HIST 403 Nomads and China

History 403
Nomadic Empires and China
Manchu

A Manchu bannerman

In this class we will examine the various ways people have understood the relationship between China and the areas to its North and West. In some respects it will be a class on Chinese history, in some respects a class on Central Asia, and in some respects a class about the relationships between sedentary and pastoralist cultures. To some extent it will be a course about whatever you want it to be, as each of you will be doing a research project and sharing your results with the class. A large part of the class will be discussion both in person and on-line.

Books-required
-Thomas Barfield The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic empires and China. Basil Blackwell, 1989.
-Morris Rossabi Khubilai Khan: His life and times California U.P. 1988.
-Mark C. Elliot The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China Stanford U.P., 2001.
-I have asked the bookstore to order some copies of F.W. Mote Imperial China 900-1800 Harvard U.P. 1999. Although you are not required to buy it you may want to. It covers the entire period we are talking about and deals with the relationship between China and Inner Asia more effectively than any book on the market. I have put a copy on reserve in the library if you don't want to buy it.

There is a WebCT component to this class WebCT (http://www.iup.edu/WebCT)

Professor Alan Baumler 216 Keith phone 7-4066 E-mail baumler@iup.edu Office Hours MWF 1:00-2:30 http://www.chss.iup.edu/baumler/index.html

1/18 Introduction and research
Telling stories. Chinese, Mongols and Russians. Annalists, historians and anthropologists. Research projects and telling your own story.

1/25 Han, Five elements and the creation of the nomads
Barbarians and Chinese. Walls and horses

-"Xiongnu" from Ssu-ma Ch'ien (Watson trans.) Records of the Grand Historian Columbia U.P. 1961 pp. 129-162
-Barfield The Perilous Frontier 1-129
-"Beasts and Birds" and "Walls and Horses" from DiCosmo Ancient China and its Enemies Cambridge U.P., 2002
-Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute (web page)

2/1 Northern Dynasties and the Jurchen
   Sinification and barbarization. Accommodations with Chinese and accommodations with barbarians.

-Barfield The Perilous Frontier 131-186
-Peter Bol "Seeking Common Ground: Han Literati Under Jurchen Rule" HJAS 47.1 (Dec. 1987) 461-538
-From Mote Imperial China 900-1800 either chapters 8 and 11 on the Xi Xia and or 9 and 10 on the Jurchen. Or chapters 2 and 4 on the Liao

2/8 Mongols as nomads
    Nomad ecology. Family, clan and horses. Making a clan and nomad politics

-Barfield The Perilous Frontier 186-227
-"Introduction" and "The Heritage and Youth of Chingis Khan" from Paul Kahn The Secret History of the Mongols: the Origin of Chingis Khan Cheng and Tsui 1984, pp.1-40
-"The social preconditions of the relations between nomads and the outside world" Part 2 from A.M. Khazanov Nomads and the Outside World Cambridge U.P. 1983 pp.119-169
-Joseph Fletcher "The Mongols: Ecological and Social Perspectives" HJAS 46.1 1986 11-50

2/15 Raiding, hordes and conquest
    Chingis and his conquests. Secrets of military success.

-Barfield The Perilous Frontier pp.187-228
-Arthur Waley, trans The Travels of an Alchemist Routledge, 1931 (2) (3) (4)
-Selections from Giovanni Carpini The Story of the Mongols whom we call the Tartars Brandon, 1996 pp.55-93
-"Chingis Khan" from J. J. Sanders The History of the Mongol Conquests Routledge, 1971 p.44-70

2/22 Trade and the Mongol world-empire
    Trade and travel under the Mongols. Economic and technological change

-Thomas Allsen "Mongolian Princes and their merchant partners 1200-1260" Asia Major 1989 83-126.
-Thomas Allsen "The Circulation of Military Technology in the Mongolian Empire" (2) from Di Cosmo, ed. Warfare in Inner Asian History Brill, 2002 pp. 265-293
-"Consumption and use" and "Acquisition and production" from Thomas Allsen Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A cultural history of Islamic textiles Cambridge U.P., 1997. pp. 11-45
-Sections on Intermediaries and Cultural Exchange (3) from Thomas Allsen Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia Cambridge U.P. 2001 pp.63-114
-Mongols and art (web page)

3/1 Greater Mongol Empire
    Mongols and Islam. Cultural and political impact of Mongols in the West

-Charles Halperin "Russia in The Mongol Empire in Comparative Perspective" HJAS 43.1 (1983) 239-261.
-"Beginning of the History of Temur Qa'an" from Rashid Al-din (John Boyle trans.) The Successors of Genghis Khan Columbia U.P. 1971 pp.319-330
-Mongols in World History (web page)
-Thomas Allsen "The Yuan Dynasty and the Uighurs of Turfan in the 13th Century" (2) from Rossabi, ed. China among Equals: The Middle Kingdom and its neighbors, 10th-14th centuries California U.P., 1983 pp. 243-280

3/8 Yuan China
    China under Qubalai. Yuan drama and the barbarization of China.

-Rossabi Kubilai Khan, entire
-Paul Smith "Fear of Gynarchy in an Age of Chaos: Kong Qi's reflections on life in South China under Mongol Rule" JESHO 41.1 (1998) 1-95
-Mote Imperial China 900-1800 Chapter 20 China under Mongol Rule
-William Dolby "Yuan Drama"   from Colin Mackerras, ed. Chinese Theater: From Its Origins to the Present Day Hawaii U.P.1983
-Colin Mackerras "The Drama of the Qing Dynasty" from Colin Mackerras, ed. Chinese Theater: From Its Origins to the Present Day Hawaii U.P.1983

Spring Break

3/22 Ming and Central Asia
China as a Mongol successor state. Walls and retreat from the steppe.

