Anthropology 415
Peoples
and Cultures of East Asia
Fall 2001
Professor
Charles W. Nuckolls
Department of Anthropology
telephone:
348-8202
email: balaji@ouraynet.com
webpage: http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/nuckolls.htm
The purpose of this course is to explore the cultures of East Asia, with special attention to China and Japan. While many connecting themes are available, we will focus mainly on one: the implications of “Confucianism” for East Asian systems of social structure, family life, and political history.
Students are encouraged to
keep up with, if not ahead of assigned readings.
Each week, you will submit short (one or two page) “reaction
comments” to the readings for that week.
In these commentaries you present your overview and assessment of the
readings, pose questions, and introduce new lines of inquiry.
These papers will not be graded, but you must submit them, and if you
miss more than one your grade for the semester may be affected.
Three papers will be assigned.
The first, due at the end of the third week, will address the concepts
and ideas of philosophical Confucianism. The
second, due at the end of the seventh week, will be on a topic drawn from a list
provided by the instructor. The
third, on the last day of class, will be a short-essay examination, which you
will write in class.
Since this class meets only once a week, attendance is very
important, and will count toward the final calculation of your grade.
Required
Texts:
Benedict, R. Chyrsthanemum
and the Sword (available in Anthropology Lounge for you to make copies of
selected chapters)
Slote, W. and DeVos, G.
Confucianism and the Family.
DeBary, W. Asian
Values and Human Rights.
Tale
of the 47 Loyal Retainers (this is available on line, although you may wish to
purchase you own text from Amazon).
Recommended (but only if you are seriously interested):
Reading:
The Analects
Wei-Ming Tu, “Confucius and Confucianism”
Week
Two: September 6 (Thursday)
Devos, G. “A Japanese
legacy of Confucian thought”
Reading:
Chusinguru (Tale of the 47 Loyal Retainers)
Chushingura - act XI / scene 2: Moronao's Head
Week
Five:
Film:
Chusinguru
Reading:
start
Confucius Lives Next Door
Week
Six:
Week
Seven:
Hsu, F. “Confucianism in
comparative context.”
Week
Eight:
Reading:
Kuo,
E. “Confucianism and the Chinese
family in Singapore: Continuties
and changes”
Jordan, D. “Filial Piety
in Taiwanese popular thought”
Film: To Live
Reading:
DeBary, W. Asian
Values and Human Rights
Week
Ten:
Week
Eleven:
Week
Twelve:
Film: Frozen
Week Thirteen:
November 22 (Thursday) THANKSGIVING
HOLIDAY
Week
Fourteen:
In Class Examination
Week Fifteen:
1.
David Jordon page. Excellent
resources, including translations, of key Confucian documents.
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/china.html
2. 2. Translation of Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars (This text is the most important folk statement about filial piety. Dating from the Yuán dynasty (XIII-XIVth century), it is by no means part of the Confucian Canon, but belongs rather with the category of widely distributed popular morality texts.)
3. Translation of Zhu Bolu's Maxims for Managing the Home Like the "Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars," the "Maxims for Managing the Home" is a widely distributed morality text that vividly lays out the traditional value system of China in the form of advice to the head of a family.
4. Hsiao Ching (THE CLASSIC OF FILIAL PIETY) Translated by James Legge
5. Examples of Filial Piety (14th Century CE)
6. Filial Piety in Modern Times: Timely Adaptation and Practice Patterns (Kyu-taik Sung)
The Picture-Book of Twenty-Four Acts of Filial Piety (From Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk --Lu Hsun on Filial Piety)
Filial Piety: The Traditional Ideal of Parent Care in East Asia by Kyu-taik Sung
Although three of four of these books are traditionally attributed to Confucius (K'ung-tzu, 551-479 B.C.) it has been established that he did not write a single word of them; they were written down by his students after his death. The Analects come closest to an actual exposition of his philosophy. These works were put into their present form by Chu Hsi in the late twelfth century A.D. These four books were required reading in order to pass the civil service exminations, (started in 1315), which were the gateway to employment in the Imperial bureaucracy. The translations are by James Legge, from his 'Chinese Classics' series.
Confucian Analects (Lun Yü) 157,975 bytes. The Analects were a collection of sayings written down by Confucius' students in the period approximately seventy years after his death.
Mencius (Legge, tr. 1895). The second book in the Confucian canon, the Meng-tzu, is named after its author, also known as Meng K'o or Mencius (371-289 B.C.).
The Doctrine Of The Mean (Chung Yung) 38,850 bytes. This work, which is more mystical than the other Confucian classics, is of unknown date.
The Shu Ching is the Book of Historical Records; it describes events dating back to the third millenium B.C., and was written down during the Han dynasty (23-220 A.D.).
The Shih Ching is the Book of Odes, it contains poems dating back to 1000-500 B.C.
The I Ching is the Oracular Book of Changes dating to approximately 3000 B.C., which makes it one of the oldest sacred texts.
The Li Ki is the Book of Rites: Part I; Part II , which describes Chinese religious practice from the eighth to the fifth century B.C.
Introduction
Part
I - The Book of Thang
Part
II - The Books of Yu
Part
III - The Books of Hsia
Part
IV - The Books of Shang
Part
V - The Books of Kau
Introduction
Part
I - Odes of the Temple and the Altar
Part
II - Minor Odes of the Kingdom
Part
III - Major Odes of the Kingdom
Part
IV - Lessons from the States
Classics
Richard John Lynn, tr., The Classic of
Changes [I Ching]
Richard Wilhelm, tr., The I Ching, or Book
of Changes
Arthur Waley, tr., The Book of Songs [Shih
Ching]
James Legge, tr., The Shoo King [Shu
Ching, or Book of Documents], in The
Chinese Classics, v.3
James Legge, tr., The Li Ki [Li
Chi, or Record of Ritual], in Sacred
Books of the East, v. 27-28
James Legge, tr., The Ch'un ts'ew [Ch'un
Ch'iu, or Spring and Autumn Annals], in Chinese
Classics, v.5
Mary Lelia Makra, tr., The Hsiao Ching
[Classic of Filial Piety]
Carsun Chang, The Development of
Neo-Confucian Thought, 2 vols.
