OSH A56 - Connections: How East Asia Becomes a Region, 100 BCE-900 CE

Course Description

Connections: How East Asia Becomes a Region, 100 BCE-900 CE

Course Description: This course explores the dynamic connections that define East Asian societies—writing systems, religion, philosophy, material culture, commerce, and political institutions. Our central focus is the period 500-900 CE, when China, Korea, Japan, and Inner Asia engaged in an intensive exchange that created a distinctive East Asian world. Afterward the histories of these societies were irrevocably intertwined and remain so even today in the twenty-first century.

Weeks    Topics
Week 1    Connections: The Making of an East Asian World.
Week 2    Qin and Han: The Classical Chinese Empires, 221 BCE-220 CE.
Week 3    The Buddhist Transformation, 220 CE-618 CE.
Week 4    Tang China: The Cosmopolitan Empire, 618-906 CE.
Week 5    Classical Korea, 100 BCE-935 CE.
Week 6    Classical Japan, 200 CE-794 CE.

Instructor: Dr. Stephen Halsey

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