Syllabus Home Schedule Assignments Log out Seminar Leader: Gordon Anderson 039 McLaughlin College 416.736.2100 ext. 77042 ganderso@yorku.ca Office Hours: Wednesdays, 11:30-12:30 or by appointment Course Description: No one has had a greater impact on Chinese culture than Confucius. His ideas about selfcultivation, the proper ordering of society, the role of the individual in the social order, the relationship between humanity and the cosmos et cetera not only shaped the underlying fabric of Chinese civilisation, they deeply influenced several neighbouring cultures as well. Though Confucianism has taken many forms over the millenia, it remains central to any meaningful understanding of East Asia and is, therefore, critical for constructive international engagement in the 21 st century. In the first half of the course, we will follow the development of Confucian thought and practice in imperial China and the corresponding relevant periods in Vietnam, Korea and Japan. In the second half of the course, we will analyse the ways that different groups, including East Asian modernizers and non-asian scholars, have tried to tie Confucianism to emerging national and global issues. Required Readings: The following texts are available in the bookstore: 1. Confucius (D.C. Lau trans.). The Analects. 2. Gardner, Daniel. The Four Books: The Basic Teachings of the Later Confucian Tradition. 3. Young-oak Kim & Jung-kyu Kim. The Great Equal Society: Confucianism, China and the 21st Century All other readings are found under "Schedule" Grading: file:///d/gordon's%20site/huma4430/restricted/syllabus.html[8/23/2016 10:35:46 AM]
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Schedule Home Syllabus Assignments Email Log out Schedule: Meeting Readings 1. Introduction a. (electronic version) Bryan W. Van Norden. "Introduction" in Confucius and the Analects: New Essays b. (electronic version) Daniel Bell, "On Being Confucian: Why Confucians Needn't Be Old, Serious and Conservative," in China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society 2. The Classical Tradition a. (on reserve) "Classical Sources of Chinese Tradition," in Wm. Theodore de Bary & Irene Bloom (eds.). Sources of Chinese Tradition: Volume 1 b. Selections from the Five Classics 3. Confucius The Analects I a. The Analects, "Introduction" and Books I-X 4. Confucius The Analects II a. The Analects, Books XI-XX and "Appendix 1: Events in the Life of Confucius" b. (electronic version) Philip J. Ivanhoe, "Whose Confucius, Which Analects," in Confucius and the Analects: New Essays 5. Mencius a. (on reserve) Selections from Mengzi (Bryan W. Van Norden, trans.) in Philip Ivanhoe and Bryan W. Van Norden (eds.). Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy, 115-59 b. Maurizio Scarpari, "Debate on Human Nature in Early Confucian Literature," Philosophy East & West, 53:3 (July 2003), 323-39 6. Xunzi a. (on reserve) Selections from Xunzi (Eric Hutton, trans.) in Philip Ivanhoe and Bryan W. Van Norden (eds.). Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy, 255-309 b. Chong Kim-chong, "Xunzi's Systematic Critique of Mencius," Philosophy East & West, 53:2 (April 2003), 215-33 7. Han Orthodoxy and Eclecticism Test 1 a. (on reserve) "The Imperial Order and Han Syntheses." in Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom, Sources of Chinese Tradition: Volume 1 b. Robin Wang, "Dong Zhongshu's Transformation of Yin-Yang Theory and Contesting of Gender," Philosophy East & West, 55:2 (April 2005), 209-231 c. (on reserve) Daodejing, in Philip Ivanhoe and Bryan W. Van Norden (eds.). Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy, 161-205 d. (electronic version) Mark Csikszentmihalyi, "Confucius and the Analects in the Han," in Confucius and the Analects: New Essays 8. Neo-Confucianism, I a. "Introduction: The Four Books in Chinese Society," "The Great Learning," and "The Analects" in Gardner, The Four Books: The Basic Teachings of the Later Confucian Tradition b. (on reserve) Wm Theodore de Bary, "General Introduction," and "The Learning of the Mind-and-Heart in the early Chu Hsi School," in The Message of the Mind in Neo- Confucianism, pp. 1-71 c. (on reserve) Li Zhi, A Book to Burn & A Book to Keep (Hidden), "Introduction," "Explanation of the Childlike Heart-Mind," "On the Childlike Mind," "The Life of Li Wenling," and "Vertitable Record of the Memorial Impeaching Li Zhi..." 9. Neo-Confucianism, II a. "The Mencius," "Maintaining Perfect Balance" and "Conclusion: Interpreting the Four Books" in Gardner, The Four Books: The Basic Teachings of the Later Confucian Tradition b. (on reserve) Selections from Wm. Theodore de Bary & Irene Bloom (eds.). Sources of Chinese Tradition: Volume 1, pp. 842-904 c. (on reserve) Wm. Theodore de Bary, "The New Learning of the Mind-and-Heart," in The Message of the Mind in Neo-Confucianism, pp. 72-123 10. Adoption and Adaptation Vietnam a. (on reserve) George E. Dutton, Jayne S. Werner & John K. Whitmore (eds.). Sources of Vietnamese Tradition, pp. 28-31, 57-60, 89-97, 106-115, 130-138, 170-176, 414-429, 447-450 & 476-478 b. (electronic version) "Vietnam and China: Acculturation's Apparitions and Certain Realities behind Them," and "The Borrowing Ideals of Court Bureaucrats and the Practical Problems of Provincial Administrators," in Alexander Woodside, Vietnam and The Chinese Model c. Nola Cooke, "Nineteenth-Century Vietnamese Confucianization in Historical Perspective: Evidence from the Palace Examinations (1463-1883)" Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 25:2 (September 1994), 270-312 11. Adoption and Adaptation Korea a. (on reserve) "The Rise of Neo-Confucianism in Korea," in Wm. Theodore de Bary, The Great Civilized Conversation file:///d/gordon's%20site/huma4430/restricted/schedule.html[8/23/2016 10:37:12 AM]
Schedule 12. Adoption and Adaptation Japan Test 2 b. (on reserve) Yong-ho Ch'oe, Peter H. Lee & Wm. Theodore de Bary (comps.). Sources of Korean Tradition, Vol. 1 pp. 251-256 & Vol. 2 pp.12-26 c. (on reserve) Michael C. Kalton, "Introduction to the Four-Seven Debate" in Michael C. Kalton et al. (eds.), The Four-Seven Debate: An Annotated Translation of the Most Famous Controversy in Korean Neo-Confucian Thought d. Chai-sik Chong, "Between Principle and Situation: Contrasting Styles in the Japanese and Korean Traditions of Moral Culture," Philosophy East and West, 56: 2 (April 2006), 253-80 a. (on reserve) Selections from Sources of Japanese Tradition (vol.2), Wm. Theodore de Bary, Carol Gluck & Arthur E. Tiedemann (comps.), Ch. 21, "Confucianism in the Early Tokugawa Period," Ch. 22, "The Spread of Neo-Confucianism in Japan," & Ch. 24, "Confucian Revisionists." b. Bito Masahide, "The Ako Incident, 1701-1703," Monumenta Nipponica, 58: 2 (Summer 2003), 149-69 c. James McMullen, "Confucian Perspectives on the Ako Revenge: Law and Moral Agency" Monumenta Nipponica, 58:3 (Autumn 2003), 293-315 d. Marleen Kassel, "Moral Education in Early-Modern Japan: The Kangien Confucian Acadamy of Hirose Tanso," Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 20: 4 (December 1993), 297-310 e. Oliver Ansart, "The Happiness of the Wicked: How Tokugawa Thinkers Dealt with the Problem," Asian Philosophy, 22:2 (May 2012), 161-175 13. Qing Confucianism a. (on reserve) Wm. Theodore de Bary & Richard Lufrano (comps.) Sources of Chinese Tradition: Volume 2, pp. 26-60 b. (on reserve) Wm. Theodore de Bary, "The Learning of the Mind and Succession to the Way in the Early Ch'ing," in The Message of the Mind in Neo-Confucianism, pp. 124-162 14, Reform, Rejection and Rejuvenation a. (on reserve) Wm. Theodore de Bary & Richard Lufrano (comps.) Sources of Chinese Tradition: Volume 2, pp. 250-284 b. (on reserve) Kam Louie, "Tradition Undermined: Late Ch'ing to Liberation" and "The Cultural Revolution," in Critiques of Confucius in Contemporary China c. (on reserve) "China and the Limits of Liberalism," in Wm. Theodore de Bary, The Great Civilized Conversation 15. Education and Self-Cultivation a. Karyn Lai, "Li in the Analects: Training in Moral Competence and the Question of Flexibility," Philosophy East and West, 56:1 (January 2006), 69-83 b. (electronic version) Geir Helgesen, "The Case for Moral Education," in Daniel Bell & Hahm Chaibong, Confucianism for the Modern World 16. Gender Traditional Period a. Siyen Fei, "Writing for Justice: An Activist Beginning of the Cult of Chastity in Late Imperial China," Journal of Asian Studies, 71:4 (Novermber 2012), 991-1012 b. (on reserve or electronic version) Fangqin Du and Susan Mann, "Competing Claims on Womanly Virtue in Late Imperial China," in Ko, Haboush and Piggott (eds.) Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan c. (on reserve or electronic version) Martha C. Tocco, "Norms and Texts for Women's Education in Tokugawa Japan, " in Ko et al. d. (on reserve or electronic version) Martina Deuschler, "Propogating Female Virtue in Choson Korea," in Ko et al. 17. Gender Modern Period Test 3 a. Ranjoo Seodu Herr, "Confucian Family for a Feminist Future," Asian Philosophy, 22:4 (November 2012), 327-346 b. (electronic version) Chan Sin Yee, "The Confucian Conception of Gender in the Twentyfirst Century" in Bell & Hahm c. (electronic version) Hahm Chaibong, "Family Versus the Individual: The Politics of Marriage Laws in Korea," in Bell & Hahm 18. The Arts a. Ji Zhe, "Educating through Music: From an "Initiation into Classical Music" for Children to Confucian "Self-Cultivation" for University Students," China Perspectives, No. 3 (75 (2008), 107-117 (accessible through JSTOR) b. Kim Ha Poong, "Confucius's Aesthetic of Noble Man: Beyond Moralism" Asian Philosophy, 16:2 (July 2006), 111-21 c. Crispin Sartwell, "Confucius and Country Music" Philosphy East and West, 43:2 (April 1993), 243-54 d. Scott Cook, "Zhuang Zi and His Carving of the Confucian Ox" Philosophy East and West, 47:4 (October 1997), 521-53 19. Nature, the Environment, Science and Technology a. Nicholas. S. Brasovan, "Considerations for a Confucian Ecological Humanism," Philosophy East and West, 66: 3 (July 2016), 842-860 b. Marion Hourdequin and David B. Wong, "A Relational Approach to Environmental file:///d/gordon's%20site/huma4430/restricted/schedule.html[8/23/2016 10:37:12 AM]
Schedule Ethics" Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 32:1 (March 2005), 19-33 c. Ruiping Fan, "A Reconstructionist Confucian Account of Environmentalism: Toward a Human Sagely Dominion Over Nature" Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 32:1 (March 2005), 105-22 d. Robin Wang, "Globalizing the Heart of the Dragon: The Impact of Technology on Confucian Ethical Values" Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 29:4 (December 2002), 553-69 e. Ole Doring, "A Confucian Asian Ethos? Essentials of the Culture of East Asian Bioethics," East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, No. 25 (2006), 127-149 (accessible through JSTOR) f. A.T.Nuyen, "Confucian Ethics and 'The Age of Biological Control'" Philosophy East and West, 57:1 (January 2007), 83-96 20.Spirituality/Religion a. Xinzhong Yao, "Who is a Confucian Today? A Critical Reflection on the Issues Concerning Confucian Identity in Modern Times" Journal of Contemporary Religion, 16:3 (October 2001), 313-28 b. Rodney L. Taylor, "The Religious Character of the Confucian Traditions" Philosophy East and West, 48:1 (January 1998), 80-107 c. Mary Evelyn Tucker, "Religious Dimensions of Confucianism: Cosmology and Cultivation" Philosophy East and West, 48:1 (January 1998), 5-45 d. Guoping Zhao, "Two Notions of Transcendence: Confucian Man and Modern Subject" Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 36:3 (September 2009), 391-407 21. Philosophy/Government in the 21st Century a. Preface, Chapters 1 & 2 in Young-oak Kim & Jung-kyu Kim, The Great Equal Society: Confucianism, China and the 21st Century 22. Economy in the 21st Century a. Chapter 3 in Kim & Kim, The Great Equal Society b. Xu Keqian, "Early Confucian Principles: the Potential Theoretic Foundation of Democracy in Modern China" Asian Philosophy, 16:2 (July 2006), 135-148 23. Education/The New China Model in the 21st Century 24. Review Test 4 a. Chapters 4 & 5 in Kim & Kim, The Great Equal Society a. Wm. Theodore de Bary, "Epilogue: Why Confucius Now?" in Bell & Hahm file:///d/gordon's%20site/huma4430/restricted/schedule.html[8/23/2016 10:37:12 AM]