Week

Monday

Tuesday

Friday

M1

Introduction: The European View of East Asia (J Lewis) 4-5pm

Beginnings of Agriculture in East Asia
(P Wace) 4-5pm

Early China (R Chard) 4-5pm

M2

Confucianism (J McMullen) 4-5pm

Qin-Han China: Imperial Model (R Chard) 4-5pm

Tang China: Resurrection of the Imperial Model (R Chard) 4-5pm

M3

Chinese Art from antiquity to the Tang (S Vainker) 4-5pm

Tang China: Formation of the Late Imperial Model (R Chard) 5-6pm

The Early Religions of East Asia (P Wace) 4-5pm

Jomon Japan: affluent foraging and successful subsistence  (P Wace) 4-5pm

M4

Yayoi, kofun, and the rise of the Japanese state (P Wace) 4-5pm

Proto-historical Northeast Asia: Migrations, Mythistory, and Chiefdoms (J Lewis) 5-6pm

Taoism (R Chard) 4-5pm

Buddhism (J McMullen) 5-6pm

Korean and Japanese Political Differences with China and the Sillan unification of Korea (hard political technology)  (J Lewis) 4-5pm

First Japanese Essay DUE

M5

Korean and Japanese Adoption of the Tang Model: Chinese Law and Buddhism (soft political technology) (J Lewis) 4-5pm

Japanese Literature: Nara period and Beginnings (P Harries) 4-5pm

Unified Silla, Heian Japan, and the First East Asian Ecumene  (J Lewis) 4-5pm

M6

Song China: Song China in East Asia (H de Weerdt) 4-5pm

The Song Aesthetic (S Vainker) 4-5pm

Japanese Literature: Heian period (P Harries) 5-6pm

Adoption of the Chinese state model in Korea: Silla to Koryŏ (J Lewis) 4-5pm

Second Japanese Essay DUE

M7

The Conquest Dynasties and their role in China’s history I (L Newby) 4-5pm

Origins of East Asian Languages (B Frellesvig) 5-6pm

The Conquest Dynasties and their role in China’s history II (L Newby) 4-5pm

Creation of a Unitary Peninsular View, Crises and Koryŏ Collapse (J Lewis) 4-5pm

Chinese Essay DUE

M8

The Tibetan Empire from the time of the Sui/Tang through the Mongols (C Ramble) 4-5pm

Development of the Japanese script (B Frellesvig) 4-5pm

The Tibetan Language and Literary Heritage (C Ramble) 4-5pm

Tibetan Buddhism (C Ramble) 4-5pm

Third Japanese Essay DUE

 Week

Monday

Tuesday

Friday

H1

Ming China: the real beginning of ‘Early Modern China’? (H de Weerdt) 4-5pm

Chosŏn Korea: aristocratic variation on a Confucian theme and King Sejong’s Golden Age (J Lewis) 4-5pm

Development of the Korean script (J Kiaer) 5-6pm

The Chosŏn Agricultural Revolution: society, state, and ideology (J Lewis) 4-5pm

H2

Medieval Japan: Rise of the Warriors (J Lewis) 4-5pm

Japan’s Ōnin War to Tokugawa re-unification: the politics of total civil war (J Lewis) 4-5pm

Japan’s medieval economy and society: prosperity amidst political chaos, the beginning of Japan’s modern era (J Lewis) 4-5pm

H3

Kamakura-period Japanese Medieval Literature (P Harries) 4-5pm

Muromachi-period Japanese Literature and the formation of the Japanese Aesthetic (P Harries) 4-5pm

East Asia at War: Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea and Ming involvement (J Lewis) 4-5pm

First Japanese Essay DUE

H4

Qing China: Late Imperial Splendour I (H de Weerdt) 4-5pm

Qing China: Late Imperial Splendour II (H de Weerdt) 4-5pm

European Encounters with East Asia I (A Ucerler) 4-5pm

H5

European Encounters with East Asia II (A Ucerler) 4-5pm

Tokugawa Japan’s new political system (bakuhan system), foreign relations, religions, and ideologies  (J Lewis) 4-5pm

Tokugawa Japan’s economy and society: cities, villages, demography, and commerce: what made it strong going into the late 19^th century? (J Lewis) 4-5pm

Second Japanese Essay DUE

H6

Literature in early modern Japan: Edo period (P Harries) 4-5pm

The History of the Book in East Asia (A Ucerler) 4-5pm

H7

Ceramics in East Asia (S Vainker) 4-5pm

European Sources on East Asia, 1500-1700 (A Ucerler) 4-5pm

H8

Late Chosŏn Korea’s economy, society, and thought: what made it weak going into the late 19^th century? (J Lewis) 4-5pm

The world falls apart: the catastrophes of 19th-century Qing China (H de Weerdt) 4-5pm

Third Japanese Essay DUE

Chinese Essay DUE