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Week 01:

    Topics:

1. Introduction to the course
2. Requirements and procedures
   
3. Basic terms and concepts
   

    Readings:

1. none
   

    Assignments due: none
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Week 02:

    Topics:

1. Earliest Contacts and the Treaty of Nerchinsk
   

    Readings:

1. class protocols
2. Mancall, Mark.  Russia and China:  Their Diplomatic Relations to 1728 [DK 68.7 .C5 M29]  introduction and chs. I-II, V [BB}
3. Sebes, Joseph S., S.J. The Jesuits and the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nerchinsk [BX 3701 .B4 vol. 18] chs. III, V-VI {BB]
4. Clubb, introduction and chs. 1-4 [BB]
5. Quested, introduction and chs. 1-3 [online]

    Assignments due: [none]
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Week 03:

    Topics:

1. The Kyakhta Settlement and the Issue of Trade
   

    Readings:

1. stylesheet for papers
2. Mancall, chs. VI-VIII and epilogue [BB]
3. Widmer, Eric. The Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Peking during the Eighteenth Century [BV 3417 .W46] introduction and chs. I-II, VII-VIII [BB]
4. Foust, Clifford M. Muscovite and Mandarin: Russia's Trade with China, and its Setting, 1727-1805 [HF 3628 .C45 F66] chs. I-III, X [BB]
5. Sladkovsky, M.I. History of Economic Relations between Russia and China [HF 3628 .C6 S613] p. 29 to end of ch. 1, and ch. 2
   

    Assignments due: [topic statement]
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Week 04:

    Topics:

1. The "Unequal Treaty" Period
   

    Readings:

1. Fairbank, John K., "The Early Treaty System," in Fairbank, ed. The Chinese World Order [DS　740.4 .C35455] pp. 257-275
2. Quested, Rosemary K.I. The Expansion of Russia in East Asia, 1857-1860 [DK　68.7 .C5 Q4] ch. I and conclusion
3. Sladkovsky, ch. 3
   

    Assignments due: [see syllabus]
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Week 05:

    Topics:

1. The Ili Crisis
   

    Readings:

1. Hsu, Immanuel C.Y. The Ili Crisis: A Study of Sino-Russian Diplomacy, 1871-1881 [DS　740.5 .R8 H764] introduction and chs. I-II, IV, VIII-X
   

    Resources:

1. 
   

    Assignments due: [see syllabus]
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Week 06:

    Topics:

1. The Boxer Period and Russia's Occupation of Manchuria
   

    Readings:

1. Malozemoff, Andrew. Russian Far Eastern Policy, 1881-1904 [DS 515 .M28 1977] chs. VI-VII
   

    Assignments due: [see syllabus]
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Week 07:

    Topics:

1. Russia and the Chinese Nationalist Revolution
   

    Readings:

1. 
   

    Assignments due: [see syllabus]
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Week 08:

    Topics:

1. The Comintern and the Growth of the CCP
   

    Readings:

    Assignments due: [see syllabus]
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Week 09:

    Topics:

1. Coöperation Between the PRC and the USSR
   

    Readings:

1. 
   

    Resources:

1. 
   

    Assignments due: [see syllabus]
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Week 10:

    Topics:

1. The Sino-Soviet Split
   

    Readings:

1. 
   

    Assignments due: [see syllabus]
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Week 11:

    Topics:

1. Territorial Issues: The Ussuri Border Clash of 1969
   

    Readings:

1. 
   

    Assignments due: [see syllabus]
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Week 12:

    Topics:

1. The Second Indo-China War, Détente, and the "Strategic Triangle
   

    Readings:

1. 
   

    Assignments due: [see syllabus]
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Week 13:

    Topics:

1. Sino-Soviet Relations in the 1980's — Toward Rapprochement

    Readings:

1. 
   

    Resources:

    Assignments due: [see syllabus]
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Week 14:

    Topics:

1. Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Implications for Sino-Russian relations
   

    Readings:

1. 
   

    Assignments due: [see syllabus]
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Week 15:

    Topics:

1. Wrap-up
   

    Readings:

    Assignments due: [see syllabus]
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