NCTA Seminar Teaching about Asia
Bowling Green, Kentucky

Spring 2005
Thursdays, January 13-March 17
5:30-8:30 pm

Seminar Location: Cherry Hall, Western Kentucky University
Seminar Leader: Professor Robert Antony, History Department

List of Books (tentative):

1. Rhoads Murphey, East Asia: A New History (Longman, $63.00)
2. Dorothy Ko, Every Step a Lotus ( University of California Press, $24.95)
3. Ivan Morris, The World of the Shining Prince (Kodansha, $15.00)
4. Bill Porter, Road to Heaven (Mercury House, $14.00)
5. Paul Varley, Warriors of Japan ( University of Hawaii Press, $19.00)
6. Jonathan Spence, God’s Chinese Son (Norton, $15.95)
7. Richard Kim, Lost Names ( University of California Press, $15.95)
8. Liang Heng, et al., Son of the Revolution (Knopf, $14.00)
9. Robert Whiting, You Gotta Have Wa (Knopf, $14.95)

Tentative Schedule:

Jan 13 Introduction: Geography and Origins Myths of China, Japan, & Korea

• Readings: Murphey, pp. ???, & handouts

Jan 20—The Birth of Chinese Civilization: Magic, Writing, Philosophy

• Readings: Murphey, pp. ???, Confucius’ Analects, & Teachings and Sayings of Zhuang Zi

Jan 27—Imperial China

• Readings: Murphey, pp. ???, & Dorothy Ko, Every Step a Lotus

Feb 3—Early Japan

• Readings: Murphey, pp. ???, & Ivan Morris, The World of the Shining Prince

Feb 10—East Asian Religions: Taoism, Shintoism, & Buddhism

• Readings: Murphey, pp. ???, & Bill Porter, Road to Heaven

Feb 17—Chinese Gentry & Japanese Samurai

• Readings: Murphey, pp. ???, selections from China’s Examination Hell, & Paul Varley, Warriors of Japan

Feb 24—Outcasts and Rebels in East Asia

• Readings: Murphey, pp. ???, Jonathan Spence, God’s Chinese Son, & selections from Mikiso Hane, Peasants, Rebels, Women, and Outcasts

Mar 3—Revolutions and Wars in East Asia

• Readings: Murphey, pp. ???, & Kim, Lost Names, & handouts

Mar 10—Post-WWII in East Asia

• Readings: Murphey, pp. ???, Liang Heng and J. Shapiro, Son of the Revolution, & handouts

Mar 17—East Asia Today

• Readings: Murphey, pp. ???, & Robert Whiting, You Gotta Have Wa

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