Teaching Assignment

From Washington to Peking: History of the Early Interactions Between the United States and China

Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA)
Time: Monday, 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Oculus, Heidelberg Center for American Studies (Hauptstraße 120)
Summer term, 2023

Schedule and Readings

• Session 1 (Apr. 17): Empress of China: The Beginning of Sino-US Relations and Trade
Swift, John W., P. Hodgkinson, and Samuel W. Woodhouse. “The Voyage of the Empress of China.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 63, no. 1 (1939): 24–36.

• Session 2 (Apr. 24): Anson Burlingame (蒲安⾂) I - Burlingame-Seward Treaty of 1868
Morse, Hosea Ballou. “The Burlingame Mission.” In The International Relations of the Chinese Empire vol 2, 185-202. London: Longmans, Green, 1910.

• Session 3 (May 1): Anson Burlingame (蒲安⾂) II - Open Door Policy
Barrett, John. “America’s Duty in China.” The North American Review 171, no. 525 (1900): 145–57.

• Session 4 (May 8): William Alexander Parsons Martin (丁韪良) - International Law and the Diplomatic System
Carrai, Maria Adele. “The Politics of History in the Late Qing Era: William A. P. Martin and a History of International Law for China.” Journal of the History of International Law, no. 22 (2020), 269–305.

• Session 5 (May 15): John Leighton Stuart (司徒雷登) - Modern Higher Education in China
Chou, Chih-p’ing, and Carlos Yu-Kai Lin, eds. “Introduction to John Leighton Stuart’s Fifty Years in China.” In Power of Freedom: Hu Shih’s Political Writings, 249–57. University of Michigan Press, 2022.
Rosenbaum, Arthur Lewis. “Christianity, Academics, and National Salvation in China: Yenching University, 1924—1949.” The Journal of American-East Asian Relations 13 (2004): 25–54.

• Session 6 (May 22): Chinese Sojourn Labor and the American Transcontinental Railroad
Carson, Scott Alan. “Chinese Sojourn Labor and the American Transcontinental Railroad.” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) / Zeitschrift Für Die Gesamte Staatswissenschaft 161, no. 1 (2005): 80–102.

• Session 7 (May 29): Chinese Students in America: Hopes for Renewing the Nation
Hsu, Madeline Y. “Chinese and American Collaborations through Educational Exchange during the Era of Exclusion, 1872–1955.” Pacific Historical Review 83, no. 2 (2014): 314–32.
Guoqi, Xu. “The Chinese Education Mission: Chinese Schoolboys in Nineteenth-Century America.” In Chinese and Americans: A Shared History, 74–104. Harvard University Press, 2014.

• Session 8 (June 5): Days of shame: Yellow peril and the Chinese Exclusion Act
Lee, Erika. “The Chinese Exclusion Example: Race, Immigration, and American Gatekeeping, 1882-1924.” Journal of American Ethnic History 21, no. 3 (2002): 36–62.
Chen, Joyce J. “The Impact of Skill-Based Immigration Restrictions: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.” Journal of Human Capital 9, no. 3 (2015): 298–328.

• Session 9 (June 12): Conclusion: America’s Role in China’s Entry into the International Order/ Feedback

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