Wm. Theodore de Bary and Tu Wei-ming, eds., Confucianism
and Human Rights
Patricia Buckley Ebrey and Peter N. Gregory, eds., Religion and Society in T'ang and Sung China
Daniel K. Gardner, Chu Hsi and the Ta-hsueh:
Neo-Confucian Reflection on the Confucian Canon
Donald Hall and Roger Ames, Thinking
Through Confucius
Henry Rosemont, Jr., ed., Chinese Texts
and Philosophical Contexts: Essays Dedicated to A. C. Graham
Gilbert Rozman, ed., The East Asian
Region: Confucian Heritage and Its Modern Adaptation
Kidder Smith, Jr., Peter K. Bol, Joseph A. Adler, Don J. Wyatt, Sung
Dynasty Uses of the I Ching
Benjamin I. Schwartz, The World of Thought
in Ancient China
Rodney L. Taylor, The Religious Dimensions
of Confucianism
Tu Wei-ming, Humanity and
Self-Cultivation: Essays in Confucian Thought
Xinzhong Yao, An Introduction to
Confucianism
General
·
The Chinese Biographical Database (CBD)
Lewis-Clark State College, Idaho, USA
URL http://exodus.lcsc.edu/cbiouser/
·
Yuwen congshu (Collectanea of Language)
Ministry of Education, Taiwan, ROC
URL http://www.edu.tw/clc/dict/html/yu.htm
History
·
Early Medieval China Group
http://www-lib.usc.edu/Info/EastAsian/wjnbc.htm
·
Index of Resources for Historians (huge list of links)
http://history.cc.ukans.edu/history/index.html
·
Map History/History of Cartography
http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/maps/
Libraries
·
Academica Sinica (database page)
http://www.sinica.edu.tw/ftms-bin/ftmsw3
·
Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
·
Bodleian Library Chinese Catalogue (searchable by character)
http://erl.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/acwww25/maske.pl?db=oxchi
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China WWW Virtual Library - Internet Guide for China
http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/netguide.htm
main page: http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/netguide/ngmain.htm]
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East-Asia WWW Virtual Library
http://www.unive.it/~dsie/vl/eastasia.html
·
Harvard-Yenching Library China Studies Page
http://www-hcl.harvard.edu/hyl/chinstd.htm
·
Libraries and Library Resources for Chinese Studies
http://www.uni-kiel.de:8080/ORIENTALISTIK/netguide/netguide.htm
Literature
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China-related Literature and Film Links
http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/deall/denton.2/links.htm
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Renditions (Chinese-English Translation Journal)
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/renditions/
·
Chinese Movie Database
Chinese Movie Database Workgroup, Hong Kong, China
URL http://www.asiaonline.net.hk/~dianying/
Medicine
·
Chinese Medical Classics E-Texts (University of Venice, Italy)
URL http://helios.unive.it/~pregadio/ikei.html
·
Current Bibliographies in Medicine 97-6: ACUPUNCTURE, January 1970
through October 1997
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/acupuncture.html
Philosophy
·
Chinese Philosophical E-text Archive
http://www.wesleyan.edu/~sangle/etext/index.html
Religion
·
Journals in Chinese Religions ToC Project
Society for the Study of Chinese Religions SSCR, USA/Germany
URL http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/SSCR/tocperiod.htm
Books
Online
·
Asian Studies Online Bookshops
http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/AsiaPages/VLBookshops.html
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Booksellers & Publishers in the field of Asian Studies (index)
http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/books/
·
Chinabooks
http://chinabooks.com
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Chinese Books
http://www.chinesebooks.net
(Requires a Chinese-language software program other than Twinbridge)
History
·
Japan Information Access Project
http://www.nmjc.org/jiap/text.html
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Japan Policy Institute
http://www.nmjc.org/jpri
·
Index of Resources for Historians (huge list of links)
http://history.cc.ukans.edu/history/index.html
·
Map History/History of Cartography
http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/maps/
Libraries
·
Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
·
Bodleian Library Japanese Catalogue (searchable in Japanese)
http://erl.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/acwww25/maske.pl?db=oxjpn
·
East-Asia WWW Virtual Library
http://www.unive.it/~dsie/vl/eastasia.html
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Harvard-Yenching Library Japan Studies Page
http://www-hcl.harvard.edu/hyl/japstd.htm
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Japan WWW Virtual Library
Stanford University US-Japan Technology Management Center, USA URL
http://fuji.stanford.edu/JGUIDE
Literature
·
Duke University Japanese Studies webpage
http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/japanesestudies.html
· Japanese Text Initiative (JTI): texts of classical Japanese literature online http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/
Religion
·
Pure Land (Jodo) Mandala Study Group
Jodo Mandara Kenkyukai, Kyoto, Japan
URL http://www1.odn.ne.jp/pureland-mandala/
Books
Online
·
List of Japanese Booksellers Online (up-to-date, comprehensive)
http://www.nmjc.org/center/personnel/bookstores.html
·
Asian Studies Online Bookshops
http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/AsiaPages/VLBookshops.html
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Booksellers & Publishers in the field of Asian Studies (index)
http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/books/
· Bunsei Shoin Booksellers Co., Ltd. (Japanese language software necessary to view catalog) http://www.bunsei.co.jp/