Course syllabus: Chinese Migration in Modern World History 1500's-2000's Course Number: SP12

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1 Course syllabus: Chinese Migration in Modern World History 1500's-2000's Course Number: SP12 Monday and Wednesday 01:30 PM - 02:45 PM Homewood Campus, Hodson 305 Instructor: Dr. Huei-Ying Kuo Office: Mergenthaler Hall Room 558 Office Hours: Wednesday 3-4 PM or by appointments Course Description: This interdisciplinary course applies theories of economic sociology to examine the effects of Chinese overseas migration on modern world economy from the sixteenth century to the contemporary era. It examines the contribution of overseas Chinese to the development of capitalism in the following aspects: the East-West economic integration in the pre-modern era, China s modern transformation after the Opium War ( ), the making of US national economy in the early twentieth century, as well as the postwar economic miracles in the Pacific Rim, among others. By examining the changing formations of Chinese migrants in world history in the past five hundred years, the course will address the following issues: what is the role of Chinese migrant in different parts of the world in the development of modern world capitalism? How does the constitution of the Chinese problems relate to the construction of the ethnic division of labor and racial hierarchy in each of the societies? To what extend can overseas Chinese or Chinese overseas be viewed as an analytically distinct category in our examination of ethnic Chinese communities in various political jurisdictions? And to what extend should Chinese ethnic identities outside China be disentangled from identities originating from within China? Requirements: Students should attend all classes and finish the assigned readings. The attendance can be taken at any point in class and you will be regarded as absent if you fail to sign your name on the attendance sheet. If you cannot come because of a legitimate reason (e.g. job interview, medical emergency), you have to provide sufficient documentations and your eligibility of being exempt will be totally at my discretion. Each individual student is allowed to miss three classes without documentation. The instructor will post powerpoint slides on Blackboard to facilitate students capturing some main themes of the class, but reading the slides cannot substitute your own preparation, class discussion and note taking. You are encouraged to take notes on readings, lectures and class discussion to prepare for in-class exams and essay writing. Grade: Evaluation of students performance is based on the following items: Two In-class Exams: 50 (1) Presentation: 10 (2) Final Essay: 30 (3) Class participation: 10 (4) Total: 100 Letter grade will be assigned in the end of the quarter. Scale: A = , B+ = 85-89; B = 80-84, C+ = 75-79; C = 70-74, D + = 65-69, D = 60-65, and F = 59 or less. Consult for JHU s grading policies. (1) Two in-class exams (50%; 25% each): Each exam will cover major issues from the assigned readings or class discussion. Any students who fail to show up in any examination will get a zero mark for the missed examination.

2 No make-up exam will be provided without full documentation proving the extreme condition concerned (such as a doctor s approval on sickness or a police s accident record). (2) Presentation (10%): The presentation will be scheduled in the last few meetings of the class. In the presentation, you should introduce the topic of your final paper and summarize its major arguments. (3) Final project (15%): - The topic should be about an organization serving the interests of Chinese communities outside China. It can be a business organization such as the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a Chinese governmentsponsored Confucian Institute or the international non-profit, non-partisan membership organization the Committee of 100. The list of organizations from the APPENDIX of the course syllabus can be your source of reference. No two students can work on the same topic. You should choose a topic of your interest with the approval of the instructor by March In the report, you are expected (1) to show that you understand the history, function and organization of the selected association; (2) to make your own argument about the operation of the association in relation to its host society and to China; (3) to articulate focused, coherent, and convincing arguments; and (4), to cite at least five sources from the class readings or from your own research to support your arguments. - The format of the essays will be a report of pages (double-spaced, including bibliography). The paper will be due on 12 pm on May 9. You will lose 10 points for each day of late submission. (4) Class participation (10%): The grading will be based on your attendance and class participation. If you miss the class more than 3 times without any legitimate reason, you will get 0 point for this part of the grade. Academic Integrity Academic integrity is important. Cheating, plagiarism, and other misconducts will lead to loss of credit. All disorderly conducts, including obstructive and disruptive behavior that interferes with teaching and class discussion, will not be allowed in any academic setting. Turn off your cell phone before entering the classroom. If you plagiarize a paper or cheat in an exam, you will get 0 point for the assignment. Anyone who violates the rules more than one time may face disciplinary proceedings. For institute s academic policies, consult website of the Undergraduate Academic Ethics Board Readings: Books (available on campus bookstore) Philip A. Kuhn, Chinese Among Others: Emigration in Modern Times (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) Madeline HSU, Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and China, (Stanford University Press, 2000). Articles and Book Chapters (available on Blackboard) Tonio Andrade, How Taiwan became Chinese (Columbia University Press), Introduction, pp Elena Barabantseva, Trans-nationalising Chineseness: Overseas Chinese Policies of the PRC's Central Government, ASIEN 96 (Juli 2005), S Jerry H. Bentley, Cross-Cultural Interaction and Periodization in World History, in Rose E. Dunn ed. The New World History: A Teacher s Companion (Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin s, 2000), pp Marie-Clair Bergère, Sun Yat-Sen (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994), Ch. 1, pp William A. Callahan, Beyond Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: Diasporic Chinese and Neo-Nationalism in China and Thailand, International Organization, Vol. 57, no. 3, (Summer, 2003), pp John M. Carroll, Colonial Hong Kong as a Cultural-Historical Place, Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 40, no. 2 (May 2006), pp Wellington K. K. Chan, Personal Styles, Cultural Values and Management: The Sincere and Wing On Companies in Shanghai and Hong Kong, , The Business History Review, Vol. 70, no. 2. (Summer, 1996), pp

