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课程详述
COURSE SPECIFICATION
以下课程信息可能根据实际授课需要或在课程检讨之后产生变动。如对课程有任何疑问，请联
系授课教师。
The course information as follows may be subject to change, either during the session because of unforeseen
circumstances, or following review of the course at the end of the session. Queries about the course should be
directed to the course instructor.
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课程名称 Course Title
亚洲环境史 Environmental History of Asia
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授课院系
Originating Department
社会科学中心 Center for Social Sciences
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课程编号
Course Code
SS081
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课程学分 Credit Value
2
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课程类别
Course Type
通识选修课程 General Education (GE) Elective Courses
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授课学期
Semester
春季 Spring
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授课语言
Teaching Language
英文 English
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授课教师、所属学系、联系方
式（如属团队授课，请列明其
他授课教师）
Instructor(s), Affiliation&
Contact
（For team teaching, please list
all instructors）
KIM HANUNG
南方科技大学人文社会科学荣誉学会 Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, SUSTech
hanung@mail.sustech.edu.cn
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实验员/助教、所属学系、联系
方式
Tutor/TA(s), Contact
无 NA
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选课人数限额(可不填)
Maximum Enrolment
（Optional）
授课方式
Delivery Method
讲授
Lectures
习题/辅导/讨论
Tutorials
其它(请具体注明)
Other（Please specify）
总学时
Total
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学时数
32
32
2
Credit Hours
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先修课程、其它学习要求
Pre-requisites or Other
Academic Requirements
无 NA
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后续课程、其它学习规划
Courses for which this
course is a pre-requisite
无 NA
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其它要求修读本课程的学系
Cross-listing Dept.
无 NA
教学大纲及教学日历 SYLLABUS
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教学目标 Course Objectives
The main objective of the course is to acquaint students with a variety of topics in environmental history with a
geographical focus on East Asia. The course pursues the interactive and participatory pedagogy and, in order to better
serve this purpose, every weekly meeting of the course will be comprised of two parts: topic-oriented lectures (1 1⁄2
hours) and interactive Q & A sessions (1⁄2 hour). For every week’s topic, students are expected to read required weekly
readings before the lecture and encouraged to prepare at least one question or comment regarding weekly subjects in
the Q & A session. During the course, we will watch two films about environment issues or history and students are
required to write one final paper on one of them.
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预达学习成果 Learning Outcomes
After successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
Have a broad range of knowledge about environmental history of Asia,
Possess a better understanding of the interactions between human beings and their environment,
Learn how to do historical research and use relevant reference resources,
Improve English reading and writing skills.
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课程内容及教学日历 （如授课语言以英文为主，则课程内容介绍可以用英文；如团队教学或模块教学，教学日历须注明
主讲人）
Course Contents (in Parts/Chapters/Sections/Weeks. Please notify name of instructor for course section(s), if
this is a team teaching or module course.)
Week 1: Introduction 引言 (2-credit hours)
Instructor’s and students’ self-introductions
The academic discipline of “history” and how to do historical research
Concept of “environment” and the recent development of “environmental history”
Introduction of useful reference resources for the course
Week 2: Human Landscapes of Asia 亚洲的人文风景 (2-credit hours)
Geography of Asia
Climate of Asia
“Human Geography” of Asia
3
Q&A session
Week 3: Ways of Inhabitation 居住方式 (2-credit hours)
Sedentary Society
Nomadic Society
Interaction between Two Societies
Q&A session
Week 4: Land Uses 土地利用 (2-credit hours)
Residential
Agricultural
Transportation
Q&A session
Week 5: Inland Water 内陆水利 (2-credit hours)
Irrigation
Flood
Drought
Q&A session
Week 6: Ocean 海洋 (2-credit hours)
Coastal Environment
Marine Environment
Seaways and Source of Nutrition
Q&A session
Week 7: Film Viewing 电影观览 (2-credit hours)
Before the Flood, Fisher Stevens, dir. (2016)
Week 8: Energy Resources 能量资源 (2-credit hours)
Before the Fossil Fuels
Fossil Fuels
After the Fossil Fuels
Q&A session
Week 9: Food 粮食 (2-credit hours)
Diversity of Culinary Culture
Food Security
Food Nationalism
Q&A session
Week 10: Animals 动物 (2-credit hours)
Domestication
Animals as Consumer Goods
Companion for Human Beings
Q&A session
Week 11: Forests 森林 (2-credit hours)
Source of Fuels and Building Materials
Forest as History per se
Deforestation
Q&A session
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Week 12: Film Viewing 电影观览 (2-credit hours)
Dersu Uzala, Akira Kurosawa, dir. (1975)
Week 13: Religions 宗教 (2-credit hours)
Perceptions of Environment
Role in Environmental Phenomena
Religion and Environmentalism
Q&A session
Week 14: Colonialism 殖民主义 (2-credit hours)
Old Environment for Natives
Transformation by Newcomers
Environmental Imperialism
Q&A session
Week 15: Anthropocene 人类世 (2-credit hours)
Human Impact on Environment
Beginning of Anthropocene
Against the Anthropocene
Q&A session
Week 16: Final Exam 期末考试 (2-credit hours)
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教材及其它参考资料 Textbook and Supplementary Readings
Mark Elvin and Ts'ui-jung Liu eds., Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Mark Elvin, The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004).
Robert Marks, China: Its Environment and History (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2012).
Judith Shapiro, Mao’s War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2001).
Ian Jared Miller, The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2013).
Edmund Burke III and Kenneth Pomeranz, eds., The Environment and World History (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2009).
David Bello, Across Forest, Steppe, and Mountain: Environment, Identity, and Empire in Qing China's Borderlands
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).
课程评估 ASSESSMENT
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评估形式
Type of
Assessment
评估时间
Time
占考试总成绩百分比
% of final
score
违纪处罚
Penalty
备注
Notes
出勤 Attendance
10%
课堂表现
Class
Performance
20%
evaluated based on student’s
performance in each Q&A session
小测验
Quiz
课程项目 Projects
平时作业
Assignments
期中考试
Mid-Term Test
5
期末考试
Final Exam
40%
期末报告
Final Paper
30%
an analytical paper on one of two
films that we will watch during the
course
其它（可根据需要
改写以上评估方
式）
Others (The
above may be
modified as
necessary)
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记分方式 GRADING SYSTEM
A. 十三级等级制 Letter Grading
B. 二级记分制（通过/不通过） Pass/Fail Grading
课程审批 REVIEW AND APPROVAL
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本课程设置已经过以下责任人/委员会审议通过
This Course has been approved by the following person or committee of authority