INDIA CHINA INTERACTIONS
CRN 7396, Sec A
Spring 2011
Wednesdays, 8-7:50pm
Rm D1003
L.H.M. Ling
Office: 6th Floor, 66 W. 12th St.
Office Hours: Thursdays, 4-6pm
Email: LingL@newschool.edu
Phone: 212.206.3524 ext 2422
Course Description
This course is designed for students interested in Sino-Indian interactions. We
will cover the historical and contemporary exchanges between India and China given
their dramatically different cultural, political, and historical experiences. We aim not
only to understand the uniqueness of the connections between India and China, but also
how these two civilizations have contributed to global exchanges and flows. The course
will highlight similarities and differences between the two societies, their mutual
perceptions, cultural exchanges and influences, patterns of development, causes of
conflict as well as possibilities for cooperation, and their role in world history and the
contemporary global economy. We will read primary and second materials, including
films and documentaries.
Course Objectives
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To understand Sino-Indian interactions more comprehensively and concretely;
To close our gaps in knowledge through direct interactions and investigations;
To improve teaching of and learning about India and China; and,
To support a group of young scholars interested in expanding existing scholarship
on India China interactions.
Requirements
1. Class Participation (15%). Students are encouraged to participate in this
class. This means asking questions, commenting on readings or other
people’s comments, and challenging/debating the instructor.
2. One Class Presentation (Section IV only, 30%). Each student will
present, individually or in a team, on the topics listed for Section IV of this
course: (a) Developmental Challenges: Environment, Population, Health;
(b) Borders and National Security; (c) Economic Exchanges, Conflicts and
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Cooperation. The presentation must answer this basic question: Who is
saying What Where and What do I think about it? Each presentation must
proceed accordingly:
a. What are the media saying about this topic? Specify which media (e.g.,
national, international, mainstream, independent, broadcast, print,
blogs).
b. What are the views of government representatives (e.g., politicians,
policy-makers) and agencies (e.g., US Treasury, State Department)?
c. What are the views of non-governmental agencies (e.g., Greenpeace)?
d. What are the views of academics?
e. Lastly, you must tell the audience where you agree and disagree with the
above and what your conclusions are regarding the topic.
3. One Research Paper (55%). This research paper should be no more than
20 pages, double-spaced, and in size 12 font. Students will select a
particular topic on India-China relations that they’d like to explore in
greater depth. Original research is encouraged. The student is also
encouraged to confer with the instructor on the topic.
NOTE ON PLAGIARISM
Any words, terms, or concepts taken from another author or text, whether from a book,
magazine, or the Internet, must be duly cited. Failure to do so constitutes plagiarism and
could get the offender expelled from the program and the university.
READINGS
I recommend you purchase the following books (all are available on amazon.com):
Shalendra D. SHARMA, China and India in the Age of Globalization (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Pranab BARDHAN, Awakening Giants: Feet of Clay (Princeton University Press: 2010).
See Seng TAN and Amitav ACHARYA (eds), Bandung Revisited: The Legacy of the
1955 Asian-African Conference for International Order (Singapore: National University
of Singapore Press, 2008).
Kwai-Yun LI, The Palm Leaf Fan and Other Stories (2007).
Fanfu CHERU and Cyril OBI (eds), The Rise of India and China in Africa: Challenges,
Opportunities, and Critical Interventions (London: Zed Books, 2010).
All other readings will be available on the class website. Make sure you sign up for it.
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COURSE OUTLINE
Session 1 (1/26): Introduction: That Was Then
F.W. HEGEL, Philosophy of History (1830-1831):
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Part I: The Oriental World
(http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hi/lectures1.htm)
Benoy Kumar SARKAR, Chinese Religion Through Hindu Eyes: A Study in the
Tendencies of Asiatic Mentality (Shanghai: The Commercial Press, 1918):
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“The Beginning of Hindu Culture as World-Power (A.D. 300-600)
“The Augustan Age of Chinese Culture (A.D.600-1250)
Session 2 (2/2): This is Now
Shalendra D. SHARMA, China and India in the Age of Globalization (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2009):
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“Prelude to Globalization: China (1949-1978) and India (1947-1991)
Pranab BARDHAN, Awakening Giants: Feet of Clay (Princeton University Press: 2010).
