MO3354 Rethinking the World in East Asia

Tutor: Konrad M. Lawson

Fall, 2024

MO3354 Rethinking the World in East Asia 1850s-1990s

Overview

Introduction to Buddhism
Introduction to Buddhism and to some schools in China and Japan that are most relevant to discussion in later weeks
Introduction to Confucianism
Introduction to some of the basic Confucian classics and its monumental impact on East Asian history
Taiping and Tonghak
On the universalist aspirations of the Taiping Rebellion (Qing), Tonghak Rebellion (Chosŏn)
Revolutionary Internationalism
Focusing on the political imaginations of key East Asian anarchists
New Orders for Love, Family, and the Individual
Reordering domestic space and women’s liberation as the first step to comprehensive social and global change at the global level
Independent Learning Week
Buddhist World Orders
Nichiren, Zen, Shin and new Buddhist movements in 20th century East Asia
Cosmopolitanism from the East
Chinese world redemptive movements, Esperantists, and some utopian visionaries
New Directions in Japanese Thought and Overcoming Modernity
The universal and the particular in Japan’s most influential philosophical school
Confucian Renewals
The development of new Confucianism in a variety of forms focusing on China and Korea
Imagining Alternate Futures
Utopian visions of Kita Ikki and Kagawa Toyohiko; alternative futures in Japanese and Chinese science fiction

Key Details

Lecturer: Konrad M. Lawson Email: kml8@st-andrews.ac.uk
Meets: Fall, 2024 - Thu 11:00-13:00
Location: St. Katharine’s Lodge 0.01
Office: St. Katharine’s Lodge B3
Office Hours (Online): Thu 13:00-14:00. Sign up for a time here

Description

This intellectual history of late modern East Asia explores the ways social, political and religious movements, as well as the evolving ideas of key individuals in Korea, Japan, and China hoped to transform or reimagine the social and political order of their times Literary and visual sources as well as philosophical or religious texts, debates, and the political tracts of various movements will be at the core of the module and offer opportunities to explore the multiplicity of inspirations and dynamic nature of the intellectual history of the region that challenges some common depictions of the relationship between tradition and modernity, as well as assumptions about the simplistic adaptation of Western ideologies in East Asian history.

Assessment Summary

Summative (100% coursework)

50% Long Essay (4,000 Words) 10 December, 5pm
20% Four Reading Analysis Blog Posts (2,500) 29 November, 5pm
15% Essay Prospectus (500 words) 1 November, 5pm
15% Presentation (10 minutes)

Formative (Required to pass the module, but no grade given)

Five Elective Reading Handouts
Essay Outline
Optional: Formative Presentation; Draft Prospectus

Learning Outcomes

Understand the intellectual history of 19th to 20th century East Asia in the context of a rapidly transforming region’s proactive engagement with the world
Develop skills for analysing diverse literary, religious, and philosophical textual sources translated from Korea, Chinese, and Japanese as well as visual sources
Employ an approach to the history of ideas in East Asia which is open to inspiration from historical sociological and anthropological disciplines, is able to negotiates scales from the domestic sphere to the transnational, and encompasses discussion from the concrete world of political reform to the heights of eschatology

Assignments

The summative assessed portion of the coursework for this module consists of one long essay, a long essay prospectus, one ten minute presentation, and four reading analysis posts. There are several formative assessments. These include a formative presentation (optional), a draft prospectus (optional), essay outline, and five elective reading handouts.

Note: Paper submissions are not requested for any of the assessments. You may upload the submissions directly onto MMS. Formative assessments are often shared on Teams for everyone.

Headers and Formatting

At the top of all your written work or on a cover page, you are required to include the following:

Date: The date of submission
Assignment: The assignment you are submitting (e.g. Long Essay, etc.)
Student Number
Title: A specific title for your essay in the case of the Long Essay
Word Count: The total number of words (use the word count feature of your word processor, including footnotes)

When formatting your assignments, you are required to follow these guidelines:

Add page numbers!
Use a minimum of 12 sized font

Other aspects of formatting are highlighted in the School of History style sheet. See the following section.

Footnotes and Bibliography

Long essays must use footnotes and a bibliography. Reading analysis posts can use simple parenthetical citation with no bibliogrpahy. Please carefully read the St Andrews School of History Style Sheet:

School of History Style Sheet

This document, sections 1-4, contains extremely valuable information on how to compose your essay, including how to format your footnotes and bibliography. In particular, please follow the instructions for footnotes carefully. Note: reading analysis posts do not need a bibliography (see below).

In your bibliography, please have separate sections for your secondary sources and the primary sources you used.

If you prefer and do so consistently, you may use the Chicago Style (Notes and Bibliography) over the St Andrews note formatting. I encourage you to manage your sources in a referencing tool such as Zotero to help manage your sources.

Ten Minute Presentation

15% Presentation Recorded with Slides or In-person with Handout

Being able to synthesise reading and present ideas orally in class is a key skill and you will have opportunities to improve this skill during the semester in four ways: 1) You will be formally assessed on one presentation. 2) If you are presenting in Week 3-11, you may submit a recorded formative presentation to get some early feedback on your presentation skills in an office hour meeting. 3) In addition, in any given week, if asked, you should be prepared to speak to the class for 2-3 minutes about the elective reading you have signed up for that week. You should be able to introduce the reading to other students who may not have read the reading, and articulate its main contributions to the week’s themes in a concise manner. If you are uncomfortable with being called on in this way about elective readings, please get in touch so we can discuss other options. 4) You will often be asked to discuss readings and questions in groups.

Sign-ups for in-person presentations are in Week 1 and are limited in numbers. Other presentations are recorded. In-person presentations require a handout but should not have slides. Recorded presentations have slides, but no handout. Slides or handout should be submitted to MMS by the day before your presentation as well as shared on Teams for everyone. Recorded presentations must be uploaded to the team at least 48 hour before our class begins so everyone has a chance to watch it. See the content session below for information about what to present on.

Recorded Presentation

The recorded presentation has slides but no handout. Record your voice over slides in Apple Keynote, in Powerpoint, or some other application, but this must export the result as a movie file for sharing with your teammates - you may not submit a powerpoint or keynote file and it should be a standalone video file that you share with the class via Teams (you can upload the simple slides or exported PDF of slides to MMS). You must submit the video at least 48 hours before the class related to the content, or you will receive a late penalty for each day as if it were an essay submitted late. A strong first class recorded presentation will not have very text heavy slides, will have an excellent connection between visual, textual, content and linking of slide content and spoken word, and will be delivered in a dynamic manner.

IMPORTANT: You must submit a movie to teams for sharing with the class - not a powerpoint file with embedded sound, and not a keynote file, but a movie file. Again: you must submit a movie file (MP4, etc.). The MMS upload can be a pdf or slides file.
Confirm that your movie can be viewed using the open source software VLC.
After saving as a movie file, please confirm that voice is clearly audible (not a faint or unclear voice) and your slides display.
The recorded presentation video should be uploaded to the class files in Microsoft Teams no later than 48 hours before the class relevant to the content which lists the book as an option. No handout for the recorded presentation.
Please name the video file you upload strictly following this format: the week number, your first name, “Presentation”, and a title of the text your presentation is about. For example: “W5 - Sarah Presentation - The Book Title”
Consider making good use of visual images, and try to keep the amount of text on screen, except for cases of an important quote, to a minimum.
Recorded presentations assess a slightly different set of skills than the in person presentation: they are a good way to practice and improve your ability combine images with your voiced narration and a small amount of text on screen. More time is required to prepare a recorded presentation, but you have the advantage of being able to re-record sections you are unhappy with. More time is required to find effective visual material and evaluate the amount of textual material you will present to supplement your voice, but you don’t need to worry about either the handout or responding to questions.
if a recorded presentation with slides, make effective use of images, show restraint in the use of text, generally slides that are merely a list of bullet points (in other words, don’t do what lecturers often do at St Andrews!).

In-Person Presentation

We will have a limited number of slots during the semester for in-person presentations, first come, first serve via sign-up list on week 1. You are expected to produce a supplementary handout (single side of a single page) and answer one or two questions directed at you after your presentation. A strong first class live dissertation will not be read from an exact transcript, nor will it reproduce exactly content from any handout bullet points: it will be well-practiced.

Use the handout to indicate the overall structure of your presentation and key points you will make. You may include some basic names, events, or places of importance, or any key quotes.
The handout should be shared via the Team by the beginning of class to the appropriate folder and be named strictly as follows: the week number, your first name, and a title of the text your presentation is about. For example: “W5 - Sarah - The Book Title”

Presentation Content

Unless you secure permission for a special topic from me, the topic of your presentation should be a single author monograph (not an edited volume of different chapters) from among those approved for the given week of your presentation. Throughout the seminar readings provided below you will see a (P) next to appropriate texts you may present on (don’t forget to check the further reading for options). If the work is in the required or elective reading section, however, your presentation should cover the entirety of the work, not merely any assigned chapters.

Because you are presenting on the work as a whole the presentation assessment, it is impossible to cover everything. You can tell us what aspects of the book you will focus on and which ones you will say little or nothing about based on their importance overall. You must have read to book as a whole, however, to know what is important or not important to present. This presentation will evaluate your demonstration of your ability to:

choose what is most useful to share: author background, key arguments in the work, cases it considers, strengths and weaknesses, links to other reading of the week when relevant
include illustrative examples that give the listener a feel for the work
project your voice clearly, make use of effective pauses, modulate your voice effectively
make use of a spoken rather than a written register that engages the listener
avoid exactly reproducing the content of a handout and don’t sound like you are using bullet points

The assessed presentation should be 10 minutes in length and not a minute longer. Being slightly under the time limit is fine. The presentation should summarise the main arguments, point out what was most interesting or useful as a takeaway from the chosen text, and include at least some consideration of your critical evaluation: discuss at least one limitation or shortcoming. This should be substantive, based on an evaluation of concrete content, not superficial or based on your own enjoyement of the text (avoid “it was too long”, “it was boring”, “it was too theoretical”, etc.). It should not a detailed and exhaustive retelling of the content: it should set the context, highlight the arguments, strengths, contributions, and offer an evaluation. Nor is your goal to determine whether or not you can “recommend” that someone should read a book. Part (but not all) of the presentation may offer greater detail on a particularly important section.

What Ifs

If you have signed up for an in person presentation and you are sick or otherwise unable to attend your presentation, contact Konrad. Make-up presentations will be in the form of a recorded presentation. If you submit a recorded presentation late (that is, later than 48 hours before class to both MMS and Teams), you will receive the standard -1 per day it is late until it is submitted.

Some questions I consider when marking the presentations:

Did the student project their voice clearly, modulate their voice appropriately, make effective use of pauses
Did the student speak at an appropriate pace and not overload their presentation with too much content?
Did the student appear to move beyond simply reading a written document?
Did the distributed handout accurately summarize the general points to be made in the presentation in the form of concise bullet points?
Did the handout include any important dates, sources, key people, or, if necessary, a map that serves as a useful reference?
Was the time minute limit very strictly observed in the presentation?
Did the presentation provide the context of the work, and very briefly introduce the author without this taking up too much time?
Was the presentation well-structured, organized, and focus on a only a few key points in depth?
Was there a good balance of arguments, examples to support them, and critique?
Did the presentation avoid being a presentation of a series of bullet-point style facts?
Did the presentation make an effort to connect the readings to other readings for the day or find ways to connect to the reading and discussion from previous weeks?

Formative Presentation

Presentations can be a stressful assessment for some students and practice helps. Any student who has signed up for a presentation from Week 3-11 may submit a recording of a 3 minute presentation focused on one of our required or elective readings (just an article or a chapter is fine from within the assigned material of any kind) and book an office hour to get feedback on this presentation and suggestions for their assessed presentation. Keep in mind you will need to share this on the team in the folder labeled as such at least a full day before office hours to leave time for your tutor to watch it and be able to give feedback.

Reading Analysis Blog Posts

We have a module blog at:

http://transnationalhistory.net/world/

20% At least four posts posted online in four weeks and then Final MMS Upload of four Chosen Posts Friday, Week 11, 5pm

This is a public facing website where students will contribute postings, but no students will be asked to use their real name. The posts there should be for an external audience who is interested in learning more about the topic and not be written from the perspective of a student in a class. It should include footnotes for reference to a source, but should not include a bibliography. You can set or change your pseudonym through the blog interface whenever you like. Students are required to post a minimum of four postings during the semester and these postings must be posted across at least four different weeks.

Again, your blog entries must be written, uploaded, and publicly visible on dates from four different weeks (Monday to Sunday semester weeks). You cannot write the posts and then upload them all at once as the deadline nears. You cannot post entries and set their date to an earlier point in the semester. Any submitted blog entry which comes from the same Monday to Sunday week as another post will receive a 4 point penalty.

You will receive a mark for these only after final submission of all posts, but you are welcome to come to office hours to ask for oral feedback on your first or second post. I strongly urge you to get most or all of these out of the way quickly, ideally by Week 6 or Week 7 so you can focus your energies on essay research and writing.

Blog Posts - What to Write:

You should focus either on a primary source or an elective reading or put readings in conversation with eachother. If you choose a primary source, consider analysing a primary source that is referred to in one of our required or elective or further secondary readings rather than our required assigned primary sources, or find a new primary historical source of relevance which connects to the topic of the week. Look at some of the earlier blog posts for inspiration. Introduce the source to a blog visitor who is not in our class and may not be very knowledgeable about East Asia then make an argument with it. Don’t refer to our class, but write the post for the blog’s external audience.
If you are also submitting a handout on a week you post a blog entry (which you are free to do), you should not have the handout and the post be on the same text.
I recommend that your post make a single clear argument about a reading/s, backed with evidence and several examples from one or ideally several of the texts
Posts that put the week’s readings in conversation with each other or connect to previous weeks are most welcome, but to the end of a single overarching point.
Please make at least one explicit reference to a source, but ideally your post will have several. This should be footnoted using Wordpress format footnote. (( after the sentence period, put your footnote inside double parentheses like this. ))
Your posts should ideally each aim to be between 500-700 words each (remember all of them together should add up to 2,500)
The posts should have a single overarching purpose and unified focus - if you find your post getting too long ask yourself if you have remained focused throughout.
Avoid vague references to what you like and don’t like; what you found interesting or not interesting - again: use these posts as a place to practice the making and supporting of arguments about your reading.
Be concise and avoid repetition.
LLMs (generative AI) are strictly forbidden for use in these posts and, at any rate, are unlikely to write satisfactory posts.

Note: Many, perhaps most, of you will only write four posts during the semester. However, you are free to write more posts for the blog but you may only submit four of them in Week 11 on MMS. You may make minor editorial changes (corrections to language etc.) on the MMS submitted version, but may not make them longer. You may make them shorter by cutting material, if you like.

How to Post Blog Entries: You will be given details for your login information late in the first week. Then to login, go to:

http://transnationalhistory.net/world/post/

Do not copy and paste from Microsoft Word or use Word footnotes - this creates formatting issues on WordPress. You can compose it in a raw text editor (e.g. VS Code or any plain text editor or markdown editor) and copy and paste from there, but not from Word or word processors that don’t use raw text. Alternatively you may compose and save the entries directly on WordPress.
Use your login user name and password. You will receive this by the end of Week 1.
From there, on the left hand sidey ou can choose “Add New” from the “Posts” menu.
There, give your posting a title
add a few tags on the right side without any caps, for example “japan, 20th century, kyoto school, philosophy of time, nishitani” that indicate things like place, time, people, topics that are relevant to your posting (all without caps).
Write your blog posting in the middle
When you have a quote or refer to a text, you must add a footnote by enclosing the footnote countents in double parenthesis. You must leave a space before the first and after the last parenthesis. Example: Here is some text. ((And here is the footnote contents with a space before it))
Don’t worry about adding categories.
You can “preview” your posting if you want to read it over and look for mistakes with a nicer view.
you can save your draft as you write.
When you are happy with the posting, click “Publish” or save the draft if you wish to return to it later
You can always return to postings by going to “Posts” on the left and “All Posts”

Elective Reading Handouts

Five Handouts Shared on Teams Channel by Evening Before Relevant Class

During the semester, you are required to submit at least three elective reading handouts. You may submit no more than one handout per week but you may choose the weeks. I strongly encourage you to get this done early in the semester. These are not marked, but submission of three of them is required to pass the module. Each week on Teams, by the evening before class at 11pm, you can upload a reading handout as a pdf odt, rtf, docx, or txt file to the “Files” for the channel of the week. The handout should be two pages and provide general info about the elective reading you chose. At the top, write 2-4 sentences which summarizes the text/s in your own words (you may not use generative AI for this!), including any main argument of the work/s. On the rest of the two page should include information you think is most important on the structure of the text/s, timeline, main sources used, key historiography engaged with, people or description of events discussed, and your own main takeaway points. You may make use of bullet points, lists, outlines, etc. Please name your handout strictly following this format: the week number, your first name, “Handout”, the category of elective reading and category title. For example: “W5 - Henrik Handout - C [name of elective reading category]”

These are required submissions but not marked.
The whole thing may be in the form of hierarchical bullet points if you like, but make most of these full sentences whenever possible, rather than fragmented phrases except when outlining structure or listing things.
No smaller than size 10 font. No need for images

Prospectus and Indicative Bibliography

15% abstract, overview, and bibliography of a minimum of 12 secondary sources for your long essay due Friday Week 7 5pm

15% of your mark for the module comes from a 500 word prospectus, a proposal or abstract for your long essay, including a draft articulation of a possible argument and an indicative bibliography (the latter not included in word count). You are also strongly encouraged to come to office hours to discuss a draft of this you will have an opportunity to submit earlier.

Prospectus (500 Words): Write a brief summary of your essay as if you have already written it. What did it do (in the past tense)? What kinds of sources did you use? How did you structure the essay? Include in this 500 words a sentence in bold which is a statement of the essay’s proposed argument. At this early stage of your research, this is highly speculative, and it is very unlikely to end up being the actual argument you will make in your essay. Your eventual final argument will also likely be much more concrete than it is here in the prospectus but use this as an opportunity to practice stating a possible argument you will make.

Indicative Bibliography: Divided into two sections, primary and secondary sources, offer a list of sources that you will have access to in a language you can read that you think will be useful for your essay based on your reading so far. For each source, include one complete sentence explaining why you think the source is useful. List no fewer than 12 secondary sources and no more than 30 (for this exercise). Sources should not merely be limited to those directly on the topic, but “climb up the ladder of abstraction” to include important works on the more general topic you can learn from.

If you shared a draft prospectus earlier, include a copy of the first draft prospectus after your submission (obviously, this doesn’t count against your word count). You will be primarily be evaluated on whether your argument clear, your scope realistic, your structure logical, and if you included an earlier draft, how you have developed your ideas in response to your first prospectus (if you have changed topics, which is not at all uncommon, you should still work on improving the quality of the proposal). You will be only secondarily marked on the overall historical merit of your proposal, whether the sources appropriate for the task, and whether the structure and scope indicated by your prospectus are well crafted.

Draft Prospectus

You will have an opportunity (optional) to share a draft of your prospectus on Teams for our Week 4 meeting. We will meet in groups to get peer feedback and you may get oral feedback from me in office hours. I may also offer some suggestions in replies to the posts on Teams or in class.

Long Essay

The 4,000 word essay (including footnotes) for the course is worth 50% of the total coursework. It may be up to 5,000 words without penalty (as opposed to the penalty starting at 10% limit over 4,400). Penalties for longer essays are then are as normal. 5,001 words receives a -1 penalty, and 5,401 a -2 penalty, 5,801 a -3 penalty and so on.

This is not an essay you research and compose in the final weeks of the semester. This essay requires you to make progress on it throughout the semester. Again: You must set aside several hours every week to work on this essay. Narrow down an area of interest, read within this area of interest, isolate a few themes of interest, carry out further reading and analysis, and then proceed to write an essay which makes a convincing historical argument.

