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Friday, August 22, 2014

Syllabic Cycles—East Asian and Pacific History and Culture (b)

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[a] Pacific RF
East Asian and Pacific History and Culture
History 210/Anthropology 275
Autumn 2014
TTh 10:00-11:50 a.m. 
Robert André LaFleur                                                             Office Hours:
Morse Ingersoll 111                                                                 Tuesday           12:00-1:30
363-2005                                                                                   Thursday         12:00-1:30
lafleur@beloit.edu                                                                    …or by appointment

Required Books           
 Holcombe, Charles. A History of East Asia
de Bary, William. Sources of East Asian Tradition, Volume I: Premodern East Asia
Richter, Antje. Letters and Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval China
Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko. Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time

Choose One Set of the Following Books (China or Japan)*
China
Brook, Timothy. The Confusions of Pleasure 
Cohen, Paul. History in Three Keys 
Kipnis, Andrew. Producing Guanxi
Liu Xin. In One’s Own Shadow
Mann, Susan. The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
           —OR—
Japan
Berry, Mary Elizabeth. Japan in Print
Fukuzawa Yukichi, The Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi
Dower, John. Embracing Defeat
Rupp, Kathleen. Gift-Giving in Japan
Bestor, Theodore. Tsukiji: Fish Market at the Center of the World 
                                        ***  ***
Character notebook (for practicing "East Asian" characters) 
Round and Square (www.robert-lafleur.blogsot.com)
The New York Review of Books (NYRB)

Reserve Books (available for purchase, but multiple copies are on reserve)  
McNaughton, William. Reading and Writing Chinese  
For anyone with fewer than three years of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean
               —OR—
Wieger, James, Chinese Characters
For anyone with more than three years of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean

Course Description  
This course will examine East Asian history in the context of the wider Asian and Pacific worlds. We will begin with the earliest evidence we have from archaeology, mythology, and historical accounts before moving on to discuss the origins of developed states in China, Japan, and Korea. The second half of the course deals with early-modern and modern East Asia, again in the context of Asian influences to the north and west, as well as Pacific traditions farther west and south. Throughout, the course will examine the persistent theme of "mythologization," which goes far beyond early tales and legends. We will also consider matters of language and culture in our studies, including the development of a pan-East Asian "Chinese" script.

Evaluation
Quizzes                    15% 
Source Letter           15% 
Final exam               25%
Class attendance and participation is expected.  

East Asian and Pacific History and Culture
HIST 210/ANTH 275

Week IX 
(October 21, 23)
Midterm Week  
Holcombe, A History of East AsiaWarrior Japan, 148-159
Kurosawa Akira. The Seven Samurai (in-class film on Tuesday)
Ohnuki-Tierney, Rice as Self
       Food as a Metaphor of Self
       Rice and Rice Agriculture Today
       Rice as a Staple Food?
       Rice in Cosmogony and Cosmology
       Rice as Self, Rice Paddies as Our Land
       Rice in the Discourse of Self and Others
       Food as Selves and Others in Cross-Cultural Perspective
       Symbolic Practice Through Time: Self, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
 ***  ***
MidtermReview Essay Assignment 
Due by 10:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 26 (MI 111)
Week X
(October 28, 30)
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus 
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus 
Brook, The Confusions of Pleasure   
            Introduction: Seasons of the Ming (1609)
            Dramatis Personae
            Winter: The First Century (1368-1450)
            Spring: The Middle Century (1450-1550)
            Summer: The Last Century (1550-1644)
            Fall: The Lord of Silver (1642-1644)
 Berry, Japan in Print
            A Traveling Clerk Goes to the Bookstores
            The Library of Public Information
            Maps are Strange
            Blood Right and Merit
            The Freedom of the City
            Cultural Custody, Cultural Literacy
            Nation 
***  ***                                        
Holcombe, A History of East Asia, 126-159
5. Mature Independent Trajectories (Tenth Through Sixteenth Centuries)
          Late Imperial China: The Song, Yuan, and Early Ming Dynasties
          Confucian Korea: Koryo and Early Choson
          Warrior Japan: Late Heian, Kamakura, and Muromachi
McNaughton, Reading and Writing Chinese  
          Characters 600-699
Wieger, Chinese Characters
          Lessons 72-81
 Character notebooks due in class on Thursday every week!

Week XI
(November 4, 6)
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus 
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus 
Mann, The Talented Women of the Zhang Family 
          Genealogical Chart of the Zhang Family and Their Collateral Kin 
          Prologue 
          Jining, Shandong (1893-1895) 
          Tang Yaoqing, Guixiu (1763-1831) 
           Zhang Qieying, Poet (1792-after 1863) 
           Wang Caipin, Governess (1826-1893) 
           Epilogue. The Historian Says . . . 
           Zhang Family Chronology
Fukuzawa, The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa
           Childhood
            I Set Out to Learn Dutch in Nagasaki
            I Make My Way to Osaka
            Student Ways at Ogata School
            I Go to Yedo; I Learn English
            I Join the First Mission to America
            I Go to Europe
            I Return to Anti-Foreign Japan
            I Visit America Again
            A Non-Partisan in the Restoration
            The Risk of Assassination 
            Further Steps Toward a Liberal Age
            My Personal and Household Economy
            My Private Life; My Family
            A Final Word on the Good Life
***  ***                       
Holcombe, A History of East Asia, 160-189
6. Early Modern East Asia (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries)
          Late Ming and Qing Dynasty China
          The Hermit Kingdom: Late Choson Korea
          The Reunification of Japan and the Tokugawa Shogunate
McNaughton, Reading and Writing Chinese  
          Characters 700-799
Wieger, Chinese Characters
          Lessons 82-89
 Character notebooks due in class on Thursday every week!

