Interactive Syllabus

GEOGRAPHY 3822

GEOGRAPHY OF CHINA

Fall 2009

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 Assignment Pickup – Assignments will be available for pick up from Adam in class every Tuesday. They will also be available for pick up in the Geography Department office in a cardboard box marked “GEOGRAPHY 3822.”

Date	Topic	Lecture Outline	Reading	Reading Questions	Answer Key
Introduction
8/25	Course introduction, basic terms, concepts, and language Click here for results of “How was your trip to China” write-ups	Outline	Click here for a description of basic terminology and concepts. This reading is required.
8/27	Population – China’s history as a geography of population growth and change	Outline	http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/timeline.htm Murphey, R. 1999. The historical context. In Understanding Contemporary China, ed. R. Gamer (Boulder: Lynne Rienner), 29-62 – available on Norlin e-reserve
Environment
9/1	China’s environment 1	Outline List of features you need to know for Map Quizzes	http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/geo/land.htm
9/3	China’s environment 2	Outline	http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/geo/land.htm See summer monsoon and winter monsoon maps at course maps page
Regional China
9/8	Agriculture and food	Outline	Anderson, E.N. 1988. Regions and Locales. In The Food of China (New Haven, Yale University Press), 159-186 – available on Norlin e-reserve	Reading Questions for Anderson	Anderson Reading Question Answers
9/10	MAP QUIZ 1 – physical features Native place and regional stereotypes	Outline List of features you need to know for Map Quizzes	Blum, S. 2000. China’s many faces: ethnic, cultural, and religious pluralism. In China Beyond the Headlines, eds. T. Weston and L. Jensen (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield), 69-95 – available on Norlin e-reserve	Reading Questions for Blum	Blum Reading Question Answers
9/15	Minzu classifications and ethnic identity	Outline	http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/geo/people.htm Blum, S. 2000. China’s many faces (see 9/10)
9/17	North and South	Outline	Friedman, E. 2002. Symbols of southern identity: rivaling unitary nationalism." In China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom. S. Blum and L. Jensen, eds., (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press), pp. 31-44 – available online via Chinook or, Click here for PDF of Friedman Article	Reading Questions for Friedman	Friedman Reading Question Answers
9/22	The spatial approach to Chinese history	Outline	Skinner, G. W. 1985. The structure of Chinese history. Journal of Asian Studies 44(2): 271-292 – available online via Chinook
9/24	The frontier: rethinking China from the outside in	Outline	Leibold, J. 2007. From empire to nation: the bounding of the Chinese geo-body. In Reconfiguring Chinese Nationalism: How the Qing Frontier and its Indigenes Became Chinese (London: Palgrave), pp. 17-47 – available on Norlin e-reserve	Reading Questions for Leibold	Leibold Reading Question Answers
9/29	News Commentary 1 DUE Discussion/Review/Film clips	EXAM 1 REVIEW SHEET	EXAM 1 REVIEW SHEET
10/1	EXAM 1		Exam 1 Key – Pink Version Exam 1 Key – Blue Version
State-Space
10/6	Walled space – neighborhood, city, and traditional urban form	Outline	Knapp, R. 2000. Chinese wall-building traditions. In China's Walled Cities (Oxford, Oxford University Press), pp. 3-41 – available on Norlin e-reserve Bray, D. 2005. Walls and compounds. In Social Space and Governance in Urban China: The danwei system from origins to reform (Stanford: Stanford University Press), pp. 16-36 – available on Norlin e-reserve	Reading Questions for Bray	Bray Reading Questions Answers
10/8	Territorial administration – counties and provinces	Outline	Fitzgerald, J. 2002. The province in history. In Rethinking China's Provinces, ed. J. Fitzgerald (London and New York: Routledge): 11-39 – available on Norlin e-reserve