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“Introduction: The Myths Floating Around the Giants”
“Economic Reform and Growth: Differing Patterns and Institutions”
“Agriculture: Still the Most Crowded Sector”
“Infrastructure: the Dazzling Difference”
“The Pattern of Burgeoning Capitalism”
Comparisons in infant mortality rate and GDP/capita income among Shanghai, Mumbai,
and New York (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoRJyndPlX0) (30 March 2009).
I. ANCIENT LINKAGES
Session 3 (2/9): Commerce, Trade, Religion, People, and Ideas
A. Rahman (ed.), “Part 2: India’s interaction with China, Central and West Asia,”
History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization Volume III (New
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002):
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TAN Chung, “India and China: A Saga of Sharing Historical Heritage”
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LIU Xinru, Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges, AD 1600. (Oxford University Press, 1988).
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“Introduction”
“Trade Routes and Centres from the First to the Early Sixth Centuries”
“The Structure of Trade”
Tansen SEN, “The Travel Records of Chinese Pilgrims Faxian, Xuangzang, and Yijing:
Sources for Cross-Cultural Encounters between Ancient China and Ancient India,”
Education About Asia 11(3) 2006: 24-33.
MI Shoujiang and YOU Jia (translated by Min CHANG), Islam in China (China
Intercontinental Press, 2004)
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“Spread and Development of Islam in China”
“Chinese Islam in New Times”
Richard M. Eaton (ed.), India’s Islamic Traditions, 711-1750 (Delhi: Oxford University
Press, 2003):
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Yohanan FRIEDMANN, “Islamic Thought in Relation to the Indian Context”
Alan M. GUENTHER, “Hanafi Fiqh in Mughal India: The Fatāwá-i ‘Ālamgīrī”
II.
COLONIALISM AND ITS AFTERMATH
Session 4 (2/16): Revolutionary Leaders and their Legacies
Mahatma GANDHI, Mahatma Gandhi: Selected Political Writings (Indianapolis:
Hackett Publishing Co., 1996):
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“On Ahimsa”
“Nonviolence”
“Civility”
“Satyagraha, Civil Disobedience, Passive Resistance, Non-Co-Operation”
“Independence vs Swaraj”
“Hindu-Muslim Tension: Its Cause and Cure”
“Untouchability, Women, and Swaraj”
“Democracy and Non-Violence”
SUN Yatsen:
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“Fundamentals of National Reconstruction” (1923)
(http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/sunyat.html) [website has full
text]
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“The Three Principles of the People” (1927)
(http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=77324317)
MAO Zedong:
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“Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society” (1926)
(http://www.marx2mao.com/Mao/AC26.html)
“On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism” (1935)
(http://www.marx2mao.com/Mao/TAJI35.html)
“On Practice” (1937) (http://www.marx2mao.com/Mao/OP37.html)
“On Contradiction” (1937) (http://www.marx2mao.com/Mao/OC37.html)
“The May Fourth Movement” (1949)
(http://www.marx2mao.com/Mao/MFM39.html)
“On New Democracy” (1940) (http://www.marx2mao.com/Mao/ND40.html)
“China’s Two Possible Destinies” (1945)
(http://www.marx2mao.com/Mao/TPD45.html)
“The Chinese People Have Stood Up!” (1949)
(http://www.marx2mao.com/Mao/CPS49.html)
“All Reactionaries are Paper Tigers” (1957)
(http://www.marx2mao.com/Mao/RPT57.html)
Jawaharlal NEHRU, The Discovery of India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press,
[1946] 2002):
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“Preface”
“The Last Phase (1): Consolidation of British Rule and Rise of Nationalist
Movement”
“The Last Phase (2): Nationalism vs Imperialism”
“The Last Phase (3): World War II”
“Ahmadnagar Fort Again”
DENG Xiaoping:
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“One Country, Two Systems” (22-23 June 1984)
(http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/dengxp/vol3/text/c1210.html)
“Building a Socialism with a Specifically Chinese Character” (30 June 1984)
(http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/dengxp/vol3/text/c1220.html)
“There is No Fundamental Contradiction between Socialism and a Market
Economy” (23 October 1985)
(http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/dengxp/vol3/text/c1480.html)
“Take a Clear-cut Stand Against Bourgeois Liberalization” (30 December 1986)
(http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/dengxp/vol3/text/c1480.html)
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“China Can Only Take the Socialist Road” (3 March 1987)
(http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/dengxp/vol3/text/c1680.html)
“We Must Review the Past to Open Up a New Path to the Future” (5 September
1988) (http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/dengxp/vol3/text/c1890.html)
“Let Us Put the Past Behind Us and Open Up a New Era” (16 May 1989)
(http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/dengxp/vol3/text/c1970.html)
III. CREATING THE POSTCOLONIAL STATE
Session 5 (2/23): Nation-Building
TAN Chung (ed.), Across the Himalayan Gap: An Indian Quest for Understanding
China (New Delhi: Gyan Publishing House and Indira Gandhi National Centre for the
Arts, 1998):
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Ravni THAKUR and TAN Chung, “Enchantment and Disenchantment: A SinoIndian Introspection”
Partha CHATERJEE, The Nation and its Fragments (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1993):
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“Whose Imagined Community?”