Week XII
(November 11, 13)
Cohen, History in Three Keys 
        Part 1: The Boxers as Event 
            Prologue: The Historically Reconstructed Past 
            The Boxer Uprising: A Narrative History 
       Part  2: The Boxers as Experience 
            Prologue: The Experienced Past 
            Drought and the Foreign Presence 
            Mass Spirit Possession 
            Magic and Female Pollution 
            Rumor and Rumor Panic 
            Death 
       Part 3: The Boxers as Myth 
            Prologue: The Mythologized Past 
            The New Culture Movement and the Boxers 
            Anti-Imperialism and the Recasting of the Boxer Myth 
            The Cultural Revolution and the Boxers  
Dower, Embracing Defeat
        Part I: Victor and Vanquished
             Shattered Lives
             Gifts From Heaven
        Part II: Transcending Despair
             Cultures of Defeat
             Bridges of Language
        Part III: Revolutions
             Neocolonial Revolution
             Embracing Revolution
             Making Revolution
       Part IV: Democracies
             Imperial Democracy: Driving the Wedge
             Imperial Democracy: Descending Partway From Heaven
             Imperial Democracy: Evading Responsibility
             Constitutional Democracy: GHQ Writes a New National Charter
             Constitutional Democracy: Japanizing the American Draft
             Censoring Democracy: Policing the New Taboos
        Part V: Guilts
             Victor's Justice, Loser's Justice
             What Do You Tell The Dead When You Lose?
        Part VI: Reconstructions
             Engineering Growth
             Epilogue: Legacies/Fantasies/Dreams
***  ***                       
Holcombe, A History of East Asia, 190-229
7. The Nineteenth-Century Encounter of Civilizations
          Industrialization and the Rise of New Great Powers
          The Nineteenth-Century Impact on China
          The Nineteenth-Century Opening of Korea
          The Meiji Restoration: Japan "Leaves Asia"
McNaughton, Reading and Writing Chinese  
          Characters 800-899
Wieger, Chinese Characters
          Lessons 90-96
 Character notebooks due in class on Thursday every week!
***  ***                      

Week XIII
(November 18, 20)
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus 
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus 
Kipnis, Producing Guanxi 
     Part I  Practices of Guanxi Production 
            Everyday Guanxi Production 
            Guest/Host Etiquette and Banquets 
            Gift giving 
            “Kowtowing” 
            Weddings, Funerals, and Gender 
            Feeling, Speech, and Nonrepresentational Ethics
     Part II  Guanxi Versions 
            Guanxi in Fengjia, 1948-90 
            Guanxi Versions throughout China 
            Guanxi and Peasant Subculture 
            Epilogue
Rupp, Gift-Giving in Japan
            Examples of Giving
            Strength of Relationships, Gratitude, and Hierarchy
            Life Cycles
            Seasonal Cycles
            Variations in Attitudes Toward and Practices of Giving
            Conclusion 
***  ***                       
Holcombe, A History of East Asia, 230-254
8. The Age of Westernization (1900-1929)
          Empire's End: Republican Revolution in China
          Korea Under Japanese Rule, 1905-1945
          Japan: Taisho Democracy
McNaughton, Reading and Writing Chinese  
          Characters 900-999
Wieger, Chinese Characters
          Lessons 97-110
 Character notebooks due in class on Thursday every week!
 ***  ***                     
Source Paper Due on Sunday, November 23 at 10:00 p.m.
Week XIV
(November 25)
Tuesday, November 25

                                                             Week XV
(December 2, 4)
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus 
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus 
Liu, In One’s Own Shadow 
            Exotic Familiarity 
       Part One: The Culture of Predicament—The Uses of Confusion 
            Resisting Ideology 
            Marriage as a Mirror of Change 
            Meaning and Eating 
       Part Two: The Logic of Practice 
            The Practice of Everyday Life 
            The Pliable Emotions 
            Immoral Politics 
            Conclusion: A History of the Future 
Bestor, Tsukiji
            Tokyo's Pantry
             Grooved Channels
             From Landfill to Marketplace
             The Raw and the Cooked
             Visible Hands
             Family/Firm
             Trading Places
             Full Circle
Holcombe, A History of East Asia, 230-254
9. The Dark Valley (1930-1945)
          The Rise of Japanese Ultranationalism
          Manchukuo
          Nationalist China
          The Rise of Mao Zedong
          World War II in China
           World War II in the Pacific
McNaughton, Reading and Writing Chinese  
          Characters 1000-1062
Wieger, Chinese Characters
          Lessons 111-122
 Character notebooks due in class on Thursday every week!

Week XVI
Wrap-up
Tuesday, December 10 
Holcombe, A History of East Asia, 277-348
10. Japan Since 1945
          The Postwar Allied Occupation
           Economic Recovery and the "Developmental State"
           Trade Wars and the End of the Japanese Miracle
           Japan and Globalization
11. Korea Since 1945
          The Korean War
          North Korea
          South Korea: Syngman Rhee and the First Republic
           Park Chung Hee and the Industrialization of South Korea
          Democratization and Globalization
12. China Since 1945
          The Chinese Civil War
          Chairman Mao's New China
          Deng Xiaoping and "Market-Leninism"
          Tiananmen
          Greater China
          China and Globalization
Final Exam
 ***  ***
All Late Work Due by Wednesday, December 10 by 10:00 p.m. 
No Exceptions. 

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