Sponsored by the Five College Center for East Asian Studies
National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA)
Teaching About China, Japan, and Korea Seminar
Funded by the Freeman Foundation
Hosted by St. George’s School, Middletown, RI
Chris Walsh, Seminar Leader ()
Syllabus
Seminar Texts: These will be provided. You do not need to purchase
anything.
Main Text: Lipman, Molony, and Robinson, Modern East Asia
Supplemental Material:
Chang, Leslie T.. Factory Girls: From Village to City
Tudor, Daniel. Korea, the Impossible Country
Reid, T.R.. Confucius Lives Next Door
Minear, Richard. Through Japanese Eyes
Vernoff, Edward and Seybolt, Peter J.. Through Chinese Eyes
Kim, Richard. Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood
Ames and Rosemont. The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation
Hessler, Peter. Oracles Bones: A Journey Through Time in China
Goosen, Theodore W. Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories
Education About Asia Magazine – All participants will receive a one-year subscription.
Suggested readings will be from the provided texts and material, handouts, and/or on-line articles.
Requirements:
Attendance and participation
Attendance and participation in each session in its entirety is required. Missed sessions may be “made-up” by attending a session at one of the other New England NCTA seminars or other appropriate event. If you need to leave early or arrive late you will need to make up the time.
Implementation Plan
The Implementation Plan documents how you will use the seminar material and experience in your classroom. The seminar material is defined as your lecture notes, handouts, notes from text readings, background material given to you during the seminar and ideas mentioned in class. In essence the Implementation Plan tells the reader how you will specifically alter your course(s) to incorporate the material, knowledge, and understanding and gathered from this seminar. An example of a good IP will be provided as a model. The creation of a plan should be a useful exercise for you in terms of organizing the seminar material into a format that fits the needs of your particular classroom. IPs are usually three pages long, and must include specific and proper citations when available and appropriate. The Implementation Plan is due in my hands by Friday May 17th.
Location, Dates, Time, & Bad Weather
Unless otherwise announced all meetings will be held in the library at St. Georges School, Middletown RI.
The dates we will meet are all on Tuesdays and are as follows: 1/15, 1/22, 1/29,
2/5, 2/12, 2/26, 3/5, 4/2, 4/9, and 4/30.
We will meet from 4:00-7:00.
Makeup session for inclement weather will be on May 7, 2013, 4:00-7:00.
I will call each of you and send you an email, if we are canceling a session due to weather. Please make sure that I have a current ‘best’ number to reach you during the day.
If you have a question as to whether we are holding a session or not, please call Chris Walsh: cell 401-450-9562, or at home 401-423-0
Seminar Schedule
Tuesday Jan. 15, 2013 , 4:00pm – 7:00 pm
Welcome, introductions, delivery of materials, syllabus review, brief explanation of expectations.
"Archaeology, History, and Politics: How China's Past Shapes the Present and the Future."
Robert Murowchick, Boston University
Readings for this session:
Essential:
The Excitement and the Challenge of Understanding China’s Past, Robert Murowchick, the introductory essay to The Enduring Legacy of Ancient China, Sent to you as a pdf
Understanding the Geographies of China: an Assemblage of Pieces by Robert W. McColl
Sent to you as a pdf file
Reommended:
Main Text: Lipman, Molony, and Robinson, Modern East Asia, pp. 14-19
Tuesday Jan. 22, 2013 , 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Review of expectations and completion of administrative paperwork. Questions, materials display, reading assignment for next session.
“Chinese Culture through Chinese Language”
Min Zhou, Roger Williams University
Readings for this session:
Main Text: Lipman, Molony, and Robinson, Modern East Asia, pp. 23-27
Other readings TBA
Tuesday , Jan. 29, 2013, 4:00pm – 7:00pm
Questions, materials display, reading assignment for next session.
“Japan and the Early Modern World”
Kerry Smith, Brown University
Readings for this session: ( “Japan and the Early Modern World”)
Essential :
Conrad Totman, "Japan and the World 1450-1770, Was Japan A 'Closed Country'?" Education About Asia (12:1) Spring 2007: 36-39)
Sent to you as a pdf file or a handout
Recommended:
Main Text: Lipman, Molony, and Robinson, Modern East Asia,
pp. 54-62, 88-98, 125—133, 160-167.
Tuesday, Feb 5, 2013, 4:00pm – 7:00pm
Questions, materials display, reading assignment for next session.
Confucianism
Henry Rosemont, Brown University
Readings for this session:
Essential
Assignment for this session: Read through, The Analects of Confucius. Find one that particularly interests you, memorize it and be prepared to recite it and explain why you find it interesting
Recommended:
Rosemont, A Reader’s Companion to the Confucian Analects,
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
Teaching/Learning Confucius, Navigating Our Way through the Analects by David Jones
https://www.asian-studies.org/EAA/jones.htm
.
Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013, 4:00pm -7:00pm
Questions, materials display, reading assignment for next session.
Korean History and Culture, Part I
Young Un, Wheeler School, Providence
Readings for this session:
Essential:
Connor, Mary. Famous Koreans: Six Portraits, Volume 6, Number 2, Fall 2001, http://www.asian-studies.org/EAA/connor.htm
Recommended:
Main Text: Lipman, Molony, and Robinson, Modern East Asia, pp. 45-53
pp.79-87, 117-124, 152-158.
Tuesday Feb. 26, 2013, 4:00pm (sharp) -7:00pm
Questions, materials display, reading assignment for next session
Korean History and Culture, Part II
Young Un
Readings for this session:
Essential:
Masalski, Kathleen Woods. History as Literature, Literature as History: an Interview with Lost Names author Richard Kim, http://www.asian-studies.org/EAA/lostname.htm
Shultz, Edward J.10 Top Things to Know about Korea 21st Century
http://www.asian-studies.org/EAA/Korea-Ten-things.pdf
Recommended:
Main Text: Lipman, Molony, and Robinson, Modern East Asia, pp. 196-203, 232-239, 267-275, 304-313, 320-328, 379-388, 405-414, 440-449.
Tuesday March 5, 2013, 4:00pm – 7:00pm
Turning Points in the History of Modern Japan
Kerry Smith, Brown University
Readings for this session:
Essential:
Carol Gluck, "Top Ten Things to Know About Japan in the Early Twenty-First Century," Education About Asia (13:3) (Winter 2008): 5-11.
Handout.
Recommended:
Main Text: Lipman, Molony, and Robinson, Modern East Asia,
pp. 174-186, 210-220, 246-254, 282-292, 342- 351, 369-379, 414-422, 430-438.
Tuesday April 2, 2013 4:00 pm – 7:00pm
Japanese Literature and Art:
Text and Image in woodblock prints derived from literary sources
Meera Viswanathan,
Brown University
Readings for this session:
TBA
Tuesday April 9, 2013, 4:00pm – 7:00pm
Questions, materials display, reading assignment for next session.
China:
A Look at Old China
Rebecca Nedostup, Brown University
Readings for this session: TBA
Tuesday April 30, 2013, 4:00pm – 7:00pm
Questions, materials display, reading assignment for next session.
China: Religion in Modern China
Rebecca Nedostup, Brown University
Readings for this session:
Essential:
Goossaert -- Concept of Religion. pdf
Nedostup _- Ritual Competition.pdf
China Gets Religion! by Ian Johnson The New York Review of Books.pdf
All three of these articles will be provided to you as handouts and/or pdf files
Make-up
May 7, 2013