Some class time in most weeks will be dedicated to discussing the essay. It is not uncommon for a student to change topics once or twice during the semester, as the feasibility of one topic or another is evaluated and the sources explored. I don’t recommend bigger topic changes after Week 7. My suggestion is that you answer two questions for yourself very early in your research: 1) Once you have a general topic or area of history you are interested in, think about what kinds of arguments or historical approaches have been applied to this area before that will serve as the starting point for your intervention? 2) What kinds of primary sources do you have realistic access to for use in the essay. Most first class essays will show an ability to carry out original research that includes use and analysis of primary sources, but students may choose to do a historiographical essay instead. It is harder, but by no means impossible, to meet the first class grade descriptors for a historiographical essay.

Topics for the Essay

Your essay should be an argument driven analytic research essay. You may write your essay on any topic related to the intellectual history of East Asia or Southeast Asia (not limited to the time period we primarily focus on). This may include history of religion, history of philosophy, and the history of social and political thought. Check with me first, but I will also be generally open to approving topics on almost any element of the cultural history of the region as well.

Journals for Inspiration: I would suggest browing some of the following journals, and especially note articles that fit the above description:

The Journal of Asian Studies
Monumenta Nipponica
Asian Philosophy
Philosophy East and West
Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
Journal of Japanese Studies
The Journal of Korean Studies
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Journal of Modern Chinese History
Korean Studies
Korea Journal
Japanese Studies
Far Eastern Survey
Dao
Monumenta Serica
Late Imperial China
Modern China
Modern Asian Studies
Asian Studies Review
Critical Asian Studies
The China Quarterly
Journal of the History of Ideas
History and Theory
Global Intellectual History

Making an Argument

The academic study of history embraces change in the past as a way to explore solutions to particular problems. The object of an analytical historical research essay is not to tell us simply what happened, but to use what happened in order to make a historical argument about some problem clearly defined. For example, if an essay was written (to take an example from Chinese history) about some aspect of the religious aspects of the Boxer Rebellion, it should not consider its task complete when the major facts of the Boxer Rebellion and its religious elements have been retold. That is closer to the genre of the encyclopaedia entry than of academic historical study. It should endeavour to use the Boxer Rebellion as an opportunity to make an argument about something: what does the rebellion reveal about the nature of Western imperialism? The rise of new religious movements in China? The weakness of the late Qing state? The rise of Japan? The answer takes the form of a claim that does more than merely repeat a synthesis of what previous scholarship has established and agrees to be the case. The possibilities are many, but in every case, they offer an answer to the question: So what? History can and should tell stories, but a research essay embeds a story within an arc of an argument - if it contains narrative elements, it must also always include an analytic element.

The historical argument in your long essays, in particular, should be clearly and unambiguously stated in the span of 1-3 sentences somewhere in the opening third of the essay, preferably in the opening paragraph or two. It should not be obvious, trivial, or a well-known and rarely contested fact. Challenging as false an existing historian’s argument that has become considered obvious and rarely contested, however, is one ambitious way to find your way to an interesting and original argument but only if your evidence is sufficient. Alternatively, if you have found evidence that supports the existing arguments of historians in a given area of research in a new set of sources, from a fresh perspective, or in greater depth, or in a comparative light, that also often yields a strong argument. If you have identified a debate in the historiography and wish to take a position on it without simply repeating all of the points made by one of the participants of the debate, that can also yield an essay with a strong argument but you should take care to acknowledge the position and evidence of the other side.

Presenting your Argument: There are a number of different ways to write a strong essay and present the argument, but in this module, I would like to strongly encourage you to “front-load” your argument and do so clearly, that is, to present clearly early in the essay what it is you will argue and why it is important. For example, avoid sentences such as “I will explain…” or “I aim to understand…” or “I will explore…” unless such sentences are immediately followed by the explanation, what you ended up understanding, or what the result of your exploration was. Otherwise, there is a danger that your essay will merely provide a summary of some quantity of information you have found, rather than present the results of your analysis of that research in a useful way. In other words, do not use the introduction to make predictions about what you will do, but tell the reader in very clear terms what you have argued and shown in the essay. There are many ways to do this in more or less subtle language but there is no harm in a very clear, “In this essay, I will argue that…” followed by the rest of your argument, a short overview of what kinds of evidence you will use, how your argument fits into a historiographical context (how your argument relates to what other historians have to say about the matter), and why you think it is important.

Sticking to your Argument: All of us come across many interesting stories, anecdotes, and sub-points that we want to share in writing our essays. However, it is important to stay sharply focused on the main argument you are going to make in the essay. After you have finished writing your essay, read it through and for each paragraph and sentence ask yourself if it supported your argument, provided essential background to establishing your argument, or else if it does not offer much of a contribution. If it doesn’t, cut it ruthlessly from your essay to make room for better material.

Engaging with the historiography: What does this phrase mean? It means directly and explicitly acknowledging what historians have said about your topic and your specific question in existing work. Point out both positive contributions and problematic ones when appropriate. Who has worked on this before, and what specifically have they argued? See your essay as part of a larger conversation (it doesn’t necessarily have to be an adversarial one) that includes previous historians. Once you have considered those who have done research very close to your case or argument, also engage with the important historiography in the broader field most relevant to your topic.

Some other questions to ask yourself as you write the long essay:

Does the essay have a clear introduction which articulates the argument I wish to make in the essay? Does it move beyond telling the reader what the essay is “about” and what the essay “will do” to tell the reader very clearly what has been accomplished in the essay and what be specifically shown in the essay, and not leave this only for the conclusion?
Does the essay have a clear conclusion which restates the main points and then makes some effort to contextualise the findings in the broader issues of the course?
Does the essay situate the argument being made in the context of the sources used, and its relevance to the study of our module topic?
Does the essay show a good understanding of the sources used, and use them effectively in supporting my argument with clear and specific examples to enforce my points?
Does the essay avoid long quotations from secondary works whenever possible? Do I instead summarise, without plagiarising, and cite the work of secondary work except when the particular wording or language is key to the argument I wish to make?
Have I cited with footnotes all claims that are not a well-known and general historical fact.
Have I used a variety of appropriate sources to provide evidence in support of my claims?
Have I avoided using phrases like “many historians argue” or “much scholarship” or “it is often argued” and offer specific examples and citations?
Does the essay retain a strong focus on the main argument, and avoid passages which stray significantly from the main points?
Does the essay avoid being a summary or introduction to a particular topic, event, or person in order to make a clear argument that is falsifiable?
Have I gone back and considered my major claims from a critical perspective, and answered any major possible weaknesses in my essay?
Is my argument non-trivial? That is, does it go beyond a well-known historical consensus about a topic?
Has the long essay engaged with the historiography on the relevant issue effectively throughout?
Does the essay consider alternative explanations, acknowledge inconvenient facts, and point out sources or historians who may have differing approaches?
Did I proofread my essay, check the spelling, and reread for sentences that are unclear? Did I avoid using imprecise or abstract terms when concrete ones would suit better?
Did I carefully follow the style guide for the School of History for all my footnotes?
Did I include a bibliography at the end of my essay and is it formatted according to the School of History style guide? Does it have separate sections for primary and secondary sources?
Have I avoided using websites and newspaper articles not by academic authors to support my claims when there are good academic historical scholarship (in monograph, journal article, or online published forms)
Have I taken care that the introduction, historiography and any background does not take up too much of the entire length of the essay (less than 25%, usually)
Did I include a word count in the header and followed the other header guidelines?

Carrying Out Research for Essays

Secondary to Primary: When you have selected a question or broader topic for your longer essay the first, one common approach is to look for information on the topic among the various books and articles that are assigned or proposed in this course, especially the further reading of each week. This is the “secondary to primary” approach. Early on, it is useful to focus on skimming through sources as you find them, noting carefully works of potential interest found in the footnotes or bibliographies of these works to help you broaden and then later focus in your research. “Scrape” the bibliography and footnotes of more general works in your area of interest, look those works up and then “scrape” the bibliography/footnotes of those works (move between recent books/articles and older ones to try to fill out your search better). Eventually you will get a broader shape of the landscape of research around your topic. Along the way you will get the feel for what the key works are, but also what more general works “up the ladder of abstraction” are often cited that influence the writers or help them establish basic categories and concepts. You hopefully also get an impression for what kinds of primary sources have been used in the past, or at least categories of sources that may be useful. Then dive into the primary sources, either those which you have found through the secondary scholarship, or which may have been neglected by it but which has potentially something to contribute.

Primary then Secondary: Other students and scholars argue that you should avoid reading closely related secondary research on a topic in the first stage (beyond very general background), but instead directly dive into a set of relevant primary sources. Reading these, they look for things that stand out or which surprise or shock them, then they return to the secondary scholarship. If your initial ideas and reading end up not working out and you need to pivot during the semester, this is often a great way to do it: instead of starting the process above from scratch, find a rich body of primary sources and dive deep with them. Even with time lost on one idea, some of the best essays I have read have emerged from a student who has read deeply on some initial topic, started over, and this time tried things the other way around, starting with a single collection of interesting historical primary sources.

Whichever of these general approaches you take, in reality all students and scholars will need to move back and forth multiple times between primary and secondary sources as they refine their research questions and their proposed arguments.

When you do not find enough through the above method of beginning your trail with our existing assigned works and module handbook bibliography, proceed to search in various databases for relevant keywords:

The secondary bibliography at the end of this handbook
The primary sources at the end of this handbook
Our library catalogue
Major journal databases we have access to such as JSTOR and MUSE
Google Scholar (scholar.google.com) which can then direct you to other journals our library may provide access to
Google Books and The Internet Archive (archive.org)
Consult with librarians - they are your friend. Bring them what you have found already and work with them to find further resources.
LLMs - Large Language Models such as ChatGPT are highly problematic tools given their propensity to confidently manufacture completely false information, but may be useful as one early part of your brainstorming process. See my separate document on the LLM policy for this module.
Learn to use Google more effectively:
- Search for phrases in quotation marks ” ” when appropriate
- Try adding filetype:pdf to limit results to PDF files
Frog in a Well Primary Source Guides:
- History of Modern Shanghai
- Missionary Perspectives on China
- History of Taiwan
- Modern Korean History
- History of Burma
- History of the Philippines (under construction)
- History of the Malay World
- Primary Source Nuggets

The long essays should use at least a dozen secondary sources which are not websites and the inclusion of several primary sources (their number depends very much on what you are doing with them) is strongly encouraged. An essay based on sources that are the results of a simple google search can be written in an evening of frantic last minute work, but rarely demonstrates much effort, research skill, or ability to isolate high-quality materials to support an argument. This is not because there are not excellent websites with overviews on a topic, excellent wikipedia entries, etc. but because there is still usually far greater quality material found in published articles and books on most historical topics, including those which are assigned above. It is wise to make use of online research skills to get oriented in a new topic, but use this course as an opportunity to explore the wealth of academic research on your topics. Your essays will be assessed, in part, on how effectively your sources demonstrate your research efforts. Of course, digitized primary (archival sources, documents) or secondary sources (e.g. articles in academic databases) found in digital collection are permitted and an online source or two in addition to your other sources beyond the minimum is fine if chosen carefully for quality.

The process described above of “scraping” footnotes and bibliographies is a stage which requires only rapid skimming and brisk movement across a large number of candidate materials. This might be combined with a closer reading of a good general work. Once you have a good body of secondary sources, you can return to works previously skimmed and read in a more informed targeted way. In researching for an essay you rarely have to read an entire work, and even when you do so, you should skim less relevant sections. Unlike reading for pleasure, historical research involves reading as a hunt for answers to problems. If you find that your argument does not hold or has insufficient evidence to support it, zoom out again and restart the process. This circular movement is one very effective approach to historical research. Start broad, find potential key arguments and inspiring ideas. Moving quickly, test these ideas and arguments by searching in other sources and zooming into detailed cases and examples. If this doesn’t work or is insufficient, zoom out again and repeat. Once you are happy with an argument and the available evidence, then read more slowly and with determination, taking more detailed notes, and outlining your essay as you go.

The Worst Possible Way to Proceed: Perhaps the worst possible way to do research for your essay is to find a dozen or two works on your broad topic by title search. This usually results in you finding several very general and introductory works on your topic. Allow this collection of books and articles to rest comfortably on your shelf until the deadline nears, and then sit down and attempt to read all these works and hope that your essay will emerge from the vast knowledge you have gained in reading these books.

Essay Outline

Anytime between Week 8-11 you should submit an outline of your essay which includes an overview of how you are thinking of structuring your essay. This should also include a tentative essay title, the argument (updated from your prospectus), and hierarchical bullet points that follow the structure of your essay. You can do this down to the level of paragraphs, but don’t include whole paragraphs of text in the outline, just generalized overviews. At the bottom you may include a list of 2-3 questions that you are concerned about or problems you would like advice on. Then book an office hour and come and discuss your outline with me. Make sure you have emailed a copy of your outline to Konrad at least a full 24 hours or more before you meet Konrad in office hours.

How your Long Essay is Evaluated

The points that follow should be fairly clear from the questions posed above but are restated from the perspective of the marker of a very strong long essay:

Important: The essay gives a clear presentation of its argument in the introduction of the essay
The argument of the essay is not trivial, overly general, or merely represent a summary of the widely recognized academic consensus on a given topic
The argument is well signposted, with different sub-arguments of the essay clearly introduced with clear topical sentences.
The essay shows that extensive reading and research was done in order to write this essay and the evidence is used effectively in support of the argument
The essay consistently cites its sources with footnotes and these footnotes are generally formatted well.
The essay engages with the relevant historiography on this topic directly and effectively
The essay has a good balance between empirical examples and presenting evidence on the one hand, and strong analysis contributing to the argument on the other
Unless it is a historiographical essay, the essay works with primary sources which make a substantive contribution to its main argument.
The essay is written well and has a clear structure.
The essay is within the word limit and of a sufficient length for its proposed scope.
The School of History Style Guide was carefully followed.
A well-formatted bibliography is provided showing that research was carried out using sources of an appropriate quality and number.

Feedback

Feedback is generally provided directly on the mark sheet, which will be posted to the MMS within two weeks. Presentation feedback is provided at two points in the semester so they may be marked in groups. Some formative feedback on Moodle posts (before they are submitted to MMS) will be made sporadically throughout the semester, especially on the first or second post made by a student.

Policies

Marking

Within the School of History all work is assessed on a scale of 1-20 with intervals of 0.5. Module outcomes are reported using the same scale but with intervals of 0.1. The assessment criteria set out below are not comprehensive, but are intended to provide guidance in interpreting grades and improving the quality of assessed work. Students should bear in mind that presentation is an important element of assessment and that failure to adhere to the guidelines set out in the School of History Style Sheet will be penalised.

The marking scale can be found here:

https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/students/ug/assessment/

Extensions

Prior permissions for late submission of work (“Extensions”) to make fair allowance for adverse circumstances affecting a student’s ability to submit the work on time will be considered on a case by case basis. Normally such permissions will only be granted for circumstances that are both unforeseen and beyond the student’s control.

Word Limits and Late Work

It is important to work consistently through the semester and work around your other commitments and deadlines. Plan ahead and don’t save your work until the last minute. Assessed work with word limits should be always submitted within those limits. Writing in a clear and concise manner, and being able to structure and execute an argument that may be shorter than you feel is required is a skill that is of great use in academic fields as well as the workplace beyond. Please do not go over the limit and force yourself to work within them as a practice that will be important for writing assignments in your future careers.

The official School of Histories penalties for late work and short/long work are followed in this module:

https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/students/ug/assessment/

Please Note: In this module you will not be penalised for a long essay that goes over the requested word range but is up to 5,000 words. This exception applies only to the long essay.

Absence from Classes

Please see this page for more on our attendance policy:

https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/students/ug/attendance/

Emails

If you have a question that requires an answer with significant detail, please consider asking during office hours, or at the beginning or end of class. Please try to avoid sending emails that require more than a very brief answer. If the email requires a substantive answer, I may ask you to bring the question up again after our next class or in office hours. I will strive to offer a reply to emails received within 48 hours, whenever possible. Emails are usually not responded to over the weekend and may not even be read until Monday. In writing emails, please try to be clear about what you are asking, and keep in mind that your message is one among many from students of multiple classes and differing contexts. Please mention which course you are in and what specific matter you are referring to. As in class, feel free to address me by first name in emails. Finally, before hitting the send button, please confirm that the answer to your question is not found in the handbook, on official school websites, or other handouts provided to the class.

Laptops in Class

Recent studies are increasingly showing that, for whatever reasons, the handwriting of notes, and the reading of essays on physical paper as opposed to computers or other reading devices increases the quality of notes, significantly boosts recall, and better processing of content in general.

There are, however, many benefits to using a laptop for notes, and keeping reading content in digital form, not the least ready access, easy distribution, ability to re-sort notes, searchability, and for those who have handwriting as poor as mine: simple readability.

You are welcome to bring a laptop to class and use it for notes and reading. Please do not to use applications on your laptop not related to our class, including email applications and social media. Obviously they will interfere with your own concentration but that is not the primary concern: using other applications on your laptop is a severe distraction to anyone sitting next to you.

There will a number of occasions during the seminar when full undivided attention is required by students. Group work not related to sources, student presentations, and some other moments will not require any note-taking or referring to documents on your computer. In those occasions I may ask students to close laptops or turn over tablets so they can concentrate on the task at hand.

Academic Misconduct and Plagiarism

Academic integrity is fundamental to the values promoted by the University. It is important that all students are judged on their ability, and that no student is allowed unfairly to take an advantage over others, to affect the security and integrity of the assessment process, or to diminish the reliability and quality of a St Andrews degree. For more information on university policies see:

https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/students/rules/academicpractice/

I have a separate document where I outline the ways in which LLMs (generative AI) may be used in the course of your research and writing in ways that will not constitute academic misconduct. This will be distributed separately.

If you are unsure about the correct presentation of academic material, you should approach your tutor. You can also contact CEED, which provides an extensive range of training on Academic Skills.

https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ceed/

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

The School of History is committed to supporting equality of opportunity and inclusion at every level, irrespective of age, gender, maternity, disability, race, faith, sex and sexual orientation, through the enactment of fair policies and practices. The School seeks to provide a place of welcome, tolerance and inclusivity in which to study, work and research. For more information, please visit the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion section of the School’s website, on

https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/about/equality-diversity-inclusion/

Reading

Weekly average pages of required reading: 200-250

This honours module is by no means an easy one. The fact that the module is on East Asian history, an area which students may have very little familiarity with, but not a sub-honours survey module, means that students should be prepared to take the initiative to read around the assigned materials and delve into the further reading in order to get a better understanding of the material.

A work load of fifteen to eighteen hours a week (some weeks you may need a few more, some weeks less) outside of seminar is expected. Of this, you should expect your weekly preparation for class in terms of reading to be 7-12 hours in all weeks except the consolidation week and pair writing week, together with 5-8 hours of work on your assignments and research, especially for the long essay. I urge you to spread the load of your work on assignments across the weeks, to prevent stress towards the end of the semester.

Your weekly reading will usually consist of 200-250 pages of required reading. Thus, working on an estimate of 250 pages a week total is a safe bet, or, at roughly 30 pages an hour (taking some limited notes), about 8-9 hours, but most likely longer if you take more notes. To this must be added time for your research and assessments.

It is not wise to do your reading in a single sitting, as your concentration will fade, so I suggest you split the readings into two or three, and read them across several days. Give yourself more time for the primary sources vs the secondary sources relative to their length to allow you to pay especially close attention to language and detail in the former. I would recommend that you try to “timebox” the readings, giving yourself a fixed period of time for any given reading and, if it looks unlikely that you will have time to read something carefully, skim it with general notes on the main arguments, events, and issues, as necessary. This is especially useful in weeks when you need to limit your reading preparation time in order to work more on your research for the long essay.

Seminars

Please Note: We have an online reading list for the module for your convenience but it is harder to read, is sometimes missing texts, and does not include specific tasks that I set for your preparation. Always work from the handbook as you prepare your readings but you can check for ebook versions etc. with the digital reading list. Again: this handbook is the canonical version of your preparation guidelines, not the sometimes incorrect online reading list.

