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220 HIST 1801 Syllabus

This document provides a draft syllabus for a history course on Asia in the world from 3000 BCE to 1500 CE. The course is divided into three units: 1) defining Asia, examining concepts of Asian identity and comparisons between civilizations; 2) the formation and spread of agrarian civilizations in India, Southeast Asia, China and Japan; 3) movement and connections between Asian societies through Buddhism, Islam, Confucianism, and trade along the Silk Road. Students will read texts on Asian history and civilizations, complete short papers and presentations, and take a final exam.

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220 HIST 1801 Syllabus

This document provides a draft syllabus for a history course on Asia in the world from 3000 BCE to 1500 CE. The course is divided into three units: 1) defining Asia, examining concepts of Asian identity and comparisons between civilizations; 2) the formation and spread of agrarian civilizations in India, Southeast Asia, China and Japan; 3) movement and connections between Asian societies through Buddhism, Islam, Confucianism, and trade along the Silk Road. Students will read texts on Asian history and civilizations, complete short papers and presentations, and take a final exam.

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HIST

 1801  History  of  Asia  in  the  World  to  1500    


DRAFT  SYLLABUS,  November  2013  
 
This  course  focuses  on  the  formations  of  the  major  Asian  civilizations  in  the  
context  of  world  history,  roughly  from  the  third  millennium  BCE  to  1500  CE.    The  
first  part  of  the  course  examines  the  evolution  of  different  concepts  of  “Asia”  and  
“Asian  race(s),”  particularly  from  outside  of  Asia.    It  examines  the  similarities  
and  differences  among  various  archaic,  ancient,  and  traditional  polities  to  ask  
when  (or  if)  Asia  became  Asia.    The  second  part  of  the  course  introduces  the  
scattered  sites  of  Neolithic  Revolution  breakthroughs  across  the  continent;  the  
formation  of  the  agrarian  civilizations  of  the  Indic  and  Sinitic  core  regions  and  
their  spread  to  peripheral  regions  and  maritime  areas.    The  third  part  of  the  
course  examines  the  relationships  among  various  agrarian  centers  of  civilization  
and  between  agrarian  centers  of  civilization  and  pastoral-­‐nomadic  civilizations,  
including  patterns  of  trade  and  cultural  exchange  with  non-­‐Asians.  
 
Basic  texts:  
 
1. Carolyn  Brown  Heinz,  Asian  Cultural  Traditions    
2. Stewart  Gordon,  When  Asia  Was  the  World:  Traveling  Merchants,  Scholars,  
Warriors,  and  Monks  Who  Created  the  "Riches  of  the  "East"    
3. Jeffrey  L.  Richey,  Confucius  in  East  Asia:  Confucianism’s  History  in  China,  
Korea,  Japan,  and  Viet  Nam  
 
Grading  for  this  class  is  based  on  the  following  work:  
-­‐class  participation  and  reports;  quizzes:  20%  
-­‐3  short  papers  (3-­‐4  pages):  20%  each  
-­‐final  exam:  20%  
 
 
 
Unit  One:  Defining  “Asia”  
 
week  1:  geography  
-­‐Heinz  1-­‐37  
 
week  2:  as  ‘other’  
-­‐excerpts  from  Edward  W.  Said,  Orientalism  
-­‐excerpts  from  Jonathan  Spence,  The  Chan’s  Great  Continent:  China  in  Western  
Minds  
 
week  3:  myths  
-­‐Sir  John  Mandeville,  from  Mandeville’s  Travels  
-­‐excerpts  from  Said  &  Spence  
 
week  4:  shifting  geographies  
-­‐Marshall  Hodgson,  “Afro-­‐Eurasian  Historical  Complex,”  from  Rethinking  World  
History:  Essays  on  Europe,  Islam,  and  World  History,  3-­‐28.  
-­‐excerpts  from  Martin  W.  Lewis,  and  Karen  E.  Wigen,  The  Myth  of  Continents  :  A  
Critique  of  Metageography  
 
 
Unit  Two:  Agrarian  civilizations  and  their  peripheries  
 
week  5:  “peoples”  of  Asia;  the  Neolithic  
-­‐Heinz  41-­‐115  
-­‐(Journal  of  World  History  stuff)  
 
week  6:  India  
-­‐Heinz  119-­‐181  
-­‐excerpts  from  Sheldon  Pollack,  The  Language  of  the  Gods  in  the  World  of  Men:  
Sanskrit,  Culture  and  Power  in  Premodern  India  
-­‐excerpts  from  Sources  of  Indian  Tradition  
 
week  7:  Southeast  Asia  
-­‐Heinz  184-­‐220  
-­‐excerpt  from  Anthony  Reid,  Charting  the  Shape  of  Early  Modern  Southeast  Asia  
-­‐excerpt  from  Craig  Lockard,  Southeast  Asia  in  World  History  
-­‐excerpt  from  James  C.  Scott,  The  Art  of  Not  Being  Governed:  An  Anarchist  History  
of  Upland  Southeast  Asia  
 
week  8:  China  
-­‐Heinz  222-­‐279  
-­‐excerpts  from  Tansen  Sen  and  Victor  Mair,  Traditional  China  in  Asian  and  World  
History  
-­‐excerpts  from  Sources  of  Chinese  Tradition  
 
week  9:  Japan  
-­‐Heinz  282-­‐327  
-­‐-­‐excerpts  from  Sources  of  Japanese  Tradition  
 
 
Unit  Three:  Movement  
 
week  10:  Buddhism  
-­‐Gordon  1-­‐20  
-­‐excerpts  from  Sources  of  Indian  Tradition,  Sources  of  Chinese  Tradition,  Sources  
of  Japanese  Tradition  
 
week  11:  Islam  
-­‐Gordon  21-­‐56,  97-­‐115  
-­‐excerpts  from  Ira  M.  Lapidus,  A  History  of  Islamic  Societies  
 
week  12:  Confucianism  
-­‐Jeffrey  L.  Richey,  Confucius  in  East  Asia  (118  pp.)  
 
week  13:  Central  Asia  and  inter-­‐Asian  contacts  

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-­‐Gordon  57-­‐95,  117-­‐156  
-­‐excerpts  from  James  A.  Millward,  The  Silk  Road:  A  Very  Short  Introduction  
 
week  14:  Eurasia:  West-­‐East  contacts  
-­‐Heinz  330-­‐364  
-­‐Gordon  157-­‐191  
 

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