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=**Activity 6 Work Area** = Welcome to Wanli Hu's wiki page 欢迎光顾万里老师的教学网页
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I will offer a new course entitled Learning Modern Chinese History through Documentary Movies

在2011年春季我将要开设一门新课： 通过纪录片了解中国近代发展史

see more information, please see: Wei Cheng



= __ Day 1 __ = = Period:1840-1911 =

Background:
The watershed between ancient Chinese history and modern Chinese history is the Opium War. This war is actually an encounter between the East and West. After the Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment, industrial revolutions and imperialist expansion, the West emerged as a dominant force in the world. In contrast, Chinese civilization declined significantly from a superior position to an inferior status because of its own Sino-centric mentality, isolation and aggressive challenges in the West. In the 18th century, the event of Macartney�fs meeting Emperor Qianlong indicated the beginning of a clash between the West and Chinese civilization. Macartney�fs diplomatic efforts failed to bring free trade with China. But during the 19th century, the British cannon - policy forced China to open her doors. Chinese civilization met this unprecedented challenge from the West with humiliation that lasted for one century. During this period of Western culture rejection and then gradual acceptance, the Chinese mindset experienced painful and radical changes. The Chinese were forced to re-evaluate, devalue and finally re-appreciate their own culture from the 18th century to the present day.

Movies:


 * [|China in the World in the 19th Century]
 * **[|The Opium War]**

Questions for disucssion: Why did Great Braitain requesed/demanded free trade with China? Why did Qing rulers refused to have free trade with the West? Why did British merchants sell opium to China? What are the consequences of opium? What were Chinese rulers and elite' attitude to the West?

Background:
=== The challenge from the West led to the collapse of the Qing Dynasty. The end of the last dynasty did not lead to a westernized world. On the contrary, China was in a chaos of civil wars among warlords for decades. It was a key question in Chinese mindset where China should go? A competition took place between the Nationalist Party supported by the United States and the Chinese Communist Party based on Marxist-Leninist ideology. Relying on poor peasants, Mao defeated Chiang and unified China. The following movies will display how these two revolutions, Sun Yeh-sen's Nationalist Revolution and Mao's Communist Revolution, happened and changed China's destination. ===
 * ===[|China in Revolution 1]===
 * [|China in Revolution 2]
 * [|China in Revolution 3]
 * [|China in Revolution 4]
 * [|China in Revolution 5]
 * [|China in Revolution 6]
 * [|China in Revolution 7]
 * [|China in Revolution 8]
 * [|China in Revolution 9]
 * [|China in Revolution 10]

Topic: Red Chian from 1949 - 1966
Background: As a founding father of the People's Republic China, Mao was praised as a rising sun in the east. The unification of China and the victory of the Korean War not only got rid of humiliation of China in the past 100 years, but also made Mao a God-like deity in the mindsets of the Chinese. Hostile international environment as well as Mao's romantic idealism, Mao launched political and economic campaigns one after another such as the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. Mao's life-long rule left optimistic and pleasant memories and psychological dark scar among the Chinese.

Movie:
 * [|The Mao Years 1]
 * [|The Mao Years 2]
 * [|The Mao Years 3]
 * [|The Mao Years 4]
 * [|The Mao Years 5]
 * [|The Mao Years 6]
 * [|The Mao Years 7]
 * [|The Mao Years 8]
 * [|The Mao Years 9]
 * [|The Mao Years 10]
 * [|The Mao Years 11]
 * [|The Mao Years 12]
 * [|The Mao Years 13]
 * [|The Mao Years 14]

Questions for discussion: What are Mao's achievements? What is Mao's legacy and how to evaluate his legacy? Why did Mao want to be an ally with the Soviet Union in 1949 and why did he split with the Soviet Union? Why did Mao launch the Cultural Revolution and how to evaluate the Cultural Revolution? What motivates Mao and Nixon to approach each other? Why did Mao claime that he was another first Qin Emperor? Why did George Washington quit his president position while Mao held the power to his death? Do you have different impression/opinion of Mao before and after watching the movies?

Topic: China in Economic Reform
Background: Different from Mao, Deng is a revolutionary pragmatist. He realized that Mao's romantic idealism put the Chinese into poverty and dislussions, which would lead to the end of the Chinese Communit Party. You have to gain people's support in order to maintain your rule. To keep the CCP's rule, you have to improve people's daily life. Learning from Mao's failure, Deng was determined to launch an economic reform and open China's door to the world. It is very difficult to put a huge country with more than 1.3 billion people into a new direction and make them follow you from their heart. The following movie will display how Deng's Economic Reform went and how he achieved his objectives by overcoming endless challenges.

Questions for discussion: Why did Deng Xiaoping launch the Economic Reform? What are achievements of the Economic Reform? What kind of difficulties/challenges did Deng have during the Economic Reform? What were Deng's means to help him reach his ends? Why did Deng's Economic Reform receive positive feedback from China and the world? What is difference between Mao and Deng?
 * [|China's Capitalist Revolution 1]
 * [|China's Capitalist Revolution 2]
 * [|China's Capitalist Revolution 3]
 * [|China's Capitalist Revolution 4]
 * [|China's Capitalist Revolution 5]
 * [|China's Capitalist Revolution 6]
 * [|China's Capitalist Revolution 7]
 * [|China's Capitalist Revolution 8]
 * [|China's Capitalist Revolution 9]


 * Day 8-9**
 * Period: 2002-2012**
 * Topic: Hu Jintao's New Deal**

Background: "Let everyone share the outcomes of the Economic Reform" replaced "Allowing a few people to be rich ahead of the majority." The shift of priority displays the mission and objective of Hu Jintao's era. [|Harmonious Society] domestically and for //Peaceful Development// internationally
 * **[|China's Politics under Hu Jintao Era]**

After more than one century of painful and resistant response to the challenge from the West, China began to enter the world gradually and passionately through its entrance into the United Nations in 1971, the WTO in 2001, the Olympic Games in 2008 and World Expo in 2010. China has had a nine percent growth of GDP since 1978 and it has been the second largest economy in the world. “Made in China” itself has become a brand name. Napoleon once warned not to arouse this sleeping lion. Now this sleeping lion has risen. People are curious about the consequences of the rise of China.
 * Day 10**
 * Topic: China's Rise and Its Impact on the World**
 * Background:**

**Questions for Discussion: ** l How will China’s rise challenge the status quo of the world and Washington’s hegemony? l How can we understand China’s self-claimed peaceful rise/development?

l Can a peaceful co-existence remain between the United States and China?

Movies:
 * [|China' Influence on Global Politics]
 * [|US-China Relations in the New Century]