070014 GR Globale/außereuropäische Geschichte (2008W)
China in der Welt (1793-1860)
Continuous assessment of course work
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- Registration is open from Fr 19.09.2008 09:00 to Mo 29.09.2008 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Fr 31.10.2008 23:59
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max. 20 participants
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Monday
06.10.
17:00 - 18:30
(ehem. Hörsaal 45 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8)
Monday
13.10.
17:00 - 18:30
(ehem. Hörsaal 45 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8)
Monday
20.10.
17:00 - 18:30
(ehem. Hörsaal 45 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8)
Monday
27.10.
17:00 - 18:30
(ehem. Hörsaal 45 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8)
Monday
03.11.
17:00 - 18:30
(ehem. Hörsaal 45 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8)
Monday
10.11.
17:00 - 18:30
(ehem. Hörsaal 45 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8)
Monday
17.11.
17:00 - 18:30
(ehem. Hörsaal 45 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8)
Monday
24.11.
17:00 - 18:30
(ehem. Hörsaal 45 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8)
Monday
01.12.
17:00 - 18:30
(ehem. Hörsaal 45 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8)
Monday
15.12.
17:00 - 18:30
(ehem. Hörsaal 45 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8)
Monday
12.01.
17:00 - 18:30
(ehem. Hörsaal 45 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8)
Monday
19.01.
17:00 - 18:30
(ehem. Hörsaal 45 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8)
Monday
26.01.
17:00 - 18:30
(ehem. Hörsaal 45 Hauptgebäude, 2.Stock, Stiege 8)
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
active participation, exercises will help to work on the texts selected for reading; at the end of the term written exam (2 hours) on the contents of the course
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Interactive work on selected texts. These texts show the changes in the role of China within the system of international relations in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Examination topics
Elements of guided reading, discussions
Reading list
Sabine DABRINGHAUS (Hg.), Johann Christian Hüttner. Nachricht von der Britischen Gesandtschaftsreise durch China und einen Teil der Tartarei (Fremde Kulturen in alten Berichten 1; Sigmaringen 1996) S. 40-72 (¿Die Macartney-Mission. Vorgeschichte und Verlauf¿).
Joseph W. ESHERICK, Cherishing Sources from Afar. In: Modern China 24,2 (Apr. 1998) 135-161.
Fa-ti FAN, Science in a Chinese Entrepôt: British Naturalists and Their Chinese Associates in Old Canton. In: Osiris, 2nd series, vol. 18 (2003) 60-78.
FANG Weigui, Selbstreflexion in der Zeit des Erwachens und des Widerstands. Moderne chinesische Literatur 1919-1949 (Lun Wen. Studien zur Geistesgeschichte und Literatur in China 7; Wiesbaden 2006).
Harry G. GELBER, The Dragon and the Foreign Devils. China and the World, 1100 BC to the Present (London 2007) 145-173 (¿Europeans, Missions and Trade, AD 1719-1816¿) sowie ebd., 175-203 (¿The Mandate of Heaven Dissolves. AD 1816-1860¿).
Patrick HANAN, The Missionary Novels of Nineteenth-Century China. In: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. 60,2 (Dec. 2000) 413-443.
James HAYES, ¿That Singular and Hitherto Almost Unknown Country.¿ Opinions on China, the Chinese and the ¿Opium War¿ among British Naval and Military Officers who served during hostilities there. In: Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 39 (1999) 211-233
James HAYES, Canton Symposium: The World of the Old China Trade: The Locales and the People. In: Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 43 (2003) 29-62
Laura HOSTETLER, Qing Connections to the Early Modern World: Ethnography and Cartography in Eighteenth-Century China. In: Modern Asian Studies 34,3 (Jul. 2000) 623-662.
Mio KISHIMOTO, The Ch¿ing Dynasty and the East Asian World. In: Acta Asiatica, No. 88 (January 2005) 87-109.
Martin KRIEGER, Geschichte Asiens. Eine Einführung (Köln 2003) 201-209 (Abschnitt: ¿Restauration der indigenen gesamtstaatlichen Macht¿ (S. 201-208) sowie ¿Die Integration in das westliche Weltsystem¿ (vor allem S. 208 f.)
Michael LAZICH, American Missionaries and the Opium Trade in Nineteenth-Century China. In: Journal of World History 17,2 (2006) 197-223.
Lydia H. LIU, The Desire for the Sovereign and the Logic of Reciprocity in the Family of Nations. In: Diacritics Vol. 29, No. 4. Grounds of Comparison: Around the work of Benedict Anderson (Winter, 1999) 150-177
Lydia H. LIU, The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making (Cambridge, Mass., 2004) S. 31-69 (¿The Birth of a Super Sign¿).
Jürgen OSTERHAMMEL, China und die Weltgesellschaft. Vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in unsere Zeit (München 1989).
Jürgen OSTERHAMMEL, Die Entzauberung Asiens. Europa und die asiatischen Reiche im 18. Jahrhundert (München 1998).
Simon SCHAFFER, Instruments as Cargo in the China Trade. In: History of Science 44,2 (2006) 217-246.
