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Week 1:  January 9, 11

Introduction, Geography, Demography

Vreeland, Mongol Community and Kinship Structure, 1-193

 

Week 2:  January 16, 18

Inner Mongolian Society under the Qing/Ch'ing dynasty

Pao Kuo-yi, "Marriage Customs," "Family and Kinship Structure," "Child Birth and Child Training," Lama Temple and Lamaism," Mostaert, "Ethnographic materials," "Opening of the Seal"

 

Week 3: January 23, 25

Buddhism in Qing Society

Vreeland, Mongol Community and Kinship Structure, 194-323

Discussion of readings, January 25

Map Quiz in Class, January 23

 

Week 4:  January 30, February 1

Chinese culture and people in Inner Mongolia

Hangin, Köke Sudur, pp. 1-188

Discussion of readings, February 1

 

Week 5: February 6, 8

Foreign pressure and the New Policies

Huc and Gabet, Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China, pp. 1-306

Discussion of readings, February 8

 

Week 6:  February 13, 15

The New Policies and the 1911 Revolution

Onon, Mongolian Heroes of the Twentieth Century, pp. 42-104; Serruys, "Documents from Ordos," Parts I and II

bibliography for paper due, February 13

 

Week 7:  February 20, 22

Theories of nationalism

Serruys, "Two Didactic Poems,"  "A Socio-Political Document"

Discussion of readings, February 22

 

Week 8:  February 27, Marsh 1

Young Mongols and the Nationalist Revolution

Zen-Sun, "Results of Culture Contact," Kuo Tao-fu, "Modern Mongolia"

Midterm:  March 1

 

Week 9:  March 6, 8

Japanese Rule

Aberle, Chahar and Dagor Mongol Bureaucratic Administration, pp. 1-113

Discussion of Readings, March 8

 

Week 10:  March 20, 22

East Mongolian Revolution and Land Reform in Communist Inner Mongolia

Hangin, "Na.  Sayincoytu's (Sayicungya) Works,"  Atwood, "Romantic Vision of National Regeneration," "Poems of Fraternity"

 

Week 11:  March 27, 29

Inner Mongolia, 1949-1957

Punsek[=Pungsug], "Golden Khingan Mountains," Malqinhu, On the Horqin Grasslands, pp. 49-164

Discussion of readings, March 29

 

Week 12: April 3, 5

Collectivization and the Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution and the "New Nei-Ren-Dang" case

Burton and Salaff, Cowboys and Cultivators

 

Week 13:  April 10, 12

Inner Mongolia from 1979 to the Present:  Economic policy and the countryside

Discussion of Readings, April 19

 

Week 14:  April 17, 19

Film "An American Cowboy in Mongolia"

Discussion of film, April 19

 

Week 15:  April 24, 26

Inner Mongolia from 1979 to the Present:  Ethnicity, Educational Policy and the Urban Mongols

Hangin, "Batumöngke's 'Qamar Lodon," "The Knot"; Bing Wang, One School/Two Systems

Discussion of Readings, April 26

 

Paper Due in class, April 24

Final Examination: