Teaching
Teaching Assignment
HI1022: Europe in the Twentieth Century
University of Aberdeen
A comprehensive treatment of this enormous subject is obviously impracticable in an introductory course within the space of one semester, so we aim to highlight a selection of key political, economic, social and other themes. The selection varies from year to year, but is likely to include the rise of Bolshevism, reconstruction and European integration after WW2, and the Cold War. The twice-weekly lectures introduce the topics, while the eight tutorial meetings emphasise the development of practical transferable research and presentation skills as well as the building of historical knowledge.
From Washington to Peking: History of the Early Interactions Between the United States and China
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA)
Time: Monday, 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Oculus, Heidelberg Center for American Studies (Hauptstraße 120)
Summer term, 2023
Schedule and Readings
• Session 1 (Apr. 17): Empress of China: The Beginning of Sino-US Relations and Trade
Swift, John W., P. Hodgkinson, and Samuel W. Woodhouse. “The Voyage of the Empress of China.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 63, no. 1 (1939): 24–36.
• Session 2 (Apr. 24): Anson Burlingame (蒲安⾂) I - Burlingame-Seward Treaty of 1868
Morse, Hosea Ballou. "The Burlingame Mission." In The International Relations of the Chinese Empire vol 2, 185-202. London: Longmans, Green, 1910.
• Session 3 (May 1): Anson Burlingame (蒲安⾂) II - Open Door Policy
Barrett, John. “America’s Duty in China.” The North American Review 171, no. 525 (1900): 145–57.
• Session 4 (May 8): William Alexander Parsons Martin (丁韪良) - International Law and the Diplomatic System
Carrai, Maria Adele. “The Politics of History in the Late Qing Era: William A. P. Martin and a History of International Law for China.” Journal of the History of International Law, no. 22 (2020), 269–305.
• Session 5 (May 15): John Leighton Stuart (司徒雷登) - Modern Higher Education in China
Chou, Chih-p’ing, and Carlos Yu-Kai Lin, eds. “Introduction to John Leighton Stuart’s Fifty Years in China.” In Power of Freedom: Hu Shih’s Political Writings, 249–57. University of Michigan Press, 2022.
Rosenbaum, Arthur Lewis. “Christianity, Academics, and National Salvation in China: Yenching University, 1924—1949.” The Journal of American-East Asian Relations 13 (2004): 25–54.
• Session 6 (May 22): Chinese Sojourn Labor and the American Transcontinental Railroad
Carson, Scott Alan. “Chinese Sojourn Labor and the American Transcontinental Railroad.” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) / Zeitschrift Für Die Gesamte Staatswissenschaft 161, no. 1 (2005): 80–102.
• Session 7 (May 29): Chinese Students in America: Hopes for Renewing the Nation
Hsu, Madeline Y. “Chinese and American Collaborations through Educational Exchange during the Era of Exclusion, 1872–1955.” Pacific Historical Review 83, no. 2 (2014): 314–32.
Guoqi, Xu. “The Chinese Education Mission: Chinese Schoolboys in Nineteenth-Century America.” In Chinese and Americans: A Shared History, 74–104. Harvard University Press, 2014.
• Session 8 (June 5): Days of shame: Yellow peril and the Chinese Exclusion Act
Lee, Erika. “The Chinese Exclusion Example: Race, Immigration, and American Gatekeeping, 1882-1924.” Journal of American Ethnic History 21, no. 3 (2002): 36–62.
Chen, Joyce J. “The Impact of Skill-Based Immigration Restrictions: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.” Journal of Human Capital 9, no. 3 (2015): 298–328.
• Session 9 (June 12): Conclusion: America's Role in China's Entry into the International Order/ Feedback