History: East Asian W3870:
JAPAN
IN THE 19th
CENTURY
Fall 2002: Tu/Th 10:35--11:50, 424
Kent
Henry Smith <hds2@columbia.edu>
Office hours: Tu 12-1:30 in SIA 917
Th 12-1:30 in 412 Kent
Course description:This
is a discussion-oriented course intended as an introduction to the basic
narrative and interpretive issues of Japanese history from the later Tokugawa
period until the end of the Meiji period, roughly 1890-1910.
It is one of the pivotal eras in Japanese history.
Course requirements:
1) Regular attendance and active participation in discussion of assigned
readings [25%];
2) two in-class quizzes (Sept. 10 and
Oct. 8) [10%];
3) a take-home midterm examination (Oct.
31) [15%];
4) two four-page book reviews (for sessions
#7 and #21) plus written comments on a book
manuscript (Ravina, assigned for sessions
#6 and #10, comments on both assignments due Sunday, Oct. 5 ) [25%]
5) final paper of about 20 pages [25%].
Readings: The following three books, all of which are required
reading, are available for purchase at Labyrinth Bookstore (
536 W. 112th St., between Broadway
and Amsterdam):
Peter Duus,
Modern
Japan
, 2nd ed. (Houghton Mifflin, 1998). Call no: DS881.9
.D88 199
Katsu , Kokichi,
Musui
=s Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai, trans.
Teruko Craig (Univ. of Arizona Press, 1988).
Call no: DS881.5 .K285 A3 1988.
Takashi Fujitani,
Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern
Japan (Univ. of California Press,
1996). Call no: DS881.9 .J847 1996.
All other assigned readings will be made available in a
xerox reader (indicated as
RDR@
on the syllabus.In addition,
all of the books for purchase, as well a copy of the
xerox reader, will be available on reserve in the Starr East
Asian Library (call numbers as above).
Finally, two titles are available at Labyrinth in the
suggested@
category; short assignments from them are included in the reader, but
both books are worth purchasing if you have a serious interest in Japanese
history: Marius Jansen, ed., The
Emergence of Meiji Japan (Cambridge University Press, 1995), and Carol
Gluck,
Japan
=s Modern Myths (Princeton University Press, 1987).
SYLLABUS
#1. Tues, Sept.
3: PLACING THE ERA, SETTING
ITS TIME
Introduction to course, discussion of periodization
and overall issues.
#2.
Thurs, Sept. 5:
THE TOKUGAWA SYSTEM
Peter Duus,
Modern
Japan, pp. 3-29.
NOT IN READER; you are expected to purchase this text (available at
Labyrinth), or to read it in the library.
Watanabe, Hiroshi,
"About Some Japanese Historical Terms,"
trans. Luke S. Roberts,
Sino-Japanese Studies, 10:2 (April 1998), pp. 32-42.
RDR #1
Recommended: For those with no background in Tokugawa history,
you should consider also reading Edwin Reischauer and Albert Craig,
Japan: Tradition and Transformation (Houghton Mifflin, 1989),
ch. 3:
Tokugawa Japan
: "A Centralized Feudal State"
(pp. 73-115).ON STARR RESERVE:
DS835 .R412 1989g [Also available
in the hardback edition,
East Asia:
Tradition and Transformation , also on Starr Reserve: DS511 .F28
1989, ch . 15, pp. 392-434].
#3. Tues, Sept.
10:
THE PROBLEM OF THE
TOKUGAWA
STATE
James White, "
State Growth and Popular Protest in Tokugawa Japan,"
Journal of Japanese Studies , 14/1 (Winter 1988), pp. 1-25.
RDR #3
Mark Ravina,
"State-Building and Political Economy in Early-modern
Japan,"
Journal of Asian Studies , 54/4 (November 1995), pp. 997-1022.
RDR #4
MAP QUIZ:Be prepared to
draw in class, from memory, an outline map of the Japanese archipelago (including
Lake
Biwa
), and to locate on it what you consider to be the 15 most important cities
in nineteenth-century Japanese history.
