Introduction to Major Topics in Asian Civilizations: East Asia
Intro to Major Topics in East Asian Civ.
Taught for decades by William Theodore de Bary and his disciples.
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
