Required Readings:
Patricia Ebrey, Anne Walthall, James B. Palais. East Asia: A Cultural,
Social, and Political History. Houghton-Mifflin, 2005.
and
Online resources, found via the instructor’s website and additional web
pages.
AAAS 200: Pacific Asian Culture, People and Society
Winter 2013, Tu & Th 9:50am - 11:30am
Classroom: KH B3017
Instructor: Jason Chiu
Email: wljchiu@gmail.com
Phone: 323-343-5774
Office: KH D1051B
Office Hours: Tu/Th 9:00am - 9:40am and by appointment
Website: http://jasonchiu.elacstudentservices.org
Guiding Questions:
The following questions are meant to direct class readings and discussion:
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Course Description and Purpose:
This course is designed for students who want to learn about the world of
Pacific Asia, encompassing 4,000 years of history from approximate 2,000
BCE to the present. In particular, this course focuses on China and Japan.
Discussions center on the way Pacific Asian societies transformed as the
political, social, economic, and cultural environment changed across time.
Many topics such as intellectual thought, class and gender relations,
religion, international relations, and cultural exchange are covered. Of
course, not all of these topics will be covered in full. However, it is the
instructor’s intent to make these topics accessible to students through course
readings, written assignments, and discussions. This class fulfills the GE
block D requirement.
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RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY: What role did religion and
philosophy play in shaping Pacific Asian societies?
IDEAS AND CULTURE: How have cultural beliefs, ideals, and
practices “traveled” across Pacific Asia and how has this
movement shaped the outlook of different Pacific Asian societies?
ASIA AND THE WORLD: How has the relative status of Pacific
Asian societies shifted according to the passage of time?
TRADITION AND MODERNITY: In what ways have
“traditional” societies in Pacific Asia been influenced by “modern”
beliefs and ideas?
This class is not for the feign-hearted nor the squeamish! Lectures and
readings deal with controversial topics and class material is approached
from a historical angle. Those students who are not comfortable discussing
religion, foreign cultures, human sexuality, violence, and other relevant
class topics are advised to drop this course.
Grade Evaluation:
Class Participation:
Quizzes (6 out of 10):
Reflection Responses (highest score):
Essay 1 & Essay 2:
Midterm:
Final:
This course requires students to come to class prepared to discuss the
assigned readings, including primary sources, charts and statistics,
secondary sources, and other relevant material. Expect rigorous reading!
No assignment will be accepted via email nor will any grade be sent out via
email. All assignments MUST be written using academic formatting (MLA,
APA, or Chicago) and handed in to the instructor in person.
Class Procedure: Students are required to attend class regularly and on
time. Talking, the use of a cell phone, and/or the use of any other electronic
equipment is/are not allowed during class. Students must turn off all
electronic devices prior to class. If any electronic device sounds off in class,
the owner of the device will be asked by the instructor to leave and return
only in the following class session.
Note: The instructor reserves the right to deviate from the course schedule
and the policies stated herein this syllabus so long as the changes are
announced promptly.
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10%
2.5% each (15%)
8%
20/12 or 12/20 split (32%)
15%
20%
Class Participation and Attendance:
To get a high class participation grade, students are encouraged to voice
their opinion, so long as it is relevant to class topics. Since attendance is
mandatory, there is no grade for simply “being” in class. However, students
who are absent more than four times will automatically FAIL the class. This
rule also applies when students fail to complete all assignments or fail to
attempt one or more exams. Additionally, it is in the students’ interest to get
to class on time since quizzes are always given at the beginning of class.
Exams (Midterm and Final):
Both the midterm and final are in-class essay exams. For each exam, the
student must refer to both lecture material and course readings in the essay
response. Be sure to turn in a blue book (any size) that indicates your name
and class a few sessions before the exam. It will be returned on the day of
the exam. Students who fail to turn in a blue book may lose exam time on
the day of the exam. Exams must be written in ink.
Plagiarism and Cheating: No tolerance for plagiarism will be given to any
student for any reason. This includes taking passages from a writer without
giving him/her full credit as well as passing an assignment written by
another person as one’s own. Students who participate in academic fraud
will receive an F for the class and be reported to the proper academic
authorities. Additionally, since this class emphasizes primary source
analysis and students are provided open access to these sources, any
unauthorized research is prohibited and will fall under the plagiarism
provision stated here-in. The above policy also applies to cheating.
Quizzes (6 out of 10):
A total of 10 quizzes will be randomly given. Held at the start of class to
test students’ knowledge of the readings assigned under the course
schedule, each quiz involves one or two broad questions and will be graded
based on how well the question(s) is/are answered. Although only 6 quizzes
make up the quiz portion of the grade, additional points (one point max per
additional quiz) scored will be added to the students’ final grade.
