CHST 555 - The Chang School - Ryerson University

Arts Division
The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education
Ryerson University
SAMPLE COURSE OUTLINE
CHST 555: Reform and Revolution: China 1900-1949
Availability: Fall – Sept 14- Dec 14
Spring – May 06 - Jun 19
Course Information:
Accreditation:
From the abdication of the boy emperor in 1911 to the Communist existence.
The course examines the great changes in Chinese society looking first at
traditional structures and values and their collapse, then at the republican period
and finally the growth of Communism. It also considers the international context,
especially China’s relations with the West and Japan.
(UL) Upper Level Liberal Studies.
Equivalent to the first half of China in the Twentieth Century (HST 045)
Note: Students registered in a Ryerson program or intending to register in a
program should examine their program’s curriculum and the Ryerson calendar
carefully. To graduate from a program, students require a number of liberal
studies credits as well as professional and professionally related credits. Ryerson
courses are correspondingly designated professional, professionally-related or
liberal studies. The liberal studies courses are further divided into lower-level
(normally for first and second year credit) and upper-level (normally for third and
fourth year credit) courses. You may not use a professionally-related psychology
course for a liberal studies credit or vice versa, nor may you use a lower-level
liberal studies course for upper-level liberal studies credit.
For more information contact the Department of History. It is the student’s
responsibility to know and adhere to all departmental and university policies, and
also to make all arrangements for maintaining proper registration in this course.
Please read the Ryerson calendar carefully.
Course Instructor(s)
Academic Coordinator:
Required Reading:
(Available in Ryerson Bookstore)
Janice E. Stockard. Daughters of the Canton Delta – Marriage Patterns and
Economic Strategies in South China, 1860-1930
Stirling Seagrave. The Soong Dynasty
Course Topics: I Chinese Names and Chinese Geography
The Chinese Past: Culture (Confucious, Taoism and Buddhism)
The Qing (Ch’ing Dynasty)
II The Canton System
The Opium War (1839-1842
The Arrow War
III The Taiping Rebellions (1850-1864)

The Dynastic Revival
IV The Sino-Japanese War (1895-1896)
The Reform Movement of 1898
V The Boxer Rebellion and Protocol (1900-1901)
The Peaceful Penetration of China
The Anti-American Boycott (1905-1906)
The Anti-Japanese Boycott (1908)
Lat Quing (Ch’ing) Reforms
VI Dr. Sun Yat-sen and the Revolution
The 1911 Revolution and the Manchu Abdication
VII China under Yuan Shikai (Yuan Shih-k’ai)
Japan’s Twenty-One Demands
The Warlord Era
VIII The May Fourth Movement
The Birth of the Communist Party of China
The First United Front
IX The Nanjing (Nanking) Government (1927-1937)
X The New Warlords
Japanese Aggression in Manchuria and Shanghai
XI The Chinese Communist Party (1927-1935)
The Canton Commune
XII The Xi’an (Sian) Incident (1936) and the Second United Front
The Undeclared War with Japan (1937)
The Nanjing (Nanking) Massacre (1937)
XIII The Second World War
The Civil War (1945-1949)
Assignments & Exams Analytical essay – 25%; Analytical essay – 25%; Final Examination – 50%
NOTE: Planned alterations in the list of course assignments, tests, approximate
deadlines and in the marking or evaluation scheme, as they appear in the course
outline shall be discussed in class prior to being implemented.
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