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This course will introduce undergraduate students to how Qing China (1644-1911) arose, expanded, and struggled to enter the modern world. The Manchus, a tribal confederation at the northeast of the Ming Chinese border, established a Chinese form of imperial state called the Qing dynasty and completed their conquest of China proper as well as other regions adjacent to China by the end of the seventeenth century. Throughout the eighteenth century, Qing China became one of the largest territorial empires in the early modern world. The Qing state, similar to other agrarian empires over Eurasia, confronted many challenges: increasingly more commercial zones and transportation networks in an agrarian economy, elite mobility and peasant unrest, political legitimacy of alien rule, maintaining social order (such as merchants control and gender segregation), massive population growth and internal migration, etc. By the end of the nineteenth century, Qing China suffered from ecological disaster, economical downturn, extensive peasant revolts, and Euro-American aggression. At the same time, Qing China was struggling to enter the realm of the global industrial capitalism, dominated by a few nation states, especially the British. In this course, we will adopt a longer historical framework and a global perspective to understand Qing China as an indispensable part of the formation of modern world.
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online trainings to help you get started on Wikipedia.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
Begin a blog about your experiences. You can use discussion questions to frame your entries, or reflect on the research and writing process. Create at least one blog entry each week during the Wikipedia assignment.
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article related to the course and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to an article. There are two ways you can do this:
It's time to choose an article and assign it to yourself.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing.
Creating a new article?
Improving an existing article?
Keep reading your sources, too, as you prepare to write the body of the article.
Resources: Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!
Once you've made improvements to your article based on peer review feedback, it's time to move your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."
Editing an existing article?
Creating a new article?
Handout: "Did You Know" submissions
Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!
It's the final week to develop your article.
Write a reflective essay (2–5 pages) on your Wikipedia contributions.
Consider the following questions as you reflect on your Wikipedia assignment:
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
This Course
|
Wikipedia Resources
|
Connect
Questions? Ask us:
contact |
![]() | This course page is an automatically-updated version of the main course page at dashboard.wikiedu.org. Please do not edit this page directly; any changes will be overwritten the next time the main course page gets updated. |
This course will introduce undergraduate students to how Qing China (1644-1911) arose, expanded, and struggled to enter the modern world. The Manchus, a tribal confederation at the northeast of the Ming Chinese border, established a Chinese form of imperial state called the Qing dynasty and completed their conquest of China proper as well as other regions adjacent to China by the end of the seventeenth century. Throughout the eighteenth century, Qing China became one of the largest territorial empires in the early modern world. The Qing state, similar to other agrarian empires over Eurasia, confronted many challenges: increasingly more commercial zones and transportation networks in an agrarian economy, elite mobility and peasant unrest, political legitimacy of alien rule, maintaining social order (such as merchants control and gender segregation), massive population growth and internal migration, etc. By the end of the nineteenth century, Qing China suffered from ecological disaster, economical downturn, extensive peasant revolts, and Euro-American aggression. At the same time, Qing China was struggling to enter the realm of the global industrial capitalism, dominated by a few nation states, especially the British. In this course, we will adopt a longer historical framework and a global perspective to understand Qing China as an indispensable part of the formation of modern world.
Welcome to your Wikipedia project's course timeline. This page will guide you through the Wikipedia project for your course. Be sure to check with your instructor to see if there are other pages you should be following as well.
This page breaks down writing a Wikipedia article into a series of steps, or milestones. These steps include online trainings to help you get started on Wikipedia.
Your course has also been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. Check your Talk page for notes from them. You can also reach them through the "Get Help" button on this page.
To get started, please review the following handouts:
Begin a blog about your experiences. You can use discussion questions to frame your entries, or reflect on the research and writing process. Create at least one blog entry each week during the Wikipedia assignment.
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
It's time to think critically about Wikipedia articles. You'll evaluate a Wikipedia article related to the course and leave suggestions for improving it on the article's Talk page.
Now that you're thinking about what makes a "good" Wikipedia article, consider some additional questions.
Familiarize yourself with editing Wikipedia by adding a citation to an article. There are two ways you can do this:
It's time to choose an article and assign it to yourself.
You've picked a topic and found your sources. Now it's time to start writing.
Creating a new article?
Improving an existing article?
Keep reading your sources, too, as you prepare to write the body of the article.
Resources: Editing Wikipedia pages 7–9
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. It's time to work with that feedback to improve your article!
Once you've made improvements to your article based on peer review feedback, it's time to move your work to Wikipedia proper - the "mainspace."
Editing an existing article?
Creating a new article?
Handout: "Did You Know" submissions
Do additional research and writing to make further improvements to your article, based on suggestions and your own critique.
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!
It's the final week to develop your article.
Write a reflective essay (2–5 pages) on your Wikipedia contributions.
Consider the following questions as you reflect on your Wikipedia assignment:
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.