History 121

History of East Asia

History P121

Required Texts for Fall 2010

Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, Anne Walthall, and James Palais, East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History, Second Edition, 2009, Houghton Mifflin
Buck, Pearl S., The Good Earth (any edition will do)
Jiang, Ji-li, Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution (any edition will do)
Hersey, John, Hiroshima (any edition will do)
Linda Sue Park, When My Name Was Keoko (any edition will do)

Recommended:

Link to Class Announcements

Fall 2010 Syllabus

Power Point Presentations for Lectures

CHINA
1: China: Intro to Later Zhou	2: China: Qin through Han	3: China: 6 Dynasties, Tang, and Song
4: China: Yuan Dynasty	5: China: Ming Dynasty Part 1	6: China: Ming Dynasty Part 2
7: China: Qing Dynasty	8: China: 1911-1949	9: China: 1949-1980s
JAPAN
10: Japan Intro to Heian	11: Japan Kamakura & Warring States Period	12: Japan Tokugawa Period
13a: Early Meiji Japan	13b Late Meiji and Taisho Japan	14: Japan Showa Period -- WWII through Reconstruction and recovery
KOREA
15: Korea: Intro	16: Korea: Three Kingdoms and Unified Silla	17: Korea: Koryo Dynasty
18: Korea :Chosun Dynasty	19: Korea: Japanese Occupation, Liberation, Division, Korean War to 1960	20 Korea 1960 Forward
extra stuff: Divided Korea: Genesis of a Nuclear Flashpoint : a slide presentation focusing on the cause of today's nuclear standoff with North Korea. I did not use this in class, but it may have insights you will find useful.

Special Required Readings

Bradley Martin Article: "Yun Sang-Won: The Knowledge in those eyes" (PDF)

"Sim Chung: The Dutiful Daughter" (RTF)

"Tale of the Patriotic Kisaeng" (RTF)

Asia Links: good field trips for History 121 students
Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple in Hacienda Heights	Pacific Asia Museum of Pasadena
Los Angeles County Museum (Asia Section)	Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Sherman Lee Institute of Japanese Art in Hanford