Schedule of Classes and Readings, Spring 2009

Week of

Tuesday

Thursday

Jan. 12

Introduction

Reading #1

Confucianism

Reading #2

Jan. 19

Daoism

Reading #3

Buddhism

Reading #4 

Jan. 26

The Chinese Imperial State

Reading #5
Tang China: Society and Opportunity

Reading #6

Feb. 2

Gender in Chinese Society

Reading #7

 Poetry in the Tang Dynasty

Reading #8

Feb. 9

Traditional Chinese Art

Reading #9

China Encounters the West

Reading #10

 

Friday [Feb. 13]  Quiz 1 on Traditional China

Feb. 16

Revolutionary China

Reading #11

Communism & the Maoist Revolution

Reading #12

  Wed. Feb. 18: Film Screening & Director's Talk: "Wings of Defeat" (Japan's Kamikaze Pilots) 7:00pm, Rawles Hall 100

Feb. 23

World War II and Civil War

Reading #13

China Under Mao Zedong

Reading #14

Mar. 2

China Today & Tomorrow

Reading #15

Midterm Exam

Mar. 9

The Background of Japanese Culture

Reading #16 and #17

The Court Society of Early Japan

Readings #18 and #19

Mar. 16

Spring Vacation

Mar. 23

The Aesthetic Vision of Early Japan

Readings #19 (cont.)

Feudalism in Japan

Reading #20

Mar. 30

Samurai Culture

Readings #21 and #22

Urban Culture as Seen Through Japanese Art

Readings #23 and #24

 

Friday [Apr. 3]  Quiz 2 on Traditional Japan

Apr. 6

Japan's Swift Response to the West

Reading #25

War and Postwar Transformations

Readings #26 & #27

Apr. 13

Contemporary Japanese Society

Reading #28

Politics, Business, and the Future

Reading #29

Apr. 20

The Formation of the Korean State

Readings #30

 The Chosǒn (Yi) Dynasty

Reading #31

Apr. 27

Colonial Korea & the Korean War

Reading #32 & 33 (pp. 584-88)

Contemporary Korea, North & South

Reading #33 (pp. 588-603)

 

Final Exam, Thursday, May 7, 5:00-7:00pm, Ballantine Hall 340

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