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'''Introduction to Major Topics in Asian Civilizations: East Asia''' is a seminar course covering the key points of Chinese, Japanese and Korean history and philosophy. The course has been taught for decades by [[William Theodore de Bary]] and his disciples. Readings mostly come from 6 source books, two volumes for each country. The textbook is by [[Conrad Shirokauer]], another Columbia professor.

== Syllabus ==
* Introduction; geographical foundations
* Confucius and an early critic
* Daoism
* Later Confucians
* Legalism and the creation of the empire
* Maintaining the empire: theory and practice
* Buddhism in East Asia: basic doctrines & reception in China
* Buddhism in China: major schools; challenges to tradition
* Early Japan
* Buddhism in Japan
* The aristocratic culture of Heian Japan: culture and power
* Samurai rule in medieval Japan: responses to disorder
* Neo-Confucianism in China and Korea
* Change and tradition in imperial China
* Early modern Japan: intellectual and institutional foundations of the Tokugawa shogunate
* Change and tradition in Tokugawa Japan
* Reformist thought in Korea
* East Asia in a new world: change and continuity
* China enters the modern world: challenges and responses
* Creating a new China: new visions and new problems
* Nineteenth century Japan: from Shogunate to nation state
* New international relations in East Asia
* New ideologies and new politics in Japan and Korea
* World War II and its consequences in East Asia
* The People's Republic of China: consolidation and transformation
* The People's Republic of China: post-Mao changes
* Japan and Korea since World War II

[[Category:EALAC courses]]