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Asia in World History: A Guide for Teaching
Edited by Ainslie T. Embree and Carol Gluck


The three Guides for Teaching presented in this section are designed for faculty members who are integrating Asian material into general education courses primarily focused on the Western tradition or canon.

Each Guide contains approximately 40 essays, written by leading specialists, and each essay conforms to a common format that makes the Guides useful to those who are integrating these materials into introductory courses in the various academic disciplines.

These Teaching Guides on Asia were produced by the Columbia Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Panasonic Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education.


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Guide to Reader
Preface
Introduction, Ainslie Embree and Carol Gluck, Columbia University

I. Asia in Western History

Introductions
Asia in Western History, Ainslie T. Embree
The Shape of the World: Eurasia, Rhoads Murphey, University of Michigan
Brief Syllabus of Asia in Western, Michael Marmé, Fordham University
Asian Influences on the West, Cho-yun Hsu, University of Pittsburgh

Essays
The Beginnings of Contact and Interdependence: Western Asia and the West, Marc Van De Mieroop, Columbia University
Interfusion of Asian and Western Cultures: Islamic Civilization and Europe to 1500, George Saliba, Columbia University
The Mongols and the West, Morris Rossabi, City University of New York
Asia and the West in the New World Economy — The Limited Thalassocracies: The Portuguese and Dutch in Asia, 1498-1700, Derek S. Linton, William Smith College
Asia and the West in the New World Order — From Trading Companies to Free Trade Imperialism: The British and Their Rivals in Asia, 1700-1850, Derek S. Linton, William Smith College

Asia in Western Thought
Some Suggested Readings, Leonard A. Gordon, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Asia in Enlightenment and Early British Imperial Views, Leonard A. Gordon
Images of the Other: Asia in Nineteenth-Century: Western Thought—Hegel, Marx, and Weber, Harvey Goldman, University of California at San Diego
The Rise and Fall of Western Empire in Asia: 1500-1975, Edward Malefakis, Columbia University
Asia and the West in the Twentieth-Century World Order, Marilyn Young, New York University


II. Asia in World History

Introduction
Asia in World History, Carol Gluck

Essays
The Neolithic Transition: Hunting-Gathering to Sedentary Village Farming and Pastoralism, Walter A. Fairservis, Vassar College
Primary Civilization in Asia, Walter A. Fairservis
The Origins of Civilization in China, Cho-yun Hsu
Some Contrasts and Comparisons of Zhou China and Ancient Greece, Cho-yun Hsu
The Spread of Power: Empires East and West, Richard Billows, Columbia University
Empire in East Asia, Cho-yun Hsu
Systematizing the Transcendental:The Emergence of Religions and World Views, Peter J. Awn, Columbia University
The Analects of Confucius, Then and Now, Irene Bloom, Barnard College
Religions and World Views in Asian and World History, Julia Ching and Willard G. Oxtoby, University of Toronto
The Era of Asian Discovery: Trade and the Contact of Cultures, Richard W. Bulliet, Columbia University
China, 300-1200, Michael Marmé, Fordham University
Song China, Robert Hymes, Columbia University
Japan, 550-838, H. Paul Varley, Columbia University
India, 100 B.C.E.-1500, Hermann Kulke and Dietmar Rothermund, University of Heidelberg
Separate Spheres and New Links: A New Stage in World History, 1000-1500, Peter N. Stearns, Carnegie Mellon University
The Case of China, Michael Marmé
The Case of Japan, H. Paul Varley
The Rise of an Interdependent World, 1500-1990, Loyd E. Lee, State University of New York , New Paltz
The Expansion of Europe, 1450-1700, John W. Cell, Duke University
Japan and the West, 1543-1640, Michael Cooper, Sophia University
Europe and the World in an Expanding World-Economy, 1700-1850, John W. Cell, Duke University
China and the World, 1500-1800, William Rowe, Johns Hopkins University
China's Economy in Comparative Perspective, 1500-1990, Madeleine Zelin, Columbia University
An Approach to Modern Indian Economic History, Morris David Morris, Brown University


III. Modern Asia, 1600-1990

Tokugawa Japan, 1600-1867, William B. Hauser, University of Rochester
Five Myths about Early Modern Japan, 1600-1867, Henry D. Smith II, Columbia University
State and Society during the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, Myron L. Cohen, Columbia University
Japan’s Modernities, 1850s-1990s: The Perils of Comparison, Carol Gluck
Modern China, 1840-1990, Madeleine Zelin
Modern India, 1885-1990, David Lelyveld, Columbia University
Modern Korea, 1860-1990, Michael Robinson, University of Southern California


IV. Themes in Asian History

South Asian History: A Cursory Review, Ainslie T. Embree
Themes in Southeast Asia History, David J. Steinberg, Long Island University
The Sinic World, Joshua Fogel, University of California, Santa Barbara
Themes in Chinese History, Madeleine Zelin
China in the Context of World History, Frederic Wakeman, University of California, Berkeley
Some Misconceptions about Chinese History, Cho-yun Hsu
Patterns of the Past: Themes in Japanese History, Carol Gluck
Themes in Korean History, Michael Robinson
Asia and Latin America in the Context of World History, Theopolis Fair, La Salle University
Japan and America: A Tale of Two Civilizations, Carol Gluck
Asia and the West: A Concrete Panoply of Intercultural Exchange, Lynda Shaffer, Tufts University


Postscript

Summaries of the Essays
Historical Timelines: Indian History, Chinese History, Japanese History
East Asian History in the National Standards for World History, Carol Gluck
Index
Contributors


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