Severe weather alerts Emergency alerts Emergency information hotline: 252-328-0062 CONTENT: "History of the Far East" (HIST 3611) explores the transition from tradition to modernity in East Asia, focusing especially on the major social, political, economic, and intellectual developments in China and Japan. In the case of China, the main theme examined will be that of increasing foreign domination and the nationalistic response, from the Song dynasty (960-1279) through the rise of the People's Republic of China. Regarding Japan, emphasis will be on Japanese attempts at warding off foreign domination, and internal developments which facilitated the same, from the Kamakura (1185-1333) period into the present. While the course will thus reach back much further into history than1600, it does so primarily in an effort to make the last four centuries occasioning the so-called modern transformation more intelligible within the overall narrative of regional and world history. METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: While the instructor will lecture regularly, equal class time will be devoted to discussion of the assigned readings. Students are expected to have completed the readings, and be ready to discuss them on a weekly basis. The grade for class participation will be based on both attendance, which is expected, and active engagement in classroom discussions. GRADING: There will be a midterm (Thursday, June 6) and a final (Wednesday, June 26), each counting 35% of the final grade. Class participation in the form of attendance and a readiness to engage in and/or respond to discussion of the lectures and readings will count for the final 30% of the grade. Repeated absences may result in a substantial reduction of the student's grade. REQUIRED READINGS
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ASSIGNED READINGS
May 22: China in the Song, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties May 23: Qing Dynasty China: Murphey, ch. 8 Sheryl Rollins May 27: State Holiday---No classes May 28: Spence, Emperor of China Emily Taylor May 29-30: Traditional Vietnam, Korea, and Japan (Ancient & Medieval) Murphey, chs. 9-11. June 3-4: The First Coming of the West: Murphey, ch. 12. June 5: Tokugawa Japan: Murphey, ch. 13. Marcus Edwards 16th-century Japanese Paintings of "Southern Barbarians" Arquebuses in Action: Paintings of the Seige of Osaka Castle June 10-12: The Second Coming of the West (also, part two) Murphey, ch. 14 Randy Edwards June 13: The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa Mildred Thatcher June 17: Meiji Japan: Murphey, ch. 15. Emily Green June 18: East Asia & China in Tatters: Murphy, chs. 16-17. June 19: Taisho Japan: Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman Michael Atkinson June 20: The Second World War in Asia: Murphey, chs. 18-19. Dan Rhodes June 24: China Since 1945: Murphey, ch. 20; Toward a Democratic China Wilbure Smith June 25: Japan Since 1945: Murphey, chs. 21-22. |