Abbreviations for readings:

GORDON: Andrew Gordon A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present (short loan)
SOURCES JAPAN 1 Sources of Japanese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600 (Ebook)
SOURCES JAPAN 2: Sources of Japanese Tradition: Volume 2, 1600 to 2000 (Ebook)
SOURCES CHINA 1: Sources of Chinese Tradition: Volume 1
SOURCES CHINA 2: Sources of Chinese Tradition: Volume 2 (Ebook)
SOURCES KOREA 2: Sources of Korean Tradition: Volume 2
HEISIG: Heisig, James W., Thomas P. Kasulis, and John C. Maraldo, eds. Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook. 2011. Ebook

F = optional further reading
P = Text is a candidate for presentations

Week 1 - Introduction to Buddhism

Preparation

We will try use only the first 40 minutes for introductions, and overview of the semester. During this time, we’ll get everyone’s name and I’ll explain the main forms of assessment briefly.
Please come having read or at least skimmed over the handbook sections on assessment. You’ll get the handbook before class.
We will try use only the first 30 minutes for introductions, and overview of the semester. During this time, we’ll get everyone’s name and I’ll explain the main forms of assessment briefly.
Sign up for your presentation. One in person presentation, a maximum of two recorded presentations per week. (Teams)
Consider reviewing the topics for each week and ask yourself what topics strike your interest. That is the first step in formulating a long essay topic, which should be something you work on every single week of the semester.
We will hit the ground running so please come having done the reading.

Required Reading

The Foundations of Buddhism by Rubert Gethin (77 pp) Ebook
- Ch 2 The Word of the Buddha pp35-58
- Ch 3 Four Truths pp59-84
- Ch 9 The Mahāyāna pp224-252
Religion and the Making of Modern East Asia by Thomas David DuBois (34 pp) Ebook
- p15-36 (from Ch 2.I Religious Foundations of Late Imperial China)
- p53-66 (from Ch 3.I Religious Foundations of Medieval Japan)

Elective Reading

Each week you will be required to do additional reading but have a choice from a selection. We will try to maximise coverage of elective reading from week to week but may not get to every category in class discussion. I would like to ask that we try to have at least one person per category each week. The elective reading is what you do your elective reading handouts on.

Choose one of these categories: A (Pure Land) OR B (Nichiren) OR C (Ch’an/Zen) and read only the material labelled with your category from each text.

SOURCES JAPAN 1 Ebook
- 1. III.10 Amida, the Pure Land, and the Response of the Old Buddhism to the New p211-231
- 1. III.13 Nichiren: The Sun and the Lotus 292-306
- 1. III.14 Zen Buddhism 306-335
Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook Ebook
- 1. Hōnen; Shinran pp235-262
- 1. Nichiren: Buddhist Views on Current Issues pp86-91
- 1. Dōgen pp141-162
SOURCES CHINA 1: (Teams)
- 1. The Pure Land School pp334-345 (1st ed)
- 1. The Meditation School pp346-368 (1st ed)
Readings of the Lotus Sutra:
- 1. Interpreting the Lotus Sutra pp1-60 + pp195-205 Ebook

Week 2 - Introduction to Confucianism

Preparation

Please make sure you have already signed up for your presentation week (whether recorded or in-person)
I strongly advise you to begin reading around the areas of your potential interest to settle on a general area for your long essay. This is not an essay that one researches and writes in the week or two before the deadline but a semester long work.
Why not get one of your blog entries out of the way by posting something on one of the elective readings you did for last week or this week? Or analysing a primary source?
Why not get one of your five handouts done for this week?
We will discuss some examples of essay titles that I’ll share with you.

Required Reading (~90)

These readings will give you some basic exposure to the Analects, and Mengzi

Consider watching this introductory video by Bryan W. Van Norden on Confucius.
Bryan W. Van Norden Introduction to Classical Chinese Philosophy, pp10-31 (Ch 1 III The Period of the Philosophers, Ch 2), and from Ch 6 Mengzi and Human Nature read only sections 1A1, 1A7, 2A6, 3A3, 6A1-3 Ebook
Philip J. Ivanhoe and Bryan W. Van Norden Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy 2nd Edition, pp1-25 (from Ch 1 The Analects), pp116-151 (Ch 3 Mengzi) Ebook

Bonus Challenge

Try this text adventure game, with translation exercise “The Hall of Sages,” that I created for my nephew as a Christmas puzzle: http://huginn.net/projects/hall-of-sages/.

Elective Reading

Choose one of the categories below for your elective reading. Remember to bring a handout with an overview of the readings in your category and that you may be asked to speak about these readings in class.

A) Gender and Confucianism

Ko, Dorothy, JaHyun Kim Haboush, and Joan R. Piggott. Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan. Ebook (P)
- Choose one from Ch 4, 5, or 6
- Choose one from Ch 8, 9

Further Reading

Pang-White, Ann A. The Confucian Four Books for Women: A New Translation of the Nü Shishu and the Commentary of Wang Xiang. Oxford University Press, 2018. (P)
Dorothy Ko ed. Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan (P)
Wang, Robin R. Images of Women in Chinese Thought and Culture: Writings from the Pre-Qin Period to the Song Dynasty. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co., 2003.
Mann, Susan, and Yu-Yin Cheng. Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History. University of California Press, 2001. (P)
Kim, Youngmin, ed. Women and Confucianism in Chosŏn Korea: New Perspectives. Albany, N.Y.; Bristol: State University of New York Press, 2012. (P)
Anne Behnke Kinney trans. Exemplary Women of Early China: The Lienü Zhuan of Liu Xiang (P)
Li, Chenyang. The Sage and the Second Sex: Confucianism, Ethics, and Gender. Open Court Publishing, 2000.
Mou, Sherry J. Gentlemen’s Prescriptions for Women’s Lives: A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women: A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women. Routledge, 2015.
Kim, Jisoo M. The Emotions of Justice: Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Choson Korea. University of Washington Press, 2016.
Mann, Susan L. Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History. Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Rosenlee, Li-Hsiang Lisa. Confucianism and Women: A Philosophical Interpretation. SUNY Press, 2012. (P)
Birge, Bettine. Women, Property, and Confucian Reaction in Sung and Yüan China (960–1368). Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Foust, Mathew, and Sor-Hoon Tan. Feminist Encounters with Confucius. BRILL, 2016. (P)
Pang-White, Ann A. The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016.
Barlow, Tani. The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism. Duke University Press, 2004. (P)
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley. The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period. University of California Press, 1993.
Ko, Dorothy. Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China. Stanford University Press, 1994.

B) Confucianism in Korea

Deuchler, Martina. The Confucian Transformation of Korea: A Study of Society and Ideology. Harvard Univ Asia Center, 1992. (P) (Ebook)
- Introduction; Ch 2, 3; Conclusion

Further Reading

De Bary, William Theodore, and JaHyun Kim Haboush. The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1985. (P)
Chung, Chai-Sik, ed. A Korean Confucian Encounter with the Modern World: Yi Hang-No and the West. Curzon Press, 1996. (P)
1. Min, Anselm K., ed. Korean Religions in Relation: Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity. Reprint edition. Place of publication not identified: State University of New York Press, 2017. (P)
Haboush, JaHyun Kim, and Martina Deuchler. Culture and the State in Late Choson Korea. Harvard Univ Asia Center, 2002.
Deuchler, Martina. Under the Ancestors’ Eyes: Kinship, Status, and Locality in Premodern Korea. Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. (P)
Haboush, JaHyun Kim. Epistolary Korea: Letters in the Communicative Space of the Chosôn, 1392-1910. Columbia University Press, 2009. (P)
Chung, Edward Y. J. The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi T’oegye and Yi Yulgok: A Reappraisal of the “Four-Seven Thesis” and Its Practical Implications for Self-Cultivation. SUNY Press, 1995.
Oh, Young Kyun. Engraving Virtue: The Printing History of a Premodern Korean Moral Primer. BRILL, 2013. (P)
The Annals of King T’aejo. Harvard University Press, 2014.
Haboush, JaHyun Kim. The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea. Univ of California Press, 2013. (P)
Palais, James B. Confucian Statecraft and Korean Institutions: Yu Hyongwon and the Late Choson Dynasty. University of Washington Press, 2015. (P)
Seth, Michael J. Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean History. Routledge, 2016.

C) Confucianism in Japan

SOURCES JAPAN 2 - “Ogyū Sorai and the Return to the Classics,” comprising several texts in Ch 24 Ebook
Thomas P. Kasulis Engaging Japanese Philosophy: A Short History (2018), Ch 9 Ogyū Sorai (1666-1728), pp346-370 Ebook

Further Reading

HEISIG: Confucian Traditions section
Olof G. Lidin “Ogyū Sorai: Confucian Conservative Reformer: From Journey to Kai to Discourse on Government” in Huang, Chun-chieh, John Allen Tucker, and SpringerLink (Online service), eds. Dao Companion to Japanese Confucian Philosophy. Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy 5. Heidelberg: Springer, 2014, pp165-192 (ebook) (P)
Ansart, Olivier. “Making Sense of Sorai: How to Deal with the Contradictions in Ogyū Sorai’s Political Theory.” Asian Philosophy 19, no. 1 (March 1, 2009): 11–30.
Ogyū, Sorai. Tokugawa Political Writings. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Ogyū Sorai, Discourse on Government (Seidan): An Annotated Translation, trans. Olof G. Lidin (Weisbaden: Harrossowitz Verlag, 1999) (P)
Kiri Paramore Japanese Confucianism: A Cultural History (P)
Watanabe, Hiroshi, and David Noble. A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901. Tōkyō: Internat. House of Japan, 2012.
Nosco, Peter. Confucianism and Tokugawa Culture. University of Hawaii Press, 1997.
Tu, Wei-ming. Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: Moral Education and Economic Culture in Japan and the Four Mini-Dragons. Harvard University Press, 1996. (P)
Huang, Chun-chieh, John Allen Tucker, and SpringerLink (Online service), eds. Dao Companion to Japanese Confucian Philosophy. Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy 5. Heidelberg: Springer, 2014.
Paramore, Kiri. “‘Civil Religion’ and Confucianism: Japan’s Past, China’s Present, and the Current Boom in Scholarship on Confucianism.” The Journal of Asian Studies 74, no. 02 (May 2015): 269–282.
McMullen, James. The Worship of Confucius in Japan. Harvard University Press, 2019. (P)
Tucker, Mary Evelyn. Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism: The Life and Thought of Kaibara Ekken (1630-1714). SUNY Press, 1989.
Maruyama, Masao. Studies in Intellectual History of Tokugawa Japan. Princeton University Press, 2014.
Nakai, Kate Wildman. Shogunal Politics: Arai Hakuseki and the Premises of Tokugawa Rule. Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1988. (P)
Kracht, Klaus. Japanese Thought in the Tokugawa Era: A Bibliography of Western-Language Materials. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2000.

D) Neo-Confucianism

Gardner, Daniel K. Four Books: The Basic Teachings of the Later Confucian Tradition. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc, 2006. (P) Ebook Introduction + Conclusion
1. Bol, Peter K. Neo-Confucianism in History. Reprint edition. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2010. Ch 4, pp 128-152, Ch 6 Belief, pp 194-217 (P) Ebook

Further Reading

Makeham, John, ed. Dao Companion to Neo-Confucian Philosophy. 2010 edition. Place of publication not identified: Springer, 2012. (P)
Angle, Stephen C. Sagehood: The Contemporary Significance of Neo-Confucian Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Angle, Stephen C., and Justin Tiwald. Neo-Confucianism: A Philosophical Introduction. John Wiley & Sons, 2017.
Bary, William T. De. Neo-Confucian Education: The Formative Stage. University of California Press, 1989. (P)
Bary, William Theodore De, Wm Theodore De Bary, and John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University and Provost Emeritus Wm Theodore De Bary. The Message of the Mind in Neo-Confucianism. Columbia University Press, 1989.
Brasovan, Nicholas S. Neo-Confucian Ecological Humanism: An Interpretive Engagement with Wang Fuzhi (1619-1692). SUNY Press, 2017.
Chan, Wing-Tsit. Chu Hsi and Neo-Confucianism. University of Hawaii Press, 1986.
Ching, Julia. “Neo-Confucian Utopian Theories and Political Ethics.” Monumenta Serica 30 (1972): 1–56.
Chung, Edward Y. J. The Korean Neo-Confucianism of Yi T’oegye and Yi Yulgok: A Reappraisal of the “Four-Seven Thesis” and Its Practical Implications for Self-Cultivation. SUNY Press, 1995. (P)
De Bary, William Theodore, and JaHyun Kim Haboush. The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1985. (P)
Hymes, Robert P., and Conrad Schirokauer. Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China. University of California Press, 1993. (P)
Liu, JeeLoo. Neo-Confucianism: Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality. John Wiley & Sons, 2017. (P)
Liu, Kwang-Ching. Orthodoxy in Late Imperial China. University of California Press, 1990. (P)
Ivanhoe, Phillip. Readings from the Lu-Wang School of Neo-Confucianism. Hackett Publishing, 2009. (P)
Setton, Mark. Chong Yagyong: Korea’s Challenge to Orthodox Neo-Confucianism. SUNY Press, 1997. (P)
Tu, Weiming, Tou Wei-Ming, Tu (Wei-ming), and Weiming Du. Neo-Confucian Thought in Action: Wang Yang-Ming’s Youth (1472-1509). University of California Press, 1976. (P)
Tucker, Mary Evelyn. Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism: The Life and Thought of Kaibara Ekken (1630-1714). SUNY Press, 1989. (P)
Watanabe, Hiroshi, and David Noble. A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901. Tōkyō: Internat. House of Japan, 2012.

E) Xunzi

Bryan Van Norden Introduction to classical Chinese Philosophy (2011), Ch 10 Xunzi’s Confucian Naturalism, pp164-183. Ebook
Philip J. Ivanhoe and Bryan W. Van Norden Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy 2nd Edition, pp298-310 (from Ch 6 Xunzi) Ebook

Reference

Confucius, and Edward Slingerland. Analects: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries. Hackett Publishing, 2003.
Mengzi. Mengzi: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries. Translated by Bryan W. Van Norden. UK ed. edition. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc, 2008.
Tiwald, Justin, and Bryan W. Van Norden. Readings in Later Chinese Philosophy: Han to the 20th Century. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2014.
Xunzi, and Eric L. Hutton. Xunzi: The Complete Text. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
Gardner, Daniel K. Four Books: The Basic Teachings of the Later Confucian Tradition. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc, 2006. (P)

General Further Reading

Edward Slingerland trans. Confucius Analects with Selections from Traditional Commentaries
Bryan W. Van Norden trans. Mengzi with Selections from Traditional Commentaries
Eric L. Hutton trans. Xunzi: The Complete Text (P)
Wm. Theodore de Bary ed. Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics (P)
Wm. Theodore de Bary The Trouble with Confucianism (P)
Philip J. Ivanhoe Ethics in the Confucian Tradition: The Thought of Mengzi and Wang Yangming (P)
Henry Rosemont and Roger T. Ames The Chinese Classic of Family Reverence: A Philosophical Translation of the Xiaojing (P)
Tu Wei-ming Centrality and Commonality: An Essay on Chung-yung (P)
Sun, Anna Xiao Dong. Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities. Princeton University Press, 2013. (P)

Week 3 - Taiping and Tonghak

Preparation

Primary Source Exercise*: Please connect to one of the two following English language newspapers from China and Japan that we have. Browse a few issues of the newspaper and bring a printed copy of one of the articles you found interesting to share:
- North China Herald
- Japan Chronicle
Please ensure that you are setting aside enough time to narrow down your topic for your long essay. Aim to have a clear idea of your essay topic and hopefully a potential argument by Week 5 so you can use independent learning week to make good progress on assembling what you need for the long essay.
We will discuss a collection of sample student essays I have shared, if time permits.

Required Reading (~115)

SOURCES CHINA 2: Ch 29 - “The Heavenly Kingdom of the Taipings” pp213-230
SOURCES KOREA 2: Ch 20 - “The Tonghak Uprisings and the Kabo Reforms” pp261-273
Rowe, William T. China’s Last Empire: the Great Qing Ebook Ch 7 Rebellion pp175-200
Lew, Young Ick. “The Conservative Character of the 1894 Tonghak Peasant Uprising: A Reappraisal with Emphasis on Chŏn Pong-Jun’s Background and Motivation.” The Journal of Korean Studies (1979-) 7 (1990): 149–80. (jstor)

Elective Reading

Read one of the following categories:

Reilly, Thomas H. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire. University of Washington Press, 2011. Ch 2-4 (P) Ebook
Young, Carl F. Eastern Learning and the Heavenly Way: The Tonghak and Ch’ŏndogyo Movements and the Twilight of Korean Independence. University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014. Ch 1-3 (P) Ebook
Kilcourse, Carl S. Taiping Theology: The Localization of Christianity in China, 1843–64. Springer, 2016. Ch 1 “Introduction”, Ch 3 “The Taiping Mission of World Salvation” Ch 5 “A Confucianized Christian Ethic” Ebook
Kallander, George L. Salvation Through Dissent: Tonghak Heterodoxy and Early Modern Korea. University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2013. Introduction, Ch 2-3. (P) Ebook
Anderson, Emily. Belief and Practice in Imperial Japan and Colonial Korea. Springer, 2016 Ebook Ch 5 “Eastern Learning Divided: The Split in the Tonghak Religion and the Japanese Annexation of Korea, 1904–1910” + Moon, Yumi. ‘Immoral Rights: Korean Populist Collaborators and the Japanese Colonization of Korea, 1904–1910’. The American Historical Review 118, no. 1 (2 January 2013): 20–44. Jstor

Essays on Taiping Rebellion

If you are interested in working on the Taiping Rebellion see me for a copy of the excellent primary sources available in The Taiping Rebellion: History and Documents. For essays on this topic there are also many interesting Western missionary and other English language sources that may be of interest.

Further Reading: Boxer Rebellion

Cohen, Paul A. History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth. Columbia University Press, 1998. (P) ———. “The Contested Past: The Boxers as History and Myth.” The Journal of Asian Studies 51, no. 1 (February 1, 1992): 82–113.
Brown, G. Thompson. “Through Fire and Sword: Presbyterians and the Boxer Year in North China.” The Journal of Presbyterian History (1997-) 78, no. 3 (2000): 193–206.
Esherick, Joseph W. The Origins of the Boxer Uprising. University of California Press, 1988. (P)
Harrison, Henrietta. “The Boxer Rebellion and the Souls in Purgatory” in The Missionary’s Curse and Other Tales from a Chinese Catholic Village. (P)
King, Frank H. H. “The Boxer Indemnity: ‘Nothing but Bad.’” Modern Asian Studies 40, no. 3 (2006): 663–89.
Ven, Hans Van De. “Robert Hart and Gustav Detring during the Boxer Rebellion.” Modern Asian Studies 40, no. 3 (July 2006): 631–62.