(In the case of the han
capitals, you should also indicate the provincial name of the
han, if there is one, eg,
Tosa, Kii, etc.)
Various maps are provided in RDR #2.
#4. Thurs, Sept.
12: DEBATES ABOUT TOKUGAWA
JAPAN
E. H. Norman, "
Late Feudal Society"
(originally presented Jan. 1945), in John Dower, ed.,
Origins of the Modern Japanese State: Selected Writings of E. H.
Norman (Pantheon, 1975), pp. 317-338 top.
RDR #5
John Hall,
"Changing Japanese Conceptions of Modernization,
"
in Marius Jansen, ed., Changing
Japanese Attitudes Toward Modernization
RDR #6 (Princeton Univ. Press, 1965), pp. 7-41.
John Hall, "The New Look of
Tokugawa History,"
in John Hall and Marius Jansen, Studies
in the Institutional History of Early Modern Japan (Princeton University
Press, 1968), ch. 3 (pp. 55-64).
RDR #7
Henry Smith, "
Five Myths About Early Modern
Japan ,"
in Ainslie T. Embree and Carol
Gluck , eds.,
Asia in Western
and World History--A Guide for Teaching (M.E. Sharpe, 1997).
pp. 514-22. RDR #8
#5. Tues, Sept.
17: SAKOKU:
THE "CLOSED COUNTRY"
Duus , Modern
Japan, pp. 35-40.
Engelbert Kaempfer,
"An Enquiry, whether it be conducive for the good of the Japanese
Empire, to keep it shut up . . . ,
" from The History of Japan
, pp. 301-320, 335-336.RDR #9
Marius Jansen,
China
in the Tokugawa World (Harvard Univ
Press, 1992), pp. 1-41. RDR #10
Kawakatsu Heita
, "The National Seclusion
Policy Reappraised,"
Japan
Echo, 19/2 (Summer 1992), pp. 67-76.
RDR #11
Andre Gunder Frank,
Re-Orient: Global Economy in the Asian Age (UC Press, 1998), pp.
xv, 1-5, 64-71, 74-75, 76-7, 104-113,
126-7, 139-49, 174-8, 185-8, 258-9, 273-8, 318-20.
RDR #12
#6. Thurs, Sept.
19: SAMURAI:
VALUES AND EDUCATION
Duus, Modern
Japan, pp. 29-31.
John Hall,
"Rule by Status in Tokugawa
Japan ,"
Journal of Japanese Studies , 1:1 (Aut
1974), pp. 39-49.RDR #13
Mark
Ravina,
The Last Samurai,
"Introduction"
and Ch. 1: "Powerfully Sentimental:
Saig
^=
s Early Years in Satsuma."
Book manuscript. RDR #1
Yamakawa Kikue,
Women of the Mito Domain: Recollections of Samurai Family Life
, trans. Kate Wildman Nakai (Univ. of Tokyo
Press, 1992), pp. 3-38, 140-145.RDR
#15
#7. Tues, Sept.
24: MUSUI'S STORY
Musui's Story
, complete (including the Introduction: a total of 170 pp).
Available for purchase at Labyrinth.
An optional item you may wish to consider is included in the reader:
]guchi Y
fjir
^, "The
Reality Behind
Musui
Dokugen: The World of the
Hatamoto and
Gokenin,
" with introd. by
Kate Wildman Nakai, Journal of Japanese
Studies 16:2 (Summer 1990), 285-308. RDR #16
BOOK REVIEW:Bring to class
a four-page (double-spaced) critical review of
Musui's Story.
#8. Thurs, Sept.
26: COMMERCE AND AGRICULTURE
Duus, Modern
Japan, pp. 31-35, 41-54.
Thomas Smith, "Premodern Economic Growth:
Japan
and the West ,"
in Native Sources
of Japanese Industrialization, ch. 1, (pp.
