week1, August 20–22

Class ActivitiesReading and Viewing Assignments
WednesdayIntroduce and calibrate the course; case studies of Guo Songtao in London reading The TimesFukuzawa Yukichi Datsu-A
FridayIntro to Orientalism; excerpt of Chinese Exclusion ActChapters by Arthur Smith in Chinese Characteristics: Face and Conservatism;

Chinese syllabus

日期 课堂活动 阅读与电影欣赏作业
     
星期三 介绍授课方式;郭嵩涛; 东西文明冲突; 福泽.谕吉 Datsu-A,《脱亚入欧》;
星期五 欧美文化中的东方主义词汇排华法案段落; 史密斯《中国人的性格》的第一章“保全面子”和第十四章“因循守旧”;