SCIENZE UMANISTICHELinguistic and intercultural mediationAcademic Year 2022/2023

9795560 - STORIA, PENSIERO E ARTE DELL'ASIA ORIENTALE

Teacher: MARCO MECCARELLI

Expected Learning Outcomes

The course aims to provide an introduction to the historical and cultural context of East Asia, with particular attention to the main events in China (for students attending the Chinese course) and Japan (for students attending the Japanese course). The main historiographical works for the acquisition of bibliographical orientation skills will also be examined. The course aims to pay particular attention to the birth and development of diplomatic relations between the two Asian countries, making use of comparative methods and synoptic frameworks.

 

Knowledge and understanding: general overview of the historical basic themes and issues of Chinese and Japanese civilization for understanding the events and critical debate from the origins to modernity.

 

Applying knowledge and understanding: Students will be able to understand and relate main historical events in the cultural and social fields.

 

Making a judgement: students will be able to obtain critical skills with the Chinese and Japanese realities, in a different context of everyday life and professional life.

 

Communication skills: students will be able to express their ideas, projects, and results obtained in a complex and articulated way.

 

Learning skills: students will be able to interact with different professional and cultural contexts. They know how to interpret, understand and use independently their expressive capabilities

Course Structure

Lectures are conducted face-to-face, but students are encouraged to participate in the lessons.

If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote mode, the necessary changes concerning what was previously stated may be introduced, to comply with the program envisaged and reported in the syllabus.

Required Prerequisites

Prerequisites are not required, but a basic understanding of Chinese or Japanese could facilitate assimilation.

Detailed Course Content

The course will focus on the general history of the Far East (Japan and China) from its origins to the 20th century. The students are required to study the philosophical and cultural contexts. Active participation in class will be strongly encouraged.

 

In this regard, the analysis of specific philosophical and artistic contexts is useful to understand the various events examined. Each student will learn about the historical development of China and Japan based on their academic orientation, also through an intercultural analysis perspective from all over East Asia. The critical debate and the problems related to the use of common historical categories between different geographic, cultural and social contexts will therefore be examined.

 

The main topics will be:

 

- Prehistory in China and Japan

 

- main historical events in China and Japan

 

- Chinese and Japanese historical sources

 

- Empire and imperialism in China and Japan

 

- The tax system

 

- ancient roads of China

 

- the Sino-Japanese wars

 

- historical affinities and differences between China and Japan

 

- the nineteenth century in the Far East

 

- Modernization in China and Japan

 

- The contemporaneity in China and Japan

Textbook Information

For Chinese majors:

 

1. Roberts J.A.G. Storia della Cina Il Mulino, Bologna, 2013.

 

2. