This course studies the formation and transformation of Chinese diplomatic system from 1500s to 1900s.  It explores the establishment of Chinese tributary system in the Ming dynasty and traces its collapse in the nineteenth century as a result of the onslaught of Western imperialism.  It analyzes the complex process in which China gradually accepted a new international order demarcated by European international law.

Details of the course will be announced soon.

For your reference, in the last few semesters, the course has been designed to focus on one of these topics, respectively:

* Lord Macartney’s embassy to China (1792-179)

* Guo Songtao’s embassy to Europe based on his diary (1877-1878)

* The Alcock Convention (1869-1870)

* Qing China’s Burlingame Mission (1867-1870)

* Qing-Japan dispute over Taiwan (1874)

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This is the course outline for the Second Semester of Year 2012-13 (January-April 2013).  The course focused on the Burlingame Mission (1867-1870)

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(1) 2013.01.17 The tributary system of imperial China

J.K. Fairbank, “Tributary trade and China’s relations with the West”, The Far Eastern Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Feb., 1942), pp. 129-149

(2) 2013.01.24 Ming China’s war with Annam (Vietnam) (1408-1428) 

A   Nguen Khac Vien, Vietnam: A Long History (Hanoi: The Gioi Publishers, 1993). 

B   Nha Xuât Bån Khoa Học Xã Hội Việt Nam [Yuenan shehui kexue weiyuanhui越南社会科学委员会], trans. Beijing daxue dongyuxi yuenanyu jiaoyanshi北京大学东语系越南语教研室, Lịch Sủ Việt Nam [Yuenan lishi越南历史] 1971 ed. (Beijing: Beijing renmin chubanshe, 1977).

C   Zhang Tingyu张廷玉et al, Mingshi明史 (Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1974), pp. 8309-8430.

(3) 2013.01.31 Western perception of China

Gregory Blue, “China and Western social thought in the modern period”, in Timothy Brook and Gregory Blue ed., China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge (Cambridge, U.K.; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 57-109.

(4) 2013.02.04 Lord Macartney’s embassy to China (1792-1794)

A   Sir George Staunton (1737-1801), An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China….. (1793).

B   J. L. Cranmer-Byng ed., An Embassy to China: Lord Macartney’s Journal, 1793-1794 (1962), in Patrick Tuck ed., Britain and the China Trade 1635-1842 (London and New York: Routledge, 2000), vol. VIII.

C   Zhongguo diyi lishi danganguan中国第一历史档案馆编ed, Yingshi ma ga er ni fanghua dangan shiliao huibian英使马戛尔尼访华档案史料汇编 (Beijing: Guoji wenhua chuban gongsi, 1996).

D   Franz Schurmann and Orville Schell ed., China Readings 1: Imperial China (Penguin Books, 1967), pp. 99-107.

(5) 2013.02.21 Guo Songtao’s embassy to the West (1877-1878)

John David Frodsham trans. and annot., The First Chinese Embassy to the West: the Journals of Kuo Sung-t’ao, Liu His-hung and Chang Te-yi (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974).

王立诚编校﹐《郭嵩焘等使西日记六种》(中国近代学术名著丛书﹐香港﹕三联书店﹐1998)。

(6) 2013.02.28 International Law and Qing China (I) 

A   林学忠，《从万国公法到公法外交：晚清国际法的传入、诠释与应用》(上海：上海古籍出版社，2009)。

B   丁韪良(W.A.P. Martin)译，《万国公法》，同治3年(1864)刊，载《续修四库全书》(上海：上海古籍出版社，1995)，子部第1299册，总页449-450。

C   “Interesting from China,” New York Times, January 9^th 1864. 【W.A.P. Martin’s article about his meeting with Zongli yamen ministers on September 10^th 1863.】

D   “Tientsin”, North China Herald, June 28^th 1873, p. 568 【comment on the Audience Problem.】

E   “Editorial”, North China Herald, July 5^th 1873, pp. 1-2.

(7) 2013.03.07 International Law and Qing China (II) 

A   林学忠，《从万国公法到公法外交：晚清国际法的传入、诠释与应用》(上海：上海古籍出版社，2009)。

B   Xiangbao湘报, Vol. 20 (March 29^th, 1898, rpt. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1965), p. 153

C   A clip from The Bridge on the River Kwai, dir. David Lean (Columbia Pictures, 1957).

