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Schedule
of Classes and Assigned Readings
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Weekly classes |
Monday |
Wednesday |
Friday |
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1-3 |
Topic:
Introduction
to Classical China
Readings: [General
Introduction]
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The culture
of the Classical elite
1. General
Introduction
2. Han Qi Visits the
State of Zheng |
Classical
patrician views of the past
The
Legendary Emperors
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| 4-6 |
Poetic views
of society
Verses From the
Book of Poetry
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The founding
of the Zhou Dynasty
1.
The
Rise of the House of Zhou
2.
The Story
of the Duke of Zhou
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Early Spring
& Autumn Period political history
Spring and Autumn China (722-453), pp. 1-21
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| 7-9 |
Later Spring
& Autumn Period political history
Spring and Autumn China (722-453), pp. 22-42 |
Ritualism and the advent of Confucius
Zhou Ritual
Culture and Its Rationalization
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The
Analects of Confucius
Confucius and
the Origins of Confucianism
Analects: Appendixes 3-4, pp. 122-44 |
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10-12 |
Political
history of the early Warring States Period
The
Warring States Period (453-221), pp. 1-21 |
Political
history of the later Warring States Period
The
Warring States Period (453-221), pp. 22-41
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Social change in the Warring States Period
1. The
Economy of Early China: Food & Money
2. Technological
Change in Warring States China
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13-15 |
Intellectual
change: Mohism and philosophy
1. The
Rhetorical Arts and Political Persuasion
2. Mohist Thought
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The
Confucian career of Mencius
Mencius |
Daoist
thought: the Dao de jing
Daoism, pp.
1-10 |
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16-18 |
Zhuangzi
Daoism, pp.
11-28
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Naturalism
Naturalist
Thought in the Late Classical Period
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The Confucian response:
Xunzi
Xunzi |
| 19-21 |
Legalism
and the basis of the Qin Revolution
Legalism |
Religion
in Warring States society
Spiritual Beliefs
and Regional Religion |
Shang China and its discovery
1. Preface to Readings on Pre-Classical China
2. The Discovery of
the Shang Dynasty |
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22-24 |
The deities
of the Shang world
1.
The Sexagenary
Number-Date System
2.
The Oracle Texts
3. Shang
Religion
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Shang
bronzes
1.
Shang Kingship and
Shang Kinship
2. Shang Ritual
Bronzes
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The
Neolithic background of the Shang
Neolithic
China: Before the Shang Dynasty
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| 25-27 |
Shang
society and the nature of the Shang polity
Shang Society
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The Western
Zhou
The History of the
Western Zhou
[Inscriptional Records of the Western Zhou] |
Bridging the
Pre-Classical & Post-Classical eras
1. Introduction to
Imperial China
2. The Qin Dynasty,
pp. 1-7 |
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28-30 |
The Qin
Revolution
The Qin Dynasty,
pp. 8-27 |
Qin law
The Laws of Qin
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Post-Qin
civil war
The Rise of the Han |
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31-33 |
The
establishment of the Han state
The Reigns of the
Early Han Emperors |
Early Han
ideology
Huang-Lao
Ideology |
The reign of
Han Emperor Wu
The Reign of
Wu-di, 140-87 |
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34-36 |
Han
Dynasty metaphysical thought
1. Yin-Yang
Five-Forces Theory During the Han
2. The Arts of the Fangshi |
Confucianism
in the early Han
The Fortunes of
Confucianism During the Early Han
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Our
historical lens on early China
Sima Qian and Our
View of Early China |
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37-38 |
The Yi jing
The Yi jing |
History as
moral wisdom in the Confucian tradition
The Spring and Autumn Annals |
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