EALC 24422 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: East Asian Studies, Zhu Xi, Ostinato
20 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Lecture 3
EALC Week 2
Basso Ostinato
Maruyama
Confucianism--yes, it was a significant ideology in Japan, but it was not the only one
Japanese kind of were picking and choosing from different ideologies to create their own unique
Japanese version of the ideologies
Confucianisms
- Used by different groups for different aims, or as in different tools
- Different “waves” of confucianisms
- Paramore uses this in his book
Orthodox: Zhuxi
School of mind: Wang Yang Ming
Indigenous: Ogyu
Chinese > Kana in the Tok. period
- Ogyusorai insisted in reading the texts in the original chinese text
(*sometimes ogyusorai is associated with machiavelli)
Sonno Joi
- Revere the emperor, expel the barbarians
- Mito: an ideological school
DAI NIHONSHI
- This profound history writing work thing--a team effort
- Followed the structure of chinese dynastic histories
Confucianism presentation
- How conf. Was used to promote their own ends
- A sense of continuity post-1945
- Has a sense of reverence
- Later became a taboo
Merchants
- What do we know about the merchants so far and their relationship with confucianism?
- lower class in a confucian economy
didn’t create anything new, and if they do, they create something which makes someone else
indebted to the merchant