General Further Reading

Chŏndogyo Documents
Chesneaux, Jean, and Lucien Bianco. Popular Movements and Secret Societies in China, 1840-1950. Stanford University Press, 1972. (P)
Perry, Elizabeth J. “When Peasants Speak: Sources for the Study of Chinese Rebellions.” Modern China 6, no. 1 (1980): 72–85.
Shin, Susan S. 1978-79. “The Tonghak Movement: From Enlightenment to Revolution” Korean Studies Forum 5: 1—79.
Bell, Kirsten. “Cheondogyo and the Donghak Revolution: The (Un)Making of a Religion.” Korea Jounral 44, no. 2 (n.d.).
Cheng, J. Chester. Chinese Sources for the Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864. Hong Kong: New York: Hong Kong University Press ; Oxford University Press, 1963.
Beirne, Em Prof Paul. Su-Un and His World of Symbols: The Founder of Korea’s First Indigenous Religion. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013.
Daye, Zhang. The World of a Tiny Insect: A Memoir of the Taiping Rebellion and Its Aftermath. University of Washington Press, 2013.
Gregory, J. S, and Prescott Clarke. Western Reports on the Taiping: A Selection of Documents. London: Croom Helm, 1982.
Hamberg, Theodore. The Visions of Hung-Siu-Tshuen, and the Origin of the Kwang-Si Insurrection. San Francisco: Chinese Materials Center, 1975.
Hobsbawm, Eric J. Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries. New York: Norton, 2010. (P)
Hung, Ho-fung. Protest with Chinese Characteristics: Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty. Columbia University Press, 2013. (P)
Kallander, George L. Salvation Through Dissent: Tonghak Heterodoxy and Early Modern Korea. University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2013. (P)
Kilcourse, Carl S. Taiping Theology: The Localization of Christianity in China, 1843–64. Springer, 2016. (P)
Lee, Sang Taek. Religion and Social Formation in Korea: Minjung and Millenarianism. Walter de Gruyter, 2012. (P)
Lew, Young Ick. “The Conservative Character of the 1894 Tonghak Peasant Uprising: A Reappraisal with Emphasis on Chŏn Pong-Jun’s Background and Motivation.” The Journal of Korean Studies (1979-) 7 (1990): 149–80.
Li, Hsiu-ch’eng, and Charles A. Curwen. Taiping Rebel: The Deposition of Li Hsiu-Ch’eng. Cambridge University Press, 1977.
Liu, Chang. Peasants and Revolution in Rural China: Rural Political Change in the North China Plain and the Yangzi Delta, 1850-1949. Routledge, 2007.
Meyer-Fong, Tobie S. What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China, 2013. (P)
Michael, Franz H., and University of Washington Far Eastern and Russian Institute. The Taiping Rebellion: History and Documents. University of Washington Press, 1971.
Paper, Jordan D. The Spirits Are Drunk Comparative Approaches to Chinese Religion. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1995.
Perry, Elizabeth J. Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945. Stanford Univ Pr, 1983. (P)
Schoppa, R. Keith. Revolution and Its Past: Identities and Change in Modern Chinese History. Routledge, 2017. Ch 4
Shih, Vincent Yu-Chung. “Interpretations of the Taiping Tien-Kuo by Noncommunist Chinese Writers.” The Far Eastern Quarterly 10, no. 3 (May 1, 1951): 248–57.
Shih, Vincent Yu-chung, and Yu-chung Shih. The Taiping Ideology: Its Sources, Interpretations, and Influences. UBC Press, 1967.
Shin, Susan S. “Tonghak Thought: The Roots of Revolution.” Korea Journal 19, no. 9 (n.d.).
Shin, Yong-ha. “Conjunction of Tonghak and the Peasant War 1894.” Korea Journal 34, no. 4 (n.d.): 59–75. — Shin, Yong-ha. “The Revolutionary Movement of the Tonghak Peasant Army of 1894: Seen Vis-a-Vis the French Revolution.” Korea Journal 29, no. 20 (n.d.): 28–33.
Spence, Jonathan D. God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan. Reprint. W. W. Norton & Company, 1996.
Weller, Robert. “Historians and Consciousness: The Modern Politics of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.” Social Research 54, no. 4 (December 1, 1987): 731–55.
Wakeman, Frederic E. Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861. University of California Press, 1997. (P)
Weller, Robert Paul. Resistance, Chaos and Control in China: Taiping Rebels, Taiwanese Ghosts and Tiananmen. Place of publication not identified: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. (P)
Yang, Qingkun. Religion in Chinese Society: A Study of Contemporary Social Functions of Religion and Some of Their Historical Factors, by C.K. Yang. Berkeley: Los Angeles, Calif., University of California Press, 1967.

Week 4 - Revolutionary Internationalism

Preparation

Draft Prospectus - You have an opportunity to post to Teams a draft of your prospectus
You may have come across readings in your research for this that would make good topics for a blog entry, why not post a blog entry on something you read? You may use one of your four blog posts to analyse an interesting primary source you have read. Note that you can’t use the same text in your final essay.
Consider meeting with me in office hours this week or next week before ILW.

Required Reading (~85)

Hane, Mikiso. Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan. University of California Press, 1988. from Ch 3 pp51-58, from Ch 4 pp75-80, 109-124 Ebook
Dirlik, Arif. Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution. University of California Press, 1991. Ch 1 but only pp1-26, and also Ch 3 (P) Ebook

Elective Reading

A) Shifu

Krebs, Edward S. Shifu, Soul of Chinese Anarchism. Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. Ch 1, 4, 7 (Ebook) (P)

B) Development of Chinese Anarchism

Dirlik, Arif. Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution. University of California Press, 1991. Ch 2, 4, 5 (short loan) (P) Ebook

C) Anarchist Cooperatism

Konishi, Sho. Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013. Introduction, Ch 1 (P) Ebook
Konishi, Sho “Ordinary Farmers Living Anarchist Time: Arishima Cooperative Farm in Hokkaido.” Modern Asian Studies 47, no. 6 (November 2013): 1845–87. (online)

D) Kōtoku Shūsui

Tierney, Robert Thomas, and Kotoku Shusui. Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kotoku Shusui and Japan’s First Anti-Imperialist Movement. Univ of California Press, 2015. Introduction pp1-11, Ch “The Asian Solidarity Association and the High Treason Case” pp115-132, Imperialism pp135-185 (Ebook) (P)

E) Uchiyama Gudō

Rambelli, Fabio. Zen Anarchism: The Egalitarian Dharma of Uchiyama Gudō. Berkeley, Calif: Institute of Buddhist Studies, 2013. Introduction, Ch 2-3 (P) (In Library)

F) Ōsugi Sakae

Stanley, Thomas A. Ōsugi Sakae, Anarchist in Taishō Japan: The Creativity of the Ego. 1982. Ch 3-5 Socialist Beginnings, Prison, Intellectual Foundations Ebook

G) Taixu

Ritzinger, Justin. Anarchy in the Pure Land: Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism. Oxford University Press, 2017. Introduction, Part I (Ch 1-2) Taixu’s Buddhist Radicalism Ebook

General Further Reading

Anderson, Benedict. The Age Of Globalization: Anarchists And The Anticolonial Imagination. Verso Books, 2013. (P)
Anderson, Benedict R. O’G. Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination. London: Verso, 2007. (P)
Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich. The Basic Bakunin: Writings, 1869-1871. Prometheus, 1992.
Billingsey, Philip. “Bakunin’s Sojourn in Japan: Nailing Down an Enigma.” Human Sciences Review 5 (1993): 35–65.
Cahm, Caroline. Kropotkin: And the Rise of Revolutionary Anarchism, 1872-1886. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Chapelier, Émile, and Gassy Marin. Anarchists and the International Language, Esperanto. Freedom Office, 1908.
Crump, John. The Origins of Socialist Thought in Japan. Routledge, 2010. (P)
Crump, John, and John P. McKay. Hatta Shuzo and Pure Anarchism in Interwar Japan. Springer, 1993. (P) — Crump, John. “The Revolution That Never Was: Anarchism in the Guomindang.” Modern China 15, no. 4 (October 1, 1989): 419–62. — Crump, John. “Vision and Revolution: Anarchism in Chinese Revolutionary Thought on the Eve of the 1911 Revolution.” Modern China 12, no. 2 (April 1, 1986): 123–65.
Fumiko, Kaneko, and Mikiso Hane. The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman. Routledge, 2016. (P)
Graham, Robert. Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas. Black Rose Books Ltd., 2009.
Hane, Mikiso. Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan. University of California Press, 1988.
Hiratsuka, Raichō. In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist. Columbia University Press, 2010.
Hirsch, Steven, and Lucien van der Walt. Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940: The Praxis of National Liberation, Internationalism, and Social Revolution. BRILL, 2010.
Hwang, Dongyoun. Anarchism in Korea: Independence, Transnationalism, and the Question of National Development, 1919-1984. SUNY Press, 2016. (P) — Hwang, Dongyoun. “Beyond Independence: The Korean Anarchist Press in China and Japan in the 1920s and 1930s.” Asian Studies Review 31, no. 1 (2007): 3–23. — Hwang, Dongyoun. “Reopening the ‘Opening of Japan’: A Russian-Japanese Revolutionary Encounter and the Vision of Anarchist Progress.” The American Historical Review 112, no. 1 (2007): 101–30.
Mackie, Vera. Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism, 1900-1937. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
McLaughlin, Paul. Mikhail Bakunin: The Philosophical Basis of His Theory of Anarchism. Algora Publishing, 2002.
Notehelfer, Fred G. “Kotoku Shusui and Nationalism.” The Journal of Asian Studies 31, no. 1 (1971): 31–39.
Osugi, Sakae. The Autobiography of Osugi Sakae. University of California Press, 1992.
Raddeker, Helene Bowen. Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan: Patriarchal Fictions, Patricidal Fantasies. Routledge, 2014.
Robinson, Michael. “National Identity and the Thought of Sin Ch’aeho: Sadaejuŭi and Chuch’e in History and Politics.” The Journal of Korean Studies 5 (1984): 121–42.
Schmid, Andre. “Rediscovering Manchuria: Sin Ch’aeho and the Politics of Territorial History in Korea.” The Journal of Asian Studies 56, no. 1 (1997): 26–46.
Scalapino, Robert A. The Chinese Anarchist Movement. Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1961.
Scott, James C. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia. Yale University Press, 2009. (P)
Setouchi, Harumi. Beauty in Disarray. Tuttle Publishing, 2013.
Shea, George Tyson. Leftwing Literature in Japan: A Brief History of the Proletarian Literary Movement. Hosei University Press, 1964.
Smith, Henry DeWitt, and Henry Dewitt Smith II. Japan’s First Student Radicals. Harvard University Press, 1972. (P)
Stanley, Thomas A. Ōsugi Sakae, Anarchist in Taishō Japan: The Creativity of the Ego. Harvard Univ Asia Center, 1982. (P)
Tierney, Robert Thomas, and Kotoku Shusui. Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kotoku Shusui and Japan’s First Anti-Imperialist Movement. Univ of California Press, 2015. (P)
Wakabayashi, Bob T. Modern Japanese Thought. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Woodcock, George. Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements. Broadview, 2004.
Zarrow, Peter Gue. Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture. Studies of the East Asian Institute. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.

Week 5 - New Orders for Love, Family, and the Liberation of Women

Preparation

This week consider coming to office hours to tell me about how your essay is coming along.

Required Reading (~110)

Liu, Lydia He, Rebecca E. Karl, and Dorothy Ko. The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory. Columbia University Press, 2013, Introduction pp1-26; “The Historical Context: Chinese Feminist Worlds at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” pp27-50; “On the Revenge of Women” 105-168. Ebook

Elective Reading

A) Debates on Family and Love in China

Glosser, Susan L. Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915-1953. University of California Press, 2003. Ch 1, 4 Ebook (P)

B) More on He Zhen

Liu, Lydia He, Rebecca E. Karl, and Dorothy Ko. The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory. “On the Question of Women’s Liberation”,“On the Question of Women’s Labor”,“Economic Revolution and Women’s Revolution”,“The Feminist Manifesto” Ebook

C) Qiu Jin

Wolf, Margery. Women in Chinese Society. Acls History E Book Project, 2008. “The Emergence of Women at the End of the Ch’ing: The Case of Ch’iu Chin” pp39-66 Ebook
Edwards, Louise P. Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China, 2016. Link. Ch 3 Qiu Jin: Transitioning from Traditional Swordswoman to Feminist Warrior

D) Tang Qunying

Strand, David. An Unfinished Republic: Leading by Word and Deed in Modern China. University of California Press, 2011. Ch 1 “Slapping Song Jiaoren”, 3 “A Women’s Republic”. Ebook (P)

E) Revolution of the Heart

Lee, Haiyan. Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900-1950. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2010. Introduction, Ch 7 “Revolution of the Heart” (P) Ebook

F) Shifting Interpretations

Judge, Joan. The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2008. Ch 4-6 (short loan)
- C19: No library scan, see Konrad

G) In the Event of Women

Barlow, Tani. In the Event of Women. 2021. Link. Intro + Ch 3-5

H) Dangerous Women

Kim, Elaine H., and Chungmoo Choi. Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism. 2012. (In Library) Ch 1-2 + Ch 8

I) LGBTQ History

Frühstück, Sabine. Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan. 2022. Link. Ch 6
Henry, Todd A. Queer Korea. 2020. Link Ch 1
Sang, Tze-Lan D. The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China. 2003. Ch 4-5

General Further Reading

Bailey, Paul J. Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century China. Macmillan International Higher Education, 2012.
Barlow, Tani. The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism. Duke University Press, 2004. (P)
Batchelor, Martine, Songyong, Sŏnʼgyŏng (Sŭnim), Son’gyong Sunim, and Chonggong sunim. Women in Korean Zen: Lives And Practices. Syracuse University Press, 2006. (P)
Beahan, Charlotte L. “Feminism and Nationalism in the Chinese Women’s Press, 1902-1911.” Modern China 1, no. 4 (1975): 379–416.
Bernstein, Gail Lee. Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945. University of California Press, 1991. (P)
Choi, Hyaeweol. Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways: Seoul-California Series in Korean Studies. Univ of California Press, 2009. (P) — Choi, Hyaeweol. New Women in Colonial Korea: A Sourcebook. Routledge, 2012.
Cong, Xiaoping. Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China. Cambridge University Press, 2016. (P)
Davin, Delia, and American Council of Learned Societies. Woman-Work Women and the Party in Revolutionary China. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. (P)
Diamant, Neil J. Revolutionizing the Family: Politics, Love, and Divorce in Urban and Rural China, 1949-1968. First Edition. University of California Press, 2000. (P)
Eastman, Lloyd E. Family, Fields, and Ancestors: Constancy and Change in China’s Social and Economic History, 1550-1949. Oxford University Press, USA, 1988.
Frühstück, Sabine, and Anne Walthall. Recreating Japanese Men. University of California Press, 2011.
———. Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan (Colonialisms). University of California Press, 2003. (P)
Fung, Edmund S. K. The Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Modernity: Cultural and Political Thought in the Republican Era. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Gilmartin, Christina Kelley. Engendering the Chinese Revolution: Radical Women, Communist Politics, and Mass Movements in the 1920s. University of California Press, 1995. (P)
Glosser, Susan L. Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915-1953. University of California Press, 2003.
Hane, Mikiso. Peasants, Rebels, Women, and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004.
Hershatter, Gail. Women and China’s Revolutions. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. — Hershatter, Gail. Women in China’s Long Twentieth Century. University of California Press, 2007.
Huang, Kewu. The Meaning of Freedom: Yan Fu and the Origins of Chinese Liberalism. Chinese University Press, 2008. (P)
Hu, Chi-hsi. “The Sexual Revolution in the Kiangsi Soviet.” The China Quarterly 59 (September 1974): 477–90.
Hyun, Theresa. Writing Women in Korea: Translation and Feminism in the Colonial Period. University of Hawaii Press, 2004. (P)
Judd, Ellen R. Gender and Power in Rural North China. Stanford University Press, 1994. (P) — Judge, Joan. “Talent, Virtue, and the Nation: Chinese Nationalisms and Female Subjectivities in the Early Twentieth Century.” The American Historical Review 106, no. 3 (2001): 765–803.
Karl, Rebecca E. “Translation, Modernity, and Women in China.” Critical Asian Studies 33, no. 3 (2001): 459–72.
Kim, Elaine H., and Chungmoo Choi. Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism. Routledge, 2012.
Kim, Seung-kyung, and Kyounghee Kim. The Korean Women’s Movement and the State: Bargaining for Change. Routledge, 2014.
Ko, Dorothy. Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding. 1st ed. University of California Press, 2007. (P) — Ko, Dorothy. “The Body as Attire: The Shifting Meanings of Footbinding in Seventeenth-Century China.” Journal of Women’s History 8, no. 4 (1997): 8–27.
Levy, Jr Marion J. The Family Revolution in Modern China. Harvard University Press, 2014.
Liu, Lydia He, Rebecca E. Karl, and Dorothy Ko. The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory. Columbia University Press, 2013.
Marran, Christine L. Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture. University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Molony, Barbara, and Kathleen S. Uno. Gendering Modern Japanese History. Harvard University Asia Center, 2005.
Ono, Kazuko, and Joshua A Fogel. Chinese Women in a Century of Revolution, 1850-1950. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1989.
The Modern Girl Around the World Research Group, ed. The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization. Durham, N.C.; Chesham: Duke University Press ; Combined Academic, 2009.
Wolf, Margery. Women in Chinese Society. Acls History E Book Project, 2008.
Yen, Hsiao-pei. “Body Politics, Modernity and National Salvation: The Modern Girl and the New Life Movement.” Asian Studies Review 29, no. 2 (2005): 165–86.
Ying, Hu. “Qiu Jin’s Nine Burials: The Making of Historical Monuments and Public Memory.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 19, no. 1 (2007): 138–91.
Zarrow, Peter. “He Zhen and Anarcho-Feminism in China.” The Journal of Asian Studies 47, no. 4 (1988): 796–813.

Week 6 - Independent Learning Week

Use this week to make good progress on your long essay research and please begin the writing process, even if it is to draft some ideas. If you don’t have a clear idea of your essay topic and a tentative argument, as well as the majority of your sources in hand, then this week is absolutely critical to make progress for a high quality essay.

Week 7 - Buddhist World Orders

Preparation

Your Essay Prospectus is due this week.
Continue your essay research

Required Reading (~70)

Sponberg, Alan, ed. Maitreya, the Future Buddha. Reissue edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Ch 1-2, pp7-36 (P) (Teams)
Curley, Melissa Anne-Marie. Pure Land, Real World: Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination. University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2017. Introduction. 1-16 (P) Ebook
Tikhonov, V. M. Social Darwinism and Nationalism in Korea - The Beginnings, 1883-1910: Survival as an Ideology of Korean Modernity. Brill, 2010. Ch 5 Survival, God, Buddha: Social Darwinism in a Buddhist Context, pp113-135 (P) Ebook

Elective Reading

A) Pure Land

Unno, Mark. “Modern Pure Land Thinkers: Kiyozawa Manshi and Soga Ryōjin.” The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy, September 2, 2014. Part II, Ch 7 Ebook
Ckiurley, Melissa Anne-Marie. Pure Land, Real World: Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination. University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2017. Ch 1-3, Epilogue. (the fourth chapter on Miki Kiyoshi comes up in two weeks) (P) Ebook

B) Zen

Victoria, Daizen. Zen at War. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006. 5 pp57-65, 10 pp147-182 and either i) Ch 2-3 pp12-48 on radical Zen or ii) 7-9 pp79-144 on wartime Zen (P) Ebook
Chistopher Ives Imperial-Way Zen: Ichikawa Hakugen’s Critique and Lingering Questions for Buddhist Ethics (2009). Ch 4 Modern Buddhism for the Protection of the Realm pp101-127. Ebook

C) Nichiren

Heine, Steven, and Charles S. Prebish, eds. Buddhism in the Modern World : Adaptations of an Ancient Tradition. Oxford University Press, USA, 2003. Ch 8 “By Imperial Edict and Shogunal Decree”, pp193-214. (In Library)
Naylor, Christina. “Nichiren, Imperialism, and the Peace Movement.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 18, no. 1 (1991): 51–78. Jstor
Shields, James. “A Blueprint for Buddhist Revolution: The Radical Buddhism of Seno’o Girō (1889–1961) and the Youth League for Revitalizing Buddhism.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 39 (November 1, 2012): 333–51. Jstor

D) Korean Buddhism

Han, Yong-un. Selected Writings of Han Yongun: From Social Darwinism to Socialism with a Buddhist Face. Global Oriental, 2008. Introduction pp1-30 (P) Ebook
Park, Jin Y., ed. Makers of Modern Korean Buddhism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010. Ch 1-2 + Ch 5 Ebook

E) Ishiwara Kanji

Peattie, Mark R. Ishiwara Kanji and Japan’s Confrontation with the West. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1975., Ch 6-10 (but skim where necessary) Ebook
Godart, G. Clinton. “Nichirenism, Utopianism, and Modernity: Rethinking Ishiwara Kanji’s East Asia League Movement.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 42, no. 2 (2015): 235–74.