D   North China Herald May 21st, June 4th, 1864. 【reports on the detainment of Danish ships by Prussian frigate on Chinese waters】

E   文庆、贾桢、宝鋆撰，《筹办夷务始末》，復旦大学图书馆藏民国19年(1930)故宫博物院影印淸内府抄本，同治朝卷26，页29b-30a，载《续修四库全书》(上海：上海古籍出版社，1995)，史部第419册，总页430。

F   North China Herald, August 22nd, September 6th, 1884 【reports and comments on Qing China’s declaration of war against France in what is known as the Sino-Franco War】

(8) 2013.03.14 International Law and Qing China (III)

A   林学忠，《从万国公法到公法外交：晚清国际法的传入、诠释与应用》(上海：上海古籍出版社，2009)。

B   Hugh Chan, “Modern legal education in China”, The China Law Review Vol. IX, No. 2 (Shanghai, Sep 1936), pp. 145-146.

C   Nakamura Shingo (1870-1939)中村进午, kokusai kouhou ron 国际公法论 [a treatise of international law] (Tokyo: Towa to, 1897).

D Nakamura Shingo中村进午 (1870-1939), trans. Chen Shixia陈时夏， Pingshi guoji gongfa 平时国际公法 [peacetime international law] (Shanghai: Commercial Press, 1911).

E Nakamura Shingo中村进午 (1870-1939), trans. Chen Shixia陈时夏， Zhanshi guoji gongfa 战时国际公法 [wartime international law] (Shanghai: Commercial Press, 1911).

(9) 2013.03.21 International Law and Qing China (IV): Alcock Convention

A   林学忠，《从万国公法到公法外交：晚清国际法的传入、诠释与应用》(上海：上海古籍出版社，2009)。

B   J.J. O’Meara ed., British Parliamentary Papers—China, Vol. 35 Correspondence Respecting the Revision of the Treaty of Tientsin 1867-83  (Irish University Press Area Studies Series. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1971).

(10a) 2013.03.28 British government VS British merchants of China trade?

Nathan A. Pelcovits, The Old China Hands and the Foreign Office (1^st ed. 1948, New York, Octagon Books, 1969).

(10b) 2013.03.28 Semester paper workshop (I)

Frederick Wells Williams, Anson Burlingame and the First Chinese Mission to Foreign Powers (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1912, rpt. Lexington, KY: Cornell University Library, 2012). Part I.

(11) 2013.04.11 Semester paper workshop (II)

A   Frederick Wells Williams, Anson Burlingame and the First Chinese Mission to Foreign Powers (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1912, rpt. Lexington, KY: Cornell University Library, 2012). Part II.

B   Burlingame’s despatch to US Secretary of State Seward on December 14th, 1867, from Shanghai, in Despatches from US Ministers to China 1843-1906, Vol. 24, National Archives (United States), Nineteenth Century Collections Online, downloaded on March 30th 2013.

(12) 2013.04.18 Semester paper workshop (III)

A   志刚著，锺叔河辑校，《初使泰西记》(走向世界丛书，长沙：湖南人民出版社，1981)

B   Zongli guoguo shiwu yamen tongguanlu总理各国事务衙门同官录[A record of officials of the Tsungli Yamen], Shanghai Library线普403512

(13) 2013.04.25 Semester paper workshop (IV)

A   Warren B Walsh and Walter, “Pacific voyage, 1866,” Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Mar. 1946), pp. 85-90.

B   Warren B Walsh and Walter, “Young Yankee in China,” Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Sep. 1946), pp. 322-335.

C   Warren B Walsh, “A visit to the Tsungli Yamen”, Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Dec. 1945), pp. 452-454.

D   Warren B Walsh, “The beginning of the Burlingame Mission”, The Far Eastern Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 3 (May. 1945), pp. 274-277.

E   Warren B Walsh, “A bandit threat to the Burlingame Mission”, The Far Eastern Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Aug. 1946), pp. 455-460.

