Western Civilization, which has been told as the story of the "rise of the West" has now come under attack. The old story had concentrated on the glorious and wonderful developments that happened in Europe, with the peoples of Africa, Latin America, and Asia being mentioned only when they encountered European explorers or colonizers—their "history" thus beginning with European contact and conquest. In the last half-century, however, the study of World History has increasingly shifted to the centuries-old patterns of exchange and interaction among all the world's civilizations. In other words, instead of seeing the rise of the West as a long process of gradual advances in Europe, it may be more instructive to see modern developments as resting to a large degree on the achievements of other civilizations and not merely on what happened in Europe. This course will take this new historical approach and study the history of western civilization in the new global context.
Texts:
- Brook, Timothy. Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World. New York: Bloomsbury P, 2008.(英)(中)
- Goldstone, Jack A. Why Europe: The Rise of the West in World History, 1500-1850. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009.(英)(中)
- Goody, Jack. The Theft of History. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006. "Introduction," 1-9.
- 李明，《中國近事報道，1687-1692》。郭強、龍雲、李偉翻譯。鄭州：大象出版社，2004。1-6，276-300。
- 「康熙大帝與太陽王路易十四特展專輯」，《故宮文物月刊》343期，2011年10月。
- 許明龍，《歐洲18世紀「中國熱」》，太原：山西教育出版社，1999。
Grades：
In-class quizzes 30%
Group oral reports 30%
mid-term and final exams 40%
Tentative Schedule：
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