时间社课纲｜爱荷华大学陈爽：《中国历史中的爱情与友谊》
课程介绍
本课程是美国历史专业必修课—《历史学导论》—的系列课程之一。选课学生多为低年级本科生。课程旨在通过一具体专题向历史专业的学生介绍历史研究的方法，使学生对历史学有一个全面的了解。本专题课通过探讨爱情和友谊在中国历史上的呈现和变化，向学生介绍情感史的研究，选题涉及性别、婚姻、家庭关系，个人与社会等等，时间上跨越帝制时期以及现当代，以期从较长的历史时段讨论两个问题：1）我们的情感和对自我以及社会的认知是什么样的关系? 2)我们的情感以及与之相关的社会关系是如何被各种制度以及事件型塑的？情感史属于跨学科的领域，因此本课程的讨论以及阅读也大量涉及文学、社会学、人类学以及传播学的研究。
选课学生不需要具备中文基础和中国史相关知识。学生每周阅读教授布置的史料和研究论文，听取教授讲课并且参与研讨式的课堂讨论，完成四篇不同类型的小文书以及一篇研究综述的写作。通过以上练习，学生将了解如何阅读和分析史料，如何阅读学术论文，如何形成观点并用史料加以支持，以及如何搜集历史研究所需要的资料。
注：此课程最早脱胎于李中清教授（James Lee）在加州理工大学和密歇根大学开设的同名课程。我在李中清教授的基础上根据教学目标和学生需求做了较大的改动，注重了吸收近年研究的成果。
授课教授
陈爽，密歇根大学历史学博士，现任爱荷华大学历史系副教授。研究领域为近现代中国社会史、经济史、法律史和边疆史。其研究着重于探讨国家与地方机构的互动及其型塑现代中国社会的过程。著有State-Sponsored Inequality: The Banner System and Social Stratification in Northeast China（斯坦福大学出版社2017年出版）以及关于家庭史和历史人口学的论文多篇。
中国历史中的爱情与友谊
课本
Antonova, Katherine Pickering. 2020. The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays. Oxford University Press. (Hereafter referred to as Essential Guide.)
其他阅读物详见每周课程安排。
课程安排
每周两节课，每节75分钟，其中一节形式为教授授课，另一节为讨论课。 第一周 导论：关于历史专业和历史研究 Introduction: Orientation of history major and historical research Readings: ➤ Essential Guide, Chap 2 “What is Academic Writing?” and Chap 3 “What is History?”
第一单元：帝制中国时期的自我与社会
Unit One: Self and Society in Imperial China
第二周 孝 Filial piety
Readings:
➤Mann, Susan and Yu-yin Cheng eds. 2001 “The Book of Filial Piety for Women attributed to a woman Née Zheng,” （《孝经》和《女孝经》）Patricia Ebrey (trans), in Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press: 47-70.
➤Higgins, Kathleen M. 2013. “Loyalty from a Confucian Perspective.” In Loyalty, edited by Sanford Levinson, Joel Parker, and Paul Woodruff 22-38. New York City: NYU Press, 22-38.
➤Maram Epstein. 2005. “Sons and Mothers: The Social Construction of Filial Piety in Late-imperial China,” in Love, Hatred, and Other Passions Questions and Themes on Emotions in Chinese Civilization, edited by Paolo Santangelo and D. Guida, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 285-300.
➤Essential Guide, Chap 4 “The Short-Answer Identification Essay.”
第三周 忠诚与牺牲（1） Loyalty and sacrifice (I)
Readings:
➤“Widows Loyal unto Death”, in Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, ed. by Patricia Ebrey, New York: The Free Press, 1993, 253-255.
➤T’ien, Ju-k’ang. 1988. Male Anxiety and Female Chastity: A Comparative Study of Ethical Values in Ming Ch’ing Times. Brill T’oung Pao 14, 1-13, 36-39, 90-125.
➤Ropp, Paul 2001, “Passionate Women: Female Suicide in Late Imperial China,” NAN Nü, 3 (1): 3-21.
➤Essential Guide, Chap 6 “The Short Analytical Essay”.
第四周 忠诚与牺牲（2） Loyalty and sacrifice (II)
Readings:
➤ Feng, Menglong (1574 – 1646). “The Lady who was a Beggar” and “The Story of Wu Pao-an and the Journey of the Corpse.” Cyril Birch tr. Stories From a Ming Collection. 1958. Grove Press, 15-36, 121-149.
第五周 激情（1） Passion (I)
Readings:
➤Wang, Shifu, translated by S.I. Hsiung, 1936. The Romance of the Western Chamber（《西厢记》）. New York: Columbia University Press, 1968, 141-190.