3 Philip D. Curtin, The Comparative World History Approach, in Rose E. Dunn ed. The New World History: A Teacher s Companion (Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin s, 2000). Pp Edmund Terence Gomez, The Rise and Fall of Capital: Corporate Malaysia in Historical Perspective, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 39, no. 3 (August 2009), pp Gary G. Hamilton, Hong Kong and the Rise of Capitalism in Asia, in Hamilton ed., Cosmopolitan Capitalists: Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora at the End of the Twentieth Century, pp Tu Huyhn, Jung Park Yoon and Anna Ying Chen, Faces of China: New Chinese Migrants in South Africa, 1980s to Present, in African and Asian Studies, Vol. 9, no. 3 (2010), pp Matthew Johns, A Segregated Asia?: Race, the Bandung Conference, and Pan-Asianist Fears in American Thought and Policy, , Diplomatic History, Vol. 29, no. 5 (November 2005), pp KUO Huei-Ying, Rescuing Businesses through Transnationalism: Embedded Chinese Enterprise and Nationalist Activities in Singapore in the 1930s Great Depression, Enterprise and Society: International Journal of Business history Vol. 7, no. 1: LI Wei, Beyond Chinatown, Beyond Enclave: Reconceptualizing Contemporary Chinese Settlements in the United States, GeoJournal, Vol. 64, no. 1 (2005), Contextualizing the Emergence of New Chinatowns, pp LIN Man-houng, The Shift from East Asia to the World, in Wang Gungwu and Ng Chin-Keong eds. Maritime China in Transition (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2004), pp LIU Hong, Old Linkages, New Networks: The Globalization of Overseas Chinese Voluntary Associationsand Its Implications, The China Quarterly, No. 155 (Sep., 1998), pp Adam McKeown, Conceptualizing Chinese Diasporas, In Journal of Asian Studies 58:2 (May 1999): Adam McKeown, Ritualization of Regulation: the Enforcement of Chinese Exclusion in the United States and China, American Historical Review 108 no, 2 (2003): NG Chin-keong, Maritime Frontiers, Territorial Expansion and Hai-fang during the Late Ming and High Ch ing, in Sabine Dabringhaus and Roderich Ptak eds., China and Her Neighbors: Borders, Visions of the Other, Foreign Policy, 10 th -19 th Century (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1997), pp David Northup, Free and Unfree Labor Migration, : An Introduction, Journal of World History, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Jun., 2003), pp ONG Aihwa, Higher Learning in Global Space, in Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutation in Citizenship and Sovereignty (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2006), Ch PAN Lynn, Hong Kong, in Sons of the Yellow Emperor: A History of the Chinese Diaspora (New York, Tokyo and London: Kodansha International, 1994), pp Elizabeth Sinn, Xin Xi Guxiang: A Study of Regional Associations as a Bonding Mechanism in the Chinese Diaspora. The Hong Kong Experience, Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 31, no. 2 (May 1997), pp William G. Skinner, President Address: the Structure of Chinese History, Journal of Asian Studies 44 (1985), no. 5: Eric Tagliacozzo, Border-line Legal : Chinese Communities and Illicit Activity in Insular Southeast Asia, Midto Late Nineteenth Century, in Wang Gungwu and Ng Chin-Keong eds. Maritime China in Transition (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2004), pp Eric Tagliacozzo, Kettle on a Slow Boil: Batavia s Threat Perceptions in the Indies Outer Islands, , Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 31, no. 1 (March 2000), pp Carl Trocki, Opium and the Beginnings of Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 33 no, 2 (2002): Carl Trocki, Ch. 4: The Politics of Independence, in Trocki, Singapore: Wealth, Power and the Culture of Control (London and New York: Routledge, 2006). WANG Gungwu, "Seaward Sweep: the Chinese in Southeast Asia" in Wang, The Chinese Overseas, pp Bin WONG, "Relationships between the Political Economies of Maritime and Agrarian China, , " in Wang and Ng ed. Maritime China in Transition, pp David Zweig and Stanley Rosen, How China Trained a New Generation Abroad ( 05/22/2003)

