Schedule of Class Topics and Reading Assignments In Schirokauer’s A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilization Plus Exams and Due Dates.

Fall 2007

August 22   Chapters 1 & 2, Chinese Antiquity and Classical Thought 

August 29#  Chapters 3 & 4, First Empire and China in Disunity 

September 5*   Chapters 5 & 6, The Sui & Tang and Early Japan 

September 12#  Chapters 7 & 8, Heian Japan and the Song 

September 19#  Chapters 9 & 10, The Mongol Yuan and the Ming 

September 26*  Chapters 11 & 12, Kamakura and the Ashikaga Shogunate  

October 3#  Chapters 13 & 14, East Meets West and Tokugawa Japan

                  Take-Home Mid-Term Exam Distributed 

October 10  Mid-Term Break 

October 17 Chapters 15 & 16, The Qing Dynasty  and Impact of the West.

Take-Home Mid-Term Exam Due 

October 24# Chapters 17 & 18, Tokugawa to Meiji Japan and Emergence of Modern Japan 

October 31# Chapters 19 & 20, Struggle for a New China and Imperial Japan 

November 7* Chapters 21 & 22, World War II and Its Aftermath 

November 14# Chapter 23 & 24, China Under Mao and Since. 

November 21 Thanksgiving Holiday 

November 28** Chapter 25, The New Japan and Afterword

Take-Home Final Exam Distributed 

December 6 Take-Home Final Exam Due to Office 
 

#   Scheduled Quiz

*   DVD/Video Tape Reports Due

** Book Report Due