This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in Government and History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
Students will engage with class content in large and small group meetings. Learning engagement will include live sessions, small group meetings, asynchronous moodle posts, video clips, and short presentations. There will be a reading week in the Michaelmas Term and the Lent Term.
Students will be expected to produce 1 essay in the MT.
Kenneth Pomeranz, Steven Topik, The World that Trade Created (London and New York: Routledge, 2012). Frank Trentmann (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). John E. Wills, Jr., Pepper, Guns, and Parleys (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1974). Gang Zhao, The Qing Opening to the Ocean: Chinese Maritime Policies, 1684-1757 (Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 2013). Maxine Berg (ed.), Goods from the East, 1600-1800: Trading Eurasia (Houndmills, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Peter J. Kitson, Forging Romantic China: Sino-British Cultural Exchange 1760?1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013). Sucheta Mazumdar, Sugar and Society in China: Peasants, Technology, and the World Market (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1998). Jean McClure Mudge, Chinese Export Porcelain for the American Trade, 1785-1835 (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1981). Sarah Rose, For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire, and the Secret Formula for the World?s Favourite Drink (London: Hutchinson, 2009). Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Silk: A Cultural History (London: British Museum Press, 2004). Carol Benedict, Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550-2010 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011). Zheng Yangwen, The Social Life of Opium in China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Exam (50%, duration: 2 hours) in the summer exam period. Essay (35%, 3500 words) in the LT. Presentation (15%) in the MT and LT.