-David M Robinson "Images of Subject Mongols Under the Ming Dynasty" Late Imperial China 25.1 (2004) 59-123.
-Sections on Early Ming from Mote Imperial China
-Bettine Brige "Women and Confucianism from Song to Ming: The Institutionalization of Patrilineality" from Smith and von Glahn eds. The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History Harvard U.P. 2003
-"The importance of the Ordos" and "Ordos Crisis and the First Walls" from Arthur Waldron The Great Wall: From history to myth Cambridge U.P. 1990.
-Barfield Perilous Frontier pp.229-265

3/29 Early Manchus
Forest tribes and "Manchuria." The Nurhachi state and Chinese models.

-Elliot The Manchu Way part One
-"The Enigma of Nurgaci" from Pamela Crossley The Manchus Blackwell 1997 pp.47-74
- Nowak and Durrant, ed and trans The Tale of the Nisan Shamaness (2) U. Washington, 1977 pp.39-91.

4/5 Manchus and China
Creating "Manchus." Kangxi and the perfection of the Late Imperial state.

-Elliot The Manchu Way part Two
-Mote Imperial China 900-1800 Chapter 33 on Kangxi
-"In Motion" from Jonathan Spence Emperor of China: Self-portrait of K'ang-hsi Vintage. 1975 pp. 3-24

4/12 Tibet
Mongols, Manchus and the creation of the timeless land of Tibet

-David Farquhar "Emperor as Bodhisattva in the Governance of the Ch'ing Empire" HJAS 38.1 (1978) 5-34.
-Turrell V. Wylie "The First Mongol Conquest of Tibet Reinterpreted" HJAS 37.1 (1977) 103-133
-"The Wheel-Turning King" (2) from Crossley A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology California U.P. 1999, pp. 223-280.
-Herbert Franke "Tibetans in Yuan China" from Langois ed. China Under Mongol Rule Princeton U.P., 1981 pp.296-328

4/19 Manchus and Central Asia
Creating greater China. Manchu horsemen and Chinese logistics

-"Moving through the Land" and "Fixing Frontiers" from Peter Perdue China Marches West: the Qing Conquest of Central Asia Harvard U.P. 2005
-James Millward "Coming onto the Map: The Qing Conquest of Xinjiang" Late Imperial China 20:2 (1999) 61-98
-Peter Perdue "Military Mobilization in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century China, Russia, and Mongolia" Modern Asian Studies 30.4 (1996) 757-793.

4/26 End of the Manchu World
Qianlong and the creation and limitation of the Manchus.

-Elliot The Manchu Way part Three
"Qianlong" from John E. Wills Mountain of Fame: Portraits in Chinese History Princeton U.P. 1994
James Millward "A Uyghur Muslim in Qianlong's Court: The Meaning of the Fragant Concubine" JAS 53:2 (1994)
"Voices from Chengde" from Millward, et al ed. New Qing Imperial History: The making of Inner Asian empire at Qing Chengde Routledge, 2004

Grades

-Each student will write a research paper of 13-15 pages. Everyone should have a topic and a working bibliography approved by 2/1 and at least part of the first draft must be turned in by 4/5. Final papers are due on 5/3.
-There are various readings for each week. Some of these are the books you already bought, many of them are articles or chapters from other books. Everyone needs to read the books you bought. You don't actually have to do all the readings each week, although it would not actually kill you to do so.
-Each of you will have to write at least two article reviews and serve as a discussion leader on those two weeks. Being a discussion leader means reading everything for that week and being prepared to lead the discussion. Article reviews/ discussion leadership are worth 100 points and you can do three of them instead of two and drop the low grade. Article reviews must be posted on-line by the Sunday before the discussion.
-On weeks you are not serving a discussion leader you can turn in a reading reaction paper. These are worth up to 50 points, and you can write them every week if you would like. Points for reaction papers add up, so if you do more than 4 it should be easy to get full points on that part of your grade.
-Reaction papers need to be posted to the on-line discussion thread by Saturday the week before the discussion. Everyone is encouraged to make comments on these discussion threads. If you make a good comment, you get 15 points. 20 points if you point out an error in one of my posts. To get points for a post it needs to actually say something substantive about the reading or the reaction paper. Saying "I agree" is very polite but does not get us anywhere. Pointing out an error (politely), adding additional information from your paper research or somewhere else, suggesting an interesting question that is raised from the reading, answering someone else's question, all of these are ways to make a good post.

Paper - 400 pts
Contributing to on-line discussion total of - 150 points possible
Article reviews/discussion leadership - 100 pts each, total of 2 required, 3 possible
Weekly reaction papers - 200 (50 points each)
Final oral presentation - 50 points

900+points = A
800-899 = B
700-799 = C
600-699 = D
0-599 = F

-Attendance policy-- You should come to class every day, but the point is not just to come to class, but to come having done your reading and being ready to talk about it.
-Academic dishonesty-- All students are required to abide by the University's policies on Academic Integrity, as found in the catalogue.

INTASC standards

In addition to your grades, those of you in Social Studies Ed will also be assessed on your mastery of the INTASC standards. I will assess your work and record (on a special web page in URSA provided for this purpose) if you have not met, met or exceeded expectations for the standard. These assesments will not effect your grade, your graduation or your certification.

Conceptual Framework

INTASC Standards

Program Objectives

Course Objectives

Key Assessments

Planning and Preparation

1. Time, Continuity and Change

1. Develop historical knowledge in the broad topic that is the focus of the course.

2. Develop historical knowledge in the specific topic that is the focus of the student’s research interest.

3. Increase familiarity with some of the major issues and questions that scholars in the field have debated.

4. Develop the ability to frame and hone a historical argument.

5. Develop the ability to complete a focused research project.

Research Project