This course offers a general introduction to Japan’s modern experience from 1868 to the present. Popular images of Japan tend to emphasize how distant and different Japan is from “us.” In these static images, Japan almost seems like a nation apart, a nation without history at all. Yet history, and modernity, are not “Western” or “Eastern”; they are global phenomena. For better or for worse, the forces and processes that shaped Japan’s recent past were in many ways the same forces that shaped the rest of the world: industrialization, capitalism, nation- and empire-building, war, technological change, and struggles for political and social participation. At the same time, the global phenomena of modernity have combined with Japan’s particular place in the global order and its own local cultural and social evolution to produce a fascinatingly distinctive play on the modern theme. This course explores this complex history, keeping in mind the notion of Japan not as a nation apart but as a particular site in a global process of modern change.
Rooster
see: rooster
Onderwijsvorm
Lectures
A la Carte- en Contractonderwijs
Belangstellenden die deze cursus in het kader van A la carte onderwijs willen volgen (zonder tentamen), vinden hier meer informatie over kosten, inschrijving, voorwaarden etc.
Belangstellenden die deze cursus in het kader van Contractonderwijs willen volgen (met tentamen), vinden hier meer informatie over kosten, inschrijving, voorwaarden etc.
Literatuur
- Andrew Gordon, A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003
- _Sources of Japanese Tradition Volume Two__ (Abridged) Part Two: 1868 to 2000_, Second Edition, compiled by Wm. Theodore de Bary, Carol Gluck, and Arthur E. Tiedemann, New York: Columbia University Press, 2006
Toetsing
mid-term examination 40%; final examination 50%; attendance and participation 10%
Those whose combined average of the above assessments is below a passing mark will subsequently be administered a combined resit examination (hertentamen) covering the entire course material. The outcome of the combined resit supersedes earlier results on the midterm and final.
Informatie
Bij de docent: E.Mark@hum.leidenuniv.nl
This course is part of the “Keuzepakket Japanse studies”
Aanmeld- en inschrijfprocedure colleges en tentamens: www.hum.leidenuniv.nl/japans/studenten/aanmeldingsprocedure.jsp
Ingangseisen
No previous knowledge required