Designed to examine the history of family, gender and material culture in early modern societies in Asia and Europe, this is a senior seminar course that intends to have PhD students prepared for academic writing. It begins by introducing how fundamental structural changes in demography, legal, ethics, and religion related to gender and material culture, since the 17th century as those define the socio-cultural environment within which women, families and material culture operated in Asia and Europe as they (formulated) their ever-evolving adjustments. After a review of main interpretations for these historical changes, the course moves to show how the specific experiences of women, families and material culture in late-imperial and modern China exhibit both comparable similarities as well as important contrast with those in early modern and modern Europe.

As senior seminar, there will be no prerequisites required for this course. Other than following weekly readings, taking part in classroom discussions, every student is expected to finish a paper, having included available field study in Hong Kong or the region (Taiwan, Macau, China), which is may be publishable or presentable in academic conference.

1. Lecture I (14 Jan)

Introduction (Personal bios stating the reason of choosing this course) 

Required Readings:

• Laslett, Peter. The World We Have Lost. London: Methuen and Company, 1971 (chap. 1)
• Stone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex and Marriage: in England, 1500-1800. New York: Harper & Row, 1979 (chap. 1)

2. Lecture II (21 Jan)

Domesticity and Private Sentiments (Submission of abstract for the final paper)

Required Readings:

• 杨豫：〈西方家庭史研究的发展现状与未来趋勢〉，载《新史学》，1990，第一卷第3期。页89-115
• Ko, Dorothy. Teachers of the Inner Chamber: Women and Culture in the Seventeenth-century China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994 (chaps. 1, 3).

3. Lecture III (28 Jan)

Young and Old, Parent-Children Relations

Required Readings:

• Trumbach, Randolph. The Rise of the Egalitarian Family: Aristocratic Kinship and Domestic Relations in Eighteenth-century England. New York: Academic Press, 1978 (chap. 3)
• 熊秉真著，岳心怡译：〈建构的感情：明清家庭的母子关系〉，载卢建荣编，《性别﹑政治与集体心态：中国新文化史。臺北：麦田出版社，2001。页255-280
• 刘咏聪：〈士大夫及平民阶层的育儿状况〉，载氏著《中国古代育儿》。臺北：台湾商务印书局，1998。页111-184。

4. Lecture IV (4 Feb)

Men and Women or Husbands and Wives

Required Readings:

• Mark Elvin, “Female Virtue and the State in China,” in Another History: Essays on China from a European Perspective. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996: 302-351
• 杜芳琴：〈阴阳乾坤说与中国两性文化〉，收氏著《发现妇女的历史：中国妇女史论集》。天津：天津社会科学院，1996。页151-163。

5. Lecture V (11 Feb)

Public Sphere and Gender (Prepare the list of secondary references)

Required Readings:

• Bray, Francesca. Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997 (Introduction; chap. 3)
• 叶汉明：〈女性主义史学与中国妇女社会史：当代西方研究的批判及中国妇女史学的展望〉，载张妙清等编，《性别学与妇女研究：华人社会的探索》。臺北：稻乡出版社，1997。页97-149。

6. Lecture VI (18 Feb)

China and the West in a Longer Perspective

Required Readings:

• Davis, Natalie Z. Society and Culture in Early Modern France. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975 (chap. 5)
• Mann, Susan. “Grooming a Daughter for Marriage: Bride and Wives in the Mid-Ch’ing Period,” in Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society, edited by Rubie S. Watson and Patricia Buckley Ebrey, 204-203. California: University of California, 1991

7. Lecture VII (25 Feb)

Eat and Drink: Material Culture in Late Imperial China

Required Readings:

• Bray, Francesca. Technology and Gender: Fabrics of power in Late Imperial China. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997 (Intro. & chap.3)
• Davis, Natalie Z. Society and Culture in Early Modern France. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975.

8. Lecture VIII (3 Mar)

Material Conditions and Daily Life

Required Readings:

• Lee, James Z., and Wang Feng. One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: Harvard University Press, 1999.
• Laslett, Peter. The World We Have Lost. London: Methuen and Company, 1971 (chap.1)

9. Writing Period (10 Mar)

10. Presentation (17 Mar)

11. Presentation (24 Mar)

12. Presentation (31 Mar)
 
13. Presentation (7 Apr)
 
14. Presentation (14 Apr)
 
15. Paper due and conclusion (21 Apr)

1) Discussion in class 30%

2) Oral presentation 20%

3) Term Paper 50%

Required Texts: (to be Reserved in ULS)

