Freshman Studies Trip Readings
Participants on the Freshman Studies Trip will be given selections from the following works to help prepare them for visiting East Asia and thinking about how to increase coverage of the area in the Lawrence curriculum:
Suzanne Wilson Barnett and Van Jay Simons, Asia in the Undergraduate Curriculum (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2000)
Golden Arches East, edited by James L.Watson (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1997
Tan Huay Peng, I can read that! (San Francisco: China Books and Periodicals, 2002)
Some Further Readings on East Asia
Conrad Schirokauer, A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, 1989). A standard text strong on art, literature, and culture.
Sherman Lee et al. A History of Far Eastern Art (New York: Prentice Hall, 1993). A broad survey of area art.
Seckel, Dietrichet al. The Buddhist Art of East Asia (Seattle: Western Washington University Press,1989). An art survey with a focus on Buddhist works.
Albert M. Craig, The Heritage of Chinese Civilization (Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2001). A short account of Chinese history and culture from the stone age to the present. Jonathan Spence, Emperor of China. Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi (New York: Vintage Books, 1988). A fascinating memoir of a Manchu Emperor and his court.
Cao Xue Qin. The Story of the Stone, Volume 1: The Golden Days (New York: Viking Press, 1974). China's great traditional novel portraying 18th century family life.
Salzman, Mark. Iron and Silk: In Which a Young American Encounters Swordsmen, Bureaucrats and Other Citizens of Contemporary China (New York: Random House, 1986). A young American's effort to understand today's China.
Paul Varley, Japanese Culture (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2000). A brief history of Japan with stress on culture and the arts.
Ivan Morris. The World of the Shining Prince. Court Life in Ancient Japan (New York: Kodansha, 1994). A brilliant vision of aristocratic life in Heian Kyoto.
Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji trans. by Royall Tyler (New York: Viking Penquin, 2001). The great Heian "novel" in a lively new translation.
Edwin Reischauer, The Japanese (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1978). A classic work by the late American ambassador and famed scholar of Japan.
Huston Smith. The World's Religions (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1999). Has succinct but apt descriptions of Buddhism, Taoism Confucianism, and Shintoism for the novice.
Eugen Herrigel. Zen and the Art of Archery (New York: Vintage Books, 1978). A German Professor of Philosophy's personal encounter with Zen Buddhism.