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History 210
China, East Asia, and the Pacific World
Spring 2017
China, East Asia, and the Pacific World
Spring 2017
Monday and Wednesday 8:00-10:00 a.m.
Robert André LaFleur Office Hours:
Morse Ingersoll 111 Monday 12:05-12:30
363-2005 1:30-2:00
363-2005 1:30-2:00
lafleur@beloit.edu Wednesday 12:05-1:35
TA Hours
Eben: Tuesdays—5:45-6:45 (library, first floor)
Sida (Matt): Sundays—6:00-7:00 (library, first floor)
TA Hours
Eben: Tuesdays—5:45-6:45 (library, first floor)
Sida (Matt): Sundays—6:00-7:00 (library, first floor)
Required Books
Brook, Timothy. The Confusions of Pleasure
Chan, Anita, et al. Chen Village: Revolution to Globalization
Cohen, Paul. History in Three Keys
Ebrey, Patricia. Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook
Kipnis, Andrew. Producing Guanxi
Kuhn, Philip. Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768
Kuhn, Philip. Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768
Liu Xin. In One’s Own Shadow
Mair, Victor. The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature
Mann, Susan. The Talented Women of the Zhang Family
Spence, Jonathan. The Gate of Heavenly Peace
Winchester, Simon. Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards
Winchester, Simon. Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards
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Chicago Manual of Style Guidelines (available at the bookstore)Character notebook (for practicing Chinese characters)
Round and Square (www.robert-lafleur.blogsot.com)
The New York Review of Books (NYRB)
Reserve Books (you may order your own copy if you wish, but copies are on reserve)
McNaughton, William. Reading and Writing Chinese
McNaughton, William. Reading and Writing Chinese
Wieger, James, Chinese Characters
Course Description
This course will examine Chinese history and culture in the context of the wider East Asian world. We will begin with early Chinese history and the influence of the Yellow River valley on the development of Chinese institutions. We will then examine the development of Chinese philosophical, literary, political, and economic traditions during the imperial era. The second half of the course deals with modern Chinese history and culture, paying equal attention to historical and ethnographic materials, and taking a careful look at the development of a strong Chinese state from the challenges of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Throughout the course we will use examples from the Chinese language—Chinese characters and their etymologies, idiomatic phrases, and classical allusions—to analyze Chinese history and culture in linguistic context.
Evaluation
Quizzes 15%
Historical Thought Essays (3) 15%
Exam I 15%
Source Paper 20%
Exam II 15%
Ethnography Paper 20%
Ethnography Paper 20%
Class attendance and participation is expected.
China, East Asia, and the Pacific World
HIST 210
Week I
Historical Thought and Imagination
China...Studying China...Studying...
China...Studying China...Studying...
Monday, January 16
Collingwood, An Autobiography
History as the Self-Knowledge of the Mind
Mills, The Sociological Imagination
Appendix
Cohen, History in Three Keys
Appendix
Cohen, History in Three Keys
Preface
Prologue
Nagel, What is it like to be a bat?
Read the LATE ASSIGNMENT POLICY for this course (it will be enforced).
Nagel, What is it like to be a bat?
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Read the ATTENDANCE POLICY for this course (it will be enforced).Read the LATE ASSIGNMENT POLICY for this course (it will be enforced).
Wednesday, January 18
Round and Square
Syllabic Cycles:Introduction (a-d) Read all four posts, not just “a.”
Geil of Doylestown (film shown in class)
Syllabic Cycles:Introduction (a-d) Read all four posts, not just “a.”
Geil of Doylestown (film shown in class)
From the Geil Archive (read all nine posts)
Introduction
1-Southern Mountain Museum
2-Sacred Mountain Map
3-Hat and Cattle
4-Seeking Anthropology
5-Curly Fives
6-How to Write the Book
7-Mortarboard Man
8-Orator
Introduction
1-Southern Mountain Museum
2-Sacred Mountain Map
3-Hat and Cattle
4-Seeking Anthropology
5-Curly Fives
6-How to Write the Book
7-Mortarboard Man
8-Orator
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McNaughton: 9-30 or Wieger: 5-22
Preface Introductory
Week II
Early China (to c. 500 BCE)
Monday, January 23
Send as a .pdf file to lafleur@beloit.edu
Wednesday, January 25
Round and Square Quotidian Quizzes:Introduction (a-h)
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 3-16
Late Shang Divination Records
The Metal Bound Box
Hexagrams in the I-Ching
Songs and Poems
The Battle Between Jin and Chu
Mair, The Columbia Anthology, 27-31; 149-169
Guanzi: Duties of the Student
The Book of Odes
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McNaughton: 31-50 or Wieger: 26-49
Characters 1-99 Lessons 1-14
Week III
Eastern Zhou, Qin, and
Former Han (c. 500 BCE-CE 9)
Cultures and Cosmology in Chinese Mythology (on library reserve): Lecture 37
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 17-45
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 17-45
Confucians
Daoists
Legalists
Two Avengers
Social Rituals
Mair, The Columbia Anthology, 40-70
Confucius: Analects
Mencius: Bull Mountain
Mencius: Fish and Bear’s Paws
Zhuangzi: Autumn Floods
Laozi: Dao De Jing
Wang Chong: Daoist Untruths
Wednesday, February 1
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 47-76
Penal Servitude in Qin Law
The World Beyond China
Heaven, Earth, and Man
The Debate on Salt and Iron
The Classic of Filial Piety
Wang Fu on Friendship...
