Contemporary History of East Asia (from 1945)
Code: 106181 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2504216 Contemporary History, Politics and Economics | FB | 1 | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Martí Marin Corbera
- Email:
- Marti.Marin@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- english (eng)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- Yes
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Teachers
- Chiao-In Chen
Prerequisites
Objectives and Contextualisation
Competences
- Assess the social, economic and environmental impact when acting in this field of knowledge.
- Distinguish between and analyse the type of relations that have been established over the last century among the different social, political and economic agents on national, regional and international frameworks.
- Distinguish between governmental decision-making systems in different social and political contexts from the mid-twentieth century to the present day in state-, substate and suprastate frameworks.
- Explain and summarise knowledge acquired in English language at an advanced level.
- Identify the role in the present of the different social memories referring to conflictive pasts, differentiating between the concepts of history and memory.
- Manage and apply data to solve problems.
- Recognise and contextualise texts referring to recent contemporary history.
- Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
- Work cooperatively in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams implementing new projects.
Learning Outcomes
- Analysing the various historiographical perspectives in the different periods of history.
- Applying the necessary abilities in order to assess and spread historical knowledge.
- Assessing and critically solving the historiographical problems of war studies.
- Be familiar with the basic bibliography on historical evolution of governmental systems in the countries of reference for the subject.
- Capacity to continue future learning independently, acquiring further knowledge and exploring new areas of knowledge.
- Communicating in your mother tongue or other language both in oral and written form by using specific terminology and techniques of Historiography.
- Demonstrate capacity to adapt to changing environments.
- Demonstrate initiative and work independently when required.
- Demonstrate motivation regarding the quality of the work performed and sensitivity regarding the consequences on the environment and society.
- Developing the ability of historical analysis and synthesis.
- Distinguishing the relation between historiographical theory and practice.
- Engaging in debates about historical facts respecting the other participants' opinions.
- Express an opinion based on the nature, perspective and rigour of texts referring to the course content.
- Identifying the main and secondary ideas and expressing them with linguistic correctness.
- Know different cases of memories in conflict between different places in different states.
- Know different cases of memories in conflict between different places in the same state.
- Make a brief comparison of national and/or regional cases within the same international framework.
- Make a critical comparison of the evolution of the large regional areas that are covered in the subject.
- Make comparisons between the evolution of governmental systems within a supranational regional area.
- Make comparisons between the levels of regional autonomy within a state.
- Organise work in relation to good time management and planning.
- Recognising and implementing the following teamwork skills: commitment to teamwork, habit of cooperation, ability to participate in the problem solving processes.
- Select and generate the information necessary for each problem, analyse it and take decisions based on that information.
- Understand regional specificities within states.
- Value ethical commitment in professional practice.
- Work in teams respecting all points of view. Use the specific vocabulary of history correctly.
Content
Introduction:Aftermath of Chino-Japanese War in East Asia
Topic 1: Born of new nations in East Asia
Chinese Civil War and the New China
National Division and the Korean War (1945-53)
Japan under occupation
Cold War (1947-1991)
Topic 2: China under Mao(1949-1976):
Installation of the People's Republic of China (1949-1952)
The first Five-Year Plan (1953-1957)
The Hundred Flowers Campaign (1956-1957)
The Great Leap Forward (1958-1965)
The Cultural Revolution (1965-1976)
Topic 3: Japan and Korea (1952-1989):
Economic development and political stability
South Korea: the dictatorship of Park Chung-hee (1962-1979)
North Korea: Kim Il-sung (1948-1994)
Topic 4: Vietnam and Taiwan (1955-1988):
Vietnam War (1955-1975)
Taiwan: the dictatorship of Chiang Kai-shek (1949-1975) and Chiang Jingguo (1975-1988).
From the end of the Cold War in Asia until today (1991 -present)
Topic 5: China's post-maoism:
The Limits of reformism of Deng Xiaoping (1979-1997) and the events of Tiananmen (1989)
The China under Jiang Zeming (1993-2003)
Hu Jintao and the departure of the socialist market economy (2003-2013)
Topic 6: South Korea and Taiwan from the 90's:
The Asian economic crisis (1997)
The struggles on the street: the process of democratization in South Korea and Taiwan.
Topic 7: Japan from the 80's:
The financial and real estate bubble (1980-1990)
The long economic recovery
After the earthquake disaster and Fukushima nuclear crisis (2011)
Japanese reborn and the expectation of Tokyo 2020 Olympic games
Topic 8: New Chinese Dream: China under Xi Jinping (2013-now)
World’s factory and its economic growth
Xinjiang, Hong Kong and China’s irredentism reclaim onTaiwan
Conclusion: Covid-19 in East Asia
Methodology
- Lectures.
- Debates and discussions.
- Reading and understanding historical texts.
- Learning to compile historical information.
- Conducting reviews and drafting analytical papers.
- Individual study.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Lectures | 45 | 1.8 | 18, 17, 24, 6, 15, 16, 10, 11, 19, 20, 13, 12 |
| Reading and understanding historical texts. | 5 | 0.2 | 1, 5, 18, 17, 24, 15, 16, 10, 11, 4, 19, 20 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Conducting reviews and drafting analytical papers. | 30 | 1.2 | 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 4, 13, 14, 9, 21, 12, 22, 23, 26, 25 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Individual study | 38 | 1.52 | 3, 5, 18, 17, 24, 15, 16, 7, 8, 19, 20, 21 |
Assessment
Evaluation
- Writing exams: 30%
- Group work: 40%
-Individual assignment: 30%
Related matters
The above information on assessment, assessment activities and their weighting is merely a guide. The subject's lecturer will provide full information when teaching begins.