4 Reading Schedule *Required readings; others recommended Week 1 Topic Readings Jan. 30 Feb. 1 Week 2 Feb. 6 Feb. 8 Week 3 Feb. 13 Feb. 15 Week 4 Feb. 20 Introduction of the course Historiography of overseas Chinese among the paradigms of modern world history China s longterm engagement with the seas The lands and the people China's maritime frontier in the imperial era Chinese seaborne trade and the East-West exchanges in the age of colonialism, Overseas Chinese and the rising British power in Asia *Bentley, Cross-Cultural Interaction and Periodization in World History ; *Curtin, The Comparative World History Approach *Kuhn, Ch. 1, pp Wang Gungwu, "Seaward Sweep: the Chinese in Southeast Asia" *Kuhn, Ch. 1, pp Skinner, Presidential Address: the Structure of Chinese History *Bin Wong, "Relationships between the Political Economies of Maritime and Agrarian China, Ng Chin-keong, Maritime Frontiers, Territorial Expansion and Hai-fang *Kuhn, Ch. 2, pp ; Andrade, Introduction Lin Man-houng, The Shift from East Asia to the World *Kuhn, Ch. 2, pp ; Feb. 22 Week 5 Feb. 27** Feb. 29 Week 6 March 5 March 7 Week 7 March 12 March 14 From the Opium Wars to coolie trade Opium and overseas Chinese business networks Overseas Chinese as Intermediaries of Imperial Rivalry in Southeast Asia *Kuhn, Ch. 3, pp ; *Trocki, Opium and the Beginning of Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia Tagliacozzo, Border-line Legal *Kuhn, Ch. 4, pp ; Tagliacozzo, Kettle on a Slow Boil Overseas Chinese and China s Transformation *Bergère Sun Yat-sen, Chapter 1 *Kuhn, Ch. 5, pp ; Mass Migration and Exclusion Northup, Free and Unfree Labor Migration Chinese exclusion laws in the US An Elastic Community across the Pacific Ocean *Hsu, Ch. 3, pp ; McKeown, Ritualization of Regulation *Hsu, Ch. 4, pp ; Chan, Personal Styles, Cultural Values and Management

5 Week 8 Week 9 March 26 March 28 Week 10 April 2 April 4 Week 11 April 9 April 11 Week 12 April 16 April 18 Week 13 April 23** April 25 Week 14 April 30 May 2 May 9 Spring Break Returned Overseas Chinese in Their Homelands Chinese Nationalism and Transnationalism, 1920s-30s The Chinese Problem in Anti-Colonial Struggles in Southeast Asia Ethnic Chinese in Postwar Southeast Asia Hong Kong as the Capital of Overseas Chinese New Immigrants from China New Chinese Immigrants in the Globalizing World Overseas Chinese and China's Economic Reforms Overseas Chinese and the Contemporary Ascendance of China Second Exam Presentation Presentation Paper due Carroll, Colonial Hong Kong as a Cultural-Historical Place *Hsu, Ch. 6, pp ; Ch. 7: *Kuhn, Ch. 6; Kuo, Rescuing Businesses through Transnationalism *Kuhn, Ch. 7: ; Matthew Johns, A Segregated Asia *Trocki, Ch. 4: The Politics of Independence ; Gomez, The Rise and Fall of Capital *Pan, Hong Kong ; *Hamilton, Hong Kong and the Rise of Capitalism in Asia ; Sinn, Xin Xi Guxiang *Kuhn, Ch. 8: ; *Min Zhou, Once Excluded, Now Ascendance Li, Beyond Chinatown, Beyond Enclave *Kuhn, Ch. 8: ; *Liu Hong, Old Linkages, New Networks Tu Huyhn, Jung Park Yoon and Anna Ying Chen, Faces of China: New Chinese Migrants in South Africa *Ong, Higher Learning in Global Space *Zweig and Rosen, How China Trained a New Generation Abroad *Callahan, Beyond Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism Barabantseva, Trans-nationalising Chineseness