Course Syllabus
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Week 1. The Placement of East
Asia in Time and Space. |
SEPTEMBER 4 and 6. |
DAY 1: COURSE INTRODUCTION; ORACLE BONES AND BRONZE
INSCRIPTIONS |
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DAY 2: MYTH AND HISTORY EAST ASIAN ORIGINS |
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*Book of Songs: Poems # 245 "She Bore
the Folk" and #303 "The Dark Bird," p. 2-4.
*The Mythology of Writing," p. 5.
Sources of Korean Tradition, pp. 1-17.
Sources of Japanese Tradition, pp. 1-31. |
All readings marked with an *asterisk can be found in
the course packet. |
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Week 2. Disputers of the Dao:
The Way to Order in the Warring States Period. |
SEPTEMBER 11 and 13. . |
DAY 1: POETRY AND STATECRAFT; EARLY CONFUCIAN THOUGHT |
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* "Examples of Diplomats Quoting from
the Book of Songs" p. 6-14.
* "Confucius on the Book of Songs" p. 14.
* "The Great Preface" p. 15-16; * "Minor Preface to
"Cry of the Ospreys" p. 17-18.
Sources of Chinese Tradition:
"The Canon of Yao and the Canon of Shun" pp. 29-30;
"The Metal-bound Coffer" 32-35 (also read the poem *"The
Owl" p. 19);
Selections from the Analects of Confucius contained in Sources, pp.
41-63.
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DAY 2: MOISTS, PROTO-DAOISTS, CONFUCIANS |
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Sources of Chinese Tradition:
Mozi: pp. 69-72, 75-76, *"Against Music."
Laozi: pp. 77-94.
Zhuangzi: pp. 95-111.
Mencius: read at least the following:
1A:1; 1A:7; 2A:2; 2A:6; 3A:4; 3A:5; 6A:1; 6A: 2; 6A:4; 6A:10; 6B:2.
Xunzi: pp. 174-83; *"Discourse on Music."
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Week 3. The Early
Empire: Institutions, Ideology and Ritual Practice in the Qin and
Han and Early Six Dynasties |
SEPTEMBER 18 and 20 . |
DAY 1: LEGALISM IN PRACTICE; THE COSMOLOGY OF HAN KINGSHIP;
THE USE OF HISTORY |
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Sources of Chinese Tradition, pp.
206-212, 234-241, 256-263, 268-82, 367-374. |
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DAY 2: CONFUCIAN AND DAOIST RITUAL |
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Sources of Chinese Tradition: pp.
325-344.
* "An Early Poem on Mystical Excursion."
* "Seduction Songs of One of the Perfected."
* "The Method for Collecting and Swallowing the Yin Flower..."
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Week 4. Early Buddhist China. |
SEPTEMBER 25 and 27. |
DAY 1: BUDDHIST DOCTRINES AND CULTURAL CONFLICTS |
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Sources of Chinese Tradition, pp.
415-476. |
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DAY 2: BUDDHIST POLITICS AND PRACTICES |
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Sources of Chinese Tradition, pp.
476-504, 522-36.
* "Buddhist Doctrines and Practices," pp. 97-104. |
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Week 5. Religion and Politics
in Early Three Kingdoms Korea |
OCTOBER 2 and 4. |
DAY 1: RELIGION AND STATE FORMATION |
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Sources of Korean Tradition, pp. 18-77. |
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DAY 2: BUDDHIST THEORIES AND PRACTICES |
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Sources of Korean Tradition, pp. 78-108, 120-22. |
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Week 6. Buddhism and the Building
of the Japanese State.
FIRST DRAFT OF FIRST PAPER DUE THURSDAY |
OCTOBER 9 and 11. |
DAY 1: RELIGIOUS KINGSHIP |
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*Religions of Japan in Practice,
"The Founding of the Monastery Gangoji," "Hagiography
and History: The Image of Prince Shotoku," "The Confucian
Monarchy of Nara Japan," pp. 299-333.
Sources of Japanese Tradition, pp. 114-117. |
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DAY 2: RELIGION IN THE HEIAN PERIOD |
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Sources of Japanese Tradition: pp.