15-49). RDR #17
Tessa Morris-Suzuki ,
"Society and Technology in Tokugawa
Japan,"
in
The Technological Transformation of
Japan
: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge
University Press, 1994), pp. 13-54.
RDR #18
Anne Walthall ,
"Japanese
Gimin: Peasant Martyrs in Popular Memory,"
American Historical Review , 91/5 (December 1986), pp. 1076-1102.
RDR #19
#9. Tues, Oct.
1:
FAMILY AND POPULATION CHANGE
Conrad Totman,
"Tokugawa Peasants: Win, Lose, or Draw?
," Monumenta
Nipponica, 41/4 (Winter 1986), pp. 457-476.
RDR #20
Thomas Smith,
"Peasant Families and Population Control in Eighteenth-Century
Japan
, " in
Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization
,ch. 4, (pp. 103-132).
RDR #21
Sait
^ Osamu,
"Infanticide , Fertility, and 'Population Stagnation': The State
of Tokugawa Historical Demography,
" Japan
Forum, 4/2 (October 1992), pp. 369-381.
RDR #22
Ochiai Emiko, "The Reproductive
Revolution at the End of the Tokugawa Period,
" in Hitomi Tonomura
, Anne Walthall, and Haruko
Wakita, eds., Women
and Class in Japanese History (Center for Japanese Studies, Univ.
of Michigan, 1999), pp. 187-215.
RDR #23
[NO CLASSES THURS. OCTOBER 3: President Bollinger
's Inauguration]
#10. Tues, Oct.
8:
SAIGO TAKAMORI IN THE BAKUMATSU ERA
Mark Ravina,
The Last Samurai, chs. 2-4
.Book manuscript.
RDR #24
NOTE: Please read the Ravina manuscript
and email your comments to Smith by 6 pm
on Sunday evening, Oct. 6.
This will leave you plenty of time to prepare for the quiz.
IN-CLASS QUIZ: Identification
(define, date, and historical significance) of terms and names taken from
Reischauer/ Fairbank, pp. 111-178 [
: 430-546]. Your will have a
choice of five out of eight items to identify.
#11. Thurs, Oct.
10: THE COMING OF THE WEST
Duus , Modern
Japan, pp. 54-70.
Two letters: "Millard Fillmore,
President of the United States of America, to His Imperial Majesty, the
Emperor of Japan
" and "Commodore Perry to the
Emperor, "
in Narrative of the Expedition of
an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan . . . (New York: Appleton
& Co., 1856), pp. 296-300. RDR
#25
Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi,
"Opium, Expulsion, Sovereignty:
China
=s Lessons for Bakumatsu
Japan,"
Monumenta
Nipponica 47:1 (Spring 1992), pp. 1-25.
RDR #26
Marius Jansen,
China
in the Tokugawa World (Harvard UP, 1992), pp. 76-91. RDR #27
#12. Tues, Oct.
15: PLOTS AND PASSIONS IN BAKUMATSU
JAPAN
G. B. Sansom,
Internal Politics,
@ in The Western World
and
Japan
: A Study in the Interaction of European and Asiatic Cultures
(NY: Knopf, 1968), p. 281.RDR
#28
Thomas Smith,Japan's Aristocratic
Revolution,@
Yale Review 50:3 (Spring 1961), reprinted in
Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization (UC Press, 1988),
pp. 133-147. RDR #29
Thomas Smith,
The Discontented,
@Journal of Asian Studies
22:1 (Feb 1962), reprinted in
Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization (UC Press, 1988),
pp. 148-155. RDR #30
H. D. Harootunian,
Toward Restoration: The Growth of Political Consciousness in Tokugawa
Japan (UC Press, 1970), pp.
403-410 ( The
Restoration Reconsidered
@).RDR #31
Harry Harootunian,
>Religions of Belief
=, from
Late Tokugawa Culture and Thought," in Marius Jansen, ed.,
The
Cambridge
History of
Japan
, Vol. 5: The Nineteenth Century (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989),
pp. 215-31.RDR #32
E. H. Norman ,
Late Feudal Society
@ (original 1945) in John Dower, ed.,
Origins of the Modern Japanese State: Selected Writings of E. H.