F) Buddhism and Empire

Kim, Hwansoo Ilmee. Empire of the Dharma: Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2013. Ch 3 Japanese Buddhist Missions to Korea pp107-150 (P) Ebook
Ives, Christopher. “The Mobilization of Doctrine: Buddhist Contributions to Imperial Ideology in Modern Japan.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 26, no. 1/2 (1999): 83–106. Jstor
Anderson, Emily. Belief and Practice in Imperial Japan and Colonial Korea. Springer, 2016. Introduction ppxvii-xxi, Ch 4 The Adventures of a Japanese Monk in Colonial Korea: Sōma Shōei’s Zen Training with Korean Masters pp57-75 (P) Ebook

G) Buddhism to the West

Tweed, Thomas A. The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent. UNC Press Books, 2005. Ch 2 Shall We All Become Buddhists? pp26-47. (P) Ebook
Snodgrass, Judith. Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian Exposition. Univ of North Carolina Press, 2003, Introduction pp1-15, Ch 4 Alterity: Buddhism as the “Other” of Christianity pp85-114 (P) Ebook
Yamada, Shoji. Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West. Translated by Earl Hartman. Reprint edition. Chicago, Ill.; Bristol: University of Chicago Press, 2011. The Kitschy World of ‘Zen in/and the art of…’ pp10-27, Ch 2-3 The Mystery of Zen in the Art of Archery, Dissecting the Myth, pp28-72 (P) Ebook

H) Buddhism in Japanese Manchuria

Duara, Prasenjit. Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern. 2004. Ch 3 Asianism and the New Discourse of Civilization, only pp103-122. (P) Ebook
Thomas David DuBois Empire and the Meaning of Religion in Northeast Asia (2017). Ch 4 Piety in Print pp85-107. Ebook
Sun, Jiang. ‘The Predicament of a Redemptive Religion: The Red Swastika Society Under the Rule of Manchukuo’. Journal of Modern Chinese History 7, no. 1 (1 June 2013): 108–26. DOI

I) Building the Buddhist Revival

Scott, Gregory Adam. Building the Buddhist Revival: Reconstructing Monasteries in Modern China. 2020. Ebook Introduction + Ch 1 + Ch 3

General Further Reading

Anderson, Emily. Belief and Practice in Imperial Japan and Colonial Korea. Springer, 2016. (P)
App, Urs. The Cult of Emptiness: The Western Discovery of Buddhist Thought and the Invention of Oriental Philosophy. UniversityMedia, 2012. (P)
Auerback, Micah L. A Storied Sage: Canon and Creation in the Making of a Japanese Buddha. University of Chicago Press, 2016. (P)
Baumgarten, Albert I., ed. Apocalyptic Time. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2000. (P)
Chandler, Stuart. Establishing a Pure Land on Earth: The Foguang Buddhist Perspective on Modernization and Globalization. University of Hawaii Press, 2004. (P)
Clarke, Peter Bernard. Japanese New Religions in the West. Psychology Press, 1994. (P)
Como, Michael. Shōtoku: Ethnicity, Ritual, and Violence in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. (P)
Curley, Melissa Anne-Marie. Pure Land, Real World: Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination. University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2017. (P)
Dorman, Benjamin. Celebrity Gods: New Religions, Media, and Authority in Occupied Japan. University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2012. (P)
“D.T. Suzuki, Zen and the Nazis | The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.” Accessed February 5, 2019.
Duara, Prasenjit. Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004. (P)
DuBois, T. Casting Faiths: Imperialism and the Transformation of Religion in East and Southeast Asia. Springer, 2009. (P)
Fisker-Nielsen, Anne Mette. Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan: Soka Gakkai Youth and Komeito. Routledge, 2012. (P)
Formoso, Bernard. De Jiao - A Religious Movement in Contemporary China and Overseas: Purple Qi from the East. NUS Press, 2010. (P)
Garon, Sheldon M. Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Godart, G. Clinton. Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan. University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2017. (P)
———. “Nichirenism, Utopianism, and Modernity: Rethinking Ishiwara Kanji’s East Asia League Movement.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 42, no. 2 (2015): 235–74.
Gildow, Douglas. ‘Cai Yuanpei (1868–1940), Religion, and His Plan to Save China through Buddhism’. Asia Major 31, no. 2 (2018): 107–48.
Han, Yong-un. Selected Writings of Han Yongun: From Social Darwinism to Socialism with a Buddhist Face. Global Oriental, 2008. (P)
Hardacre, Helen. Lay Buddhism in Contemporary Japan: Reiyukai Kyodan. Princeton University Press, 2014. (P)
Heine, Steven, and Charles S. Prebish, eds. Buddhism in the Modern World : Adaptations of an Ancient Tradition. Oxford University Press, USA, 2003.
Heine, Steven, and Dale Stuart Wright. Zen Ritual: Studies of Zen Theory in Practice. Oxford [England]; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Hur, Nam-Lin. “The Sōtō Sect and Japanese Military Imperialism in Korea.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 26, no. 1/2 (1999): 107–34.
Ives, Christopher. “The Mobilization of Doctrine: Buddhist Contributions to Imperial Ideology in Modern Japan.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 26, no. 1/2 (1999): 83–106.
Kim, Hwansoo Ilmee. Empire of the Dharma: Korean and Japanese Buddhism, 1877–1912. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2013. (P)
Kisala, Robert. Prophets of Peace: Pacifism and Cultural Identity in Japan’s New Religions. University of Hawaii Press, 1999. (P)
Ku, Yu-hsiu. History of Zen. Springer, 2016.
Learman, Linda. Buddhist Missionaries in the Era of Globalization. University of Hawaii Press, 2005. (P)
Lee, Edwin B. “Nichiren and Nationalism. The Religious Patriotism of Tanaka Chigaku.” Monumenta Nipponica 30, no. 1 (1975): 19–35.
Lopez, Donald S. Curators of the Buddha: The Study of Buddhism Under Colonialism. University of Chicago Press, 1995. (P)
Metraux, Daniel A. “The Sōka Gakkai’s Search for the Realization of the World of Risshō Ankokuron.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 13, no. 1 (1986): 31–61.
Meynard, Thierry. The Religious Philosophy of Liang Shuming: The Hidden Buddhist. BRILL, 2010. (P)
Naylor, Christina. “Nichiren, Imperialism, and the Peace Movement.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 18, no. 1 (1991): 51–78.
Park, Jin Y., ed. Makers of Modern Korean Buddhism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010.
Peattie, Mark R. Ishiwara Kanji and Japan’s Confrontation with the West. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1975. (P)
Pittman, Don Alvin. Toward a Modern Chinese Buddhism: Taixu’s Reforms. University of Hawaii Press, 2001. (P)
Queen, Christopher S., and Sallie B. King. Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia. SUNY Press, 1996. (P)
Ritzinger, Justin. Anarchy in the Pure Land: Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism. Oxford University Press, 2017. (P)
Scott, Gregory Adam. ‘The Buddhist Nationalism of Dai Jitao’. Journal of Chinese Religions 39, no. 1 (1 June 2011): 55–81.
Seager, Richard Hughes. Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist Humanism. University of California Press, 2006. (P)
Sharf, Robert H. “The Zen of Japanese Nationalism.” History of Religions 33, no. 1 (1993): 1–43.
Shields, James. “A Blueprint for Buddhist Revolution: The Radical Buddhism of Seno’o Girō (1889–1961) and the Youth League for Revitalizing Buddhism.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 39 (November 1, 2012): 333–51.
Shields, James Mark. Against Harmony: Progressive and Radical Buddhism in Modern Japan. Oxford University Press, 2017. (P)
Snodgrass, Judith. Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West: Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Columbian Exposition. Univ of North Carolina Press, 2003. (P)
Sponberg, Alan, ed. Maitreya, the Future Buddha. Reissue edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. (P)
Stone, Jacqueline. “Japanese Lotus Millennialism: From Militant Nationalism to Contemporary Peace Movements.” In Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases, edited by Catherine Wessinger. Syracuse University Press, 2000.
Straus, Virginia. “Peace, Culture, and Education Activities: A Buddhist Response to the Global Ethic.” Buddhist-Christian Studies 15 (1995): 199–211.
Tanabe, George Joji, and Willa Jane Tanabe. The Lotus Sutra in Japanese Culture. University of Hawaii Press, 1989.
“The Formation and Principles of Count Dürckheim’s Nazi Worldview and His Interpretation of Japanese Spirit and Zen | The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.” Accessed February 5, 2019.
Tikhonov, V. M. Social Darwinism and Nationalism in Korea - The Beginnings, 1883-1910: Survival as an Ideology of Korean Modernity. Brill, 2010. (P)
Tweed, Thomas A. The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent. UNC Press Books, 2005. (P)
Unno, Mark. “Modern Pure Land Thinkers.” The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy, September 2, 2014.
Victoria, Brian. Zen War Stories. Routledge, 2012. (P)
Victoria, Daizen. Zen at War. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006. (P)
Wessinger, Catherine Lowman. Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases. Syracuse University Press, 2000.
Wilson, Bryan R., Reader in Sociology and Fellow Bryan R. Wilson, Karel Dobbelaere, Professor of Sociology and Sociology of Religion Catholic University of Leuven Professor of Sociological Research Karel Dobbelaere, and Formerly Reader Emeritus in Sociology Bryan Wilson. A Time to Chant: The Sōka Gakkai Buddhists in Britain. Clarendon Press, 1994. (P)
Wright, Dale S. The Zen Canon: Understanding the Classic Texts. Edited by Steven Heine. New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2004.
Yamada, Shoji. Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West. Translated by Earl Hartman. Reprint edition. Chicago, Ill.; Bristol: University of Chicago Press, 2011. (P)
Yu, Xue. Buddhism, War, and Nationalism: Chinese Monks in the Struggle Against Japanese Aggression 1931-1945. Routledge, 2013.

Week 8 - Cosmopolitanism from the East

Preparation

Write your Essay Outline and come to see me about it in office hours any time from this week to Week 11.
You should have completed the bulk of your research for the long essay, have a clear idea of what you want to argue, or in some cases, have abandoned one earlier approach and pivoted to a related topic. After this week, I don’t suggest changing topic in any radical way but at most shift your perspective, argument, or introduce a comparative element if you struggling with your existing argument.
I encourage you to start drafting your essay if you haven’t already done so.
Consider wrapping up your blog entries!

Required Reading (~80)

Yan, Xishan. How to Prevent Warfare and Establish Foundation of World Unity, pamphlet, pp1-41 (Teams)
Yu-Wei, K’ang, and Laurence G. Thompson. Ta t’ung Shu: The One-World Philosophy of K’ang Yu-Wei. Reprint. Routledge, 2007. Ch 2-3, pp26-57, Pt II Ch 1 pp79-104. (P) Ebook
Stalker, Nancy K. Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburō, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan. University of Hawaii Press, 2008. Ch 5 Paradoxical Internationalism? Oomoto in the World, pp142-169 (P) Ebook

Elective Reading

A) Kang Youwei

Jianhua, Chen. “World Revolution Knocking at the Heavenly Gate: Kang Youwei and His Use of Geming in 1898.” Journal of Modern Chinese History 5, no. 1 (2011): 89–108. DOI
Yu-Wei, K’ang, and Laurence G. Thompson. Ta t’ung Shu: The One-World Philosophy of K’ang Yu-Wei. Reprint. Routledge, 2007. Ch 1, Pt III pp134-196 (P) Ebook
Wang, Ban, ed. Chinese Visions of World Order: Tianxia, Culture, and World Politics. 2 edition. Durham ; London: Duke University Press Books, 2017. Ch 4 The Moral Vision in Kang Youwei’s Book of the Great Community pp87-105 Ebook

B) Deguchi Onisaburō

Stalker, Nancy K. Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburō, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan. University of Hawaii Press, 2008. Ch 2-4, 6. (P) Ebook
Garon, Sheldon M. Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997. Ch 2 Defining Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy pp60-87 Ebook

C) Imperial Internationalism

Abel, Jessamyn R. The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan’s Global Engagement, 1933-1964. University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015. Introduction, Ch 3 Cultural Diplomacy for Peace and War, pp81-107 (P) Ebook
Akami, Tomoko. Internationalizing the Pacific: The United States, Japan and the Institute of Pacific Relations, 1919-1945. Routledge, 2003. Introduction pp1-16, Ch 8 The IPR and the Sino-Japanese War, 1936-9, pp200-239 (P) Ebook
Lincicome, Mark. Imperial Subjects as Global Citizens: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Education in Japan. Lexington Books, 2009. Ch 3-4 (P) Ebook

D) Esperanto

“A Language for Asia? Transnational Encounters in the Japanese Esperanto Movement, 1906–28” in Iacobelli, Pedro, and Danton Leary, eds. Transnational Japan as History: Empire, Migration, and Social Movements. 1st ed. 2015 edition. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY: AIAA, 2015. pp167-185. Ebook
Chan, Gerald. “China and the Esperanto Movement.” The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, no. 15 (1986): 1–18. Jstor
Konishi, Sho. “Translingual World Order: Language without Culture in Post-Russo-Japanese War Japan.” The Journal of Asian Studies 72, no. 1 (February 2013): 91–114. Ebook
Boli, John, George M Thomas, and Young S. Kim, eds. “Constructing a Global Identity: The Role of Esperanto.” In Constructing World Culture International Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999. (In Library)

E) Li Yujie and Zhang Tianran

David Ownby, Vincent Goossaert, and Ji Zhe eds. Making Saints in Modern China (2017). Introduction p1-20; Ch 7 Sainthood, Science, and Politics: The Life of Li Yujie, Founder of the Tiandijiao by David Ownby pp241-271; Ch 6 Yiguandao’s Patriarch Zhang Tianran by Sébastien Billioud pp210-240. Ebook

General Further Reading

Abel, Jessamyn R. The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan’s Global Engagement, 1933-1964. University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015. (P)
Akami, Tomoko. Internationalizing the Pacific: The United States, Japan and the Institute of Pacific Relations, 1919-1945. New York: Routledge, 2003. (P)
Amrith, Sunil S. “Asian Internationalism: Bandung’s Echo in a Colonial Metropolis.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 6, no. 4 (December 1, 2005): 557–69.
Auslin, Michael R. Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan Relations. Harvard University Press, 2011. (P)
Benton, Gregor. Chinese Migrants and Internationalism: Forgotten Histories, 1917–1945. Routledge, 2007. (P)
Boli, John, George M Thomas, and Young S. Kim, eds. “Constructing a Global Identity: The Role of Esperanto.” In Constructing World Culture International Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999. (P)
Burkman, Thomas W. Japan and the League of Nations: Empire and World Order, 1914-1938. University of Hawaii Press, 2008. (P)
Chan, Gerald. “China and the Esperanto Movement.” The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, no. 15 (1986): 1–18.
Chan, Kwok Bun. Chinese Identities, Ethnicity and Cosmopolitanism. London: Routledge, 2009. (P)
Chapelier, Émile, and Gassy Marin. Anarchists and the International Language, Esperanto. Freedom Office, 1908.
Chen, Jian. “Bridging Revolution and Decolonization: The ‘Bandung Discourse’ in China’s Early Cold War Experience.” In Connected Histories: Decolonization and the Cold War in Southeast Asia, 1945-1962. Stanford University Press, 2009.
Dore, Ronald Philip. Japan, Internationalism and the UN. Psychology Press, 1997.
Duara, Prasenjit. Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China. University Of Chicago Press, 1997. (P)
———. Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004. (P)
Flowers, Petrice R. “From Kokusaika to Tabunka Kyōsei.” Critical Asian Studies 44, no. 4 (2012): 515–42.
Garon, Sheldon M. Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997.
Iacobelli, Pedro, and Danton Leary, eds. Transnational Japan as History: Empire, Migration, and Social Movements. 1st ed. 2015 edition. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY: AIAA, 2015.
Iriye, Akira. Cultural Internationalism and World Order. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. (P)
Jansen, Thomas, Thoralf Klein, and Christian Meyer. Globalization and the Making of Religious Modernity in China: Transnational Religions, Local Agents, and the Study of Religion, 1800-Present. BRILL, 2014.
Jianhua, Chen. “World Revolution Knocking at the Heavenly Gate: Kang Youwei and His Use of Geming in 1898.” Journal of Modern Chinese History 5, no. 1 (2011): 89–108.
Kisala, Robert. Prophets of Peace: Pacifism and Cultural Identity in Japan’s New Religions. University of Hawaii Press, 1999. (P)
Konishi, Sho. “Translingual World Order: Language without Culture in Post-Russo-Japanese War Japan.” The Journal of Asian Studies 72, no. 1 (February 2013): 91–114.
Laqua, Daniel. Internationalism Reconfigured: Transnational Ideas and Movements Between the World Wars. London ; New York : New York: Tauris Academic Studies, 2011. (P)
Leutner, Mechthild, and Izabella Goikhman. State, Society and Governance in Republican China. LIT Verlag Münster, 2013. (P)
Lincicome, Mark. Imperial Subjects as Global Citizens: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Education in Japan. Lexington Books, 2009. (P)
Lu, Xiufen. “The Confucian Ideal of Great Harmony (Datong 大同), the Daoist Account of Change, and the Theory of Socialism in the Work of Li Dazhao.” Asian Philosophy 21, no. 2 (May 1, 2011): 171–92.
Saussy, Haun. “Reading for Conspiracy: Kang Youwei’s Restoration.” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) 30 (2008): 125–32.
Shen, Shuang. Cosmopolitan Publics: Anglophone Print Culture in Semi-Colonial Shanghai. None ed. edition. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 2009.
Shimazu, Naoko. Japan, Race and Equality: The Racial Equality Proposal of 1919. Psychology Press, 2009. (P)
Sluga, Glenda. Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. (P)
Stalker, Nancy K. Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburō, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religions in Imperial Japan. University of Hawaii Press, 2008. (P)
Stegewerns, Dick. Nationalism and Internationalism in Imperial Japan: Autonomy, Asian Brotherhood, or World Citizenship? London: Routledge, 2003. (P)
Wang, Ban, ed. Chinese Visions of World Order: Tianxia, Culture, and World Politics. 2 edition. Durham ; London: Duke University Press Books, 2017.
Weiner, Michael. Race and Migration in Imperial Japan. Routledge, n.d.
Yan, Xishan. How to Prevent Warfare and Establish Foundation of World Unity, n.d.
K’ang, Yu-Wei, and Laurence G. Thompson. Ta t’ung Shu: The One-World Philosophy of K’ang Yu-Wei. Reprint. Routledge, 2007. (P)

Week 9 - New Directions in Japanese Thought and Overcoming Modernity

Preparation

If you haven’t started writing your long essay yet, I suggest that at this point you at least begin some free writing, or tackling an easy section such as the historiography section of your essay, or an interesting sub-argument based on evidence you have already taken good notes on.
If you have started writing your essay, consider getting feedback from your peers on your writing. If you know of classmates who have come roughly equally far along in their work, consider forming a writing group to encourage you to spend dedicated time to the writing process.
If you haven’t done your essay outline and come to discuss it with me, this would be a good week to do so.

