北大耶鲁 联合本科项目秋季课程说明.docx

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北大耶鲁联合本科项目秋季课程说明

北大-耶鲁联合本科项目2008秋季课程说明

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CourseTitle（Chinese）:

北京与中国，900-2006

PKUCourseNumber:

04630340

CourseTile（English）:

BeijingandChina,900-2006（Lectureclass）

ClassLength（hrs）:

3CourseCredits:

3

MeetingTime:

Monday12:

30-14:

20andWednesday12:

30-14:

20（meettwiceaweek）

Note:

Theprofessorwouldliketolecturetwiceaweekfor50minutesinEnglish,andthenwillholdanEnglish-languagesectionimmediatelyfollowingthelectureononeday,andaChinese-languagesectionontheotherday.

Studentsarerequiredtoattend2lectures+1section

Professor:

ValerieHansenTitle:

ProfessorofHistory

BriefDescription:

Introductiontothehistoryofmiddle-periodandmodernChina,focusingonthefivedynasties--Liao,Jin,Yuan,Ming,andQing--andthePeople'sRepublicwhenBeijingservedasthecapitalorasoneoffivecapitalcities.Emphasisonthelegacyofthepaststillvisibleintoday'sBeijing.Thecoursewilltakeadvantageofarcheologicalsites（BeijingManatZhoukoudian,theHan-dynastytombatFengbaotai,Fangshan）,theForbiddenCity,andthecity'smuseums（theHistoryMuseumaswellassmallerones）tointroducethemajoreventsanddevelopmentsofChinesehistorytothestudents.Thiscoursewillalsoemphasizetheanalysisofprimarydocumentsintranslation.

CourseMaterials（predicted）

Referencebooks（Author/Title/Publisher/Year）

1.Hansen,TheOpenEmpire:

AHistoryofChinato1600,W.W.Norton,2000

中译本，韩森《开放的帝国》，江苏人民出版社，2007

2.Mote,ImperialChina,900-1800,HarvardUniversityPress,1999.

3.LillianLi,Beijing:

FromImperialCapitaltoOlympicCity,PalgraveMacmillan,2007.

Othershorterreadings（primarysourcesandsecondarymaterials）tobesupplied.

ProfessorBackground

WorkHistory

HistoryDepartment,YaleUniversity

▪ProfessorofHistory1998-present

▪AssociateProfessor1993-1998

▪AssistantProfessor1988-1993

Books

ChangingGodsinMedievalChina,1127-1276（PrincetonUniversityPress,1990）

NegotiatingDailyLifeinTraditionalChina:

HowOrdinaryPeopleUsedContracts,600-1400（YaleUniversityPress,1995）

TheOpenEmpire:

AHistoryofChinato1600（W.W.Norton&Company,2000）

CollaborativeResearch

TheSilkRoadProject:

ReunitingTurfan'sScatteredTreasures,ofwhichIwastheprincipalinvestigator,ranfrom1995to1998.Theprojectfocusedonthedocumentsandartobjectsfoundbetween1899andthepresentinTurfan,anoasisnearthecityofUrumqiinChina'sXinjiangprovince.PlunderedandthenscatteredacrossEuropeandAsiaintheyearsbeforeWorldWarI,manyofthetreasuresoftheSilkRoadlieinarchivesorwarehouseslargelyuncatalogedandeffectivelylosttoChineseandWesternscholarship.Awarded$170,000bytheLuceFoundation,theSilkRoadprojectbroughttogetherateamoftwenty-fiveChineseandAmericanscholarswhodrewonthedisciplinesofarcheology,history,arthistory,andreligiousstudies.Overthreeyears,theprojectheldthreeinternationalconferencesinChinaandtheUnitedStatesandcompiledabilingualChinese-Englishfindingguidetoover3,000artifacts.Web-siteaddress:

http:

//muffin.cis.yale.edu:

8100/turfan/

WorkinProgress

ANewHistoryoftheSilkRoad（awardedNEHFellowshipforUniversityTeachers,undercontractwithOxfordUniversityPress）presentsanintegratedpolitical,social,andreligioushistoryoftheTarimBasin.Acontinuingstreamofarcheologicaldiscoveriesandphilologicalbreakthroughshasre-awakenedinterestintheSilkRoadinrecentdecades,butnoonehasattemptedtodoasyntheticscholarlyworkaboutthevarioussitesonboththesouthernSilkRoad--Niya,Endere,Loulan,Kroraina（Shanshan）--andonthenorthernSilkRoad--KuchaandTurfan--andwherethetworoutesconvergedatDunhuang.Myoverallgoalistounderstandwhatpolitical,economic,andculturalconditionsmadetheSilkRoadflourish.

CourseRequirementsandGradeBreakdown:

ThoseseekingPekingUniversitycreditwilldoshortweeklyassignments（30%ofthegrade）,participateinclassdiscussions（20%）,andsubmitatake-homefinal.

）CourseTitle（Chinese）:

中国宗教史

CourseTile（English）:

TheHistoryofChineseReligions（Seminar）

PKUCourseNumber:

04630350

ClassLength（hrs）:

2CourseCredits:

3

MeetingTime:

Tuesday12:

30-14:

20

Professor:

ValerieHansenTitle:

ProfessorofHistory

Note:

有意选课的同学，第一堂课请务必到场。

所有选课学生的最终入选，由任课老师决定.

BriefDescription:

AnintroductiontoChinesereligionsasseenintoday'sBeijing:

wewillcombineclosereadingsofselectedreligioustextswithfrequentfieldtripstovisitBuddhist,Daoist,andConfuciansitesaswellasChristianandIslamiccenters.