Reflection Responses (highest score):
During the quarter at random intervals, students will be expected to
complete several (3 or more) short paragraph essays during class. For each
essay, students are expected to write an essay-style response to a statement
or a question. At the end of the quarter, the top-scoring response will be
used for final grade assessment. The goal of these assignments is to improve
student writing. No make-ups will be given.
Disabled Students: Students who have special needs should speak to the
instructor ahead of time if accommodations are required. They are also
encouraged to visit the campus Office for Students with Disabilities (ADM
127) for support should they need additional help.
Essays (2):
There are two 4-6 page typed-essays assigned for this class. Each essay
needs to include information from BOTH class lectures and assigned
readings. Students are encouraged to submit drafts and/or outlines for the
instructor’s feedback. Grades for the essay portion of the class evaluation
are assessed using a “split” system: whichever essay scores the higher grade
will account for 20% while the lower scoring essay will account for 12%.
While the two essays carry different weight, students must complete both
essays to benefit from this system.
Late essays: Papers will be docked one step down (A becomes A-, Abecomes B+, and so on) for each calendar day they are late. Late papers can
only be turned in up to one week after the due date. No make-ups will be
given.
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Emperor Wuzong’s edict on the suppression of Buddhism (longer selection)
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/emperor_wuzong_suppress_buddhism.
pdf
Course Schedule:
Please note: All reading assignments listed are on the dates when they are
due. Writing assignments’ due dates are in bold.
T, 1/8: Class Introduction
T, 1/22: Traditional China: Neo-Confucianism, Women, and Marriage
Essay 1 Assigned
H, 1/10: China’s Formative Years: Early Chinese Beliefs
AAAS200 Timelines @ instructor’s website
Ban Zhao, Admonitions for Women (longer selection)
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/banzhao_admonitions.pdf
The Classic of Odes
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/classic_of_odes_king_wen.pdf
Song Ruozhao, Analects for Women (longer selection)
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/song_ruozhao_analects.pdf
Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism primary sources @ instructor’s
website
Empress Xu, Instructions for the Inner Quarters (longer selection)
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/empress_xu_inner_quarters.pdf
T, 1/15: China’s Formative Years: Applying Confucianism
Debate on Salt and Iron (complete document)
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/debate_salt_iron.pdf
H, 1/24: Neighboring China: Traditional Korea
King Taejo’s Ten Injunctions (longer selection)
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/korea/ten_injunctions.pdf?option=com_doc
man&task=doc_view&gid=581
Edict from Hongwu Emperor (longer selection)
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/china/restraining_officials.pdf
Annals of Sejong (longer selection)
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/korea/alphabet_dissent.pdf
The Twenty-Four Exemplars of Filial Piety (longer selection)
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/twentyfour_exemplars.pdf
History of Koryo (longer selection)
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/korea/hostility_to_buddhism.pdf
The Classic of Filial Piety
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/classic_of_filiality.pdf (read intro only)
http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/athornto/xiaojing.htm (read sections 1-8)
Song Siyol’s “Instructions to My Daughter” (longer selection)
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/korea/song_siyol_daughter.pdf
H, 1/17: Traditional China: Buddhism and the “Barbarians”
Legend of Miaoshan Guanyin
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/miao-sha.html
T, 1/29: Neighboring China: Classical Japan
The Chronicles of Japan
http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~gwang/id96.htm
Mouzi, Disposing of Error (longer selection)
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/mouzi_disposing_error.pdf
Seventeen-Article Constitution (complete document)
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/japan/shotoku.pdf
Han Yu, “Memorial on the Bone of the Buddha” (complete document)
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/hanyu_bone_of_buddha.pdf
Daily Observance, Last Testament of Fujiwara Morosuke
http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~gwang/id106.htm
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H, 1/31: Neighboring China: Japan under Samurai Rule
Midterm Exam Review Handout Distributed
Samurai primary sources @ instructor’s website
Liang Qichao, “A People Made New”
http://www.csulb.edu/~ssayeghc/nationalism/liangqichao.htm
Asakura Toshikage, “The Seventeen Article Injunction”
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/japan/asakura_law.pdf
H, 2/14: East Asia and Modernity: Chinese Nationalism
Sun Zhongshan, The Three Principles of the People
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/582/
Laws for the Military Households
http://www.chss.iup.edu/baumler/Code_of_the_Warrior_Households.html