Required Reading (~110)

Davis, Bret W. “The Kyoto School” entry The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy online Read sections 1 Introduction, 2 Identity and Membership: Who Belongs to What?, and 4 Political Ventures and Misadventures.
Goto-Jones, Christopher. Political Philosophy in Japan: Nishida, the Kyoto School and Co-Prosperity. Routledge, 2009. Ch 4-5 Ebook
Sven Saaler, Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History Colonialism, Regionalism and Borders (London; New York: Routledge, 2007). Ch 10 The Temporality of Empire: The Imperial Cosmopolitanism of Miki Kiyoshi and Tanabe Hajime by John Namjun Kim Ebook

Elective Reading

A) Overcoming Modernity - Kindai no Chōkoku

Calichman, Richard. Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. Introduction pp1-41, Overcoming Modernity Symposium texts pp151-213 (P) (In Library)

B) Nishida Kitarō

HEISIG Nishida readings pp646-670 Ebook
Heisig, James W., and John C. Maraldo, eds. Rude Awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto School and the Question of Nationalism. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. Nishida and Totalitarianism: A Philosopher’s Resistance pp107-131 (In Library)
Goto-Jones, Christopher. Political Philosophy in Japan: Nishida, the Kyoto School and Co-Prosperity. Routledge, 2009. Ch 3 (P) Ebook

C) Tanabe Hajime

HEISIG Tanabe readings pp670-692 Ebook
Murthy, Viren, Fabian Schäfer, and Max Ward. Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy. BRILL, 2017. Ch 5 Ethnicity and Species: On the Philosophy of the Multiethnic State and Japanese Imperialism pp143-175 (P) Ebook

D) Watsuji Tetsurō

HEISIG Watsuji readings pp850-870 Ebook
SOURCES JAPAN II Watsuji, The Way of the Japanese Subject pp284-287 Ebook
Berque, Augustin. “Offspring of Watsuji’s Theory of Milieu (Fûdo).” GeoJournal 60, no. 4 (2004): 389–96. Jstor
Bellah, Robert N. “Japan’s Cultural Identity: Some Reflections on the Work of Watsuji Tetsuro.” The Journal of Asian Studies 24, no. 4 (1965): 573–94. Jstor
LaFleur, William R. “Reasons for the Rubble: Watsuji Tetsurō’s Position in Japan’s Postwar Debate about Rationality.” Philosophy East and West 51, no. 1 (2001): 1–25. Jstor

E) Nishitani Keiji

HEISIG Nishitani readings pp713-733 Ebook
Calichman, Richard. Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. Ch 2 “My Views on ‘Overcoming Modernity’”, pp51-63 (In Library)
Ch 5 “Nishitani after Nietzsche: From the Death of God to the Great Death of the Will” in Davis, Bret W., Brian Schroeder, and Jason M. Wirth. Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School. Indiana University Press, 2011. pp82-101 Ebook
“Nishitani Keiji and the Question of Nationalism” in Heisig, James W., and John C. Maraldo, eds. Rude Awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto School and the Question of Nationalism. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995. pp316-332 (In Library)

F) Takeuchi Yoshimi

Takeuchi, Yoshimi. What Is Modernity?: Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi. Columbia University Press, 2005. Preface and Introduction, Ch 2, 5, and 6 (P) Ebook

G) Tosaka Jun

Harootunian, Harry D. Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan. Princeton University Press, 2001. Ch 3 (P) Ebook
Tosaka, Jun. Tosaka Jun: A Critical Reader. East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2013. “The Principle of Everydayness and Historical Time” pp3-16, “The Academy and Journalism” pp36-49 “The Actuality of Journalism and the Possibility of Everyday Critique” pp150-175, and “Here, Now: Everyday Space as Cultural Critique” pp125-149 Ebook

H) Miki Kiyoshi

HEISIG Miki readings pp702-708 Ebook
Townsend, Susan C. Miki Kiyoshi, 1897-1945: Japan’s Itinerant Philosopher. BRILL, 2009. Ch 5-7 (P)
Curley, Melissa Anne-Marie. Pure Land, Real World: Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, and the Utopian Imagination. University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2017. Ch 4, pp121-159. (P)

I) Kuki Shūzō

HEISIG Kuki reading pp829-850 Ebook
- Nara, Hiroshi. The Structure of Detachment: The Aesthetic Vision of Kuki Shuzo. University of Hawaii Press, 2004. Introduction (P) Ebook
Pincus, Leslie. “In a Labyrinth of Western Desire: Kuki Shuzo and the Discovery of Japanese Being.” Boundary 2 18, no. 3 (1991): 142–56. Jstor
Koshiro, Yukiko. “Fascism and Aesthetics.” review of Leslie Pincus. The Review of Politics 59, no. 3 (1997): 606–8. Jstor

General Further Reading

Abe, Masao. Zen and Western Thought. University of Hawaii Press, 1989. (P)
Blocker, Gene. Japanese Philosophy. State University of New York, 2001.
Bellah, Robert N. “Japan’s Cultural Identity: Some Reflections on the Work of Watsuji Tetsuro.” The Journal of Asian Studies 24, no. 4 (1965): 573–94.
Bernier, Bernard. “National Communion: Watsuji Tetsuro’s Conception of Ethics, Power, and the Japanese Imperial State.” Philosophy East and West 56, no. 1 (2006): 84–105.
Berque, Augustin. “Offspring of Watsuji’s Theory of Milieu (Fûdo).” GeoJournal 60, no. 4 (2004): 389–96.
Botz-Bornstein, T. “‘Iki,’ Style, Trace: Shūzō Kuki and the Spirit of Hermeneutics.” Philosophy East and West 47, no. 4 (1997): 554–80.
Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten. “Contingency and the ‘Time of the Dream’: Kuki Shūzō and French Prewar Philosophy.” Philosophy East and West 50, no. 4 (2000): 481–506.
———. “From Community to Time–Space Development: Comparing N. S. Trubetzkoy, Nishida Kitarō, and Watsuji Tetsurō.” Asian Philosophy 17, no. 3 (November 1, 2007): 263–82.
———. “Nishida and Wittgenstein: From ‘pure Experience’ to Lebensform or New Perspectives for a Philosophy of Intercultural Communication.” Asian Philosophy 13, no. 1 (March 1, 2003): 53–70.
Calichman, Richard. Contemporary Japanese Thought. Columbia University Press, 2012.
———. Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. (P)
Carter, Robert Edgar. Kyoto School, The: An Introduction. SUNY Press, 2013.
Curley, Melissa Anne-Marie. “Miki Kiyoshi.” The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy, September 2, 2014.
Davis, Bret W. “The Kyoto School.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta, Spring 2017. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2017.
Davis, Bret W., Brian Schroeder, and Jason M. Wirth. Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School. Indiana University Press, 2011.
Dilworth, David. “Watsuji Tetsurō (1889-1960): Cultural Phenomenologist and Ethician.” Philosophy East and West 24, no. 1 (1974): 3–22.
Dilworth, David A., Valdo Humbert Viglielmo, and Agustín Jacinto Zavala. Sourcebook for Modern Japanese Philosophy: Selected Documents. Greenwood Press, 1998.
DiNitto, Rachel. “Return of the ‘Zuihitsu’: Print Culture, Modern Life, and Heterogeneous Narrative in Prewar Japan.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 64, no. 2 (2004): 251–90.
Doak, Kevin Michael. Dreams of Difference: The Japan Romantic School and the Crisis of Modernity. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994. (P)
Franck, Frederick. The Buddha Eye: An Anthology of the Kyoto School and Its Contemporaries. World Wisdom, Inc, 2004.
Fujita, Masakatsu, and John Wesley Megumu Krummel. The Philosophy of the Kyoto School. Springer, 2018.
Goto-Jones, Christopher. Political Philosophy in Japan: Nishida, the Kyoto School and Co-Prosperity. Routledge, 2009. (P)
———. Re-Politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy. Routledge, 2007. (P)
Harootunian, Harry. History’s Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life. Columbia University Press, 2010. (P)
———. “Remembering the Historical Present.” Critical Inquiry 33, no. 3 (2007): 471–94.
Harootunian, Harry D. Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan. Princeton University Press, 2001. (P)
Heisig, James W. Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School. University of Hawaii Press, 2001. (P)
Heisig, James W., and John C. Maraldo, eds. Rude Awakenings: Zen, the Kyoto School and the Question of Nationalism. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1995.
III, William Miles Fletcher. The Search for a New Order: Intellectuals and Fascism in Prewar Japan. University of North Carolina Press, 2011. (P)
Inaga, Shigemi. “Japanese Philosophers Go West: The Effect of Maritime Trips on Philosophy in Japan with Special Reference to the Case of Watsuji Tetsurō (1889-1960).” Japan Review, no. 25 (2013): 113–44.
Jennings, J. Nelson. Theology in Japan: Takakura Tokutaro (1885-1934). University Press of America, 2005. (P)
Karatani, Kojin, and Seiji M. Lippit. “The Discursive Space of Modern Japan.” Boundary 2 18, no. 3 (1991): 191–219.
Koshiro, Yukiko. “Fascism and Aesthetics.” Edited by Leslie Pincus. The Review of Politics 59, no. 3 (1997): 606–8.
Kuki, Sh?z? Kuki Shuzo: A Philosopher’s Poetry and Poetics. University of Hawaii Press, 2004.
Lafleur, William R. “Buddhist Emptiness in the Ethics and Aesthetics of Watsuji Tetsurō.” Religious Studies 14, no. 2 (1978): 237–50.
LaFleur, William R. “Reasons for the Rubble: Watsuji Tetsurō’s Position in Japan’s Postwar Debate about Rationality.” Philosophy East and West 51, no. 1 (2001): 1–25.
Maraldo, John C. “Nishida Kitarō.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta, Winter 2015. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, 2015.
Mayeda, Graham. Time, Space and Ethics in the Philosophy of Watsuji Tetsurō, Kuki Shūzō, and Martin Heidegger. Taylor & Francis, 2006. (P)
McCarthy, Erin. Ethics Embodied: Rethinking Selfhood through Continental, Japanese, and Feminist Philosophies. Lexington Books, 2010. (P)
Murthy, Viren, Fabian Schäfer, and Max Ward. Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy. BRILL, 2017. (P)
Murthy, Viren, and Axel Schneider, eds. The Challenge of Linear Time: Nationhood and the Politics of History in East Asia. BRILL, 2013. (P)
Muto, Kazuo, Martin Repp, and Jan van Bragt. Christianity and the Notion of Nothingness: Contributions to Buddhist-Christian Dialogue from the Kyoto School. BRILL, 2012. (P)
Nagami, Isamu. “The Ontological Foundation in Tetsurō Watsuji’s Philosophy: Kū and Human Existence.” Philosophy East and West 31, no. 3 (1981): 279–96.
Nara, Hiroshi. The Structure of Detachment: The Aesthetic Vision of Kuki Shuzo. University of Hawaii Press, 2004. (P)
Nishida, Kitaro. An Inquiry Into the Good. Yale University Press, 1992.
Nishida, Kitarō. Place and Dialectic: Two Essays by Nishida Kitaro. Oxford University Press, USA, 2012.
Nishitani, Keiji. Religion and Nothingness. University of California Press, 1983.
Olson, Lawrence. “Takeuchi Yoshimi and the Vision of a Protest Society in Japan.” Journal of Japanese Studies 7, no. 2 (1981): 319–48.
Park, Sunyoung. “Everyday Life as Critique in Late Colonial Korea: Kim Namch’ŏn’s Literary Experiments, 1934-43.” The Journal of Asian Studies 68, no. 3 (2009): 861–93.
Peerenboom, R.p. “The Religious Foundations of Nishida’s Philosophy.” Asian Philosophy 1, no. 2 (October 1991): 161.
Pincus, Leslie. Authenticating Culture in Imperial Japan: Kuki Shuzo and the Rise of National Aesthetics. University of California Press, 1996. (P)
———. “In a Labyrinth of Western Desire: Kuki Shuzo and the Discovery of Japanese Being.” Boundary 2 18, no. 3 (1991): 142–56.
Piovesana, Gino K. Recent Japanese Philosophical Thought 1862-1994: A Survey. Routledge, 2013.
Sakai, Naoki. Translation and Subjectivity: On “Japan” and Cultural Nationalism. University of Minnesota Press, 1997. (P)
Shigemi, INAGA. “Kuki Shūzō and the Idea of Metempsychosis: Recontextualizing Kuki’s Lecture on Time in the Intellectual Milieu Between the Two World Wars.” Japan Review, no. 31 (2017): 105–22.
Smith, Joel R. “Nishitani and Nietzsche on the Selfless Self.” Asian Philosophy 4, no. 2 (October 1994): 165.
Takeuchi, Yoshimi. What Is Modernity?: Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi. Columbia University Press, 2005.
Tansman, Alan. The Culture of Japanese Fascism. Duke University Press, 2010.
Tosaka, Jun. Tosaka Jun: A Critical Reader. East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2013.
Townsend, Susan C. Miki Kiyoshi, 1897-1945: Japan’s Itinerant Philosopher. BRILL, 2009. (P)
Unno, Taitetsu. The Religious Philosophy of Nishitani Keiji: Encounter with Emptiness. Jain Publishing Company, 1989. (P)
Unno, Taitetsu, James W. Heisig, and International Symposium on Metanoetics Smith College). The Religious Philosophy of Tanabe Hajime: The Metanoetic Imperative. Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture. Berkeley, Calif.: Asian Humanities Press, 1990. (P)
Walsh, Dermott J. “The Confucian Roots of Zen No Kenkyū: Nishida’s Debt to Wang Yang-Ming in the Search for a Philosophy of Praxis.” Asian Philosophy 21, no. 4 (November 1, 2011): 361–72.
Watanabe, Hiroshi, and David Noble. A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901. Tōkyō: Internat. House of Japan, 2012.
Watsuji, Tetsurō. A Climate: A Philosophical Study, by Watsuji Tetsuro. Translated by Geoffrey Bownas, … Printing Bureau, Japanese Government, 1961.
———. Purifying Zen: Watsuji Tetsurō’s Shamon Dōgen. University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011. (P)
Watsuji, Tetsurō, and Watsuji Tetsuro. Watsuji Tetsuro’s Rinrigaku: Ethics in Japan. SUNY Press, 1996.
Williams, David. Defending Japan’s Pacific War: The Kyoto School Philosophers and Post-White Power: The Kyoto Philosophers and the Idea of a Post-White World. Routledge, 2004. (P)
Yusa, Michiko. The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Philosophy. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.
———. Zen and Philosophy: An Intellectual Biography of Nishida Kitarô. University of Hawaii Press, 2002. (P)

Week 10 - Confucian Renewals

Preparation

All students should have reached the writing point for their essay at this point to allow for revision of drafts of their work after identifying any weak areas in the argument and returning to evidence as needed.
When you have completed a first draft of your long essay, read with a critical eye: is the argument clearly stated in the introduction. Have you answered the “so what?” question and established what original contribution your essay is making rather than merely summarising the existing state of the field? Do all the pieces of your essay work together to support the main argument or are there areas that lose focus or are not relevant? Do you have sub-arguments that need strengthening with further evidence? Do you need to tweak the argument or rebalance it?
If you haven’t done your essay outline and come to discuss it with me, this would be a good week to do so.

Required Reading (~100)

SOURCES CHINA II “The New Confucians” in Ch 39 Reopening the Debate on Chinese Tradition pp545-563 Ebook
Bell, Daniel. China’s New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2008. Ch 1 From Communism to Confucianism pp3-18 Ebook
Qing, Jiang. A Confucian Constitutional Order: How China’s Ancient Past Can Shape Its Political Future. Edited by Daniel A. Bell and Ruiping Fan. Translated by Edmund Ryden. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2012. Introduction pp1-27; (P) Ebook
Chan, Joseph. Confucian Perfectionism: A Political Philosophy for Modern Times. Princeton University Press, 2015, Conclusion pp191-204. (P) Ebook
Fung, Edmund S. K. The Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Modernity: Cultural and Political Thought in the Republican Era. Cambridge University Press, 2010., Ch 2 The Pull of Cultural Conservatism, pp61-95 Ebook

Elective Reading

A) Chinese Confucianism and Fascism

Clinton, Maggie. Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925-1937. Duke University Press, 2017. Introduction, Ch 2, Ch 4 (P) Ebook
Paramore, Kiri. Japanese Confucianism. Cambridge University Press, 2016. Ch 6-7

B) Early Pioneers: Xiong Shili, Liang Shuming, Feng Youlan

Cheng, Chung-Ying, and Nicholas Bunnin. Contemporary Chinese Philosophy. John Wiley & Sons, 2008. Introduction, Ch 6-8. Ebook
Fung, Edmund S. K. The Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Modernity: Cultural and Political Thought in the Republican Era. Cambridge University Press, 2010., Ch 3 The Politics of Modern Chinese Conservatism, pp96-127 Ebook

C) Mou Zongsan

Cheng, Chung-Ying, and Nicholas Bunnin. Contemporary Chinese Philosophy. John Wiley & Sons, 2008. Ch 16 Ebook
Chan, N. Serina. The Thought of Mou Zongsan. BRILL, 2011. Introduction, Ch 2, Ch 8, Conclusion. Ebook

D) Qing Jiang

Qing, Jiang. A Confucian Constitutional Order: How China’s Ancient Past Can Shape Its Political Future. Edited by Daniel A. Bell and Ruiping Fan. Translated by Edmund Ryden. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2012. Ch 1-3, and “Reply to My Critics” (P) Ebook

E) “Boston Confucians”

Neville, Robert Cummings. Boston Confucianism: Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World. State University of New York Press, 2000. Forward, Preface, Ch 1 (P) Ebook
Read the entry on Tu Weiming in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

F) Ci Jiwei on China’s Moral Crisis

Ci, Jiwei. Moral China in the Age of Reform. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Introduction, Ch 1-5 (P) Ebook