CourseMaterials（predicted）

Referencebooks（Author/Title/Publisher/Year）

1.Hansen,ChangingGods,Princeton,1990

中译本，韩森《变迁之神：

南宋时期的民间信仰》，浙江人民出版社，1999

2.Zurcher,BuddhistConquestofChina,Brill,1959-1972

中译本，许理和，《佛教征服中国》，江苏人民出版社，2003

3.韦思谛 ，《中国大众宗教》,江苏人民出版社，2006

OtherreadingstobedrawnfromshorterarticlesonChinesereligion.WewilltrytoreadbooksandarticlesthathaveappearedinbothEnglishandChineseversions.

ProfessorBackground

WorkHistory

HistoryDepartment,YaleUniversity

▪ProfessorofHistory1998-present

▪AssociateProfessor1993-1998

▪AssistantProfessor1988-1993

Books

ChangingGodsinMedievalChina,1127-1276（PrincetonUniversityPress,1990）

NegotiatingDailyLifeinTraditionalChina:

HowOrdinaryPeopleUsedContracts,600-1400（YaleUniversityPress,1995）

TheOpenEmpire:

AHistoryofChinato1600（W.W.Norton&Company,2000）

CollaborativeResearch

TheSilkRoadProject:

ReunitingTurfan'sScatteredTreasures,ofwhichIwastheprincipalinvestigator,ranfrom1995to1998.Theprojectfocusedonthedocumentsandartobjectsfoundbetween1899andthepresentinTurfan,anoasisnearthecityofUrumqiinChina'sXinjiangprovince.PlunderedandthenscatteredacrossEuropeandAsiaintheyearsbeforeWorldWarI,manyofthetreasuresoftheSilkRoadlieinarchivesorwarehouseslargelyuncatalogedandeffectivelylosttoChineseandWesternscholarship.Awarded$170,000bytheLuceFoundation,theSilkRoadprojectbroughttogetherateamoftwenty-fiveChineseandAmericanscholarswhodrewonthedisciplinesofarcheology,history,arthistory,andreligiousstudies.Overthreeyears,theprojectheldthreeinternationalconferencesinChinaandtheUnitedStatesandcompiledabilingualChinese-Englishfindingguidetoover3,000artifacts.Web-siteaddress:

http:

//muffin.cis.yale.edu:

8100/turfan/

WorkinProgress

ANewHistoryoftheSilkRoad（awardedNEHFellowshipforUniversityTeachers,undercontractwithOxfordUniversityPress）presentsanintegratedpolitical,social,andreligioushistoryoftheTarimBasin.Acontinuingstreamofarcheologicaldiscoveriesandphilologicalbreakthroughshasre-awakenedinterestintheSilkRoadinrecentdecades,butnoonehasattemptedtodoasyntheticscholarlyworkaboutthevarioussitesonboththesouthernSilkRoad--Niya,Endere,Loulan,Kroraina（Shanshan）--andonthenorthernSilkRoad--KuchaandTurfan--andwherethetworoutesconvergedatDunhuang.Myoverallgoalistounderstandwhatpolitical,economic,andculturalconditionsmadetheSilkRoadflourish.

CourseRequirementsandGradeBreakdown:

ThoseseekingPekingUniversitycreditwilldoshortweeklyassignments（30%ofthegrade）,participateinclassdiscussions（20%）,andsubmitatake-homefinal.

CourseTitle（Chinese）:

脑与文化

PKUCourseNumber:

04630320

CourseTile（English）:

BrainandCulture

ClassLength（hrs）:

2,CourseCredits:

3

MeetingTime:

Wednesday14:

40-16:

30

Professor:

BruceWexler

Title:

ProfessorofPsychiatry

BriefDescription:

Humanbeingsdifferfromotheranimalsbothinthedegreetowhichourbrainsareshapedbysensoryinputfromtheenvironmentandthedegreetowhichweshapetheenvironmentsthatshapeourbrains.BrainandCulturewillreviewneurobiological,psychologicalandanthropologicalresearchtoconsiderthisrelationshipbetweentheindividualandthesocialenvironment.Wewillseehowthatrelationshipchangeswhenthebrainmaturesandneuroplasticitydecreasesinearlyadulthood,andconsidertheimplicationsofthesechangesforsocialtheory.Socialchange,differencesamongcultures,andglobalizationwillbeconsideredfromtheseperspectives.

CourseMaterials（predicted）

Referencebooks（Author/Title/Publisher/Year）

1.BruceE.Wexler,“BrainandCulture:

Neurobiology,IdeologyandSocialChange”,MITPress,2006

2.ArticlespostedontheClassServer

ProfessorBackground

Dr.WexlerreceivedhisBAdegreeMagnaCumLaudefromHarvardCollegein1969withaconcentrationinGovernment,completedmedicaltrainingatAlbertEinsteinCollegeofMedicine,aninternshipinMedicineatBronxMunicipalMedicalCenter,andPsychiatrytrainingatYale.HealsostudiedpsychiatryatAnnaFreud’sclinicinHampsteadandneurologyattheInstituteofNeurology,Queen’sSquare,London.Hehaspublishedover90scientificresearchpapers,servesontheeditorialboardsofprofessionaljournalsandisamemberofexpertpanelsandgrantreviewcommitteesfortheNationalInstituteofMentalHealth.Dr.Wexler’sbook“BrainandCulture;Neurobiology,IdeologyandSocialChange”presentsnewideasabouttherelationshipbetweenpeopleandtheirsocialandculturalenvironments（2006）.In“BrainandCulture,”ProfessorWexlerdescribeshow theserelationshipschangeasaresultofchanges inneuroplasticityduringthelifespan.Hereviewsextensiveresearchinneurobiology,psychologyandanthropology.Basedonideasinthisbook,ProfessorWexlerandAmbassadorAndrewYoungfoundedthenon-profitorganizationADifferentFutureinanefforttoreclaimthepublicideaspacefromextr