Meeting 1: “Ways of Conceptualizing Trans-cultural and Global History”
- Week of October 16
- Format (Fudan style):
- Some students write short papers about the readings.
- Students from the other locations respond
- Authors of papers respond to their critics
- Readings:
- Edward Wang: “History, Space and Ethnicity: The Chinese Worldview,” in Journal of World History 10-2 (1999)
- Bruce Mazlish, “Terms,” in Palgrave Advances of World History
- Patrick Manning, Introduction to Navigating World History
- Dominic Sachsenmaier, “Global History and Critiques of Western Perspectives.” In: Comparative Education (2006)
- Students will also be expected to compare the syllabi of the three participating courses
- Class Discussion
Meeting 2: “Imperialism and Empire”
- Week of October 29
- Format (Leipzig style):
- Students engage in small chat-room discussions
- Students are expected to add additional perspectives/literature to the assigned readings
- Michael Hardt/Antonio Negri, “Introduction,” Empire
- Charles Maier, “Introduction,” Among Empires
- Wang Hui, “The Historical Conditions of the 1989 Social Movement and the Antihistorical Explanation of ‘Neoliberalism’”, in China’s New Order
- Joseph Esherick et al, “Introduction,” Empire to Nation
Meeting 3: Globalization and Regionalization
- Week of November 12
- Format (Duke style):
- Instructors assign questions and students discuss them in small chat-room groups
- Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Introduction” and Chapter 1 of Provincializing Europe
- Wang Hui, “Alternative Globalizations and the Question of the Modern”, in China’s New Order
- Tu Wei-ming, “Confucian East Asia and Modernity” in Identity, Culture and Globalization
- Arif Dirlik, “Modernity as History: Post-Revolutionary China, Globalization and the Question of Modernity”, in Social History
- Peter Berger, “Introduction” in Many Globalizations