Review
When publishing final marks prior to recording them on students' transcripts, the lecturer will provide written notification of a date and time for reviewing assessment activities. Students must arrange reviews in agreement with the lecturer.
Missed/failed assessment activities
Students may retake assessment activities they have failed or compensate for any they have missed, provided that those they have actually performed account for a minimum of 66.6% (two thirds) of the subject's final mark and that they have a weighted average mark of at least 3.5. Under no circumstances may an assessment activity worth 100% of the final mark be retaken or compensated for.
The lecturer will inform students of the procedure involved, in writing, when publishing final marks prior to recording them on transcripts. The lecturer may set one assignment per failed or missed assessment activity or a single assignment to cover a number of such activities.
Classification as "not assessable"
In the event of the assessment activities a student has performed accounting for just 25% or less of the subject's final mark, their work will be classified as "not assessable" on their transcript.
Misconduct in assessment activities
Students who engage in misconduct (plagiarism, copying, personation, etc.) in an assessment activity will receive a mark of “0” for the activity in question. In the case of misconduct in more than one assessment activity, the students involved will be given a final mark of “0” for the subject.
Students may not retake assessment activities in which they are found to have engaged in misconduct. Plagiarism is considered to mean presenting all or part of an author's work, whether published in print or in digital format, as one's own, i.e. without citing it. Copying is considered to mean reproducing all or a substantial part of another student's work. In cases of copying in which it is impossible to determine which of two students has copied the work of the other, both will be penalized.
More information: http://www.uab.cat/web/study-abroad/undergraduate/academic-information/evaluation/what-is-it-about-1345670077352.html
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group work | 40% | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 2, 6, 15, 16, 10, 4, 13, 14, 9, 21, 12, 22, 26, 25 |
| Individual assingment | 30% | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 5, 18, 17, 24, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 21, 23 |
| Writing exams | 30% | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 3, 18, 17, 24, 6, 10, 4, 19, 20, 13, 14, 23 |
Bibliography
GENERAL
SHIROKAUER, Conrad, and Suzanne Gay. A Brief History of Japanese Civilization. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2012.
SHIROKAUER, Conrad and Brown, Miranda. A Brief History of Chinese Civilization.Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2006.
CHINA
-BOLINAGA, I. La China de Mao. Del mito a Tiananmen, Anaya, Madrid, 2013.
- DAVIS, D. S. The Consumer Revolution in Urban China. Berkeley, Uni.of California Press, 2000.
-ESTEBAN RODRÍGUEZ, M. China después de Tian’anmen. Nacionalismo y cambio político, Edicions Bellaterra, Barcelona, 2007.
-FISAC, T. y TSANG, S. eds.China en trasición. Sociedad, cultura, política y economía, Edicions Bellaterra, Barcelona, 2000.
- GOLDMAN, M and MACFARQUHAR, R. ed. The Paradox of China’s Post-Mao Reforms.Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1999.
-GUILLERMAZ, J. Historia de Partido Comunista Chino, Ediciones Península, Barcelona, 1970.
- JOSEPH, W. A., WONG, C P. W and ZWEIG, D. New Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution. Cambridge, The Council on East Asia Studies/Harvard University, 1991.
- LIN Min and GALIKOWSKI, M. The Search for Modernity: Chinese Intellectual and Cultural Discourse in the Post-Mao Era. New York Columbia Univ. Press, 1994.
- LOGAN, J. R. The New Chinese City: Globalization and Market Reform. Oxford, Blackwekk Publishers, 2002.
-MACFARQUHAR, R. y SCHOENHALS, M.: La revolución cultural china, Crítica, Barcelona, 2009.
- OLLÉ, M. Made in China. El despertar social, político y cultural de la China contemporánea, Destino, Barcelona, 2005.
- RÍOS, X. China pide paso. De Hu Jintao a Xi Jinping, Icaria, Barcelona, 2012.
JAPAN
- BRINTON, M. C. Women and the Economic Miracle: Gender and Work in Postwar Japan.Berkeley, Uni.of California Press, 1994.
-CALDER, K. E. Crisis and Compensation: Public Policy and Political Stability in Japan, 1949-1986. New Jersey: Princeton Univ. Press, 1988.
- COOXA. D. and Peter Duus, ed. The Cambridge History of Japan, vol. 6: The Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1988.
- CURTIS, G. L. The Japanese Way of Politics, New York Columbia Univ. Press, 1988.
- DOWER, J. W. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1999.
- GORDON, A. A Modern History of Japan. From Tokugawa Time to the Present, Oxford University Press, 2009.
- GOTO-JONES, C. Modern Japan. A very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2009.
- KINGSTON, J. Contemporary Japan. History, Politics and the Social change since the 1980s, Blackwell Publish, 2011.
- MIMURA, J. Planning for Empire. Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 2011.
KOREA
- CLARK, D. N. Korea in World History. Ann Arbor. Association for Asian Studies, 2012.
- CUMINGS, B. Korea’s place in the sun. A modern history, Norton, New York y London, 1997.
- MILLET. A. E. The War for Korea. Vol. I, 1945-1950: A House Burning. Lawrence. University of Kansas, 2005.
- MILLET. A. E. The War for Korea. Vol. II, 1950-1951: They came form the North. Lawrence. University of Kansas, 2010.
TAIWAN
- CORCEFF, S. ed. Memories of the Future: National Identity Issues and the Search for a New Taiwan.New York, M. E. Sharpe. 2002.
-ROY, D. Taiwan a political history. New York. Cornell Univ. Press, 2003
-RUBINSTEIN, M. A., ed., Taiwan: A New History. Armonk, N. Y., M.E. Sharpe, 1999.
Software
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