1:00-2:15P     TR     BH006

Above section meets with EALC E252
Above section carries culture studies credit

In this course we will study the modern history of East Asia, treating
the region as a culture area reflecting the values of Confucian
civilization and made up of four major societies:  China, Japan, Korea
and Vietnam.  Focusing on the two largest-China and Japan-we will
examine the process by which the Opium War in China (1840s) and the
opening of Japan by the U.S. (1850s) led to the transformation of
society during the 19th and 20th centuries.  We will see how European
and American imperialism generated nationalist and revolutionary
responses in both countries, on different timetables and East Asian
circumstances.  Throughout the course we'll keep an eye on issues of
current interest-Japan's economic miracle under U.S. Cold War
pressure, Communist China as the world's largest nation and
fastest-growing economy, Korea as a divided peninsula with conflicting
showpiece regimes that weaken the prospects for peace in East Asia.
Finally, we will look at the economic "meltdown" that has recently
afflicted most of East and Southeast Asia.

Three bluebook hour exams; no paper.  Reading drawn from three
paperback books:
Conrad Schirokauer, Modern China and Japan (1982)
Leo Lee, Shanghai Modern (1999)
Norma Field, In the Realm of a Dying Emperor (1991)