125-131, 140-142, 145-157.
* "A Memorial Presenting a List of Newly Imported Sutras and
Other Items," pp. 140-150.
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Week 7. The Religious Culture
of Medieval Japan
Museum visit: date and time to be arranged. |
OCTOBER 16 and 18. |
DAY 1: HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND RELIGIOUS ARGUMENTS |
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Sources of Japanese Tradition: pp.
180-187, 193-196, 211-237. |
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DAY 2: SECTARIANISM AND SYNCRETISM |
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Sources of Japanese Tradition: pp.
292-305, 306-328.
*Religions of Japan in Practice, "Muju Ichien's Shinto-Buddhist
Syncretism," pp. 415-422. |
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Week 8. Recovery of the Dao: The
Way to Order in the Late Empire.
FINAL DRAFT OF FIRST PAPER DUE THURSDAY |
OCTOBER 23 and 25. |
DAY 1: BUDDHIST AND CONFUCIAN INTERACTIONS |
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Sources of Chinese Tradition, pp.
568-573, 582-585.
*Religions of China in Practice, "Buddhist Ritual and
the State," pp. 390-396. |
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DAY 2: SUNG NEO-CONFUCIANISM |
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Sources of Korean Tradition, pp.
311-313, 382-388.
Sources of Chinese Tradition, pp. 682-714. |
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Week 9. Social and Cultural Orders |
OCTOBER 30 and NOVEMBER 1. |
DAY 1: GENDER, THE FAMILY, AND EDUCATION |
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Sources of Chinese Tradition, pp.
819-840.
Sources of Korean Tradition, pp. 313-326. |
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DAY 2: GENDER, THE FAMILY, AND EDUCATION |
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Sources of Japanese Tradition, pp.
399-412, 425-432, 458-465.
* "Japan a Documentary History," pp. 206-208, 212-215. |
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NOVEMBER 6 SCHOOL HOLIDAY: GO
VOTE! |
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Week 10. Family Politics
and Ritual Force in Choson Korea |
NOVEMBER 8. |
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* "A Heritage of Kings," pp. 219-230.
*The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong, pp. 241-336. |
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Week 11. Pacific Overtures: Japan's
Place in the World in the Nineteenth Century |
NOVEMBER 13 and 15. |
DAY 1: REORIENTING JAPAN |
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* "Seiyoga Dan," pp. 157-164.
* "Shinron: Kokutai," pp. 179-213. |
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DAY 2: INTERNATIONAL ENCOUNTERS |
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*Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi,
pp. 104-140.
*Report of the Iwakura Mission and Memoirs of Kume Kunitake,
pp. 168-183
* Commodore Perry's Diary: " Japanese Curiosity," pp. 177-198,
323-24. |
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NOVEMBER 22 NO CLASS: THANKSGIVING
HOLIDAY |
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Week 12. Reform and
Revolution in China
FIRST DRAFT OF SECOND PAPER DUE TUESDAY |
NOVEMBER 20 and 27. |
DAY 1: CONFUCIAN REFORMERS AND REPUBLICAN REVOLUTIONARIES |
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Sources of Chinese Tradition, vol.
II, pp. 198-206, 260-280, 287-298, 314-326.
* "Liang Qichao On his Trip to America," Ebrey, pp. 335-340. |
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DAY 2: THE LITERARY REVOLUTION |
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* "On the Relationship Between Fiction
and the Government of the People," pp. 74-81.
* Selections from Lu Xun's fiction: Diary of a Madman, Medicine, Hometown.
pp. 29-41, 49-58, 89-100.
E-BOOK VERSION: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?ASR8318
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Weeks 13-14: The Search for an
East Asian Modernity
FINAL DRAFT OF SECOND PAPER DUE THURSDAY DECEMBER
6TH |
NOVEMBER 29.
DECEMBER 4 and 6. |
DAY 1: TBA |
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DAY 2: TBA |
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DAY 3: TBA |
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DECEMBER 6. Distribution
of the take-home final. |
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DECEMBER 13. Take-home final
due. |
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