A. Semester Paper

• Every student shall write a semester paper on an assigned topic (to be announced).  The paper shall be no shorter than 5,000 English or Chinese words including notes, and must conform to generally accepted format of academic paper.
• The paper should be uploaded to the Veriguide System, and the Veriguide certificate should be e-mailed to the course teacher Wing-kin Puk (wkpuk@arts.cuhk.edu.hk).  No printed copy is needed.
• Submission deadline to be announced, late submission of one day will lead to deduction of half grade, for instance, from A to A-.
• Please be reminded to honor academic integrity http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty.

B. Topic of the semester paper:

C. Major archives for the topic:

D. Submission of Paper:

E. Academic Honesty:

All students are to honour academic honesty.  Under no circumstances shall cheating or plagiarism be tolerated.  Academic dishonesty can lead to disciplinary action that may result in stopping your studies in this university.  Please refer to the following website about university regulations against cheating/plagiarism (copying):

http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty

F. Style sheet for paper written in English:

1. Submissions written in English should follow the Chicago Manual of Style except with respect to the following items.

2. For translations of Chinese works cited in the text, the Chinese characters (not romanization) of the original titles should be given the first time they appear, e.g. Journey to the West 西游记, “Dreams and Poetry” 梦与诗.

3. For initial citations of works in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, romanization followed by the title in the original and a commonly accepted translation, if any, should be given (use parentheses if both the title and a translation are provided), as such: Ming dai zhengzhi zhidu yanjiu 明代政治制度研究, Yi jing (易经Book of Changes).

4. Citations should generally follow the literature/history format. Footnotes in the text should be demarcated with Arabic numerals. All relevant information should be clearly and concisely listed within a footnote at the bottom of the page the citation appears on, and should not appear within the main text itself.

5. When citing the same source again, use abbreviated forms, DO NOT use “Ibid “, “op. cit”.

6. Use the following format for footnotes (using romanizations for works in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean):

(1) Lewis Mayo, “The Order of Birds in Guiyi Jun Dunhuang,” East Asian History 20 (2000.12): 45-48.

(1) Mayo, “The Order of Birds in Guiyi Jun Dunhuang,” 60.

(2) Jaroslav Prusek, The Lyrical and the Epic: Studies of Modern Chinese Literature (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980), pp. 109-110.

(2) Prusek, The Lyrical and the Epic, p. 79.

(3) Tsi-an Hsia, “Aspects of the Power of Darkness in Lu Hsun,” in Hsia, The Gates of Darkness: Studies on the Leftist Literary Movement in China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1968), pp.146-162.

(3) Hsia, “Aspects of the Power of Darkness in Lu Hsun,” p. 170.

(4) Ouyang Xiu, Ouyang Xiu quanji 欧阳修全集 (Taipei: Heluo chubanshe, 1976), juan 1, Jushi chi居士集, pp. 125-128.

(4) Ouyang Xiu, Ouyang Xiu quanji, juan 2, p. 150.

G. Style sheet for paper written in Chinese:

这是根据《汉学研究》稿例(http://ccs.ncl.edu.tw/ccs/TW/Publish1.asp)而略加修订的学术论文格式要求

同一本书（或资料）只需在第一次出现时写明出处，以後则可省略。若再引註过的资料，只写作者、书名（篇名）、页码，不可写「同註X，页X」，不可写「同上註」。

文内数字以採用阿拉伯数字为原则，如：西元年、月、日，及部、册、卷、期数等等。

一、书刊名、篇名之符号︰

1.中文书名、期刊名、报纸、剧本为《 》；论文篇名、诗篇为〈 〉。学位论文等未出版者请採用「 」。

2.单指一书中某篇文章时两者并用，如《史记》〈项羽本纪〉，《诗经》〈豳风．七月〉。

3.西文书名採用斜体，如无法作斜体处理时，请在书名下划线；篇名则採用” “。

二、引文：

短引文可用引号直接引入正文；长引文可作独立引文，不加引号，但每行起首均缩入三格。引文部分请忠於古版之原文。

三、註释方式以採用传统文史方式为原则：

文章内以阿拉伯数字为註码，无须加括号，置於标点符号之後。註码请以全篇作一计算单位，使用同一顺序，註文则置於註码当页下方（随文註）。文稿内引用文字之註释应详列出处於註文内，请勿放於行文中，包括︰引述之著作者姓名，篇名或书名（出版地：出版者，出版年），卷期及页码等。其格式例示如下：

