BC3 Academic Catalog: 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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HIST 217 - History of East Asia 3 Credits: (3 lecture)
Course Description
This course will focus upon the history of East Asia from early 19th century until the present era covering China, Japan, and Korea. Attention will be given to the internal developments of China, Japan, and Korea as well as the struggles imposed by the relentless challenges of the Western World. The value systems which shaped Chinese, Japanese, and Korean life will be highlighted.
Text
Heng, Liang and Shipiro, Judity. Son of the Revolution. New York: Random HouseVintage. 1983.
Schirokauer, Conrad and Donald N. Clark. Modern East Asia: A Brief History. 2nd ed. Cengage, 2008.
Selected readings and visual aids.
Guest lecturers.
Objectives
The student will be able to:
A. Recognizer basic historical facts as well as the internal dynamics of each country prior to and after modern Western incursions.
B. Explain the value systems of traditional East Asian cultures.
C. Recognize the internal conflicts generated in East Asia by the demands of change imposed by the West.
D. Analyze in papers and in class discussion the relevance of East Asian history and culture to the current dilemmas facing each country
Content
A. An overview of the traditional environment of China, Japan, and Korea, including the elements of geography, thought, and language.
B. The historic struggles between factions to achieve and maintain power in each country according to the unique circumstances of each.
C. The relationship between the East Asian countries.
D. The western contacts: commercial, diplomatic, missionary, journalistic, traveler.
E. The various internal forces seeking dominance simultaneously, e.g., traditional culture, nationalism, modernization.
F. Ideologies played out. Twentieth century political and economic systems as they relate to the area and to the world.
Student Evaluation
Evaluation will include quizzes, an objective classroom test on each country studied and a final examination. Special projects and papers will also be assigned and evaluated.
Bibliography
East Asia:
Debary, Wm. Theodore. East Asian Civilizations: A Dialogue in Five Stages. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.
China:
Cohen, Paul A. & Merle Goldman, ed. Ideas Across Cultures: Essays on Chinese Thought. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Egan, Susan Chan. A Latter Day Confucian: Reminiscences of William Hung, 1893-1980. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.
Karnow, Stanley. Mao and China: From Revolution to Revolution. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Lockwood, Stephen Chapman. Augustine Heard and Company 1858-1862: American Merchants in China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971.
Lord, Bette Bao. Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
Ning, Tai-tai. A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman. Trans & ed. Ida Mae Pruitt. Stanford University Press, 1945.
Saari, Jon L. Legacies of Childhood: Growing up Chinese in a Time of Crisis, 1890-1920. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.
She, Lao. Rickshaw Boy. Trans. James Jenn. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979.
Sheridan, James E. China in Disintegration: The Republican Era in Chinese History, 1912-1949. New York: The Free Press, 1975.
Solomon, Richard H. A Revolution is not a Dinner Party: A Feast of Images of the Maoist Transformation of China. New York: Anchor Press, 1975.
Strand, David. Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in 1920s. California: 1989.
Terrill, Ross, ed. The China Difference. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.
Japan:
Ben-ari, Eyal., Brian Moeran and James Valentine, eds. Unwrapping Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.
Duus, Peter, Ramon H. Myers and Mark R. Peattie, eds. The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
Hunter, Janet. The Emergence of Modern Japan. New York: Longman, 1989.
Kamata, Satoshi. Japan in the Passing Lane. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982.
Morishima, Michio. Why has Japan “Succeeded”? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
Najita, Tetsuo. Japanese thought in the Tokugawa Period. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Reischauer, Edwin O. The Japanese. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1977.
Smith, Robert J. Japanese Society: Tradition, Self, and the Social Order. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Korea:
Henderson, Gregory. Korea: The Politics of the Vortex. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968.
Lee, Ki-Baik. A New History of Korea. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.
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