“Women and the Nation”
“The National State”
Ranabir SAMADDAR, A Biography of the Indian Nation, 1947-1997 (New Delhi: Sage,
2001):
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“The Birth of a Nation”
“The Nation’s Two Subjects”
“Nation and the Home”
Aihwa ONG and Don M. NONINI (eds), Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of
Modern Chinese Transnationalism, pp. 171-202 (London: Routledge, 1997):
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Aihwa ONG, “Chinese Modernities: Narratives of Nation and of Capitalism”
Session 6 (3/2): World-Building: Bandung 1955
Itty ABRAHAM, “From Bandung to NAM: Non-Alignment and Indian Foreign Policy,
1947-65,” Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 46 (2) April 2008: 195-219.
Siba N. GROVOGUI, “The Global South: A Metaphor, Not an Etymology,” Global
Studies Review 6 (3) Fall 2010 (http://www.globality-gmu.net/archives/2271)
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See Seng TAN and Amitav ACHARYA (eds), Bandung Revisited: The Legacy of the
1955 Asian-African Conference for International Order (Singapore: National University
of Singapore Press, 2008):
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Amitav ACHARYA and See Seng TAN, “The Normative Relevance of the
Bandung Conference for Contemporary Asian and International Order.”
Adekeye ADEBAJO, “From Bandung to Durban: Whither the Afro-Asian
Coalition?”
Rahul MUKHERJI, “Appraising the Legacy of Bandung: A View from India”
Session 7 (3/9): Travels and Diasporas
TAGORE, Talks in China.
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“Civilization and Progress”.
“Satyam”
“At a Buddhist Temple, Peking”
“Rabindranath’s Answers to Questions by the Students of Tsing Hua College”
LIN Chengjie, “Ma Jianzhong and Wu Guangpei’s Visit to India and their Diaries.” AsiaPacific Studies 1991: 55-72.
Anand A. YANG, “An Indian Subaltern’s Passage to China in 1900.” Education About
Asia 11(3) 2006: 12-15.
China Report 43:4 (2007).
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Ellen OXFELD, “Still Guest People: The Reproduction of Hakka Identity in
Kolkata, India.”
Narayan C. SEN, “China as Viewed by Two Early Bengali Travellers: The Travel
Accounts of Indumadhav Mullick and Benoy Kumar Sarkar.”
Abhishek BASU, “Performing Other-Wise: ‘Death-Defying’ China as Seen by
Ramnath Biswas.”
Kwai-Yun LI, The Palm Leaf Fan and Other Stories (2007).
SPRING BREAK
Session 8 (3/23): Media
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David JACKSON, Michael GIBB, and Dave WHITE (eds), How East Asian Films Are
Reshaping National Identities: Essays on the Cinemas of China, Japan, South Korea, and
Hong Kong (New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006)
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Martin GIESELMANN, “History, Film and National Myth: The Opium
War Revisited”
Ming-May Jessie CHEN, “Cinematic Representations of the Chinese
Cultural Revolution”
Payal BANERJEE, “Chinese Indians in Fire: Refractions of Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality
and Citizenship in Post-Colonial India’s Memories of the Sino-Indian War,” China
Report 43:4 (2007): 437-463.
Rafeeq ELLIAS, “The Legend of Fat Mama” (2006, 23 minutes documentary, available
on the ICI website)
IV.
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND PROBLEMS
(STUDENT PRESENTATIONS: THIS SECTION ONLY)
Session 9 (3/30): Developmental Challenges: Environment, Population, Health
Suggested Readings:
Pranab BARDHAN, “Environment: The Alarming Signs,” Awakening Giants: Feet of
Clay (Princeton University Press: 2010).
Madhav GADGIL and Ramchandra GUHA, “Conquest and Control,” This Fissured
Land: An Ecological History of India (New Delhi: Oxford, 1993).
