Week 1 (Oct. 5): Course introduction
Week 2 (Oct. 12): European Origins
*“Introduction” “The Architecture of Continents” in Martin W. Lewis and Karen E. Wigen, eds. The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (University of California Press, 1997), 1-46.
Week 3 (Oct. 19): The Orient and the East
* “The Spatial Constructs of Orient and Occident, East and West” in The Myth of Continents, 47-72.
*Edward Said. Orientalism. 1-28.
Week 4 (Oct. 26): Creating Asia 1
* Harvey Goldman. “Images of the Other: European Imagination of Asia in the 19th century” Asia in Western and World History (Routledge, 1997), 146-171.
* Karl Marx. “The British Rule in India” The New York Daily Tribune (June 25, 1853) (https://www.marxists.org/*****)
Week 5 (Nov. 2): Imagining Asia in Early Meiji Japan
*“Introduction,” in Pan-Asianism, A Documentary History, Volume 1: 1850-1920 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011): 1-12, 20-26, 34-38.
*"Japanese enlightenment and saying goodbye to Asia" in Japan: A Documentary History (Sharpe, 1997): 351-353.
Week 6 (Nov. 9): Asia & Japan
* Okakura Kakuzo. Ideals of the East: The Spirit of Japanese Art (Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc. 2016) (http://oneasiaproject.org/*****)
Week 7 (Nov.16): “Asians” and Asianism
*“Zhang Taiyan and the Asatic Humanitarian Brotherhood, 1907,” “Sin Ch’ae-ho: ‘A Critique of Easternism,’ 1909,” “Abdurresid Ibrahim: ‘The World of Islam and the Spread of Islam in Japan,’ 1910” in Pan-Asianism, A Documentary History, Volume 1: 1850-1920 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011): 177-184, 191-204.
Nov. 23: NO CLASS
First response paper due Nov. 23, 23:59.
Week 8 (Nov. 30): Competing Imaginings of Asia of the 1920s-1930s
*Sun Yet-Sun. “Pan-Asianism”.
https://en.wikisource.org/*****
*"Raja Mahendra Pratap: Indian Independence, Asian Solidarity, World Federation, 1930" "Ishiwara Kanji's 'Argument for an East Asian League' in 1940" in Pan-Asianism, A Documentary History, Vol.2: 1920-Present (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011): 107-114, 201-208.
Week 9 (Dec. 7): Asia as Method
*Takeuchi Yoshimi. Preface and Chapter 2 “What Is Modernity” of What is Modernity? Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi (Columbia U P, 2005)
Week 10 (Dec. 14): A Confucian East Asia?
* Tu Wei-Ming, ed., Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity (Harvard University Press, 1996), Introduction, Chapter 10, “The Reproduction of Confucian Culture in Contemporary Korea” & Chapter 14, “Promoting Confucianism for Socioeconomic Development”.
Week 11 (Dec. 21): Debating “Asian Values”
*“Asian values,” Britannica Online Encyclopedia.
*Michael Barr. “Lee Kuan yew and the ‘Asian Values’ Debate” Asian Studies Review, 24/3, Spring 2000.
* Leigh Jenco. “Revisiting Asian Values”. Journal of the History of Ideas. Vol.74, No.2 (2013), 237-258.
Week 12 (Jan. 4): East Asia as Method
*Prasenjit Duara. The Crisis of Global Modernity (Cambridge University Press 2014), 239-278.
Week 13 (Jan. 11): final paper title and abstract submitted to instructor
Second response paper due Jan. 11, 23:59. Early submission before Jan. 11 is welcome.
Jan. 25, 2023 Final paper due