Spring 2008
History 305K (Unique 39720) and ANS 301M (31045)
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m., GEO 2.216
Professor: Roger Hart
Office: GAR 3.216
Office hours: Tues. and Wed., 1:30-3:00 p.m., and by appt.
office phone: (512) 475-7258
e-mail: rhart@mail.utexas.edu
TA: Dan Wold
Office: TBA
Office hours: TBA, and by appt.
e-mail: danwold@mail.utexas.edu
Note: Please bookmark this syllabus -- I may make adjustments to the readings as the course progresses.
This course offers a cultural history of East Asia from some of the earliest historical records (dating from 1200 B.C.E.) up to 1800 C.E. We will cover the major historical events, developments, and trends -- social, political, economic, military, philosophical, literary, and cultural. The main focus of the course will be on primary sources. We will read (in translation) the most important writings from the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean traditions. These readings include Shang dynasty oracle bone inscriptions (used for divination), early Chinese philosophy (including Daoism and Confucianism), the early Japanese constitution, Japanese religions (Shinto, Buddhism), and Korean documents on the founding of early states, together with selections from dynastic histories, historical biographies, novels, satires, poetry, songs, ritual manuals, diaries, scientific treatises, philological studies, and political debates. We will take an interdisciplinary approach, integrating history with literary studies, philosophy, and anthropology, in order to better understand these texts in their historical context.
Class attendance is mandatory.
The grade will be based on in-class quizzes and class participation (30%), mid-term and final examinations (30%), and a final paper (40%).
For help with writing, see the Undergraduate Writing Center. For suggestions on writing the final paper, see "Writing Term Papers."
Sources of Chinese Tradition, vol. 1, From Earliest Times to 1600, ed. William Theodore de Bary et al., 2nd ed. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999), ISBN 0231109393.
Sources of Japanese Tradition, vol. 1, From Earliest Times to 1600, ed. William Theodore de Bary et al., 2nd ed. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), ISBN 0231121393.
Sources of Korean Tradition, vol. 1, From Early Times Through the Sixteenth Century, ed. Peter H. Lee and William Theodore de Bary (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), ISBN 0231105673.
John R. Trimble, Writing with Style: Conversations on the Art of Writing, 2nd ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2000), ISBN 0130257133.
Pre-modern East Asia: To 1800: A Cultural, Social, and Political History, ed. Patricia Ebrey, Anne Walthall, and James Palais (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006), ISBN 0618133860.
For more information on ordering these books, see notes on purchasing textbooks for this course.
All other readings will be made available through electronic reserves:
http://reserves.lib.utexas.edu/coursepage.asp?cid=337&page=01
This electronic reserves page is password-protected; please email me if you need the password.
"China in the Bronze Age: The Shang and Western Zhou Dynasties," chap. 1 of Ebrey, Pre-modern East Asia, pp. 10-24.
"The Oracle Bone Inscriptions of the Late Shang Dynasty," chap. 1 of Sources of Chinese Tradition, pp. 3-23.
"Philosophers and Warring States During the Eastern Zhou Period," chap. 2 of Ebrey, Pre-modern East Asia, pp. 25-42.
Analects (Lun yu 論語, 500? to 250? BCE), attributed to Confucius (Kongzi 孔子, 551-479 BCE), selections, trans. in Sources of Chinese Tradition, pp. 41-55 and 62-63.
The Classic of the Way and Virtue (Dao de jing 道德經, 3rd? century BCE), attributed to Laozi 老子 (n.d.); and Zhuangzi 莊子 (350? to 50? BCE) attributed to Zhuang Zhou 莊周 (fl. 320? BCE). Translated in "The Way of Laozi and Zhuangzi," chap. 5 of Sources of Chinese Tradition, pp. 77-87, and 95-107.
"The Founding of the Bureaucratic Empire," chap. 3 of Ebrey, Pre-modern East Asia, pp. 43-64.
Legalists: Guanzi 管子 (7th? century BCE to 100? BCE), attributed to Guan Zhong 管仲 (d. 645 BCE); Book of Lord Shang (Shang jun shu 商君書, c. 350? to 200? BCE), attributed to Shang Yang 商 鞅 (385-338 BCE); Han Feizi 韓非子 (250? to c. 233 BCE), by Han Fei (c. 280-c. 233 BCE); and memorials by Li Si 李斯 (280?-208 BCE). Trans. in Sources of Chinese Tradition, pp. 190-212.
"Prince Shôtoku and His Constitution," chap. 3 of Sources of Japanese Tradition, pp. 40-62.