Madhav GADGIL and Ramachandra GUHA, “What Are Forests For?,” Ecology and
Equity: The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India, pp. 148-175 (London:
Routledge, 1995).
Ramachandra GUHA, “The Authoritarian Biologist and the Arrogance of AntiHumanism: Wildlife Conservation in the Third World,” The Ecologist 27 (1) 1997: 1420.
Ravi RAJAN, “Imperial Environmentalism or Environmental Imperialism? European
Forestry, Colonial Foresters and the Agendas of Forest Management in British India
1800-1900,” in Richard Grove et al. (eds) Nature and the Orient, pp. 323-371 (Delhi,
1998).
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Session 10 (4/6): Borders and National Security
Suggested Readings:
LEI Guang, “Realpolitik Nationalism: International Sources of Chinese Nationalism,”
Modern China 31 (4) October 2005: 487-514.
LEE Jung Nam, “The Revival of Chinese Nationalism: Perspectives of Chinese
Intellectuals,” Asian Perspective 30 (4) 2006: 141-165.
Sanjib BARUAH, “Northwest by Northeast: A Tale of Two Frontiers,” Openindia 17
July 2009 (http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/email/northwest-by-northeast-a-tale-oftwo-frontiers).
T.V. SATHYAMURTHY, “Impact of Centre-State Relations on Indian Politics: an
Interpretative Reckoning, 1947-84,” in Partha Chatterjee (ed.), State and Politics in India
(Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 232-71.
Session 11 (4/13): Economic Exchanges, Conflicts, and Cooperation
Suggested Readings:
Tarun KHANNA, “China + India: The Power of Two,” Harvard Business Review,
December 2007, 1-10.
T.P. BHAT, Atulan GUHA, Mahua PAUL, “India and China in WTO: Building
Complementarities and Competitiveness in the External Trade Sector,” Report of a Study
Sponsored by Planning Commission, Government of India, Institute for Studies in
Industrial Development, April 2006
(http://planningcommission.nic.in/reports/sereport/ser/stdy_indch.pdf)
V.
INDIA-CHINA & THE WORLD
Session 12 (4/20): Africa & Southeast Asia
Fantu CHERU and Cyril OBI (eds), The Rise of India and China in Africa: Challenges,
Opportunities, and Critical Interventions (London: Zed Books, 2010).
ZHAO Hong, “India and China: Rivals or Partners in Southeast Asia?” Contemporary
Southeast Asia 29(1) 2007: 121-142.
SAW Swee-Hock, SHENG Lijun, and CHIN Kin Wah (eds), ASEAN-China Relations:
Realities and Prospects (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2005):
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Eric Teo Chu CHEOW, “ASEAN+3: The Roles of ASEAN and China”
HU Shisheng, “India’s Approach to ASEAN and its Regional Implications.”
CHULACHEEB Chinwanno, “The Dragon, The Bull, and the Ricestalks: The
Roles of China and India in Southeast Asia”
Session 13 4/27): US & Europe
Liam HALLIGAN, “China and India’s Latest Love-In Raises Serious Issues for the
West,” The Telegraph 14 January 2011
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/liamhalligan/8211788/China-and-Indiaslatest-love-in-raises-serious-issues-for-the-West.html#) (Downloaded: 15 January 2011)
Shalendra D. SHARMA, China and India in the Age of Globalization (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2009):
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“India and the United States: From Estrangement to Engagement”
“The Rise of China and its Implications for the United States”
Esther PAN, “India, China, and the United States: A Delicate Balance,” Council on
Foreign Relations 26 February 2006
(http://www.cfr.org/publication/9962/india_china_and_the_united_states.html)
Lisa CURTIS, “US-India Relations: the China Factor,” The Heritage Foundation 25
November 2008 (http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/11/us-india-relationsthe-china-factor).
Session 14 (5/4): The Future: Prospects & Challenges (Last Class: Libations!)
PEI Minxin, “Think Again: Asia’s Rise,” Foreign Policy 22 June 2009
(http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/06/22/think_again_asias_rise)
Shalendra D. SHARMA, China and India in the Age of Globalization (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2009):
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“Sino-Indian Relations: Partners, Friends, or Rivals?
“China and India: Future Challenges and Opportunities”
Pranab BARDHAN, Awakening Giants: Feet of Clay (Princeton University Press: 2010).
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“Looking to the Future: Through the Lens of Political Economy”
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