Anti-Footbinding Society of Hunan: Rules and Regulations on Marriage
http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/sources/footbinding.html
Kaibara Ekken, The Great Learning for Women
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/japan/ekken_greaterlearning.pdf?menu=1&
s=4
Chen Duxiu, "The Way of Confucianism and Modern Life"
http://www.upf.edu/materials/huma/central/historia/asiaweb/blocXXa/docu
ms/caosdoc/chen.htm
T, 2/5: Midterm
H, 2/7: Early Modern East Asia: Encountering Christianity
Matteo Ricci’s Journals @ instructor’s website
T, 2/19: East Asia and Modernity: Japanese Response to Imperialism
The Chater Oath of 1868
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/japan/charter_oath_1868.pdf
Yang Guangxian, “I Cannot Do Otherwise” (longer selection)
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/yang_guangxian_cannot_otherwise.pdf
Imperial Rescript on Education
http://personal.ashland.edu/~jmoser1/japan/education.htm
The Chinese Rites Controversy readings
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1715chineserites.asp
Autobiography of Fukuzawa Yukichi
http://www2.stetson.edu/~psteeves/classes/yukichi.html
Tokugawa Iemitsu, "Sakoku" and "Exclusion of the Portuguese”
http://www.wfu.edu/~watts/w03_Japancl.html
Okakura Kakuzo, The Ideals of the East
http://www.chss.iup.edu/baumler/Okakura_Kakuzo.html
T, 2/12: East Asia and Modernity: Chinese Response to Imperialism
Essay 1 Due
Emperor Qianlong’s letter to George III
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/qianlong.html
Okuma Shigenobu, Fifty Years of New Japan
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1908okuma.html
H, 2/21: East Asia and Modernity: Japan’s Imperium and War in Asia
Fundamentals of our National Polity (longer selection)
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/japan/kokutai.pdf
Anti-foreigner placards in Guangzhou
http://www.upf.edu/materials/huma/central/historia/doctxvii/docums/pancar
ta.htm
Hashimoto Kingoro’s 1939 Speech
http://personal.ashland.edu/~jmoser1/japan/hashimoto.htm
Kang Youwei, “Comprehensive Consideration of the Whole Situation”
(longer selection)
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/kang_youwei_comprehensive.pdf
Colonial Korean Oral Histories
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/korea/colonial_experiences.pdf
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-asqueezed-middle-class.html?pagewanted=all
BBC News’s brief account of the Nanjing Massacre/Rape of Nanjing
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/223038.stm
H, 3/7: Current Asian Issues: the “Cultural Imperialism” Debate
Hu Jintao's January 2012 speech @ instructor’s website
James Watson, “China's Big Mac Attack” @ instructor’s website
Deconstructing Cultural Imperialism by Rauschenberger @ instructor’s
website (read only sections I and II, or pg.2-12)
F. Tillman, "All Captives Slain,'' The New York Times
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/nanking.asp
T, 2/26: East Asia and Modernity: Communism in China and N. Korea
Essay 2 Assigned
T, 3/12: Current Asian Issues: “Asian Values” and Culture Clash
Alexander Stille, “An Old Key to Why Countries Get Rich” New York
Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/13/arts/an-old-key-to-why-countries-getrich.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
Liu Shaoqi, How to Be a Good Communist
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/china/liu_shaoqi_good_communist.pdf
Sixteen Points (longer selection)
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ps/cup/sixteen_points.pdf
Mark Thompson, “Whatever Happened to Asian Values?” @ instructor’s
website
Jiangsui He, “The Death of a Landlord: Moral Predicament in Rural China,
1968-1969” @ instructor’s website
Wang Jisi and Zou Sicheng, “Civilizations: Clash or Fusion?”
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ipe/beijrev.htm
H, 2/28: Current Asian Issues: Remembering World War II
Prime Minister Murayama Tomiichi’s "On the occasion of the 50th
anniversary of the war's end" Speech
http://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/press/pm/murayama/9508.html
H, 3/14: Current Asian Issues: Asians Abroad
Essay 2 Due
Final Exam Review Handout Distributed
Address by Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro at the 60th Memorial
Ceremony for the War Dead
http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/koizumispeech/2005/08/15sikiji_e.html
Amy Chua, article from The Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704111504576059713528
698754.html
“China’s Determination to Safeguard Sovereignty Unshakable”, Xinhua
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/732456.shtml
Kyle Spencer, “For Asians, School Tests Are Vital Steppingstones”, New
York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/27/education/a-grueling-admissions-testhighlights-a-racial-divide.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
“China: The Nanjing Massacre and Patriotic Education” @ instructor’s
website
T, 3/5: Current Asian Issues: Capitalism and the “Asian Century”?
Fareed Zakaria, “The Rise of the Rest” Newsweek
http://fareedzakaria.com/2008/05/12/the-rise-of-the-rest/
Pew Research on Asian Americans
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/asianamericans-graphics/
Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher, “How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone
Work,” New York Times
Final Exam:
5
8:00am - 10:30am
Thursday, March 21st