"Origins of Korean Culture," chap. 1 of Sources of Korean Tradition, pp. 3-17.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shi ji 史記). Trans. in Sources of Chinese Tradition, pp. 227-234, 278-282, and 367-374.
"Early Shinto," chap. 2 of Sources of Japanese Tradition, pp. 17-39.
"The Rise of the Three Kingdoms," chap. 2 of Sources of Korean Tradition, pp. 18-33.
"The Codifying of the Confucian Canon," Sources of Chinese Tradition, pp. 311-18.
Han ideologies: Lu Jia 陸賈 (?-170 BCE), New Discourses (Xin yu 新語); Jia Yi 賈宜 (201-168? BCE), New Writings (Xin shu 新書); Dong Zhongshu 董仲舒 (195?-105? BCE), Luxuriant Gems of the Spring and Autumn Annals (Chun qiu fan lu 春秋繁露). Selections. Trans. in Sources of Chinese Tradition, pp. 283-305.
"Chinese Thought and Institutions in Early Japan," chap. 4 of Sources of Japanese Tradition, pp. 63-99.
"Consolidation of the State," chap. 4 of Sources of Korean Tradition, pp. 57-77.
"Political Division in China and the Spread of Buddhism," Chapter 4 of Ebrey, Pre-modern East Asia, pp. 128-151.
"The Introduction of Buddhism," chap. 15 of Sources of Chinese Tradition, pp. 415-432.
"Nara Buddhism," chap. 5 of Sources of Japanese Tradition, pp. 100-122.
"The Introduction of Buddhism," chap. 3 of Sources of Korean Tradition, pp. 34-56.
Outline due Oct. 10 (one page outlining your proposed thesis statement and supporting arguments).
John R. Trimble, Writing with Style: Conversations on the Art of Writing, 2nd ed. (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2000).
"Schools of Buddhist Doctrine," chap. 16 of Sources of Chinese Tradition, pp. 433-55.
Midterm Examination, in class, Thursday, Oct. 19, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. There will be a review session on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 7:00-9:00 p.m. (location to be determined).
"The Cosmopolitan Empires of Sui and Tang China", chapter 5 of Ebrey, Pre-Modern East Asia, pp. 88-110.
Yan Zhitui 顏之推 (531-591), "House Instructions of Mr. Yan (Yanshi jiaxun 顏氏家訓)." SCT, pp. 541-46.
Zhangsun Wuji 長孫無忌 (?-659), "The Tang Code (Tang lü 唐律)." SCT, pp. 547-54.
Yang Yan 楊炎 (727-781), "Memorial Proposing the Twice-a-Year Tax." SCT, pp. 554-55.
Lu Zhi 陸贄 (754-805), "Against the Twice-a-Year Tax." SCT, pp. 556-59.
Liu Zongyuan 柳宗元 (773-819), "Essay on Enfeoffment." SCT, pp. 559-64.
Han Yu 韓愈 (768-824), "Essentials of the Moral Way," "Poem on the Sagacious Virtue of Primal Harmony," and "Memorial on the Bone of Buddha." SCT, pp. 568-85.
Emperor Wuzong 武宗 (r. 841-846), "Edict on the Suppression of Buddhism" (845). SCT, pp. 585-86.
"China Among Equals: Song, Liao, Xia, and An," chapter 8 of Ebrey, Pre-Modern East Asia, pp. 153-175.
Cheng Hao 程灏 (1032-1085), "Ten Matters Calling for Reform." SCT, pp. 601-604
Wang Anshi 王安石 (1021-1086), "Memorial to Emperor Renzong (1058)." SCT, pp. 609-16.
Cheng Hao, "Remonstrance Against the New Laws." SCT, pp. 618-19.
Wang Anshi, "In Defense of Five Major Policies." SCT, pp. 619-21.
Sima Guang 司馬光 (1019-1086), "A Petition to Do Away with the Most Harmful of the New Laws." SCT, pp. 625-26.
Zhu Xi 朱熹 (1130-1200), "Preface to the Great Learning by Chapter and Phrase," "The Great Learning by Chapter and Phrase," "Preface to the Mean by Chapter and Phrase," "The Mean by Chapter and Phrase," "Personal Proposals for Schools and Official Recruitment," and "Proclamation of Instructions." SCT, pp. 720-42 and 748-51.
Writing sample due March 25 (the first two pages of your paper).
"The Koryo Dynasty," chapter 9 of Ebrey, Pre-modern East Asia, pp. 176-191.
"Yi Kyonhwon" (d. 936) and "Kim Kungye" (d. 918). SKT, pp. 144-51.
