Introduction to East Asian Cultures: From Zen to K-Pop

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Theodore de Bary, Wing-tsit Chan, and Burton Watson. “Confucius” and “Taoism.” Chapters 2 and 4 in Sources of Chinese Tradition. Vol. 1. Columbia University Press, 1999, pp. 15–33 and 48–53. ISBN: 9780231109390.

White, Merry, and Sylvan Barnet. “Thinking about Culture.” Chapter 1 in Comparing Cultures: Readings on Contemporary Japan for American Writers . St Martins Press, 1995, pp. 3–11. ISBN: 9780312106201.

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Theodore de Bary, Wing-tsit Chan, and Burton Watson. “The Introduction of Buddhism.” Chapter 12 in Sources of Chinese Tradition . Columbia University Press, 1999, pp. 266–74. ISBN: 9780231109390.

Tsunoda, Ryusaku, Theodore de Bary, and Donald Keene. “Zen Buddhism.” Chapter 12 in Sources of Japanese Tradition, Vol. 1: From Earliest Times to 1600 . Columbia University Press, 2002, pp. 226–9. ISBN: 9780231121392.

Nitschke, Gunter. “Rocks in the Sand,” “Path and Goal,” “The Rustic Tea Garden,” and “Wabi—Restraint and Poverty.” In Japanese Gardens: Right Angle and Natural Form . Taschen, 2007, pp. 65–109, 115, 146–56, 160–62 and also, look at all pictures in pp. 64–167. ISBN: 9783822830345.

Reading the following selected chapters in Fang, J. P. “Introduction.” In Treasures of the Chinese Scholar . Weatherhill, 1997, pp. 1–3. ISBN: 9780834803992.

Zhang, Yiyang. “The Chinese Language and Scholar Objects.” In Treasures of the Chinese Scholar . Weatherhill, 1997, pp 15–17. ISBN: 9780834803992.

Zhang, Juwen. “Scholar Objects and Folk Beliefs.” In Treasures of the Chinese Scholar . Weatherhill, 1997, pp. 23–26. ISBN: 9780834803992.

Also, Clunas, C. “Furnishing the Self in Early Modern China.” In Beyond the Screen: Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries . MFA Publications, 2000, pp. 21–34. ISBN: 9780878464357.

———. “Ideas about Things.” Chapter 2 in Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China . University of Hawaii Press, 2004, pp. 40–45. ISBN: 9780824828202.

Excerpts of Wen Zhenheng (1585–1645) “One Ming Gentleman’s Notion on Room Order: Sections from Zhang Wu Zhi–A Treatise on Superfluous Things.” In Cultures of Knowledge: Technology in Chinese History . Edited and Translated by Berliner Dagmar Shaefer and Huanjing Xiu Maske. Brill, 2011, pp. 85–88. ISBN: 9789004218444.

6 · [Shen Records] Chapters 1–3.

9 · Haboush. The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyŏng: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea . University of California Press, 2013, pp. 296–330. ISBN: 9780520280489.

Institute of Traditional Korean Food. “Foreword (1),” “Foreword (2),” and “Preface.” In Beauty of Korean Food: With 100 Best-Loved Recipes . Hollym International Corporation, 2008, pp. 12–13, 24–27, and 31. ISBN: 9781565912533. (Based on the “Research Project for the Standardization and Globalization of Korean Food.”)

Alison, Anne. “Japanese Mothers and Obentos: The Lunch-Box as Ideological State Apparatus.” Anthropological Quarterly 64, no. 4 (1991): 195–208.

Han, Kyung-koo. “Some Foods Are Good to Think: Kimchi and the Epitomization of National Character.” Korean Social Science Reading Response 27, no. 1 (2000): 221–5.

Weiming, Tu. “Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity: Exploring Moral Authority and Economic Power in Japan and the Four Mini-dragons.” Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 46, no. 8 (1993): 5–19.

17 · Contry, Ian. Chapters 6 and 7 in The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan’s Media Success Story . Duke University Press Books, 2013. ISBN: 9780822353942.

Lee, Hyangjin. “South Korea: Film on the Global Stage.” In Contemporary Asian Cinema: Popular Culture in a Global Frame . Edited by Anne Tereska Ciecko. Berg Publishers, 2006, pp. 182–92. ISBN: 9781845202378.

Berliner, Nancy Zeng. Yin Yu Tang: The Architecture and Daily Life of a Chinese House . Tuttle Publishing, 2003, pp. vii–xiii and 315. ISBN: 9780804834872.

Cwiertka, Katarxyna. “The Global Hansik Campaign and the Commodification of Korean Cuisine.” In The Korean Popular Culture Reader . Edited by Kim and Choe. Duke University Press Books, 2014, pp. 363–84. ISBN: 9780822355014.

Watson, eds. “Hong Kong and Taipei.” In Golden Arches East: McDonald’s in East Asia . Stanford University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780804749893.