General Further Reading

Adelmann, Frederick J., ed. Contemporary Chinese Philosophy. Boston College Studies in Philosophy, v. 6. The Hague ; London: Nijhoff, 1982.
Alitto, Guy, ed. Contemporary Confucianism in Thought and Action. Springer, 2017. (P)
Bell, Daniel A. Beyond Liberal Democracy: Political Thinking for an East Asian Context. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2006. (P)
———. China’s New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2008. (P)
———, ed. Confucian Political Ethics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
———. East Meets West: Human Rights and Democracy in East Asia. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2000.
———. The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.
———. The East Asian Challenge for Democracy: Political Meritocracy In Comparative Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Black, Antony, Brett Bowden, Bruce Buchan, Joseph Chan, Fred R. Dallmayr, Nelly Lahoud, and Philip Nel. Western Political Thought in Dialogue with Asia. Edited by Takashi Shogimen and Cary J. Nederman. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008.
Chaibong, Hahm. Confucianism for the Modern World. Edited by Daniel A. Bell. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. (P)
Chan, Joseph. Confucian Perfectionism: A Political Philosophy for Modern Times. Princeton University Press, 2015. (P)
Chan, N. Serina. The Thought of Mou Zongsan. BRILL, 2011. (P)
Chang, Wonsuk, ed. Confucianism in Context: Classic Philosophy and Contemporary Issues, East Asia and Beyond. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011.
Chen, Derong. Metaphorical Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy: Illustrated with Feng Youlan’s New Metaphysics. Lexington Books, 2011. (P)
Cheng, Chung-Ying, and Nicholas Bunnin. Contemporary Chinese Philosophy. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
Choi, Yeonsik. “Yu Kil-Chun’s Moral Idea of Civilization and Project to Make All People Gentlemen.” Asian Philosophy 24, no. 2 (April 3, 2014): 103–20.
Chou, Chih-P’ing, ed. English Writings of Hu Shih. Springer, 2015.
Ci, Jiwei. Moral China in the Age of Reform. Cambridge University Press, 2014. (P)
Clinton, Maggie. Revolutionary Nativism: Fascism and Culture in China, 1925-1937. Duke University Press, 2017. (P)
Clower, Jason. The Unlikely Buddhologist: Tiantai Buddhism in Mou Zongsan’s New Confucianism. Leiden: Brill, 2010. (P)
Dallmayr, Fred R., Tingyang Zhao, and MyiLibrary, eds. Contemporary Chinese Political Thought: Debates and Perspectives. Asia in the New Millennium. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012.
De Bary, William Theodore. Asian Values and Human Rights: A Confucian Communitarian Perspective. Cambridge, Mass. ; London: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Dirlik, Arif. “Confucius in the Borderlands: Global Capitalism and the Reinvention of Confucianism.” Boundary 2 22, no. 3 (October 1, 1995): 229–73.
Elman, Benjamin A., John B. Duncan, and Herman Ooms, eds. Rethinking Confucianism: Past and Present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Los Angeles: Univ of California Los Angeles, 2002.
Fan, Ruiping. Reconstructionist Confucianism: Rethinking Morality after the West. 2010 edition. Springer, 2012.
———. The Renaissance of Confucianism in Contemporary China. Springer Science & Business Media, 2011. (P)
Feng, Huiyun. Chinese Strategic Culture and Foreign Policy Decision-Making. London; New York: Routledge, 2009.
Feng, Youlan. A History of Chinese Philosophy. Princeton University Press, 1983.
———. The Hall of Three Pines: An Account of My Life. University of Hawaii Press, 2000.
Formoso, Bernard. De Jiao - A Religious Movement in Contemporary China and Overseas: Purple Qi from the East. NUS Press, 2010. (P)
Fung, Edmund S. K. The Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Modernity: Cultural and Political Thought in the Republican Era. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Hammond, Kenneth J., and Jeffrey L. Richey, eds. Sage Returns, The: Confucian Revival in Contemporary China. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2015.
Hang, Lin. “Traditional Confucianism and Its Contemporary Relevance.” Asian Philosophy 21, no. 4 (November 1, 2011): 437–45.
Herr, Ranjoo Seodu. “Confucian Democracy and Equality.” Asian Philosophy 20, no. 3 (November 1, 2010): 261–82.
Hui, Wang, and Rebecca Karl. The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity. Verso, 2011. (P)
Kim, Sungmoon. Confucian Democracy in East Asia: Theory And Practice. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
———. “Filiality, Compassion, and Confucian Democracy.” Asian Philosophy 18, no. 3 (November 1, 2008): 279–98.
Li, Chenyang. “Does Confucian Ethics Integrate Care Ethics and Justice Ethics? The Case of Mencius.” Asian Philosophy 18, no. 1 (March 1, 2008): 69–82.
Lin, Xiaoqing Diana. “Creating Modern Chinese Metaphysics: Feng Youlan and New Realism.” Modern China 40, no. 1 (2014): 40–73.
———. Feng Youlan and Twentieth Century China: An Intellectual Biography. BRILL, 2016. (P)
Lomanov, Alexander V. “Religion and Rationalism in the Philosophy of Feng Youlan.” Monumenta Serica 46 (1998): 323–41.
Makeham, J. New Confucianism: A Critical Examination. Springer, 2003. (P)
Min, Anselm K., ed. Korean Religions in Relation: Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity. Reprint edition. Place of publication not identified: State University of New York Press, 2017. Ch 8 “Resurgence of Asian Values: Confucian Comeback and Its Embodiment in Christianity”, Ch 9 “Korean Confucianism and Women’s Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century”, Ch 10 “Confucianism at a Crossroads: Confucianism and Democracy in Korea”
Neville, Robert Cummings. Boston Confucianism: Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World. State University of New York Press, n.d. (P)
Paramore, Kiri. “‘Civil Religion’ and Confucianism: Japan’s Past, China’s Present, and the Current Boom in Scholarship on Confucianism.” The Journal of Asian Studies 74, no. 02 (May 2015): 269–282.
———. Japanese Confucianism. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Puett, Michael J, and Christine Gross-Loh. The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life, 2017. (P)
Qing, Jiang. A Confucian Constitutional Order: How China’s Ancient Past Can Shape Its Political Future. Edited by Daniel A. Bell and Ruiping Fan. Translated by Edmund Ryden. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2012. (P)
Rošker, Jana S. The Rebirth of the Moral Self: The Second Generation of Modern Confucians and Their Modernization Discourses. Chinese University Press, 2015. (P)
———. “The Subject’s New Clothes: Immanent Transcendence and the Moral Self in the Modern Confucian Discourses.” Asian Philosophy 24, no. 4 (October 2, 2014): 346–62.
Shin, Doh Chull. Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Song, Zhiming, and Huang Deyuan. “Achievements, Predicaments and Trend of Moral Confucianism.” Frontiers of Philosophy in China 2, no. 4 (2007): 503–16.
Sun, Anna Xiao Dong. Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities. Princeton University Press, 2013. (P)
Tiwald, Justin, and Bryan W. Van Norden. Readings in Later Chinese Philosophy: Han to the 20th Century. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2014.
Tu, Wei-ming. Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: Moral Education and Economic Culture in Japan and the Four Mini-Dragons. Harvard University Press, 1996.
Tu, Weiming, Tu (Wei-ming) Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation. SUNY Press, 1985. (P)
Wang, Ban, ed. Chinese Visions of World Order: Tianxia, Culture, and World Politics. 2 edition. Durham ; London: Duke University Press Books, 2017.
Wang, Robin R., ed. Chinese Philosophy in an Era of Globalization. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. (P)
Wei-ming, Tu. Centrality and Commonality: An Essay on Confucian Religiousness A Revised and Enlarged Edition of Centrality and Commonality: An Essay on Chung-Yung. A Rev. and Enl. Ed. of Centrality and Commonality : an Essay on Chung-yung Edition. Albany, N.Y: State University of New York Press, 1989. (P)
Xiao, Yang, and Yong Huang, eds. Moral Relativism and Chinese Philosophy: David Wong and His Critics. State University of New York Press, 2015. (P)
Yu, Kam-por, ed. Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously: Contemporary Theories and Applications. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011. (P)

Week 11 - Imagining Alternate Futures

Preparation

You should be in the final push with your long essay. This is a good time to give that first or second draft some space and then look for weaknesses in your argument, and revisit your sources to look for ways to adjust your direction or add evidence.

Required Reading

Lawson, Konrad. “Reimagining the Postwar International Order: The World Federalism of Ozaki Yukio and Kagawa Toyohiko.” In The Institution of International Order: From the League of Nations to the United Nations, edited by Alanna O’Malley and Simon Jackson. Routledge, 2018. (Teams)
SOURCES JAPAN II “Kita Ikki and the Reform Wing of Ultranationalism” in Ch 44 The Rise of Revolutionary Nationalism Ebook
Tankha, Brij. Kita Ikki and the Making of Modern Japan: A Vision of Empire. Global Oriental, 2006, Ch 6, Conclusion (P) Ebook

Elective Reading

A) Kagawa Toyohiko

Bikle, George. “Utopianism and Social Planning in the Thought of Kagawa Toyohiko.” Monumenta Nipponica 25, no. 3/4 (January 1, 1970): 447–53. Jstor
Bikle, George B, and Association for Asian Studies. The New Jerusalem: Aspects of Utopianism in the Thought of Kagawa Toyohiko. Ch 16 “The New Jerusalem”, pp211-234 (P) (In Library)
Fisher, Galen M. “The Cooperative Movement in Japan.” Pacific Affairs 11, no. 4 (1938): 478–91. Jstor
Kagawa, Toyohiko Brotherhood Economics New York: Harper and Brothers, 1936. Ch 8-9. (P) (Teams)

B) Kita Ikki

Tankha, Brij. Kita Ikki and the Making of Modern Japan: A Vision of Empire. Global Oriental, 2006, Ch 2-5 (P) Ebook
Wilson, George M. “Kita Ikki’s Theory of Revolution.” The Journal of Asian Studies 26, no. 1 (1966): 89–99. Jstor

C) Japanese Utopian Literature and Science Fiction

Bolton, Christopher, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr, and Takayuki Tatsumi. Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime. University of Minnesota Press, 2007, Introduction pp vii-xix. Ebook
Mochi, Yoriko. “Japanese Utopian Literature from the 1870s to the Present and the Influence of Western Utopianism.” Utopian Studies 10, no. 2 (1999): 89–97. Jstor
Sato, Kumiko. “How Information Technology Has (Not) Changed Feminism and Japanism: Cyberpunk in the Japanese Context.” Comparative Literature Studies 41, no. 3 (2004): 335–55. Muse
Consider reading some of the novel Komatsu, Sakyo. Japan Sinks. Translation edition. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications Inc., 2016.

D) Chinese Utopian Literature and Science Fiction

Ho, Koon-ki T. “Several Thousand Years in Search of Happiness: The Utopian Tradition in China.” Oriens Extremus 30 (1983): 19–35. Jstor
Song, Mingwei. “Variations on Utopia in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction.” Science Fiction Studies 40, no. 1 (2013): 86–102. Jstor
Song, Han. “Chinese Science Fiction: A Response to Modernization.” Science Fiction Studies 40, no. 1 (2013): 15–21. Jstor
Consider reading some of the novel Liu, Cixin. The Three-Body Problem. Translated by Ken Liu. London: Head of Zeus, 2015. (P)

General Further Reading

Abe, Kobo. Inter Ice Age 4. [1st American ed.] edition. Knopf, 1970.
Bare, Joshua La. “The Future: ‘Wrapped… in That Mysterious Japanese Way.’” Science Fiction Studies 27, no. 1 (2000): 22–48.
Bolton, Christopher. Sublime Voices: The Fictional Science and Scientific Fiction of Abe Kōbō. Harvard University Asia Center, 2009.
Chiaki, Kawamata. Death Sentences. Translated by Thomas Lamarre. Translation edition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. (P)
Collins, Samuel Gerald. “Train to Pyongyang:: Imagination, Utopia, and Korean Unification.” Utopian Studies 24, no. 1 (2013): 119–43.
Dumas, Raechel. “Monstrous Motherhood and Evolutionary Horror in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction.” Science Fiction Studies 45, no. 1 (2018): 24–47.
Fokkema, Douwe Wessel. Perfect Worlds: Utopian Fiction in China and the West. Amsterdam University Press, 2011.
Isaacson, Nathaniel. Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2017. (P)
Jiang, Qian. “Translation and the Development of Science Fiction in Twentieth-Century China.” Science Fiction Studies 40, no. 1 (2013): 116–32.
Langer, Jessica. “Three Versions of Komatsu Saykō’s Nihon Chinbotsu (Japan Sinks).” Science Fiction Film and Television 2, no. 1 (July 1, 2009): 45–57.
Lee, Sung-Ae. “Adaptations of Time Travel Narratives in Japanese Multimedia: Nurturing Eudaimonia across Time and Space.” International Research in Children’s Literature 7, no. 2 (November 25, 2014): 136–51.
Leheny, David. Empire of Hope: The Sentimental Politics of Japanese Decline. Cornell University Press, 2018. (P)
Li, Guangyi. “‘New Year’s Dream’:: A Chinese Anarcho-Cosmopolitan Utopia.” Utopian Studies 24, no. 1 (2013): 89–104.
———. “Peace under Heaven: The (Re)Making of an Ideal World Order in Chinese Utopianism (1902-1911).” UCLA, 2013.
Li, Hua. “The Political Imagination in Liu Cixin’s Critical Utopia: China 2185.” Science Fiction Studies 42, no. 3 (2015): 519–40.
Liu, Cixin. The Three-Body Problem. Translated by Ken Liu. London: Head of Zeus, 2015. (P)
———. “The Worst of All Possible Universes and the Best of All Possible Earths: Three Body and Chinese Science Fiction.” Tor.com, October 30, 2014.
Liyuan, Jia, and Translated by Joel Martinsen. “Gloomy China: China’s Image in Han Song’s Science Fiction.” Science Fiction Studies 40, no. 1 (2013): 103–15.
Mari, Kotani, and Miri Nakamura. “Space, Body, and Aliens in Japanese Women’s Science Fiction.” Science Fiction Studies 29, no. 3 (2002): 397–417.
Matthew, Robert. Japanese Science Fiction: A View of a Changing Society. Routledge, 2003. (P)
Mizuno, Hiromi. Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan. Stanford University Press, 2008. (P)
Napier, Susan. The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity. Routledge, 2005. (P)
Napier, Susan J. “Panic Sites: The Japanese Imagination of Disaster from Godzilla to Akira.” Journal of Japanese Studies 19, no. 2 (1993): 327–51.
Ohara, Mariko. Hybrid Child. Translated by Jodie Beck. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2018. (P)
Parrinder, Patrick. Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition, and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia. Liverpool University Press, 2000. (P)
Penney, Matthew. “A Nation Restored: The Utopian Future of Japan’s Far Right.” Mechademia 10 (2015): 98–112.
Peyton, Will. “Sinicizing Science Fiction.” Edited by Nathaniel Isaacson. Science Fiction Studies 44, no. 3 (2017): 614–17.
Plath, David W. “The Fate of Utopia: Adaptive Tactics in Four Japanese Groups.” American Anthropologist 68, no. 5 (1966): 1152–62.
Rimer, J. Thomas, and Van C. Gessel. The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature. Columbia University Press, 2011.
Skya, Walter. “Kita Ikki: A Social-Democratic Critique of Absolute Monarchy” in Japan’s Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultranationalism. Duke University Press, 2009.
Song, Mingwei. “After 1989: The New Wave of Chinese Science Fiction.” China Perspectives 2015, no. 2015/1 (March 1, 2015): 7–13.
Suvin, Darko. Defined by a Hollow: Essays on Utopia, Science Fiction and Political Epistemology. Peter Lang, 2010.
Taillandier, Denis. “Coping With Disaster Through Technology: ‘Goodbye Me!’ - Itô Keikaku’s Future Harmony (Faire Face à La Catastrophe Par La Technologie : ‘Adieu Moi !’ - La Future Hamonie d’Itô Keikaku).” Ritsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture 25, no. 1 (October 2013): 173–97.
Tanaka, M. Apocalypse in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction. Springer, 2014.
Tatsumi, Takayuki. “Generations and Controversies: An Overview of Japanese Science Fiction, 1957-1997.” Science Fiction Studies 27, no. 1 (2000): 105–14.
Troyer, Gene Van, and Grania Davis. Speculative Japan: Outstanding Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy. Kurodahan Press, 2007.
Wilson, George M. Radical Nationalist in Japan: Kita Ikki, 1883-1937. Harvard University Press, 1969. (P)
Yan, Wu, Yao Jianbin, and Andrea Lingenfelter. “A Very Brief History of Chinese Science Fiction.” Chinese Literature Today 7, no. 1 (January 2, 2018): 44–53.
Yiu, Angela. “From Utopia to Empire: Atarashikimura and A Personal View of the Greater East Asia War (1942).” Utopian Studies 19, no. 2 (2008): 213–32.
Yoshio, Aramaki. The Sacred Era. Translated by Baryon Tensor Posadas. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Zhao, Henry Y. H. “A Fearful Symmetry: The Novel of the Future in Twentieth-Century China.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 66, no. 3 (2003): 456–71.
Zur, Dafna. “Let’s Go to the Moon: Science Fiction in the North Korean Children’s Magazine ‘Adong Munhak’, 1956-1965.” The Journal of Asian Studies 73, no. 2 (2014): 327–51.
Kagawa Archives & Resource Center - English Collection Digital Archives

Primary Sources on East and Southeast Asia

Below are a selection of potential starting points for primary sources relevant for historical research on East and Southeast Asia. Many of these are available through our library electronic resources. Others you can contact me about if you are having trouble finding them. Not all of these sources are in English and I have included some sources here for use by students who are able to read Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

SCONUL: St Andrews students may get a SCONUL card which allows them to access libraries elsewhere in Scotland, including the University of Edinburgh, which has a very extensive East Asia collection of books and resources.

Frog in a Well Primary Source Guides

See these guides on Frog in a Well for many useful resources:

History of Modern Shanghai
Missionary Perspectives on China
History of Taiwan
Modern Korean History
History of Burma
History of the Philippines (under construction)
History of the Malay World
Primary Source Nuggets

Newspapers and Periodicals:

East Asian Newspapers and Periodicals 1850-1950 - A very large collection of newspapers on the Internet Archive. Most in Chinese but also several important newspapers in Japanese, Korean, and English languages
Southeast Asian Newspapers
Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers
Korea Times 1950-2016
Korea Times - This is for 1998 to present.
Chinese Newspaper Collection
Historical Newspapers: Communist Historical Newspaper Collection
South China Morning Post 1903-1941
The Times
Japan Chronicle
19th Century British Newspapers
19th Century British Periodicals
British Periodicals I & II
British Newspapers 1600-1950
Historic American Newspapers
Irish Times
Los Angeles Times
North China Herald - Also see Internet Archive
Guardian & Observer
Periodical Archives Online
Times of India
Economist 1843-2010
Scotsman
HeinOnline - Legal Journals
Biblioteca Gino Bianco (Italian)
Leo Baeck Institute Library Periodical Collection (mostly German)
- Shanghai Jewish Chronicle (1939-1945), Shanghai Echo (1946-1948), Shanghai Woche (1939, 1942), Sport (1942-1943), Shanghaier Morgenpost (1941), S. Z. am Mittag der Shanghai Post (1939-1940), Jüdisches Nachrichtenblatt, Acht Uhr Abendblatt (1939-1941), Mitteilungen der Vereinigung der Emigranten-Ärzte in Shanghai (1940-1), Gelbe Post: Ostasiatisch Halbmonatsschrift (1939-40)
Newsvault
- Combines some of the Databases above
Old Hong Kong Collections and Newspapers
- Here you may want to check: Hong Kong Collection, Old HK Newspapers, Hong Kong Oral History (you can filter by language)
Singapore Newspaper Archive 1831-2009
- Large collection of newspapers, but not all viewable off site.
- Syonan Shimbun (1942-1945), The Straits Times (1845-2018), Malaya Tribune (1914-1951), The Singapore Free Pressand Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), The Singapore Free Press, Morning Tribune (1936-1949), 南洋商报 (1923-1983), Indian Daily Mail (1946-1956), The Daily Advertiser (1890-1894)
XXth Century 1941-1945
- unusual magazine from Japanese occupied Shanghai
Australian Historical Newspaper Archive
明六雑誌 1874-5
- Digitized version of the famous Meiji period journal (Japanese)
国民之友 1887-8
満州技術協会誌
- Journal of Manchuria Technical Association journal 1925-1941
- Digitized version of “The Nation’s Friend” (Japanese).
Chinese Women’s Magazines in the Late Qing and Early Republican Period (Chinese)
Xiaobao - Chinese Entertainment Newspapers (Chinese)
Funü Zazhi - Chinese women’s magazine (Chinese)
Ling Long Magazine (Chinese)
Korean Historical Newspapers (Korean)
PRCHistory.org Archive of Journals Remembrance and Yesterday
奈良女子大学所蔵資料電子画像集
- Digital collection of historical journals and other materials related to women’s university education in Japan. (Japanese)
Puka Puka Parade
- Post 1945 Newsletter of 100th Infantry Battalion of Japanese-American veterans
Japan Times 1998-
Press Translations, Japan 1945-1946
Kobe University Newspaper Clippings Archive (Japanese)
Hsinhua News Agency 1977-Present (Nexis UK)

Government Documents

Wilson Center Digital Archive
- Massive collection of Cold War period documents, many of them translated and transcribed
Wilson Center Chinese Foreign Policy Database
Foreign Office Files for China 1919-1980
Foreign Office Files for Japan 1919-1952
British Documents on the End of Empire
Cabinet Papers 1915-1984
Parliamentary Papers
FRUS - Foreign Relations of the US
US Occupation Government in Korea Documents
- The index is in Korean, but the language of the documents is English
Japanese Diet Proceedings Archive (Japanese)
日本外交文書デジタルアーカイブ
帝国議会会議録
朝鮮王朝實錄
Truman Library Documents on Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
The Gazette (British Government newspaper)
Office of Strategic Services - United States intelligence agency formed during World War II, predecessor to CIA. Archive.org collection contains many East Asia related documents.
National Security Internet Archive (NSIA) - Archive.org collection of documents related to US government documents, includes many East Asia related documents.
Digital South Asia Library
National Archives of Singapore ArchivesOnline - online collections include government records, maps, oral histories, photographs, and legal documents
- Includes many oral interviews of former POWs in the Changi Military Camp
CIA National Intelligence Estimates on China
Tokyo War Crimes Trial Digital Collection
LTD Legal Tools Database - Tokyo Trials Documents
IMFTE Judgement transcript
League of Nations Archives
Nineteenth Century Collections Online - Asia and the West
- U.S. State Department Consular and Diplomatic Records - despatches from many US consuls in region
- British Foreign Office Political Correspondence: Japan
- Korean, Siamese, Japanese and Chinese legations in the United States
- Missionary Correspondence and Journals
Annual Report of the Minister of State for Education - Japanese education ministry reports volumes often on Archive.org
Japan in the Beginning of the 20th Century - Government reports available in several volumes on Archive.org
An Official Guide to Eastern Asia - Five volumes. Japanese railroads office produced guides going back to early 20th century. Volumes available on Archive.org
Annual report on reforms and progress in Chosen - Japanese colonial reports on Korea 1911-1923. Search for this title on HeinOnline, some years available on Archive.org.
Annual Reports to the League of Nations on the Administration of the South Sea Islands under Japanese Mandate - Japanese reports to the League on its rule over former German controlled territories in the Pacific. Many volumes of these reports available on Archive.org but the titles are not accurately produced, search for Annual Reports, League, Micronesia, etc. to get more hits.
Burma, The Struggle for Independence, 1944-1948: Documents from Official and Private Sources
- Many British documents on Burma from this time
Towards Freedom: Documents on the Movement for Independence in India, 1943-1944
- Many documents on India from this time
The Transfer of Power 1942-7
- Many British documents on India from this time

Missionary Reports and Publications

Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal - Many issues available at Archive.org
Missionary Research Library pamphlets Columbia University - digitized pamphlets available on Archive.org with many East Asia related pamphlets
Majority World Collection - Publications include many missionary works related to East Asia from Princeton Theological Seminary Library.
The Christian Movement in the Japanese Empire including Korea and Formosa - Many volumes published by the Conference of Federated Missions Japan, and often available on Archive.org.
The Japan Christian Yearbook - Volumes available on Archive.org
Presbyterian Church of England : report of the Foreign Missions China, Formosa, the Straits Settlements, and India - Many volumes on Archive.org
China and Formosa : the story of the Presbyterian Church of England (1897)

Memoirs, Diaries, Digitised Books etc.

