Semester 2 Recommended Readings

Weeks 1-2 Introduction to Asia: Overview
Bulletin, 10 July 2001 "Quagmire or watershed? Asia at the Crossroads", pp 44-45
Inquiry I, Decolonisation in the 20th Century, pp 424-427 (Indochina, Indonesia, India & Pakistan)

Weeks 3-8 China
Inquiry I
Overview: China to 1911, pp 438-440; China since 1911, 440-443
Why did the Communists gain power in China? pp 201-256
Was the Communist government really a people's government? pp 257-262

Encarta online: Chinese Revolution (5 A4 pages)

Source Booklet
"The Traditional Chinese Justification for Revolution" by H. R. Cowie
"Revolutions in Retrospect" by H. R. Cowie
"Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, Volumes I, IV, V"
"China in Disintegration 1900-1929" J.A.S. Grenville
"The Mounting Conflict in Eastern Asia 1928-1937" J.A.S. Grenville
"The 'Chang Chen' ("Long March")" J. Wroughton and D. Cook
"Revolutions in the Modern World" by H. R. Cowie
"China: The End of the Civil War and the Victory of the Communists" by J. A. S. Grenville
"United States Relations with China" by Dean Acheson
"Mao Tse-tung and China" by C. P. Fitzgerald
"The Last Years of Mao and his Heirs: The Revolution Changes Course" by J.A.S. Grenville
"Red Star Over China" by Edgar Snow
"The Last Emperor" from Time magazine, by H. Chua-Eoan and J. Walsh
"Imperialism, Colonialism and Nationalism in East Asia: History through documents" by C. MacKerras.

Weeks 9-end of semester Australian Foreign Policy
Inquiry I
Australia to 1901, pp 451-454; Australia since 1901, 454-458
Was 1941 a turning point in Australian foreign policy? pp330-398
World War II, pp 421-423