Dec 09, 2024  
College Catalog 2024-2025 
    
College Catalog 2024-2025

ASIA 276 - The Great Tradition in Japan before 1853

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A survey of the major political, social, religious, intellectual, economic and artistic developments in Japan from earliest times to the opening of Japan in the 1850s. The course will revisit Japan’s emperor system, Shintoism, feudalism, Samurai as a class, selective borrowing from China, Korea, and the West, and the background of Japan’s rapid modernization after the Meiji Restoration. Alternate years. (4 Credits)