Course Goals:       To acquire a basic foundation in Sino-American history       To develop an understanding of the evolution of relations, attitudes and impressions between the peoples of China and the United States       To challenge preconceptions of "us" and the "other"       To gain insight into how public opinion is manipulated to affect national policy       To illuminate the role of attitude and public opinion in historical interpretation       To familiarize students with primary and secondary historical resources in this field

Texts:
Hugh Deane.  Light on China:  Good Deeds and Gunboats.  Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1990.
T.Christopher Jespersen.  American Images of China, 1931-1949.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.
Robert Lee.  Orientals:  Asian Americans in Popular Culture.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999.
Various handouts and on-line readings

Weekly Reviews:
Students will write critical reviews for each week's readings, summarizing and analyzing the authors' hypothesis, argument and conclusion.  Students are encourage to strengthen these reviews with historical or contemporary examples drawn from additional sources.   

Papers:
In addition to the weekly analytical reports, students will write a midterm and a final paper.  These assignments require students to produce a research paper based upon primary documents related to a specific theme.  

Readings:
The selected readings draw upon a variety of primary and secondary sources that provide insight into the formation of American impressions of Chinese.  These readings represent only a fraction of the material available on this subject, and thus are the bare minimal requirements for this course.  Students should supplement these with additional  readings that can be incorporated into the weekly reviews.  In order to adequately prepare for lectures and discussions, the assigned readings for each week must be completed prior to class.

Attendance:
Regular attendance is required and active participation in class discussions is expected.  Absences will adversely affect your grade.

Grading

Participation Weekly  Reviews Midterm Paper Final Paper

25% 25% 25% 25%

Expectations:
Students are expected to stay current in their readings, complete projects on time, participate in discussions, and abide by Marquette University's academic rules and regulations.

Special Accommodations:
Students who need special accommodations in order to meet any of the requirements of this course should speak to the instructor at the beginning of the semester.
 

Week 6:  Roaring Twenties and Depressing Thirties:  China as Progressive or Decadent?
  Readings:  "Shanghai"  Fortune Magazine 11.1 (Jan. 1935): 115-121.
                      Sax Rohmer, "Chapter 16," The Yellow Claw (New York: McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie, 1915).
                      Robert Lee, Chapter 4 (pp 106-144).
                      T. Christopher Jespersen, "Prologue" (pp 1-10).
                      "Nightlife," All About Shanghai and Environs:  A Standard Guidebook, 1934-35

Week 8:  The War Years:  Valiant Allies
  Readings:   T. Christopher Jespersen, Chapters 4, 5 and 6 (pp 59-125).
                      Hugh Deane, "Guerrillas Rescue a B-29 Bomber Crew" (143-146).
                      Harold Issacs, "The Heroes Risen," and "The Heroes Fallen," Scratches on Our Minds
                           (Armonk:  M.E. Sharpe, 1980), 164-189.  [Library Reserve: access ARES]
                      A.L. Crouch, China Sketchbook:  A Book of Army Verse (Shanghai:  Stars and Stripes, 1946).

Week 9:  Midterm Exam

Week 10:  Easter Break

Week 11:  Easter Break

Week 12:  Post-War Years: Communists, Korea and Chiang Kai-shek
                      Film: "Crusade in the Pacific: Postwar in the Pacific!"            
  Readings:   T. Christopher Jespersen, Chapter 7.
                      Hugh Deane, "The U.S. Aids Counterrevolution in China" (170-175); "China and the Ruination of MacArthur"
                          (175-187); "Howard Adams" (204); and "The CIA's ‘Contra' Campaign in Tibet" (204-213).
                      Harold Issacs, "The Ungrateful Wretches," Scratches on Our Minds (Armonk:  M.E. Sharpe, 1980),
                          190-209.  [Library Reserve: access ARES]
                      Sister Mary Victoria, "Chapters 1-3," Nun in Red China (NY: McGraw-Hill, 1953) (1-36). 
                          [Library Reserve: access ARES]

Week 13:  The Masses:  Communes and the Cultural Revolution
                      Film: excerpt from "The Red Violin"
  Readings:   T. Christopher Jespersen, Chapter 8.
                      Hugh Deane, "The Long Intervention Continues" (219-227).
                      Robert Lee, Chapter 4.
                      James Ross, "Chapter 7: Shanghai, November 1966," Caught in a Tornado (Boston:
                          Northeastern University Press, 1994) (85-97) [Library Reserve: access ARES]
                      Li Zhensheng,  Red-Color News Soldier (London: Phaidon Press, 2003).  [hand out: various images]