Reading Schedule

WEEK'S TOPIC	READINGS AND DISCUSSION
TRADE & TRIBUTE: A THEORECTICAL DISCUSSION
August 21: Course introduction.	Film:  A Thousand Miles Beyond the Yellow River
THE SILK ROAD
August 28: Agents of Exchange along the Silk Road	Reading: Liu/ Shaffer text                Yang article (on e-reserve) Film excerpts: Glories of Ancient Changan
September 4: Agents of Exchange along the Silk Road (cont.)	Readings:  Liu/ Shaffer text                   Polanyi article (on e-reserve)                     Bentley chapter (on e-reserve)
September 11: Trade and Cultural Diffusion along the Silk Road	Reading: Foltz text Film excerpts: The Art Gallery in the Desert
September 18: The Silk Road and the Tang Empire	Readings: Waley-Cohen article (on e-reserve)                  Adshead chapter, “China in Late                  Antiquity,” Parts A&B (on e-                  reserve)                  Skaff chapter, “Survival in the                  Frontier Zone” (on e-reserve) Film: The Soghdian Merchants.
September 25: Rise of the East/ Rise of the West Debate	Reading: Hobson text
No class meeting on October 2nd	Day reserved for undergraduate student conferences regarding annotated bibliographies
October 9: Rise of the East/ Rise of the West Debate	Readings: Hobson text                  (Book review of  other “East-West Rise debate” works)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9th	UNDERGRADUATES' ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES DUE IN CLASS

FALL BREAK: October 12, Friday - Instruction Ends for Fall Break 6:00 p.m

  October 17, Wednesday - Classes resume after Fall Break 8:00 a.m

WEEK'S TOPIC	READINGS AND DISCUSSION
October 23: What was the true nature of Zheng He's Voyages?	Film: 1421: The Year China Discovered America?
THE SPICE TRADE
October 30: The Spice Trade	Readings: Keay Text
November 6: The Spice Trade (cont.)	Readings: Keay Text Film: Spice Island Saga
November 13: Pre-colonial and Early Colonial Indian Ocean Trade and Exchange	Readings: Risso text
November 20: Pre-colonial and Early Colonial Indian Ocean Trade and Exchange (cont.)	Readings: Risso text Film excerpts: Columbus's World
NOVEMBER 22nd  - NOVEMBER 25th	THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
November 27:	Class Presentations
December 4:	Class Presentations Final Discussion
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4th	GRADUATE ESSAYS DUE
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4th	UNDERGRADUATE ESSAYS DUE
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4th	Last Day Of His 588 Classes