FAH230H1 Study Guide - Maya Ceramics, Chinese Ritual Bronzes, Chinese Ceramics
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R: maps of networks that integrated east asia in premodern times. For those new to the course, revisiting the idea of east asia; asia itself a term that perhaps has semitic roots in the term asu, meaning light, place where the sun rises; East asia in modern times informed by turn of the twentieth-century japanese imperial ambition. This is very much like latin in the european world; china served as a clearinghouse for the transmission and formation of cultures in east asia much as rome did in europe. Not to say that chinese culture is the dominant or superior culture; instead it is the medium and not always a transparent one -- through which east asia is constructed. Teaching this course as a china specialist my own awareness of how far i can go in. Asia using chinese, both as modern traveler, and as historical researcher reading literary. Acceptance, rejection, different patterns of diffusion fluid, labile area of east.
