) presents (7 minutes); Group 2 criticizes (3 minutes)

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Students’ Evaluation of Presentations

Name: ______________________ Student ID______________ Group No._________

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4

Gesture

(Formal & Natural) _____% _____% _____% _____%

Body language

(Use of hands, eye-contact, etc.) _____% _____% _____% _____%

Speech

(Clear/Right speed/Interesting) _____% _____% _____% _____%

Contents:

(Correct/Coherent/Sufficient/ _____% _____% _____% _____%

Right answers to questions)

Average rank of presentation _____% _____% _____% _____%

________________________________________________________________________

Short comments: _____ _______ _______ _______

This evaluation form will be distributed in the class. Students can evaluate all group leaders’

presentations, but a leader cannot evaluate her or his own presentation.

The evaluation results will be subject to review by the instructor. Obviously unfair evaluations

will not be taken into account in the calculation of marks for each presentation.

Film: Salisbury’s Report on China: Part 2 (Mar. 6)

The documentary film is about the early history of the People’s Republic of China (1949- ) until

the beginning of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76).

-Pre-film lecture: Explanation for the 2nd-round discussions and presentations.

*Starting from this class, students will sign into four different groups for the 2nd round of

discussions and presentations.

* For the 2nd round of discussions and presentations, each student will receive a maximum of 2.5

marks, plus 2 bonus marks, if she or he also submits one page of reading note (typed double-

spaced) DURING group discussion on March 11th, and another reading note DURING group

discussion on March 18th. The reading note can use point-format to answer the question for a

specific group on the specific date (see course outline, pp. 5-6). On the second half page of your

reading note, quote evidence (several sentences) for your points from Fairbank and Goldman’s

textbook (with page numbers), and from at least TWO SOURCES in Ebrey’s Chinese

Civilization (with page numbers of the book, no need for footnotes). Under each quotation, use

1-2 short sentences to explain its meanings and relations with your points.

Please notice that the reading notes will be collected by the instructor and a teaching

assistant ONLY DURING the two classes for group discussions. Late or online submission is not

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accepted. For any student who misses the 2nd-round discussion, she or he could lose a maximum

of 4.5 marks (4.5 % of final grade).

Reading notes will be returned to students together with marked term papers during the

final exam time or at an earlier time.