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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
Brook, Timothy. The Confusions of Pleasure
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)*
ChinaBrook, 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
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Character notebook (for practicing "East Asian" characters)
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
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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—
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.
Class attendance and participation is expected.
East Asian and Pacific History and Culture
HIST 210/ANTH 275
Week IX
(October 21, 23)
Holcombe, A History of East Asia—Warrior Japan, 148-159
Midterm
Week
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
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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
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
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
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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
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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)
Round and Square See separate Round and Square syllabus
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
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
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
Week XIII
New York Review of Books See separate New York Review of Books syllabus
Kipnis, Producing Guanxi
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
Week XV
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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!
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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
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
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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!
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Source Paper Due on Sunday, November 23 at 10:00 p.m.
Week XIV
(November 25)
(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
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
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
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
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All Late Work Due by Wednesday, December 10 by 10:00 p.m.
No Exceptions.
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