Exploring Tibet: 17th-20th c. Travel Accounts Fall 2012 Day/Time: Tu 2:10-4pm Location: 522A Kent Hall Office: 913 IAB Office hours: Tu 1-2pm and by appointment Instructor: Gray Tuttle Phone: 854-4096 Email: gwt2102@columbia.edu … [Read more...]
Asian Revolutions in the Twentieth Century: Teaching Resources and Strategies
Laura Neitzel, Department of History, Brookdale Community College Benita Stambler, Center for Distance Learning, Empire State College Gray Tuttle, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University Sherri West, Department of History, Brookdale Community College About Asian Revolutions in the Twentieth Century From the fervor of Mao … [Read more...]
Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Taoism: Philosophy in Asian Traditions
Professor Barnhart Kingsborough Community College, CUNY download as PDF doc Texts Patrick Olivelle, translator. Upanisads. Oxford University Press,1996. Burton Watson, translator. TheVimalakirti Sutra. Columbia University Press, 1997. Edward Slingerland, translator. Confucius, Analects: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries. Hackett Publishing Co., … [Read more...]
Changing China: Social Development and Conflicts
Xiaodan Zhang First offered as an ExEAS course at Barnard College in Spring 2004 and Spring 2005 download as PDF doc Description: It is not an exaggeration to say that Chinese people have been forced time and again to change the course of their lives by the reforms that began in the late 1970s. Along with economic prosperity the reforms have brought about dramatic … [Read more...]
Food in World History
Southwest Quad Reynolds 133, Mondays at 4:15 Jordan Sand ICC 624 (7-5599) Office hrs. Wednesdays, 3:00-5:00 and by appt. download as PDF doc Preliminary Thoughts: This course is a seminar exploring themes related to food in the shaping of modern societies. The history of food is potentially the history of practically everything. In selecting readings, I have therefore … [Read more...]