History of the Eastern World

授業テーマ	Outline of History of China through Literature in relationship with philosophical and religious thoughts up to the end of the Tang Dyansty
授業のねらい・到達目標	This course will focus on Chinese history from the pre-Qin periods up to the end of the Tang dynasty. The course will look over these periods of time through certain angles, namely through literature, philosophy and religious thoughts. By so doing, we will be able to understand the flow of history as a unity of connected events and as frameworks of people's thoughts.
授業の方法	This course is performed in a style of lecture. No text or study-aid book is required for students to buy, as reading materials will be basically provided in a class. A short summary of a given material will be required every time as a sort of homework, which will be counted as participation mark. All students will be required to hand in the final long essay at the end of the term which will be the main ground for the marking.

授業計画
1	Introduction
2	Pre-Qin preiods 1 ("The Book of Songs" and Love)
3	Pre-Qin preiods 2 (The Songs of the South and Shamanism)
4	The Qin and the Han periods 1 (The Suffering and the Rise of Confucianism)
5	The Qin and the Han periods 2 (The Birth of Literary Genres - Historical Books and Geographical Books)
6	The Qin and the Han periods 3 (The Quest for Immortality by Two Immortal Freaks)
7	The Six Dynasties Periods 1 (The Birth of "Literature" and Evaluation in Poetory)
8	The Six Dynasties Periods 2 (The Rise of Religion and Philosophies)
9	The Six Dynasties Periods 3 (Evaluation in the Immortal Cult)
10	The Six Dynasties Preiods 4 (The Birth of Weird Stories)
11	The Sui and the Tang Periods 1 (The Golden Age for the Poems)
12	The Sui and the Tang Periods 2 (Buddhism and Xuanzang's Jorney to the West)
13	The Sui and the Tang Period 3(Flourishment of Chinese Alchemy)
14	The Sui and the Tang Periods 4 (The Birth of Flowery Worlds and That of Short Love Stories)
15	Revision

その他
成績評価の方法及び基準	平常点(30%)、レポート(60%)、授業参画度(10%)