➤Carlitz, Katherine. 2005. “Passion and Personhood in Yingying Zhuan … Xixiang Ji…, and Jiao Hong Ji”, in Love, Hatred, and Other Passions Questions and Themes on Emotions in Chinese Civilization, edited by Paolo Santangelo and D. Guida, Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 273-284.
➤*Mann, Susan and Yu-yin Cheng ed. 2001. “Personal letters in seventeenth-century epistolary guides,” Kathryn Lowry (trans.), in Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press: pp. 155-168.
第六周 激情（2） Passion (II)
Readings:
➤Dorothy Ko, 1994. Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-century China. Stanford: Stanford University Press: “The enchantment of love,” pp 68-112.
➤Essential Guide, Chap 5 “The Response Paper”
➤*Tang Xianzu (1550 – 1617). Peony Pavilion （《牡丹亭》）. Cyril Birch tr. Indiana University Press, 1980. 24-30, 42-53, 66-72, 97-110. See Hsia, C.T. 1970 “Time and the Human Condition of T’ang Hsien-tsu.” In Self and Society in Ming Thought. Wm Theodore de Bary ed. Columbia University Press, 249-290 for a study of this playwright and especially 273-279 for a study of this play.
第七周 夫妻之爱 Spousal love
Readings:
➤Shen Fu (1763 – 1810?). 2004. Six Records of a Floating Life （《浮生六记》）. Translated by Leonard Pratt. Penguin Classics, “Introduction”, Part I “The Joys of the Wedding Chamber”, and Part III “The Sorrows of Misfortune”.
➤Dunstan Helen. 2007. “If Chen Yun Had Written about Her”Lesbianism”: Rereading the Memoirs of a Bereaved Philanderer,” in AsiaMajor 20 (2): 103-122.
➤Essential Guide, Chap 9 “Primary Source Interpretation”.
第八周 期中论文写作 Writing week
第二单元 现代化以及现代爱情的兴起
Unit Two: China’s Modernization and the Rise of Modern Love
第九周 图书馆周 Library week: Library resources and historical research
Readings:
➤Essential Guide, Chap 8“Historiographical Essay”.
➤观看电影 《家》。
第十周 五四运动和现代爱情的兴起 The May Fourth Movement and the rise of modern love
Readings:
➤Lan, Hua R. and Vanessa L. Fong ed. 1999. Women in Republican China: A Source Book. M.E. Sharpe. Chen, Duxiu, “The way of Confucius and modern life,” 5-7; Lu, Xun, “My views on chastity,” 8-17; Yang, Zhihua, “Love and socializing between men and women,” 44-45; “The debate over ‘love and socializing between men and women’,” 46-48.
➤Zhou, Shou-juan. “We Shall Meet Again.” Perry Link tr. Revolutionary Literature in China. John Berninghausen and Ted Huters eds. M.E. Sharpe, 1976. 12-19.
➤Su, Hua. 2016. “Love Letters in the Early 1900s.” Interactions: Studies in Communications and Culture 7 (3): 265-280.
第十一周 爱情与革命（1）：1900-1950 Love and revolution (I): 1900-1950
Readings:
➤Lin, Juemin. 1911. “Letter to my wife.” 林觉民《与妻书》
➤Lee, Haiyan. 2007. Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950. Stanford: Stanford University Press, Chapter 7 “Revolution of the Heart”, 255-297.
➤Lee, Haiyan. 2017. “Revolution and Love,” in A New Literary History of Modern China, ed. David Der-wei Wang. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 231-236.
第十二周 爱情与革命（2）：1950年代-1970年代 Love and revolution (II): 1950s-1970s
Readings:
➤Wang, Pan. 2022. “Love during China’s Cultural Revolution: Evidence from a ‘Sent-down’ Couple’s Private Letters,” in The History of the Family, DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/showCitFormats?doi=10.1080/1081602X.2022.2033296
➤Wang, Xiaobo. 2007. “The Golden Age.”（《黄金时代》）Wang in Love and Bondage: Three Novellas by Wang Xiaobo, translated by Hongling Zhang and Jason Sommer. SUNY Press, chapters 1-5, pp. 61-87.
第十三周 当代中国的爱情与友谊 Love and friendship in contemporary China
Readings:
➤Farrer, James. 2014. “Love, Sex and Commitment: Delinking Premarital Intimacy from Marriage in Urban China,” in Deborah Davis and Sara Friedman eds. Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 62-96.
➤Yan, Yunxiang. 2009. “The Triumph of Conjugality: Structural Transformation of Family Relations.” In The Individualization of Chinese Society. Bloomsbury, 57-84.
第十四、十五周 学生期末报告 Student presentations on final projects