10/13 Oakes gone	ESSAY 1 DUE Socialist urbanization & industrialization (the case of Shanghai)	Outline	Naughton, B. 1995. Cities in the Chinese economic system: changing roles and conditions for autonomy. In Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China, eds. D. S. Davis, R. Kraus, B. Naughton and E. J. Perry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press): 61-89 – available on Norlin e-reserve
10/15 Oakes gone	MAP QUIZ 2 – provinces & cities Film: Heart of the Dragon – Working		Bray, D. 2005. Danwei space. In Social Space and Governance in Urban China: The danwei system from origins to reform (Stanford: Stanford University Press), pp. 123-156 – available on Norlin e-reserve	Reading Questions for Bray	Bray Reading Question Answers
10/20	Collectivization and Communes	Outline	Howard, P. 1987. Communication, cooperation, and conflict in the Mao era: a legacy of theory and practice. In Breaking the Iron Rice Bowl: Prospects for Socialism in China’s Countryside (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe), 17-44 – available on Norlin e-reserve
10/22	Hukou	Outline	Chan, KW. 2009. The Chinese Hukou System at 50. Eurasian Geography and Economics 50(2): 197-221 – available online via Chinook
10/27 Oakes gone	Reforming the system		Veeck, G. et al. 2007. A preface to China’s changing economic geography. In China’s Geography, eds. G. Veeck, C. Pannell, C. Smith, and Y. Huang (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield), pp. 177-204 – available on Norlin e-reserve	Reading Questions for Veeck et al	Veeck Reading Question Answers
10/29 Oakes gone	Film: Manufactured Landscapes		http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/index.html Go to ‘China’, under ‘Works’ in the left-hand links column.
11/3	Heritage, Development and Themed Space	Outline	Bellocq, M. 2006. The cultural heritage industry in the PRC: What memories are being passed on? China Perspectives 67 (September-October), 22-32 – available on Norlin e-reserve
11/5	News Commentary 2 DUE Discussion/Review		EXAM 2 REVIEW SHEET
11/10	EXAM 2		Exam 2 Key – Green Version Exam 2 Key – Blue Version
Social Space
11/12	Home	Outline	http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/home/3arcvari.htm
11/17	Mobility 1 – spaces of labor	Outline	Pun, N. 2006. Marching from the village: women’s struggles between work and family. In Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace (Durham: Duke University Press), pp. 49-75 – available on Norlin e-reserve	Reading Questions for Pun	Pun Reading Question Answers
11/19	Mobility 2 – spaces of leisure	Outline	Luo Rioux, A.Y. forthcoming. Pilgrim or tourist? Transformation of China’s Revolutionary holy land. In Faiths on Display: Tourism and Religion in China, eds. T. Oakes and D. Sutton (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield) – available on Norlin e-reserve	Reading Questions for Luo Rioux	Luo Rioux Reading Question Answers
12/1	ESSAY 2 DUE Contemporary rural landscapes	Outline	Gao, M. 1999. Change and continuity: culture and customs, and Gao village and the outside world. In Gao Village: Rural Life in Modern China (Honolulu: University of Hawaii), pp. 223-254 – available on Norlin e-reserve	Reading Questions for Gao	Gao Reading Question Answers
12/3	Contemporary urban landscapes	Outline	Meyer, M. 2008. Preserving a sense of place, and The unslumming slum. In The Last Days of Old Beijing (New York: Walker), pp. 108-130 and 158-173 – available on Norlin e-reserve
12/8	Environmental issues	Outline	Shapiro, J. 2007. The political roots of China’s environmental degradation. In China’s Transformations, eds. L. Jensen and T. Weston (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield), pp. 50-67 – available on Norlin e-reserve	Reading Questions for Shapiro	Shapiro Reading Question Answers
12/10	News Commentary 3 DUE Discussion/Review/Film clips		FINAL EXAM REVIEW SHEET
12/15	FINAL EXAM 7:30 – 10:00 PM		FINAL EXAM KEY

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