Women’s Virtues and Vices
Mair, The Columbia Anthology, 443-455
Liu Bang: Song of the Great Wind
Sima Xiangru: Cock-Phoenix...
Anon: Ground-Thumping Song
Li Yannian: A Song
Anon: We Have Chosen a Timely Day
Xijun: Lost Horizon
Anon: Song of the Viet Boatman
Anon: Mulberry Up the Lane
Anon: Green, Green Riverside Grass
Anon: Frail, Frail Lone-Growing Bamboo
Anon: They Fought South of the Wall
Crows on City Walls
Cai Yong: Watering Horses at a Long Wall…
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McNaughton: 51-70 or Wieger: 50-74Characters 100-199 Lessons 15-25
Week IV
Later Han and the Period of Division
Through Mid-Tang (CE 9-755)
Great Mythologies of the World (on library reserve): Lectures 38-39
38: Chinese Heroes, Kings, and Destroyers
39: Peasant Folktales and Chinese Scholarship
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 87-111
38: Chinese Heroes, Kings, and Destroyers
39: Peasant Folktales and Chinese Scholarship
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 87-111
Ge Hong’s Autobiography
Buddhist Doctrine and Practices
Tales of Ghosts and Demons
Cultural Differences...North and South
Mair, The Columbia Anthology, 170-189
Ban Zhao: Needle and Thread
Wang Can: Seven Sorrows
Liu Zhen: Poem Without a Category
Liu Zhen: Cockfight
Cao Zhi: Ballad of the Orioles in the Fields
Ruan Ji: Songs of My Soul
Guo Pu: Poem on the Wandering Immortal
Tao Qian: Substance, Shadow, and Spirit
Tao Qian: Poems Aftger Drinking Wine
Tao Qian: In Praise of Jing Ke
Tao Qian: On Reading the Shanhai jing
Tao Qian: Blaming Sons
Xie Lingyun: On My Way from South Mtn...
Xie Lingyun: On Climbing the Highest Peak
Shen Yueh: Harmonizing with a Poem
Shen Yueh: Seeing the Beloved in a Dream
Shen Yueh: Returning to my Garden Home
Shen Yueh: Listening to Gibbons...
Tao Hongjing: Poem Written in Answer...
Wang Sengru: Describing a Dream...
Yu Jianwu: Spring Day
Xiao Gang: A Pheasant on..Morning Flight
Mair, The Columbia Anthology, 455-458; 472-485
Chen Lin: Song—I Watered My Horse…
Cao Cao: Song on the Enduring Cold
Fu Xuan: Pity Me!
Bao Zhao: Magic Cinnabar
Bao Zhao: Going Out...the North Gate..
Bao Linghui: Added to a Letter...
Anon: The Ballad of Mulan
Hulü Jin: Song of the Tölös
Anon: Song of the Breaking...Willow
Wang Wei: Army Ballad
Bo Juyi: The Song of Lasting Regret
Mair, The Columbia Anthology, 534-541; 573-580
Ban Zhao: Lessons for Women
Xi Kang: Discourse on Nourishing Life
Tao Qian: The Peach Blossom Spring
Wednesday, February 8
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 112-136
Emperor Taizong of Effective Government
The Tang Legal Code
The Errors of Geomancy
The Dancing Horses of Xuanzong’s Court
Family Business
The Examination System
A Pilgrim’s Visit to Five Terraces Mountain
Mair, The Columbia Anthology, 190-235
Luo Binwang: On the Cicada—In Prison
He Zhichang: Written Impromptu...
Chen Zi’ang: Poems of Reflection...
Zhang Qiuling: Poems of Reflection...
Wang Zhihuan: Climbing the...Pavilion
Meng Haoran: Seeking Out Master Chan
Meng Haoran: Spring Dawn
Meng Haoran: Passing Seven-League Rapids
Wang Changling: Silent at Her Window
Wang Wei: Climbing Bianjue Temple
Wang Wei: “Bidding the Goddess Farewell”
Wang Wei: Deer Enclosure
Li Bo: To Meng Haoran
Li Bo: Up into the Clouds Music
Li Bo: Late Bloomer...
