Graduate students enrolled in Early China (EALC E505) will meet weekly for an additional hour at a time and place to be arranged at the start of the term. Written assignments will include maintaining a reading Journal somewhat differently configured from the undergraduate assignment and completing a term research paper.
Tentative and preliminary schedule of classes:
NOTE: Where an asterisk * appears, individual chapter assignments with precis will be involved.
Week of (NOTE: "Cam." = Cambridge History of Ancient China, located in the Wells Library Research Collection: DS 741.5 .C35 1999)
August 28 Sources and approaches to the study of early China
No readings
Sept. 4 Baseline analytic model of historical change in the Eastern Zhou
Cho-yun Hsu, Ancient China in Transition, chapters 1-4 (pp. 1-106); Cam., ch. 8
Sept. 11 Approaches to the Zuozhuan as history & literature (I)
Yuri Pines, "Intellectual Change in the Chunqiu period," Early China [EC]
22, pp. 77-132
David Schaberg, "Remonstrance in Eastern Zhou Historiography," EC 22, pp.
133-179
Sept. 18 Approaches to the Zuozhuan as history & literature (II)
*
Yuri Pines, Foundations of Confucian Thought
*
David Schaberg, A Patterned Past
Sept. 25 Thematic analysis
Mark Lewis, Writing and Authority in Early China, Intro. and ch. 3-4, pp. 99-193
Oct. 2 An Archaeological Perspective on the Spring & Autumn
Lothar von Falkenhausen, Cam., ch. 7, pp. 450-544
Oct. 9 Origins of Chinese civilization
* Li Liu et al., State Formation in Early China
Oct. 16 MIDTERM WEEK OFF
Oct. 23 Bronze Age polities
David Keightley, Cam., ch. 4, pp. 232-91
Oct. 30 The Shang and the Shang-Zhou transition
Robin Yates, "The City-State in Ancient China," pp. 71-90
David Pankenier, EC 8
Nov. 6 Western Zhou history
* Feng Li, Landscape and Power in Early China
Edward Shaughnessy, Sources of Western Zhou History
Nov. 13 Canon formation and function
* Steven Van Zoeren, Poetry and Personality
* John Henderson, Canon and Commentary
*
Michael Nylan, The Five "Confucian" Classics
Nov. 20 Sima Qian and historical writing in China
* Stephen Durrant, The Cloudy Mirror
Michael Nylan, "Sima Qian: a true historian?" EC 23-24