LEE WOO SING COLLEGE
THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
GEWS 2030 China and The World
Second Term of 2015-2016
Venue (lecture):
Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room, WS1_LG104 (Except on 2/2/16:
Mini-theatre)
Time:
Tuesday 2:30 pm – 4:15 pm
Medium of Instruction:
English (lecture)
1. Course Description:
This introductory course for first year students aims to develop an understanding and
appreciation of global cultural interactions. Students will gain understanding about how
people, flora and fauna, commodities, techniques and ideas travelled in different avenues
of contact and how these contacts advance development in world civilization.
Students will be able to acquire knowledge about how Chinese discoveries and inventions
promote world progress and how foreign ideas and commodities, in turn, shape Chinese
civilization.
Multidisciplinary teaching approaches (such as lecture, small group discussion, journal
writing and PowerPoint presentation) will encourage the development of critical thinking
and foster effective partnership with other students in class.
2. Course Instructor: Kamling Wong
([email protected])
3. Course Content:
Week Date Topic
Course Introduction.
1
12/1
Geography and Language of China
2
19/1
3
26/1
Venue
Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
WS1_LG104
History and cultural attributes of China
Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
WS1_LG104
Silk Road: Trade between Han China and
Rome. Invention of paper. Chinese
acquisition of Ferghana horses.
Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
WS1_LG104
1
Silk Road: Spread of Buddhism: IndiaChina-Korea-Japan.
4
Woo Sing College: Mini
Theatre
2/2
Spread of Buddhist art
Tang empire: Age of Cosmopolitanism
5
16/2
Chang’an: World’s premier international
city.
Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
WS1_LG104
Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
WS1_LG104
6
23/2
Song dynasty: Chineseness amid Nomadic
Encroachment. Ground-breaking
inventions: printing, compass and
gunpowder.
7
1/3
Mongols: Greatest empire on earth: Marco Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
Polo. Spread of guns and explosives to
WS1_LG104
Europe.
Ming dynasty: Porcelain Sea Route.
8
9
8/3
15/3
Age of Maritime Exploration: Zheng He and
his fleet of Treasure Boats
Qing dynasty: Manchu rule based on
Chinese cultural tradition.
Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
WS1_LG104
Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
WS1_LG104
Tea and Opium Trade
Republic of China: Dr. Sun Yat-Sun.
10
22/3
The West in China
11
29/3
People’s republic of China 1: Inwardlooking period, 1949-1976.
Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
WS1_LG104
Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
WS1_LG104
Korean War and Cultural Revolution
12
5/4
People’s republic of China 2: 1980~present: Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
WS1_LG104
China opens up: Deng Xiao Ping. Great
economic success.
The next world Superpower?
13
12/4
14
19/4
Student Presentation
Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
WS1_LG104
Student Presentation
Anthony T.Y. Wu Seminar Room,
WS1_LG104
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4. Assessment Method:
Item
Percentage
1.
Quizzes /participation
20%
2.
Powerpoint presentation
40%
3.
Final Examination
40%
5. Required Readings:
1. Paul S. Ropp, China in World History. Oxford University Press, 2010.
ISBN 978-0-19-53195-5
2. Robert Temple, The Genius of China 3000 Years of Science Discovery and Invention.
Inner Tradition, 2007.
ISBN: 97-1594772177
6. Policy on Academic Honesty
Attention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work,
and to the disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy
and
regulations.
Details
may
be
found
at
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/. With each assignment, students will
be required to submit a signed declaration that they are aware of these policies,
regulations, guidelines and procedures. In the case of group projects, all students of the
same group should be asked to sign the declaration, each of whom is responsible should
there be any plagiarized contents in the group project, irrespective of whether he/she
has signed the declaration. For assignments in the form of a computer-generated
document that is principally text-based and submitted via VeriGuide, the statement, in
the form of a receipt, will be issued by the system upon students' uploading of the soft
copy of the assignment. Assignments without the properly signed declaration will not be
graded by teachers. Only the final version of the assignment should be submitted via
VeriGuide.
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