• Bray, Francesca. Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997.
• Davis, Natalie Z. Society and Culture in Early Modern France. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975.
• Elvin, Mark. Another History: Essays on China from a European Perspective. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996.
• Furth, Charlotte. A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China’s Medical History, 960-1665. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997.
• Gay, Peter. The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud. Vol. 1, Education of the Senses. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.
• Ko, Dorothy. Teachers of the Inner Chamber: Women and Culture in the Seventeenth-century China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.
• Laslett, Peter. The World We Have Lost. London: Methuen and Company, 1971.
• Lee, James Z., and Wang Feng. One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: Harvard University Press, 1999.
• Saari, Jon L. Legacies of Childhood: Growing up Chinese in a Time of Crisis, 1890- 1920. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press, 1990.
• Stone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex and Marriage: in England, 1500-1800. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.
• Trumbach, Randolph. The Rise of the Egalitarian Family: Aristocratic Kinship and Domestic Relations in Eighteenth-century England. New York: Academic Press, 1978.
• Watson, Rubie S. and Patricia Buckley Ebrey, eds. Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
• Zeldin, Theodore. An Intimate History of Humanity. New York: Harper Collins, 1995.
• 杜芳琴：《发现妇女的历史：中国妇女史论集》。天津：天津社会科学院，1996。
• 刘咏聪：《中国古代育儿》。臺北：台湾商务印书局，1998。
• 叶汉明：〈女性主义史学与中国妇女社会史：当代西方研究的批判及中国妇女史学的展望〉，载张妙清等编，《性别学与妇女研究：华人社会的探索》。臺北：稻乡出版社，1997。页97-149。
• 杨豫：〈西方家庭史研究的发展现状与未来趋勢〉，载《新史学》，1990，第一卷第3期。页89-115
• 熊秉真著，岳心怡译：〈建构的感情：明清家庭的母子关系〉，载卢建荣编，《性别﹑政治与集体心态：中国新文化史。臺北：麦田出版社，2001。页255-280。

Recommended References:

• Adshead, Samuel Adrian. Material Culture in Europe and China, 1400-1800: the Rise of Consumerism. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
• Ames, Roger T. ed. Self as Person in Asian Theory. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.
• Aries, Philippe and Georges Duby eds. A History of Private Life. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London: Harvard University Press, 1987.
• Baker, Hugh D. R. Chinese Family and Kinship. London: Macmillan Press, 1979.
• de Bary, William Theodore. Self and Society in Ming Though. New York: Columbia University press, 1970.
• Benedict, Carol. Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-century China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.
• Bernhardt, Kathryn. “A Ming-Qing Transition in Chinese Women’s History,” in Remapping China, edited by G. Hershatter, et al. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.
• Braudel, Fernand. Civilization and Capitalism, 15th -18th Century, Vol. 3, The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
• Cochran, Sherman, Andrew C. K. Hsieh, Janis Cochran. One Day in China, May 21, 1936. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.
• Cohen, Myron L. House United. House Divided: The Chinese Family in Taiwan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976.
• Darton, F. J. Harvey. Children’s Books in England, Five Centuries of Social Life, third edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
• Ebrey, Patricia B. The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
• ———————. The Cambridge Illustrated History of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• Edwards, Louise P. Men and Women in Q’ing China: Gender in The Red Chamber Dream. Leiden and New York: E. J. Brill, 1994.
• Freedman, Maurice. Lineage Organization in Southeastern China. New York: Humanities Press, 1965.
• Gélis, Jacques, Rosemary Morris trans. History of Childbirth: Fertility, Pregnancy, and Birth in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991.
• Gernet, Jacques, H. M. Wright trans. Daily Life in China: on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276. New York: Macmillan, 1962.
• Gilmartin, Christina K., ed. Engendering China: Women, Culture, and the State. Cambridge and Mass: Harvard University Press, 1994.
• Golden, Mark. Children and Childhood in Classic Athens. Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1990.
• van Gulik, Robert H. Sexual Life in Ancient China: a Preliminary Survey of Chinese Sex and Society from ca. 1500 B.C. till 1644 A.D. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1974.
• Harevena, Tanara and Andrejs Plakans. Family History at the Crossroads. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
• Herlihy, David. Medieval Households. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.
• Hetherington, Penelope. Childhood and Society in Western Australia. West Australia: University of Western Australia Press, 1988.
• Heywood, Colin. Childhood in Nineteenth-century France: Work, Health, and Education Among the Classes Populaires. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
• Hopkins, Eric. Childhood Transformed: Working-class Children in Nineteenth-century England. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994.
• Huang, Philip C. C. The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350-1988. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990.
• Hung, David. Parents and Children in History. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
• Kinney, Anne B. Chinese Views of Childhood. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995.
• Lee, James Z. and Cameron Campbell. Fate and Fortune in Rural China: Social Organization and Population Behavior in Liaoning 1774-1873. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
• Levy, Marion J. Jr. The Family Revolution in Modern China. New York: Octagon Books, 1971.
• Lin, Yutang. The Guy Genius: the Life and Times of Su Tungpo. New York: John Day, 1947.
• Macfarlane, Alan. The Origins of English Individualism, the Family, Property, and Social Transition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
• McLaren Angus. A History of Contraception: from Antiquity to the Present Day. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990.
• deMause, Lloyd, ed. The History of Childhood. New York: Psychohistory Press, 1974.
• Mitterauer, Michael and Reinhard Sieder. The European Family, Patriarchy to Partnership from Middle Ages to the Present. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977.
• Morgan, Edmund S. The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth Century New England. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.
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• Ransel, David L., ed. The Family in Imperial Russia, New Lines of Historical Research. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978.
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• Sommerville, C. John. The Rise and Fall of Childhood. Beverly Hills, London, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1982.
• Thorne, Barrie and Marilyn Yalom. Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions. New York: Longman, 1982.
• Waley, Arthur. Yüan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1970.
• Wang, Zheng. Women in the Chinese Enlightenment: Oral and Textual histories. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
• Watson, Rubie S. and Patricia B. Ebrey, eds. Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
• White, Merry. The Material Child: Coming of Age in Japan and America. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989.
• Wolf, Arthur P. and Chieh-shan Huang. Marriage and Adoption in China, 1845-1945. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989.
• Wolf, Margery and Roxane Witke, eds. Women in Chinese History. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975.
• Wolf, Margery. Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1971.

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