Norman (Pantheon, 1975), pp. 338 top-357.
RDR #33
#13. Thurs, Oct. 17:
EIJANAIKA
FILM:
Eijanaika .Times
of showings will be announced later.
OPTIONAL (but recommended): "Thomas Keirstead
and Deidre Lynch,
Eijanaika: Japanese Modernization and the Carnival
of Time,"
in Robert Rosenstone, ed.,
Revisioning History:
Film and the Construction of a New Past (Princeton Univ. Press, 1995),
pp. 64-76.RDR #34
#14. Tues, Oct.
22: 1868 AND THE EARLY MEIJI
TRANSITION
Duus, Modern
Japan, pp. 71-95.
"The Five Articles Oath of 1868" (one-sheet handout).
RDR #35
John Breen,
"The Imperial Oath of April 1868: Ritual, Politics, and Power
in the Restoration,"
Monumenta
Nipponica 51:4 (Winter 1996), pp.
407-29.
RDR #36
Albert Craig ,
The Central Government,
" in Marius Jansen and Gilbert Rozman ,
eds.,
Japan in Transition, (Princeton Univ. Press, 1986), pp. 36-67.
RDR #37
#15. Thurs, Oct.
24: SHIZOKU PROTEST
Duus, Modern
Japan, pp. 95-108.
Stephen Vlastos,
"Opposition Movements in Early Meiji,
" in Marius Jansen, ed., The
Cambridge
History of
Japan, vol. 5 (Cambridge
Univ RDR #38
Press, 1989), pp. 367-402.
Ivan Morris ,
"The Apotheosis of Saig
^ the Great,
" in The Nobility of Failure:
Tragic Heroes in the History of
Japan (NY: Holt Rinehart Winston,
1975), pp. 217-226, 239-75.RDR
#39
#16. Tues, Oct.
29: JIYU MINKEN: FREEDOM AND
PEOPLE'S RIGHTS
Duus, Modern
Japan, pp. 108-114.
Stephen Vlastos,
"Opposition Movements in Early Meiji,
" in The Emergence of Meiji Japan
, pp. 238-67 (remainder of chapter begun last time).
RDR #40
Carol Gluck,
"The People in History: Recent Trends in Japanese Historiography,
"Journal of Asian Studies
, 38:1 (Nov. 1978), 25-50.RDR #41
#17. Thurs, Oct.
31: TAKE-HOME MIDTERM EXAM
TAKE-HOME EXAM:A take-home
exam consisting of two essays will be handed out in the previous class
meeting (October 29), and will be due in the EALAC office by
noon today.
No extensions. The reader
includes the following essay that is optional, but useful in thinking
about what is important in answering exam questions:
OPTIONAL:William G. Perry,
Jr. "
Examsmanship and the Liberal Arts: A Study in Educational
Epistemology,
" in L. Bramson, ed.,
Examining in
Harvard
College
: A Collection of Essays by Members of the Harvard Faculty (Faculty
of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 1963), pp. 125-35.
RDR #42
NO CLASS MEETING TODAY.
[NO CLASS TUES. NOV. 5--ELECTION DAY]
#18. Thurs, Nov.
7:
INDUSTRIALIZATION
Duus, Modern
Japan, pp. 95-99.
Tessa Morris-Suzuki,
"Technology and the Meiji State,
" in
The Technological Transformation of
Japan
: From the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge
University Press, 1994), pp. 71-104.
RDR #43
Gail Bernstein,
"Women in the Silk-reeling Industry in Nineteenth-century
Japan,
" in Gail Bernstein and Haruhiro Fukui,,
eds.,
Japan and the World--Essays on Japanese History and Politics in
Honour of Ishida Takeshi, pp. 54-77 and 261-268.
