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East Asian Civilizations HANDBOOK 2024-25

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Assignment 1 (AS1) 2024/25

Assignment 2 (AS2) 2024/25

Assignment 3 (AS3) 2024/25

AS1 Object Study

AS2 Reaction Paper

AS2 Example Reaction Paper

AS3 Comparative Essay

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Lecture 1: Introduction to East Asian Civilisations

Charles Holcombe. The Genesis of East Asia, 221 B. C. -A. D. 907.

Gi-Wook Shin and Daniel C. Sneider. History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia : Divided Memories.

Ebrey/Walthall. East Asia: a cultural, social, and political history.

Lecture 1 SLIDES

Lecture 2: Prehistory of East Asia

Ebrey pp2-7

Barnes Chapter 5, pp. 96-125.

Barnes Chapter 6 pp 126-156

Week 2 - Prehistory SLIDES

Lecture 3: Theories of Rulership in Early China

Pines Chapter 2 - The Monarch

Ebrey - Chinese Civilisation Sourcebook

Week 3 LEC - Rulership in Early China

Lecture 4: Theories on Rulership in Korea

Theories on Rulership in Korea

McBride

Haboush

Tutorial reading: Ten Injunctions

Vermeersch

Jongmyung Kim

Lovins

Karlsson

Lecture 5: Theories of Rulership in Japan

Lecture Reading: Duthie. The Jinshin Rebellion and the Politics of Historical Narrative in Early Japan

Tutorial Reading 1 - History of the Kingdom of Wei / Wajinden translation

Tutorial reading 2: Yoshie, Tonomura and Takata. Gendered Interpretations of Female Rule: The Case of Himiko, Ruler of Yamatai.

Tutorial reading 2: Yoshie, Tonomura and Takata. Gendered Interpretations of Female Rule: The Case of Himiko, Ruler of Yamatai.

Farris, Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History.

Lecture 6: Indigenous Religions 1: Ancestor worship in China

Lakos 2

6 Ancestor Worship in China

Lecture 7: Indigenous Religions 2: Shamanism in Korea

Korean shamanism

Na

Kendall

Kendall - chapter notes

Foundation myths

Horlyck and Pettid

Grayson

Lecture 8: Indigenous Religions 3: Shintō

Shinto Study Guide

Lecture reading: Breen &amp; Teeuwen. “Chapter 2: An Alternative Approach to the History of Shintō” from A New History of Shintō. London: John Wiley &amp; Sons, 2010.

Tutorial reading: Robert Borgen, Marian Ury "Readable Japanese Mythology: Selections from Nihon shoki and Kojiki". The Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese Vol. 24, No. 1 (Apr., 1990), pp. 61-97

Encyclopedia of Shinto

Yasukuni Jinja

BBC podcast about Shinto

Lecture 9: Sinographies and Writing in East Asia

Sinographies and Writing

Kornicki

Quiz to prepare for tutorial

Keightley

Handel

Lecture 10: Warfare in Early China

Sawyer tr Sunzi Art of War

10 Warfare in Early China LEC

Lecture 11: Warfare in Japan

Friday, Teeth and Claws: Provincial Warriors &amp; The Heian Court

The Tale of the Heike, Book 9

Burton Watson (trans.) The Tales of the Heike.

Tsuruta Kinshi performing the Battle of Dannoura (壇の浦)

Lecture reading: Breen & Teeuwen. “Chapter 2: An Alternative Approach to the History of Shintō” from A New History of Shintō. London: John Wiley & Sons, 2010.

Friday, Teeth and Claws: Provincial Warriors & The Heian Court