Li Bo: To Send to Du Fu as a Joke
Li Bo: Drinking Alone in the Moonlight
Li Bo: Autumn Cove
Li Bo: Viewing the Waterfall at Mt. Lu
Li Bo: Still Night Thoughts
Li Bo: Poems in an Old Style
Chu Guangxi: The Streets of Chang’an
Liu Zhangqing: Rejoicing...Zen Master Bao
Liu Zhangqing: Sent to the Daoist..
Du Fu: Spring View
Du Fu: A Guest Arrives
Du Fu: Journey North
Du Fu: Recruiting Officer of Shihao
Du Fu: Seven Songs...
Du Fu: Thinking of My Little Boy
Du Fu: Jade Flower Palace
Du Fu: At the Sky’s End, Thinking of Li Bo
Zhang Ji: Maple Bridge Night Mooring
Cen Shen: A Song of the...River
Sikong Shu: In Illness, Missing My...Girl
Meng Jiao: On Failing the Examination
Han Yu: The Girl of Mount Hua
Xue Tao: Three Poems
Liu Zongyuan: River Snow
Zheng Huan: Present to the Daoist Paragon
Wu Yun: Apotheosis
Cold Mountain: Untitled Poems
Jia Dao: Looking For A Recluse
Li Shen: Pitying the Farmer
Li Deyu: To Patriarch Sun at Huayang...
Li He: At Chang’gu, Reading...
Li He: My Man Replies
Li He: Ravine on a Cold Evening
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McNaughton: 71-90 or Wieger: 74-103Characters 200-299 Lessons 26-36
Week V
Late-Tang, Song, and Yuan China (c. 900-1368)
Great Mythologies of the World (on library reserve): Lecture 40
40: Spirits and Syncretism in Korean Myth
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 137-168
40: Spirits and Syncretism in Korean Myth
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 137-168
The Tanguts and Their Relations with the Han Chinese
Book of Rewards and Punishments
Precepts of the Perfect Truth Daoist Sect
Wang Anshi, Sima Guang, and Emperor Shenzong
Rules for the Fan Lineage’s Charitable Estate
Ancestral Rites
Women and the Problems They Create
Mair, The Columbia Anthology, 302-341
Li Bo: A Suite in the Ch’ing-p’ing Mode
Anon: Four Lyrics from Tun-huang
Bo Juyi: Tune—“Memories of the South”
Liu Yuxi: Tune—“Memories of the South” A Spring Lyric After Po Chü-yi
Wen Tingyun: Tune—“Deva-Like Barbarian
Wei Zhuang: Tune—“Thinking of the Imperial Capital”
Wei Zhuang: Tune—“The Bodhisattva Foreigner”
Mao Wenxi: Tune—“Drunk Among the Flowers”
Ouyang Jiong: Tune—“Offering Congratulations to the Enlightened Reign”
Li Yü: Tune—“The Crow’s Nocturnal Cry”
Li Yü: Tune—“Beating Silk Floss” Autumn Boudoir
Li Yü: Tune—“New Bounty of Royalty”
Li Yü: Tune—“Joy of Encounter” Autumn Boudoir
Li Yü: Tune—“Pure Serene Music”
Li Yü: Tune—“Sand Washed by Waves”
Li Yü: Tune—“Joy of Encounter”
Li Yü: Tune—“Sand Washed by Waves”
Li Yü: Tune—“The Beauty of Yü” A Reminiscence
Li Yü: Tune—“Memories of the South” A Reminiscence
Liu Yong: Tune—“Bells Ringing in the Rain” Sadness of Parting
Liu Yong: Tune—“Eight Beats of a Ganzhou Song”
Fan Chung-yen: Tune—“Sumuche Dancers”
Fan Chung-yen: Tune—“Trimming the Silver Lamp”
Yen Shu: Tune—“Spring in the Jade House”
Yen Shu: Tune—“Treading on Fragrant Grass”
Yen Shu: Tune—“Sand of the Silk-Washing Brook” A Reminiscence
Ouyang Hsiu: Tune—“Gathering Mulberry Leaves”
Ou-yang Hsiu : Mulberry Leaves
Ou-yang Hsiu : Magnolia Flowers
Ou-yang Hsiu : “Drunk in Fairyland”
Su Shih : “Calming the Windswept Waves”
Su Shih : Hunting at Mi-chou
Su Shih : “Partridge Sky”
Su Shih : Butterflies
Su Shih : “Water Mode Song”
Su Shih : “River Town”
Su Shih : “Fragrance Fills the Courtyard”
Su Shih : “Immortal by the River”
Su Shih : “Always Having Fun”
Huang T’ing-chien : Tea
Huang T’ing-chien : Returning to the Fields
Huang T’ing-chien : Returning to the Fields
Huang T’ing-chien : Thousand Autumns
Ch’in Kuan : A Spring Morning
Ch’in Kuan : Bidding Adieu
Ch’in Kuan : “Happiness Approaches”
Ch’in Kuan : Peach Blossom Sprimgs
Ch’in Kuan : Painted Hall
Li Chih-yi : “The Diviner”
Chu Tun-ju : “Nien-nu is Charming”
