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Thursday, January 17, 2019

Confucius and the World Syllabus, Spring 2019 (b)

On this date on Round and Square's History 
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Click here for the other half of this two-part syllabus post:
HIST 150: Weeks 1-8                  HIST 150: Weeks 9-16
[a] 孔子 RF
Confucius and the World
History 150
Spring 2019
TTh 10:00-11:50
Robert André LaFleur                                                             Office Hours:
Morse Ingersoll 206                                                             Tuesday        5:30-7:00
363-2005                                                                               Thursday      4:00-5:30

lafleur@beloit.edu                                                              
Required Books           
Ames, Roger and Harry Rosemont. The Analects of Confucius.
Chin, Annping. Confucius: The Analects.
Chin, Annping. The Authentic Confucius.
Fingarette, Herbert. Confucius: The Secular as Sacred.
Major, John and Constance Cook. Ancient China: A History 
Gardner, Daniel. Confucianism: A Very Short Introduction.
Gardner, Daniel. The Four Books.
Gardner, Daniel. Zhu Xi's Reading of the Analects.
Lau, D.C. Confucius: The Analects.
Nylan, Michael. The Analects. 
Paramore, Kiri. Japanese Confucianism
Slingerland, Edward. The Analects (with selections from traditional commentaries).

Reserve Books or Handouts
LaFleur, Robert. Books That Matter: The Analects of Confucius (foreword and afterword).
LaFleur, Robert. Confucius's Analects—A Social Translation.
Makeham, John. Transmitters and Creators.
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Hacker, Diana. A Pocket Style Manual (required in all history classes)
Character notebook (for practicing Chinese characters) 
Round and Square (www.robert-lafleur.blogspot.com)
The New York Review of Books (NYRB)

Course Description
Confucius (551-479 BCE) taught a wide range of disciples during a time we have come to know as the "Spring and Autumn" period of China's Zhou dynasty. His teaching was interspersed with travel and concerted attempts to find employment in the service of one of the budding and ambitious states of a changing society. After his death, his students compiled his teachings into a series of "analects"—brief observations about human behavior, social structure, and ritual conduct that would carry enormous power throughout the course of Chinese history.
[b] Pattern RF



Confucius could never have known that his teachings would be studied and adapted for twenty-five centuries. He also could not have anticipated the ways that those teachings would be transformed into something that has carried his name during that time (Western renderings often put it into the form called "Confucianism"). This course will introduce Confucius's Analects and trace their journey through the widely disparate period that make up Chinese history to the present day. Through it all, we will consider a "living" Confucius and a "living" text that continues to exert a profound influence on the world both within and well beyond China.

Evaluation
Quizzes.............................................15% 
Brief Essay and Rewrite....................  5%
Letter Assignment.............................15%
Exam I...............................................15%
Midterm analysis...............................15% 
Exam II..............................................15%
Final Paper........................................20%
Class attendance and participation is expected.  
Late assignments will be penalized.

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HIST 150: Weeks 1-8                  HIST 150: Weeks 9-16

HIST 150—Introduction to Historical Thinking
Confucius and the World

Week IX
Tuesday, March 19
Leys (Nylan), The Analects
     Books 1-20

Tuesday, March 19
LaFleur, Books That Matter: Confucius and the Analects, Lecture 13-14
Major and Cook, Ancient China, 146-178
          The Warring States Period
Bring Notebooks to Class
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Fifty Analects Assignment
Due on Sunday, March 31 at 5:00 p.m.
(my office—MI 206)

Week X
Tuesday, March 26
Round and Square Click for separate Round and Square Syllabus
Chin, Confucius: The Analects, 1-327
            Books 1-20
Bring Notebooks to Class

Thursday, March 28
LaFleur, Books That Matter: Confucius and the Analects, Lecture 15-16
Major and Cook, Ancient China, 179-196
          The Rise and Fall of the Qin Dynasty
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Fifty Analects Assignment
Due on Sunday, March 31 at 5:00 p.m.
(my office—MI 206)

Week XI
Tuesday, April 2
Round and Square Click for separate Round and Square Syllabus
Slingerland, Confucius: The Analects, 1-235
            Books 1-20
Bring Notebooks to Class
Thursday, April 4
LaFleur, Books That Matter: Confucius and the Analects, Lecture 17-18
Major and Cook, Ancient China, 197-231
          The Western Han Through the Reign of Emperor Wu
 Tuesday, April 9
Round and Square Click for separate Round and Square Syllabus
Gardner, Zhu Xi's Reading of the Analects, 1-181
     Introduction
     Learning 
     True Goodness
     Ritual
     Ruling
     The Superior Man and the Way
     Conclusion
Makeham, Transmitters and Creators (.pdf file—sent to your e-mail address).
            Introduction
            Epilogue
Bring Notebooks to Class
Thursday, April 11
LaFleur, Books That Matter: Confucius and the Analects, Lecture 19-20
Major and Cook, Ancient China, 232-248
          The Later Western Han and the Wang Mang Interregnum
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Week XIII
Tuesday, April 16
Round and Square Click for separate Round and Square Syllabus
LaFleur, Books That Matter: Confucius and the Analects, Lecture 21-22
Major and Cook, Ancient China, 249-270
          The Han Restoration, the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the Three Kingdoms Period
Bring Notebooks to Class 

No Class on Thursday (Symposium Day) 
  
Week XIV
Tuesday, April 23
Round and Square Click for separate Round and Square Syllabus
Paramore, Kiri. Japanese Confucianism, 1-140

            Confucianism as Cultural Capital (to late-sixteenth century CE)
            Confucianism as Religion (1580s-1720s)
            Confucianism as Public Sphere (1720s-1868)
            Confucianism as Knowledge (1400s-1800s)
            Confucianism as Liberalism (1850s-1890s)
Bring Notebooks to Class

Thursday, April 25
LaFleur, Books That Matter: Confucius and the Analects, Lecture 23-24
Paramore, Kiri. Japanese Confucianism, 141-191
            Confucianism as Fascism (1868-1945)
            Confucianism as Taboo (1945-2015)            
            Epilogue: China and Japan—East Asian Modernities and Confucian Revivals

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Week XV
Tuesday, April 30
Michael Nylan, "Editor's Introduction" to Simon Leys's Analects translation, xxxiii-lxxiii. 
Read carefully.

Thursday, May 2
Discuss Exam 2 and final papers. 

Week XVI
(May 7)
Tuesday, May 7
Exam 2 (in-class)
Bring notebooks to class for final evaluation.

Click here for the other half of this two-part syllabus post:
HIST 150: Weeks 1-8                  HIST 150: Weeks 9-16
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