9/25 Course introduction
10/2 European Origins
*The Myth of Continents. 1-46.
10/9 Asia and the Orient
*The Myth of Continents. 47-72.
*Orientalism. 1-28.
10/16 What is Asia?
*The Myth of Continents.73-103
*European Imagination of Asia in the 19th century.
10/23 Asia and Meiji Japan
*Stefan Tanaka. Japan’s Orient.
10/30 Asia, Japan, Empire
*Stefan Tanaka. Japan’s Orient
11/6 Korea and the East
*Andre Schmid. Korea Between Empires. “Decentering the Middle Kingdom and Realigning the East” “Peninsular Boundaries”
11/20 Asia Is One?
*Okakura Tenshin. Ideals of the East.
11/27 Asia and China
*Sun Yet-Sun. Pan-Asianism.
*Mao, Ze-Dong. Asian-African Unity 1959.
*Andrew Philips. Beyond Bandung: the 1955 Asian-African Conference and its legacies for international order
12/4 Is There an East Asian Modernity?
* Tu Wei-Ming, ed., Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity, 1996
12/11 East Asia as Method 1
*The Resurgence of East Asia: 500, 150 and 50 years perspectives. 1-16.
*Duara. Decolonization. Cumings. “Colonial Formations and Deformations” 2004.
*A Maritime History of East Asia. 1-46.
1/8 East Asia as Method 2
*Crisis of Global Modernity. 239-278.