Readings

Lecture: Introduction to East Asia

Film: Buddha in the Land of the Kami

De Bary, William Theodore, and Irene Bloom, eds. Sources of Chinese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600. 2nd ed. Vol 1. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2000, pp. 226-229 and 255-260 (Zen Buddhism).

Suzuki, Daisetz T., and William Barrett. "Painting, [Haiku], Swordsmanship, Tea Ceremony." In Zen Buddhism. Reissue ed. New York, NY: Three Leaves, 1996, pp. 279-294. ISBN: 038548349X.

Selections from Nitschke, Gunter. Japanese Gardens. New York, NY: Taschen, 2003. ISBN: 3822820350.
"Rocks in the Sand." pp. 65-109
"Path and Goal." p. 115.
"The Rustic Tea Garden." pp. 146-156.
"Wabi- restraint and poverty." pp. 160-162.
Look at all pictures on pp. 64-167.

Fu, Shen. Six Records of a Floating Life. Chapters 1-3.

Fang, Jing Pei. "Introduction." In Treasures of the Chinese Scholar. New York, NY: Weatherhill, 1997, pp. 1-3. ISBN: 0834803992.

Zhang. "The Chinese Language and Scholar Objects." In Treasures of the Chinese Scholar. New York, NY: Weatherhill, 1997, pp. 15-17. ISBN: 0834803992.

———. "Scholar Objects and Folk Beliefs." In Treasures of the Chinese Scholar. New York, NY: Weatherhill, 1997, pp. 23-26. ISBN: 0834803992.

Clunas, Craig. "Furnishing the Self in Early Modern China." Catalogue essay in Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, 1996, pp. 21-34.

Zhenheng, Wen. "Treatise on Superfluous Things." In Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China by Craig Clunas. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2004. ISBN: 0824828208.

"The Scholar's Garden." Catalogue essay in A Chinese garden court: The Astor court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, pp. 4-9.

Discussion

Films to Watch on Your Own: Red Sorghum, Judou, Raise the Red Lantern

Lecture

Film: Japan Dreaming

Discussion

Film clip: Ghost in the Shell

Tanner, Ron. "Mr. Atomic, Mr. Mercury, and Chime Trooper: Japan's Answer to the American Dream." In Asian Popular Culture. Edited by John A. Lent. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995, pp. 79-102. ISBN: 0813320496.

Napier, Susan J. "Panic Sites: The Japanese Imagination of Disaster from Godzilla to Akira." In Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture. Edited by John Whittier Treat. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii, 1996, pp. 327-351. ISBN: 0824818547.

Gibson, William. "Is Japan Still the Future?" and "My Own Private Tokyo." Wired 9.09 (September 2001).

———. "The Future Perfect: How Did Japan Become the Favorite Default Setting for so Many Cyberpunk Writers?" Time Magazine (April 30, 2001).

Lecture

Film clips: Tampopo, 301/302

China

Simoons, Frederick J. "Food in Chinese Thought and Culture." In Food in China: A Cultural and Historical Inquiry. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1991, pp. 13-37. ISBN: 084938804X.

Watson, James. "From the Common Pot: Feasting with Equals in Chinese Society." Anthropos 82 (1987): 389-401.

Cooper, E. "Chinese Table Manners: You Are How You Eat." Human Organization 45 (1986): 179-184.

Japan

Richie, Donald. "Introduction." In A Taste of Japan: Food Fact and Fable: What the People Eat: Customs and Etiquette. Reprint ed. New York, NY: Kodansha International, 1993. ISBN: 4770017073.

———. "Okashi." In A Taste of Japan: Food Fact and Fable: What the People Eat: Customs and Etiquette. Reprint ed. New York, NY: Kodansha International, 1993, pp. 90-96. ISBN: 4770017073.

Korea

Excerpts from Sang-su, Choe. Annual Customs of Korea: Notes on the Rites and Ceremonies of the Year. Seoul, South Korea: Seomun-dang, 1983.

Excerpts from Marks, Copeland, and Manjo Kim. The Korean Kitchen: Classic Recipes from the Land of the Morning Calm. 2nd ed. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1999. ISBN: 0811822338.