Archive.org - Huge and fantastic resource for published works before 1920s
Google Books - If there is only snippet view on old works, try archive.org
Gutenberg Project - Pure text versions of many popular out of copyright books
Hathi Trust
- massive collection of digitized books
- when they cannot be viewed because they are in copyright, they can still help you pin point which pages things are mentioned
Historical Texts
- Especially the British Library digitised books 1789-1914
Robert Hart Diaries
- http://digitalcollections.qub.ac.uk/site/hart-diaries/diaries/show_vol.php?v=31
- http://gis.rchss.sinica.edu.tw/cmcs/collections-at-academia-sinica/the-diaries-of-sir-robert-hart
- http://cdm15979.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15979coll2
Joseph Berry Keenan Digital Collection - Important primary sources from war crimes trials and early postwar Japan.
Ming Qing Women’s Writings
- Digitised Chinese works by women from Ming and Qing dynasties (Chinese)
National Taiwan University Open Access Books (Chinese)
Diary of Joseph Stilwell 1900-1946
World War II Diaries of Ernest F. Easterbrook, 1944–45
Hawaii Karate Museum Collection
- PDFs of books in English, Japanese, and Korean on Karate and martial arts, mostly 1950s.
Gallica (French)
- National Library of France has digitised a huge amount of materials, including a wide range of materials, memoirs, books, images, related to East Asia and Indochina.

Propaganda, Posters, and Pamphlets

Chinese Propaganda Poster Collection
Chinese Pamphlets
- from early People’s Republic of China - browse by subject, may not show all pamphlets in browse mode
Korean War Propaganda Leaflets
Korean War Propaganda Digial Horizons
Scanned propaganda at the US Naval Academy Nimitz Library:
- American Propaganda in Japan
- Japanese Propaganda in the Philippines

Photographs, Postcards, Films

Showa Period Photo Archive from Shashin Shūhō 1938-1944(Japanese)
National Archives UK on Flickr
US National Archives on Flickr
New York Public Library Digital Collections
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Image Collection
Mainichi Photo Bank
- You can search the archive of photos from the Mainichi newspaper and see relatively small watermarked images
Memories of Metropolis - Tokyo - Japanese (and some English), mostly photographs from various sources on the history of Tokyo. OA.
Joseph Needham Photographs - Wartime China, 1942-1946
Historical Chinese Postcard Project: 1896-1920
Historical Photographs of China
Sidney D. Gamble’s Photographs of China 1908-1932
UW-Madison East Asian Collection Photograph Collection
Shackford Collection of Photographs of China
Francis E. Stafford photographs of China 1909-1933
Visualising China 1850-1950
Hoover Institution Political Poster Database
Lafayette College East Asian Postcard Collections
MIT Visualising Cultures
Formosa Nineteenth Century Images
Sydney Gamble Photographs of China and Japan
Japanese Photographs from Late-Tokugawa and Meiji period
UW Milwaukee Asia and Middle East Photos from American Geographical Society
An American GI in Japan, Autumn 1945: A Photographic Memoir
Philippine Photographs Digital Archive
The United States and its Territories 1870-1925 photographic collections
Vintage Formosa
- some 7000 photos of historical Taiwan
Hedda Morrison Photographs of China
Dutch East Indies in Photographs, 1860-1940
Botanical and Cultural Images of Eastern Asia
Colonial Film Database of the British Empire
British Pathe Historical Footage
Everyday in Mao’s China - Use these photographs with care and note the source.
Korean Movie Database
- Often with English subtitles
- Includes full length Korean historical movies from earlier decades
- see more at http://www.kmdb.or.kr/

Recordings and Sound

1900-1950 Japanese Sound Archive (Japanese)
NHK Japanese Oral History Testimony Archive (Japanese)
- Also contains historical news clips and other footage

Maps and GIS

David Rumsey Map Library
Japanese Historical Maps - David Rumsey
Visual Cultures in Asia - Maps
Old Maps Online
University of Texas Perry-Casteñada Map Archive
- contains a lot of WWII military maps of Asia
Virtual Shanghai Map Collection
東洋文庫中華帝国図等
- Historical maps of China in the Oriental library
USC Asian Map Collection
ChinaX Map
- Amazing collection of GIS layers related to Chinese history
Disaster of Japan’s 2011 Disasters
Japan Map
- Collection of GIS layers related to Japan’s 2011 Disasters
WorldMap
- Many GIS layers and maps are available to browse and sometimes download here
China Historical GIS
- can download shapefiles for creating historical maps of China
Collection of Colonial Period Maps of Taipei and more maps from Academia Sinica Map Club

The War in the East by Trumbull White (1895)
Travels in the Far East by Ellen Mary Hayes Peck (1909)

Other

Voices of Civil Internment: WWII Singapore - The Royal Commonwealth Society Collection at Cambridge University Library has digitised the archives of two Second World War civilian internment camps
Public Library of India - Archive.org hosted collection of scanned materials, includes many scanned books related to East Asia
Digital Bodleian
Atlas of Mutual Heritage
- Good archive of documents, maps, and images from the Dutch East India Company and the West-Indische Compagnie
- Digitised books in Harvard-Yenching from 1860s-1940s
Digital Vatican Library
California Digital Library - Many scanned historical works related to East Asia, hosted by Archive.org.

Japan

Selection of Scanned Open Access Harvard-Yenching Books from Japan on Google Books
Japan Air Raids Bilingual Historical Archive
Databases of the Historiographical Institute at the University of Tokyo - Most of it on pre-modern Japanese history
Waseda Kotenseki Sogo Database - Contains a lot of materials related to Japanese and Chinese classics but also some special collections from a more modern period, much in Japanese
- Modern Japan and Waseda
- Japanese History through the Library Collections
- Edo-Period Japanese Literature Collection
- Western Studies Collection
- Okuma Shigenobu Collection
Prange Digital Children’s Book Collection 1945-49 (Japanese)
Joseph B. Keenan Digital Collection
Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Digital Archive
Hiroshima Archive
PRCHistory.org Document of the Month
Illustrated Books from the Edo and Meiji Periods - at the Smithsonian Libraries
Japanese National Diet Library (Japanese)
- has a variety of digital resources
National Archives of Japan Digital Collections
Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (Japanese)
- Massive archive of especially military records from pre-1945 Japan
Digital Library of the Meiji Period (Japanese)
- pretty much every book published in the Meiji period is digitized here, Taisho period books increasingly available too
Denshō Archive for Japanese-American internment
Japanese Historical Text Initiative
Japan Air Raids Historical Archive
ジャパンアーカイブズ1850-2100
Exhibition of the Empire of Japan: Official Catalogue (1904)
A Handbook for Travellers in Japan Basil Hall Chamberlain - volumes from different years on Archive.org
Terry’s Japanese empire, including Korea and Formosa, with chapters on Manchuria, the Trans-Siberian railway, and the chief ocean routes to Japan - various editions available on Archive.org
Pocket Guide to Japan - Old prewar government produced guidebook for tourists to Japan, volumes available on Archive.org
Japan to America - collection of papers and translations on Japan produced by the Japan Society of America going back to early 20th century. Many volumes on Archive.org
Transactions of The Asiatic Society of Japan - early journal published in Japan going back to prewar days. Many volumes on Archive.org
Satow, Ernest Mason. A Diplomat in Japan: An Inner History of the Critical Years in the Evolution of Japan. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1983.
Cortazzi, Hugh. Victorians in Japan: In and around the Treaty Ports. London ; Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Athlone Press, 1987.
Holme, Charles, Toni Huberman, Sonia Ashmore, Emma Lasenby Liberty, and Yasuko Suga. The Diary of Charles Holme’s 1889 Visit to Japan and Northamerica: With Mrs Lazenby Liberty’s Japan: A Pictorial Record. Folkestone, UK: Global Oriental Ltd, 2008.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. Bird
Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings by Edward Sylvester Morse (1885)
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series by Lafcadio Hearn
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn (1895)
Kimiko, and Other Japanese Sketches by Lafcadio Hearn (1896)
Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life by Lafcadio Hearn (1896)
My Japanese Wife by Clive Holland (1895)
The Gist of Japan: The Islands, Their People, and Missions by R. B. Peery
Japanese Girls and Women by Alice Mabel Bacon (1891)
Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan for the Use of Travellers and Others by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1902)
Kobo: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Herbert Strang (1905)
A Journal from Japan: A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist by Marie Stopes (1910)
The Shinto Cult: A Christian Study of the Ancient Religion of Japan by Milton Terry (1910)
A Daughter of Japan by F. D. Bone (1914) - also on GP
An Artist’s Letters from Japan by John La Farge
The Japanese Spirit by Yoshisaburo Okakura (1905) also GP
Heisig, James W., Thomas P. Kasulis, and John C. Maraldo, eds. Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook. Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2011.
This is a wonderful series of volumes in our library containing books on Japan, thus serving as contemporary primary sources of a sort, and a separate series of books with pamphlets and press articles from 1906-1948:
- O’Connor, Peter, ed. Critical Readings on Japan, 1906-1948: Countering Japan’s Agenda in East Asia. Series 1, Books ; a Collection in Ten Volumes. Folkestone, Kent : Tokyo, Japan: Global Orient ; Edition Synapse, 2008.
- O’Connor, Peter, ed. Critical Readings on Japan, 1906-1948: Countering Japan’s Agenda and the Communist Menace in East Asia. Series 2, Pamphlets and Press: A Collection in 10 Volumes. Folkestone, Kent : Tokyo: Global Oriental ; Edition Synapse, 2011.
Pocket Guide to Japan (1926)
Pocket Guide to Japan (1935)

Korea

Korean National Archives (Korean)
- some documents can only be viewed within Korean libraries
Korean History Digital Archive (Korean)
- a massive variety of historical sources can be found here
1945-50 Korean Literary Collection (Korean) Univ. Washington
Histopia (Korean)
- Collection of digitized historical Korean sources
Korean American Digital Archive
Korean Independence Outbreak Movement Online Exhibit
Japanese Wartime Policy in Korea Digital Archive (Korean/Japanese)
Korean Literary Collection Digital Archive 1945-1950
- Some rare books in Korean from the early postwar period digitised by the University of Washington
Foreign Broadcast Information Service 1974-1996
- search SAULCAT
Prospectus of the Oriental Development Company - colonial period land development and expropriation company.
Japanese Atrocities in Korea: reports emphasized and made convincing by Japanese propaganda (1919)
Fifteen Years Among the Top-Knots; Or, Life in Korea (1908)
Corea or Cho-sen: The Land of the Morning Calm by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1895)
Our Little Korean Cousin by H. Lee M. Pike (1905)
Korea’s Fight for Freedom by Fred A. McKenzie (1920)
Quaint Korea by Louise Jordan Miln (1895)
The Case of Korea: A Collection of Evidence on the Japanese Domination of Korea by Henry Chung (1921)

Taiwan

Taiwan Postwar National Historical Archive (Chinese)
National Taiwan University Digital Projects Home (Chinese)
Taiwan History Digital Library (Chinese)
Taiwan National Repository of Cultural Heritage (Chinese)
Taiwan Colonial Court Records (Chinese/Japanese)
- requires online application for access
Taiwan Database for Empirical Legal Studies (Chinese)
Digital Repository of Taiwan Provincial Assembly (Chinese)
- requires online application for access
National Taiwan University Taiwan Historical Photo Archive (Chinese)
National Taiwan University Institutional Repository (Chinese)
- historical records related to NTU
- chief prosecutor in the Tokyo war crimes trials
Japanese Rule in Formosa by Yosaburo Takekoshi (1907)
From far Formosa the island: The island, its people and missions George Mackay (1896)
Glimpses of Japan and Formosa by Harry A. Franck
The island of Formosa : historical view from 1430 to 1900: history, people, resources and commercial prospects James Davidson (1903)
The Statistical Summary of Taiwan Japanese Government General in Japan.
Sketches from Formosa by W. Campbell (1915)
Among the head-hunters of Formosa by Janet McGovern (1922) - raw text on Project Gutenberg
The call of the East; a romance of far Formosa by James Davidson (1902) also on PG by Thurlow Fraser
Formosa Today: An Analysis of the Economic Development and Strategic Importance of Japan’s Tropical Colony Andrew J. Grajdanzev (1943)
Fireproof moth : a missionary in Taiwan’s white terror (in library)
The heathen heart : an account of the reception of the gospel among the Chinese of Formosa by Campbell N. Moody (1907)
The Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay of Formosa (1912)

China

Chinese Cultural Revolution Database
Chinese Anti-Rightist Campaign Database
Chinese maritime digitization project
Bibliothèque Numérique Asiatique / Asian Digital Library - many digitized materials from Asia, especially China
- Shanghai Municipal Council Minutes
- Scanned Books - over a thousand volumes here, mostly related to China
Harvard Yenching Library Chinese Republican Period 1911-1949 digitization project - Chinese books digitized by Harvard-Yenching library.
The Cultural Revolution in Images: Caricature-Posters from Guangzhou 1966-1977
Chinese Rare Book Digital Collection
Chinese Digital Archive 1966-1976
- much of it in Chinese
Virtual Shanghai
Chinese Text Project
- Collection of classical Chinese texts with translations
Heidelberg University China Digital Archive
- need to apply for an account to access, application online
Chinese Civilization in Time and Space
Hiroshima Archive
International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online
Yale Nanjing Massacre Archival Project
Ailing Zhang (Eileen Chang) Papers at USC
Three Years’ Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China by Robert Fortune (1847)
Memoirs of Father Ripa, during thirteen years’ residence at the court of Peking in the service of the emperor of China; with an account of the foundation of the college for the education of young Chinese at Naples (1849)
China and the Chinese by Herbert Allen Giles (1902)
A Tale of Red Pekin by Constancia Serjeant (1902)
With the Allies to Pekin: A Tale of the Relief of the Legations by G. A. Henty (1904)
New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable Awakening by Arthur Judson Brown (1904)
Lion and Dragon in Northern China by Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston (1910)
Notable Women of Modern China by Margaret E. Burton (1912)
A Woman In China by Mary Gaunt (1914)
The Fight for the Republic in China by B. L. Putnam Weale (1917)
Peking Dust by Ellen N. La Motte (1919) also on PG
Kuo Sung-t’ao, Liu Hsi-hung, Chang Te-yi, and John David Frodsham, eds. The First Chinese Embassy to the West: The Journals of Kuo Sung-T’ao, Liu Hsi-Hung and Chang Te-Yi. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.
The works of Mao Zedong: When citing his writings avoid the occasionally problematic online marxists.org version and use the series collection of his works found in the library: Mao, Tse-tung, and Stuart R. Schram. Mao’s Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-1949 Armonk NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1992.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Government Reports Online 1842-1941
Hong Kong and the West Until 1860 - database of historical sources, over 400 volumes and hundreds of images.
Hong Kong Image Database
Hong Kong’s War Crimes Trials Collection

Southeast Asia

The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes by Comyn, Jagor, Virchow, and Wilkes (1912)
Inside Indonesia - bulletin of the Indonesia Resources and Information Programme, Australia, 1983-2007
Online Burma/Myanmar Library - archive of relatively recent digital documents, and portal to more resources
LawPhil Philippine Laws and Jurisprudence - Massive legal database for the Philippines with court rulings and case info on thousands of cases from recent Philippine history
Philippine Diary Project - Collection of digitised diaries from Filipinos from the past two centuries
Report of the Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War
Southeast Asia Digital Library
SouthEast Asian Images & Texts
Southeast Asia Visions - European travel accounts of pre-modern Southeast Asia
Ohio University Thai Sources on Internet Archive (Thai)
Cornell Modern Indonesia Collection
Batavia Digital
OneSearch Indonesia
ASEAN Digital Library
UMass Southeast Asia Digital Archive
Elibrary of Cambodia
Cornell University Guides:
- List of US Government Documents on Southeast Asia - some of these may be available in nearby libraries or on microfilm by interlibrary loan
- List of British Government Documents on Southeast Asia - some of these may be available in nearby libraries or on microfilm by interlibrary loan
- Some General Historical Sources on Southeast Asia
- Colonial Era Sources on Southeast Asia
- Travel Literature on Southeast Asia

See Me

Some of these databases may be accessible in Edinburgh or elsewhere. Please see me for more information - I may have suggestions or have copies of some other collections, including:
Shanghai Municipal Police Archives
US State Department Records on Japan
US Intelligence Files on East Asia (mostly post-WWII)
Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal - missionary journal from China

Some Key Secondary Source Databases

CiNii Japanese Article Database - the “Google Scholar” of Japan. Often has links to PDFs of Japanese language scholarship

These will include links to many resources available only to students of that university
Harvard Korea Research Guide
Harvard Japan Research Guide
Harvard China Research Guide
U of California Berkely East Asia Research Guide
University of Washington East Asia Guide
Yale China English Sources Research Guide
Yale China Research Guide
Yale Japan Research Guide
Yale Korea Research Guide
国立国会図書館アジア情報の調べ方案内
AsiaPortal
Please get in touch if you find that this list contains any dead links, or you wish to suggest an addition

MO3354 Rethinking the World in East Asia 1850s-1990s

Overview

Key Details

Description

Assessment Summary

Learning Outcomes

Assignments

Headers and Formatting

Footnotes and Bibliography

Ten Minute Presentation

Formative Presentation

Reading Analysis Blog Posts

Elective Reading Handouts

Prospectus and Indicative Bibliography

Draft Prospectus

Long Essay

Topics for the Essay

Making an Argument

Carrying Out Research for Essays

Essay Outline

How your Long Essay is Evaluated

Feedback

Policies

Reading

Seminars

Week 1 - Introduction to Buddhism

Preparation

Required Reading

Elective Reading

Further Reading

Week 2 - Introduction to Confucianism

Preparation

Required Reading (~90)

Bonus Challenge

Elective Reading

Reference

General Further Reading

Week 3 - Taiping and Tonghak

Preparation

Required Reading (~115)

Elective Reading

General Further Reading

Week 4 - Revolutionary Internationalism

Preparation

Required Reading (~85)

Elective Reading

General Further Reading

Week 5 - New Orders for Love, Family, and the Liberation of Women

Preparation

Required Reading (~110)

Elective Reading

General Further Reading

Week 6 - Independent Learning Week

Week 7 - Buddhist World Orders

Preparation

Required Reading (~70)

Elective Reading

General Further Reading

Week 8 - Cosmopolitanism from the East

Preparation

Required Reading (~80)

Elective Reading

General Further Reading

Week 9 - New Directions in Japanese Thought and Overcoming Modernity

Preparation

Required Reading (~110)

Elective Reading

General Further Reading

Week 10 - Confucian Renewals

Preparation

Required Reading (~100)

Elective Reading

General Further Reading

Week 11 - Imagining Alternate Futures

Preparation

Required Reading

Elective Reading

General Further Reading

Other Relevant Topics For Research Essay

Shinto