SEMESTER LECTURE SCHEDULE

WEEK'S TOPIC	READINGS AND DISCUSSION
EAST ASIA: THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT
14-16 January: A Look at Asia as a Region	No outside reading.
Monday 21 January	Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Classes dismissed; offices closed.
23 January: Pre-Modern East Asia and Modern East Asian Society.	No outside reading.
SKILLS QUIZ, Wednesday 23 January
28-30 January: The Nature of Imperialism in Asia.	Lecture reading: Modern East Asia, 308-312 and 366-374. Discussion reading: The Search for Modern China: Chapter 6, China and the Eighteenth-Century World Discussion Questions submissions due Tuesday 29 January by midnight.
CHINA
4-6 February: Early Chinese Encounters with the West. Struggling to Maintain the Emperor's World Order. The Opium Wars.	Lecture reading: Modern East Asia, 313-330. Film: Two Coasts of China: Asia and the Challenge of the West Film Response submissions due Friday 8 February by midnight.
GRADED QUIZ 1, Tuesday 4 February
11-13 February: Chinese Domestic Unrest.  The Decline and Fall of Imperial China.  The Nationalist and Communist Movements in China.	Lecture reading: Modern East Asia, 375-396, 448-464, and 501-528. Film: China in Revolution (Part 1): Battle for Survival Film Response submissions due Friday 15 February by midnight.
18-20 February: Mao’s Victory in China. The Early Years of the People’s Republic of China.  The Cultural Revolution.	Lecture reading: Modern East Asia, 546-564. Film: The Mao Years (Part 2): It’s Right to Rebel Film Response submissions due Friday 22 February by midnight.
GRADED QUIZ 2, Tuesday 18 February
25-27 February: The Age of Deng Xiaoping.  The Trials of Reform and Growth. June 1989 and its Aftermath.	Lecture reading: Modern East Asia, 565-583. Film: Born Under the Red Flag (Part 2): The New Generation Film Response submissions due Friday 29 February by midnight.
3-5 March: China and Taiwan: a Close, Troubled Relationship	Film: Tug of War Film Response submissions due Friday 7 March by midnight.
GRADED QUIZ 3, Tuesday 3 March

SPRING BREAK: 8-16 March, No Class Meetings.

WEEK'S TOPIC	READINGS AND DISCUSSION
JAPAN
17-19 March: The Tokugawa Shogunate.  Japanese Society on the Eve of the Meiji Restoration.	Lecture reading: Modern East Asia, 331-347 and 397-411. Film: Tokugawa Japan Film Response submissions due Friday 21 March by midnight.
24-26 March: The Transformation of Meiji Japan.  Japan as an Imperialist Power.	Lecture Reading: Modern East Asia, 412-430. Film: Meiji: Asia's Response To The West Film Response submissions due Friday 28 March by midnight.
31 March – 2 April: Japan’s “Swing to the Right” Japan and WWII	Lecture Readings: Modern East Asia, 465-483, 520-528, and 529-534. Garon, State and Society in Interwar Japan. (*Optional e-reserve reading) Discussion reading: The Human Tradition in Modern Japan: Chapter 9, Yoshiya Nobuko, pp.155-174 Discussion Questions submissions due Tuesday 1 April by midnight.
GRADED QUIZ 4, Tuesday 31 March
7-9 April: The Post-war Period. Occupied Japan and the US. Japan’s Economic Nationalism. Bursting of the Economic Bubble. Japan’s Middle Class Shift	Lecture Reading: Modern East Asia, 534-545, 604-618. Film: Reinventing Japan Film Response submissions due Friday 11 April by midnight.
VIET NAM
14-16 April: Viet Nam and French Imperialism.  Ho Chi Minh and the ICP. The US-Vietnamese Conflict.	Film: Cold War: Vietnam Film Response submissions due Friday 18 April by midnight.
KOREA
21-23 April:  Late Choson Korea, Colonial Korea.  The Cold War and the Two Koreas.	Lecture Readings: Modern East Asia, 348-364, 431-445, 484-500, and 584-603. Eckert, Korea's Transition To Modernity. (*Optional e-reserve reading) Film: State of Mind Film Response submissions due Friday 25 April by midnight.
GRADED QUIZ 5, Tuesday 21 April
WEDNESDAY, 23 APRIL	THINK-PIECE PAPER DUE IN CLASS
EAST ASIA TODAY
28-30 April: The Currency Crisis and its Aftermath. Contemporary Issues.	Reading: Modern East Asia, 619-624.
5 May: Concluding Points and Review.	Final Class Meeting.  Final Exams Distributed.
THURSDAY, 12 MAY	FINAL EXAM DUE BY 3 PM in MHRA 2111