This is a mandatory course designed for the first year research postgraduate students of the History Department. The goal is to prepare the students with a wide-range knowledge of modern historiography.  Through a series of lectures by invited professors (including potential supervisors of new students), the students could have the chance to learn and appreciate various approaches to the study of history.  

At the lectures, the invited professors will share with students their research experience and present their research projects or findings in class focusing on research methodologies, approaches, and issues related to historiography, i.e., the writing of history based on the critical use of sources, the selection of particulars from the sources and the synthesis of particulars that will demonstrate the author’s historian’s crafts, other techniques of inquiry and investigation, or writing skills. If available, a list of readings, which may or may not be the speaker’s own works, can be provided by the professor to support the lecture.

The lecture may last about 60 minutes. The enrolled students are required to attend all classes. After the lecture, students may ask questions or present their comments on the lecture as well as the readings. Each student should give oral feedback on at least 5 lectures. By the end of the term, each student should turn in three critical reports on three selected topics among the lectures (average 5 pages each in Chinese or English). In addition, they are to submit revised thesis project proposals which are polished from the ones submitted when they applied for admission to the postgraduate programme. It is expected that the revisions are improved works inspirited by this course.

Assignments

1）Research proposal  

Deadline: October 08（Mon） 17:00 

2)  Revised research proposal, attached with an explanation of your amendment.

Deadline: December 10  (Mon) 17:00

3)  Choose one lecture to write a critical report and list extended references.

The written report should be submitted with Veriguide receipt. 

Deadline: In two weeks after the lecture

Assessment

1) participation and presentation for class  30%

2  research proposal 10%

3) end-of-term critical revision of research proposal 40%

4) written report with extended references: 20%

Week 2:

http://stanfordpress.typepad.com/blog/2018/03/the-secret-society-and-the-sociologist.html

Week 4:

卜永坚，〈万历朝鲜战争第一阶段(1592-1593)的明军—以《中国明朝档案总匯》卫所选簿爲中心之考察〉，中国社会科学院历史研究所明史研究室编，《明史研究论丛》第12辑(北京：中国广播电视出版社，2014年1月)，页132-141.

卜永坚，〈十六世纪朝鲜战争与明朝中央政治〉，《明代研究》第28期(2017年6月)，页39-63。http://www.airitilibrary.com/Publication/alDetailedMesh?docid=16075994-201706-201708240013-201708240013-39-64

许南麟著，宋宇航译，〈丁酉再乱时期丰臣秀吉的撤退尝试与战争的终结〉，《新亚学报》第34卷(2017年8月)，页285-314。http://www.airitilibrary.com/Publication/alDetailedMesh?DocID=P20171013001-201708-201710130027-201710130027-285-314

郑洁西，〈万历朝鲜战争期间和平条件的交涉及其变迁〉，《学术研究》2017年第9期，页132-143。

Week 6:

Cwiertka, Katarzyna J.”The West, the Emperor and the Meat-Eating Taboo.” Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity (London: Reaktion,2006), pp.24-34

Week 9:

黄宗智，1999，〈中国法律制度的经济史、社会史、文化史研究〉，《北大法律评论》二卷一辑，北京：法律出版社，页（http://pkulaw.cn/%28S%28pvgj1x45wuwnwm5555df4e55%29%29/fulltext_form.aspx?Db=qikan&Gid=0a74cfd97cc0fecc97bb040ece13b929bdfb&EncodingName= ）

Pierre Bourdieu, 1987. “The Force of Law: Toward a Sociology of the Juridical Field.” Translated by Richard Terdiman. The Hastings Law Journal 38.5: 814-853. 强世功译，〈法律的力量：迈向司法场域的社会学〉，「北大法律网‧法律在线」（http://article.chinalawinfo.com/ArticleHtml/Article_27697.shtml ）

 Week 10:

滨下武志：〈海关洋员回顾录和第二代海关史研究〉，《国家航海（ 第十六辑）》，上海: 上海古籍出版社, 2016年，第200-210页。

Week 11:

 温春来，《从“异域”到“旧疆”：宋至清贵州西北部地区的制度、开发与认同》，北京：三联书店，2008年。

温春来、黄国信，〈改土归流与地方社会权力结构的演变——以贵州西北部地区为例〉，《中央研究院历史语言研究所集刊》，第76卷，第2期（2005年6月），页351-410；

Sutton Donald, “Violence and Ethnicity on a Qing Colonial Frontier: Customary and Statutory Law in the Eighteenth-Century Miao Pale,” Modern Asian Studies, 37:1 (2003)，p. 41-80;

Crossley, Pamela Kyle. Siu Helen and Sutton Donald edited. Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern China. University of California Press, 2006.

Shepherd, John. Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, 1600-1800, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993（邵式柏著，林伟盛等译，张隆志导读，《臺湾边疆的治理与政治经济（1600-1800）》，臺北：国立臺湾大学出版中心，2016）

柯志明，〈清代臺湾三层式族群空间体制的形构与转化：紫线界前後的比较〉，《臺湾史研究》，卷22期2（2015年6月），页45-110。

Xie Xiaohui, Competing for Orthodoxy: Territorial Kings and the Creation of Lineages among the Tujia,” Asian Ethnicity, 18:2 (2017), p. 190-203.

谢晓辉，〈帝国之在苗疆：清代湘西的制度、礼仪与族群〉，《历史人类学学刊》，卷11 (2013)，页51-88。

蔡志祥、黄永豪、谢晓辉编，《边陲社会与国家建构》，臺北：臺湾稻乡出版社，2017。

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