Course Description
Course Focus
This course is intended as an introduction
to Modern East Asia and thus does
not presuppose any familiarity with the subject. Beginning
with an overview
of the traditional states and peoples of the area in
the 17th century and 18th
centuries, the course surveys the processes of change
which engulfed the area
in the 19th an 20th centuries and brought about its modern
transformation.
Particular attention is given to the differing Chinese
and Japanese responses to
the changes associated with modernity and to the issue
of compatibility between
traditional East Asian civilization and "modern" society.
Format
Class sessions alternate between lectures and discussions
of the readings and
other assigned material. Each segment begins with lectures
designed to provide
a broad interpretive framework. Students then consider
a range of narrower
issues that fit within this context through a series
of subsequent discussions
based upon assigned materials. The attached schedule
lists the issues and
materials chosen for this purpose.
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course
requirements
class
calendar
term paper
assignment
revised March 30, 2004
Franklin.M.Doeringer@Lawrence.edu