RDR #44
Andrew Gordon,
The Evolution of
Labor Relations in
Japan
: Heavy Industry, 1853-1955 (Harvard University Press, 1985),
pp. 1-48. RDR #45
Donna Doane,
"Nihonshihon
shugi rons
^ (the debate on Japanese capitalism),
" in Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan
, V/382-3.RDR #46
#19. Tues, Nov.
12: MID- MEIJI
RELIGION AND THOUGHT
Duus, Modern
Japan, pp. 114-125.
Martin Collcutt,
"Buddhism: The Threat of Eradication,
" in Marius Jansen and Gilbert Rozman ,
eds.,
Japan in Transition, (Princeton Univ. Press, 1986), pp. 143-167.
RDR #47
Donald Shively,
"The Japanization of Middle Meiji,
" in Shively, ed.,
Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture (Princeton UP,
1971), pp. 77-119.RDR #48
#20. Thurs, Nov.
14: MEIJI CLEANSING
Narusawa Akira,
"The Social Order of Modern
Japan ,
" in Banno Junji
, ed., The Political Economy
of Japanese Society, Volume 1: The State or the Market? (Oxford University
Press, 1997), pp. 193-236. RDR
#49
Susan L. Burns,
"Constructing the National Body: Public Health and the Nation
in Nineteenth-Century Japan
," in Timothy
Brook and Andre Schmid, eds.,
Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities (
University of Michigan
Press, 2000), pp. 17-49.RDR
#50
David Howell,
"Ainu Ethnicity and the Boundaries of the Early
ModernJapanese
State,
" Past and Present, no.
142 (February 1994), pp. 69-93.RDR
#51
#21. Tues, Nov.
19:
SPLENDID MONARCHY
Takashi Fujitani,
Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan (Univ.
of California Press, 1996), complete.
At Labyrinth and on reserve (DS881.9 .J847
1996).
BOOK REVIEW:Bring to class
a four-page critical review of Splendid
Monarchy.
#22. Thurs, Nov.
21:
THE MEIJI CONSTITUTION AND MEIJI IDEOLOGY
Duus, Modern
Japan, pp. 125-133.
Carol Gluck,
Japan
's Modern Myths (Princeton University Press, 1987), pp. 17-49.
RDR #52
Ueno Chizuko,
"Modern Patriarchy and
the Formation of the Japanese Nation State,
" ch. 12 in Donald Denoon et al.,
eds., Multicultural
Japan
: Paleolithic to Postmodern (Cambridge UP, 1996).
RDR #53
Kenneth B. Pyle,
"The Technology of Japanese Nationalism: The Local Improvement
Movement, 1900-1918,
" Journal of Asian Studies
, 33 (1973), pp. 51-65. RDR #54
#23. Tues, Nov.
26:
IMPERIALISM AND WAR
Duus , Modern
Japan, pp. 134-149.
Harry Wray and Hilary Conroy, eds.,
Japan
Examined: Perspectives on Modern Japanese History (Univ. of
Hawaii Press, 1983), pp. 121-130, 136-140, 153-157.
RDR #55
Donald Keene," The Sino-Japanese War
of 1894-95 and Its Cultural Effects in
Japan ,
" in Donald Shively, ed., Tradition
and Modernization in Japanese Culture (Princeton UP, 1971), pp. 121-175.
RDR #56
[THANKSGIVING BREAK]
#24-25.Tues, Dec. 3, and Thurs,
Dec. 5: REPORTS ON FINAL PAPER TOPICS
PREPARE:A concise one-page
(single-spaced) statement of your paper topic, to be handed in at the
EALAC office by NOON, Monday,
Dec. 1. Be sure that you have a
title that clearly conveys your argument, no matter how tentative.
Indicate what materials
you plan to use; if possible, try to use some primary materials.
Individual commentators will be assigned for each proposal.
DUE DATE FOR FINAL PAPER:
12 noon, Wednesday, December 18, in the EALAC office.