16.7 2nd and 3rd years Dr A Finnane. Normally, 25 points of first year History. Second semester 3 hours of lectures and tutorials and/or workshops. The objectives of this subject are to provide students with a firm foundation in the recent history and historiography of China and to help students develop a critical perspective both on historical processes in China and on the terms within which these processes are analysed. On completion of the subject, students should be able to: identify and theorise the major features of political, economic and cultural organisation in Chinese society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; demonstrate familiarity with the key concepts used in popular and scholarly analyses of Chinese society (Confucianism, family, state, communism, imperialism, nationalism, modernisation); demonstrate skills in the location and use of a range of historical documents and other resources for Chinese history; write a competent essay on a given issue in recent Chinese history. The nature of and changes to Chinese society during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics covered will include: Confucianism, Communism and their alternatives; European colonialism and its effects; gender and class relations; city and countryside; rickshaws, revolutions and racism. Insight into the Chinese experience will be sought through literature and film. Tutorial work (25%), research essay (45%), review essay or examination (30%), totalling not more than 5,000 words. Spence J The Search for Modern China London, 1990 16.7 Dr A Finnane. Second semester. 3 hours of lectures and tutorials and/or workshops each week. The objectives of this subject are to provide students with a firm foundation in the recent history and historiography of China and to help students develop a critical perspective both on historical processes in China and on the terms within which these processes are analysed. On completion of the subject, students should be able to: identify and theorise the major features of political, economic and cultural organisation in Chinese society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; demonstrate familiarity with the key concepts used in popular and scholarly analyses of Chinese society (Confucianism, family, state, communism, imperialism, nationalism, modernisation); demonstrate skills in the location and use of a range of historical documents and other resources for Chinese history; write a competent essay on a given issue in recent Chinese history. The nature of and changes to Chinese society during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Topics covered will include: Confucianism, Communism and their alternatives; European colonialism and its effects; gender and class relations; city and countryside; rickshaws, revolutions and racism. Insight into the Chinese experience will be sought through literature and film. Tutorial work (25 per cent); research essay (45 per cent); review essay or examination (30 per cent); totalling not more than 5,000 words. Spence J The Search for Modern China London, 1990