Wang Kon 王建 (King Taejo 太祖, 877-943), "Enthronement Proclamation," "Edict at Yesan-jin," "Ten Injunctions," "Formation of Government," "Edict at Yesan-jin," and "Ten Injunctions." SKT, pp. 151-56.
Ch'oe Sungno (927-989), "On the First Five Reigns," "On Current Affairs," "On Buddhism." SKT, pp. 157-68.
"Heian Japan" and "Kamakura Japan," chapters 10 and 11 of Ebrey, Pre-Modern East Asia, pp. 192-224.
Akazome Emon (ca. 957-1041), "Fujiwara no Michinaga: [A Tale of] Flowering Fortunes"; Anon., "The Great Mirror (Okagami)" (ca. late 11th or early 12th c.), including passage under the misleading heading "Fujiwara no Michinaga: Flowering Fortunes, Continued". SJT, pp. 238-57.
The Tale of Hōgen (Hōgen monogatari); The Night Attack on the Shirakawa Palace; The Tale of the Heiji (Heiji monogatari); The Burning of the Sanjō Palace; The Tale of the Heike (Heike Inonogatari); "The Mighty Fall at Last, They Are Dust Before the Wind"; Taira as Courtier-Warriors. SJT, 263-280.
The Joei Code; The Kenmu Code; The Yüki House Code; Precepts of the Warrior Houses; House Precepts in the Sengoku Age; The Seventeen-Article Testament of Asakura Toshikage"'; Takeda Nobushige: The "Ninety-nine-Article Testament". SJT, pp. 413-432.
Term paper due April 10.
"China and Korea Under Mongol Rule (1215-1368)," Chapter 12 of Ebrey, Pre-Modern East Asia, pp. 235-51.
Xu Heng, "Five Measures Required by the Times,"On Elementary Learning and Great Learning," "Straight Talk on the Essentials of the Great Learning"; examination debates. SCT, pp. 764-778.
"Military Rule and Late Koyro Reform," ch. 10 of SKT, pp. 190-215.
"Japan's Middle Ages (1330-1600)," chapter 13 of Ebrey, Pre-modern East Asia, pp. 324-347.
"The Regime of the Unifiers," ch. 19 of SJT, pp. 431-465.
"The Ming Empire in China (1368-1600)," chapter 14 of Ebrey, Pre-modern East Asia, pp. 324-347.
Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋 (Taizu of the Ming 明太祖, 1328-1398), "August Ming Ancestral Instruction," "The Ming Code and Commandments," and "Discussion of the Three Teachings," pp. .
Wang Yangming 王陽明 (1472-1528), "Memoir on the Reconstruction of Shanyin Prefectural School," "Questions on the Great Learning," "Preface to the Collected Writings of Lu Xiangshan," "The Identification of Mind and Principle," "Fundamental Ideas on Elementary Education," and "The Community Compact for Southern Ganzhou." SCT, pp. 842-50 and 851-855.
"Europe Enters the Scene," in Ebrey, Pre-modern East Asia, pp. 308-12.
Matteo Ricci (1562-1610), Introduction and chap. 1, "A Discussion on the Creation of Heaven, Earth, and All Things by the Lord of Heaven, and on the Way He Exercises Authority and Sustains Them, " in The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven, pp. 57-97 (English translation is on odd-numbered pages only).
Li Zhizao 李之藻 (1569-1630), "Preface to Ricci's True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven." SCT, vol. 2, pp. 144-47.
Xu Guangqi 徐光啟 (1562-1633), "Memorial in Defense of Western Learning." SCT, vol. 2, pp. 147-50.
Yang Guangxian 楊光先 (1597-1669), "I Cannot Do Otherwise." SCT, vol. 2, pp. 150-52.
Zhang Xingyao 張星曜 (1633-c. 1725), "An Examination of the Similarities and Differences Between the Lord of Heaven Teaching and the Teaching of the Confucian Scholars." In SCT, vol. 2, pp. 152-54.
Catholicism in Korea: Yi Ik, "Matteo Ricci's Catechism"; Sin Hudam, "European Values"; An Chôngbok, "A Conversation with Catholicism," King Chôngjo, "How to Combat the Spread of Catholicism," Hwang Sayông, "An Appeal for Aid," Chông Hasang, "A Confucian Defense of Catholicism," Yi Hangno, "Sinify the Western Barbarians." In SKT, vol. 2, pp. 124-142.
Rewritten term paper due (in class, May 1). This is the final date to turn in a rewritten term paper.
Final Examination: The final examination is scheduled by the University Registrar. The tentative date is Saturday, May 10, 2-5 p.m. in GEO 2.216, our usual classroom. The University allows exceptions only by petition to the Dean. Make-up examinations and incompletes will be given only for documented emergencies.