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2003-2004 Seminar

Materials List for past participants (Word doc)

Overview and Goals

Study Abroad applications for past and current participants will be out shortly. Please email any new or updated email address to Monica.

Syllabus

September 6th

10 am, No reading is necessary prior to the first meeting

Topics:
Geography, Language, and East Asia in the world
Early Chinese civilization and political organization

Readings:
Murphy, chapters 1-3
Ebrey, chapters 6-8

October 18th

Topics:
The foundation of the Chinese Empire: the Qin and the Han
The legacy of the “Silk Road” and cultural and religious developments across Asia

Guest Speaker:
Dr. Richard Foltz, University of Florida

Readings:
Murphy, chapter 4
Ebrey, chapters 11-12, 14-15, 17-18

November 15th

Topics:
The Tang Empire in East Asian and World history
Buddhism in East Asia

Early Japan
Guest Speaker:
Dr. Andrew Chittick, Eckerd College

Readings:
Murphy, chapters 5, 10-11
Ebrey, chapters 22, 25-26, 30-31

December 6th

Topics:
China and the World: the Song, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties
Chinese literati culture
Chinese economy and society in world historical perspective

Guest Speaker:
Dr. Cynthia Chennault, University of Florida

Readings:
Murphy, chapters 6-7
Ebrey, chapters 32-33, 35, 38, 41, 47, 49, 55-56

January 10th

Topics:
Tokugawa Japan: political and social organization
Japanese culture and society

Guest Speaker:
Dr. Ann Wehmeyer, University of Florida

Readings:
Murphy, chapter 13
Keene, section on the "Tokugawa Period"

February 7th

Topics:
Interpreting the "opening" of China and Japan
The Meiji Restoration and its aftermath in Japan
colonialism: Korea and Taiwan

Guest Speaker:
Dr. Helen Lee, University of Florida

Readings:
Murphy, chapters 8, 12, 14-16
Ebrey, chapters 59, 68, 70
Buruma, Inventing Japan
Kim, Lost Names

March 20th

Topics:
The search for the modern
Twentieth-century Japanese political and popular culture

Guest Speaker:
Dr. Joseph Murphy, University of Florida

Readings:
Murphy, chapters 17-18, 21
Ebrey, chapters 73-75, 77
Minear, section on "Coping with Affluence"

April 17th

Directions :
Seminar wrap-up, Final lesson plans due! Map to the Harn
Seminar at the Harn Museum

Topics:
War and revolutions in twentieth-century China
Contemporary Chinese society and culture

Guest Speaker:
Charles Mason, Curator of Asian Art and Chair, Curatorial Department, Harn Museum

Readings:
Murphy, chapters 19-20
Ebrey, chapters 84, 86, 91, 95-100
Liang and Shapiro, Son of the Revolution

October 30th, 2004

Follow-Up Seminar, 215 Dauer Hall

Seminar Materials

Seminar materials, to be provided by the Program and NCTA, and distributed at the first seminar.

• Rhoads Murphy
  East Asia: A New History, 2nd Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2001)
• Patricia Buckley Ebrey, ed.
  Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, 2nd edition (The Free Press, 1993)
• Donald Keene, ed.
  Anthology of Japanese Literature: from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century (Grove Press, 1955)
• Richard H. Minear, ed.
  Through Japanese Eyes, 3rd edition (CITE, 1994)
• Ian Buruma
  Inventing Japan, 1853-1964 (Modern Library)
• Richard E. Kim
  Lost Names (California, 1998)
• Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro
  Son of the Revolution (Vintage, 1984)

National Consortium for Teaching about Asia

Participants

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