Angela SCHOTTENHAMMER, The East Asian maritime world, c. 1400-1800: Its fabrics of power and dynamics of exchanges ¿ China and her neighbours. In: Angela SCHOTTENHAMMER (Hg.), The East Asian Maritime World 1400-1800: Its Fabrics of Power and Dynamics of Exchanges (East Asian Economic and Socio-cultural Studies/East Asian Maritime History 4; Wiesbaden 2007) 1-86.
John E. WILLS, Jr., ¿Great Qing and Its Southern Neighbours, 1760-1820. Secular Trends and Recovery from Crisis.¿ Paper presented at Interactions: Regional Studies, Global Processes, and Historical Analysis; Library of Congress, Washington D. C., 28 February ¿ 3 March 2001. ¿ http://www.historycooperative.org/proceedings/interactions/wills.html <13.8..2008>
YE Xiaoqing, Ascendant Peace in the Four Seas. Tributary Drama and the Macartney Mission of 1793. In: Late Imperial China 26,2 (2005) 89-113.
Joseph W. ESHERICK, Cherishing Sources from Afar. In: Modern China 24,2 (Apr. 1998) 135-161.
Fa-ti FAN, Science in a Chinese Entrepôt: British Naturalists and Their Chinese Associates in Old Canton. In: Osiris, 2nd series, vol. 18 (2003) 60-78.
FANG Weigui, Selbstreflexion in der Zeit des Erwachens und des Widerstands. Moderne chinesische Literatur 1919-1949 (Lun Wen. Studien zur Geistesgeschichte und Literatur in China 7; Wiesbaden 2006).
Harry G. GELBER, The Dragon and the Foreign Devils. China and the World, 1100 BC to the Present (London 2007) 145-173 (¿Europeans, Missions and Trade, AD 1719-1816¿) sowie ebd., 175-203 (¿The Mandate of Heaven Dissolves. AD 1816-1860¿).
Patrick HANAN, The Missionary Novels of Nineteenth-Century China. In: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. 60,2 (Dec. 2000) 413-443.
James HAYES, ¿That Singular and Hitherto Almost Unknown Country.¿ Opinions on China, the Chinese and the ¿Opium War¿ among British Naval and Military Officers who served during hostilities there. In: Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 39 (1999) 211-233
James HAYES, Canton Symposium: The World of the Old China Trade: The Locales and the People. In: Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 43 (2003) 29-62
Laura HOSTETLER, Qing Connections to the Early Modern World: Ethnography and Cartography in Eighteenth-Century China. In: Modern Asian Studies 34,3 (Jul. 2000) 623-662.
Mio KISHIMOTO, The Ch¿ing Dynasty and the East Asian World. In: Acta Asiatica, No. 88 (January 2005) 87-109.
Martin KRIEGER, Geschichte Asiens. Eine Einführung (Köln 2003) 201-209 (Abschnitt: ¿Restauration der indigenen gesamtstaatlichen Macht¿ (S. 201-208) sowie ¿Die Integration in das westliche Weltsystem¿ (vor allem S. 208 f.)
Michael LAZICH, American Missionaries and the Opium Trade in Nineteenth-Century China. In: Journal of World History 17,2 (2006) 197-223.
Lydia H. LIU, The Desire for the Sovereign and the Logic of Reciprocity in the Family of Nations. In: Diacritics Vol. 29, No. 4. Grounds of Comparison: Around the work of Benedict Anderson (Winter, 1999) 150-177
Lydia H. LIU, The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making (Cambridge, Mass., 2004) S. 31-69 (¿The Birth of a Super Sign¿).
Jürgen OSTERHAMMEL, China und die Weltgesellschaft. Vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in unsere Zeit (München 1989).
Jürgen OSTERHAMMEL, Die Entzauberung Asiens. Europa und die asiatischen Reiche im 18. Jahrhundert (München 1998).
Simon SCHAFFER, Instruments as Cargo in the China Trade. In: History of Science 44,2 (2006) 217-246.
Angela SCHOTTENHAMMER, The East Asian maritime world, c. 1400-1800: Its fabrics of power and dynamics of exchanges ¿ China and her neighbours. In: Angela SCHOTTENHAMMER (Hg.), The East Asian Maritime World 1400-1800: Its Fabrics of Power and Dynamics of Exchanges (East Asian Economic and Socio-cultural Studies/East Asian Maritime History 4; Wiesbaden 2007) 1-86.
John E. WILLS, Jr., ¿Great Qing and Its Southern Neighbours, 1760-1820. Secular Trends and Recovery from Crisis.¿ Paper presented at Interactions: Regional Studies, Global Processes, and Historical Analysis; Library of Congress, Washington D. C., 28 February ¿ 3 March 2001. ¿ http://www.historycooperative.org/proceedings/interactions/wills.html <13.8..2008>
YE Xiaoqing, Ascendant Peace in the Four Seas. Tributary Drama and the Macartney Mission of 1793. In: Late Imperial China 26,2 (2005) 89-113.
Association in the course directory
R4, Modul Globalgeschichte (Diplomstudium), MWG08, MWG12
Last modified: Mo 07.09.2020 15:30
We will examine these processes not only from the European but also from the Chinese perspective (including Chinas knowledge of the "West" before and after the First Anglo-Chinese War (1839-42) as well as European reports of China published up to 1860.