Li Ch’ing-chao : Naivete
Li Ch’ing-chao : “Magnolia Flowers”
Li Ch’ing-chao : A Dream
Li Ch’ig-chao : “Airing Inmost Feelings”
Li Ch’ing-chao : Spring Thoughts
Li Ch’ing-chao : To the Cassia Flower
Li Ch’ing-chao : Sweet Innocence
Li Ch’ing-chao : Lantern Festival
Li Ch’ing-chao: A Long Melancholy Tune…
Li Ch’ing-chao : Spring at Wu Ling
Mair, The Columbia Anthology, 747-756; 765-767
Han Yu: The Biography of Fur Point
Lu Guimeng: Biography of the Vagrant of Rivers and Lakes
Shao Yung : Gentleman with No Name
Liu Yuxi: Discourse on a Thoroughbred
Liu Zongyuan: The Donkey of Qian
Wednesday, February 15
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 169-201
Longing to Recover the North
Zhu Xi’s Conversations with His Disciples
The Attractions of the Capital
The Mutual Responsibility System
On Farming
A Mongol Governor
A Schedule for Learning
A Scholar Painter’s Diary
Mair, The Columbia Anthology, 259-269
Wen Tianxiang: Jinling Post Station
Liu Yin: Miscellaneous Poem on Rural Life
Zhao Mengfu: To a Pyrotechnist
Yuan Jue: Shipboard Song
Yang Wei-chen : Mating
Ni Tsan : Inscribed on a Painting by Myself
Chang Yu : The Merchant’s Joy
Hsü Pen : To a Hermit in the Mountains
Hsü Pen : Saying Goodbye
Kao Ch’i : Seeing the Flowers
Kao Ch’i : Song of the Man of Green Hill
Kao Ch’i : Silkworm Song
Yang Shih-ch’i : Hall of Precious Virtue
Yang Shih-ch’i : Night Rain
Mair, The Columbia Anthology, 521-529
Cinggis Qahan Subdues the Naiman
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McNaughton: 91-110 or Wieger: 104-129Characters 300-399 Lessons 36-46
Week VI
Ming Dynasty China (1368-1644)
Great Mythologies of the World (on library reserve): Lecture 41
41: Korea's Warring Kingdoms and Flying Dragons
Brook, The Confusions of Pleasure
41: Korea's Warring Kingdoms and Flying Dragons
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)
Wednesday, February 22
Continue discussion of Monday's assigned book
Skim the following sources in Ebrey; this will help for your eventual source paper
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 205-266
Skim the following sources in Ebrey; this will help for your eventual source paper
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 205-266
Proclamations of the Hongwu Emperor
The Dragon Boat Race
Village Ordinances
Commercial Activities
What the Weaver said
Tenants
Shi Jin the Nine Dragoned
Family Instructions
Concubines
Widows Loyal unto Death
Two Philosophers
A Censor Accuses a Eunuch
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McNaughton: 111-130 or Wieger: 130-155Characters 400-499 Lessons 47-59
Week VII
Early Qing China (1644-1800)
Great Mythologies of the World (on library reserve): Lecture 42
42: Japanese Tales of Purity and Defilement
Kuhn, Soulstealers
42: Japanese Tales of Purity and Defilement
Kuhn, Soulstealers
Tales of the China Clipper
The Prosperous Age
Threats Seen and Unseen
The Crime Defined
The Roots of the Sorcery Fear
The Campaign in the Provinces
On the Trail of the Master-Sorcerers
The End of the Trail
Political Crime and Bureaucratic Monarchy
Theme and Variations
Wednesday, March 1
Continue discussion of Monday's assigned book
Skim the following sources in Ebrey; this will help for your eventual source paper
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 271-300
Skim the following sources in Ebrey; this will help for your eventual source paper
Ebrey, Chinese Civilization, 271-300
The Yangzhou Massacre
Proverbs About Heaven
Taxes and Labor Service
Permanent Property
Lan Dingyuan’s Casebook
Exhortations on Ceremony and Deference
*** *** McNaughton: 131-150 or Wieger: 156-183
Characters 500-599 Lessons 60-71
Week VIII
Spring Break
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