1 欧阳修、宋祁，《新唐书》（北京：中华书局，1975），卷4〈则天皇后本纪〉，页81。

2 朱熹，〈礼一．论考礼纲领〉，宋．黎靖德编，《朱子语类》（臺北：正中书局，1970），卷84，页3453。

3 孙奇逢，〈復彭了凡〉，《夏峰先生集》（《四库禁燬书丛刊》，北京：北京出版社，2000），卷7，页189。

4 周法高，〈董妃与董小宛新考〉，《汉学研究》1.1(1983.6): 10-11。

5 李丰楙，「魏晋南北朝文士与道教之间的关系」（臺北：政治大学中文所博士论文，1978.6），页15-20。

6 李约瑟（Joseph Needham）著，杜维运等译，《中国之科学与文明》第 3 册（臺北：臺湾商务印书馆，1995），页 192。

7 森鹿三著，金立新译，〈论居延出土的卒家属廪名籍〉，载於中国社会科学院历史研究所战国秦汉史研究室编，《简牍研究译丛》第1辑（北京：中国社会科学出版社，1983），页100-102。

8 衣若芬，〈不繫之舟：吴镇及其「渔父图卷」题词〉，「元明文人之自我建构与审美风尚学术研讨会」论文（臺北：中央研究院中国文哲研究所，2004.12.16）。

9 黄仁宇，〈大历史带来的小问题〉（上），《联合报》1994.1.10，37版〈联合副刊〉。

10贾丽英，〈汉代有关女性犯罪问题论考──读张家山汉简札记〉，《简帛研究》网站，2005.12.17，http://www.jianbo.org/admin3/list.asp?id=1449（2006.1.9上网）。

11 Lewis Mayo, “The Order of Birds in Guiyi Jun Dunhuang,” East Asian History 20 (2000.12): 45-48.

12 Jaroslav Prusek, The Lyrical and the Epic: Studies of Modern Chinese Literature (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980), pp. 109-110.

13 Tsi-an Hsia, “Aspects of the Power of Darkness in Lu Hsun,” in Hsia, The Gate of Darkness: Studies on the Leftist Literary Movement in China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1968), pp. 146-162.

14 Donald Holzman, “XE “Holzman, Donald” XE “Holzman, Donald A.” Juan Chi and His Poetry” (Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1954), pp. 50-59.

• Every student shall attend four tutorials, and conduct an oral presentation of about 15 minutes, based on assigned tutorial material.
• No need to prepare a ppt for the oral presentation, the important point is to show your understanding of the tutorial material.
• No need to write a separate tutorial report, as your semester paper shall make the maximum use of the tutorial material.

Tutorial material:
【To be announced soon】

请注意大学有关学术著作诚信的政策和规则，及适用于犯规事例的纪律指引和程序。详情可浏览此处。

学生递交作业时，必须连同已签署的声明一并提交，表示他们知道有关政策、规则、指引及程序。

• 如属小组习作，则所有组员均须签署声明；所有组员 (不论有否签署声明及不论有否直接或间接撰写有问题的内容) 均须负上集体责任及受到惩处。
• 如作业以电脑制作、内容以文字为主，并经由大学「维诚」系统 (VeriGuide) 提交者，学生将作业的电子档案上载到系统后，便会获得收据，收据上已列明有关声明。
• 学生充分知悉到他们的作业可能会被人工智能内容检测软件审查，以确定其原创性。
• 学生充分知悉科目中采用人工智能工具的做法。在经允许下使用某些人工智能工具的情况下，学生已按照科目老师的指示明确注明出处和引文。

未有夹附签署妥当的声明的作业，老师将不予批阅。

学生只须提交作业的最终版本。

学生将作业或作业的一部份用于超过一个用途 (例如：同时符合两科的要求) 而没有作出声明会被视为未有声明重复使用作业。 学生重复使用其著作的措辞或某一、二句句子很常见，并可以接受，惟重复使用全部内容则构成问题。在任何情况下，须先获得相关老师同意方可提交作业。

由大学职员/老师制作的教学材料，包括课堂笔记、作业及考试题目等，其版权属香港中文大学拥有；学生可从大学采用的网上教学系统 (例如Blackboard) 下载由大学职员/老师制作的教学材料供其学习使用；惟未经相关职员/老师事先同意下，不得分发/分享/复制这些材料予第三者。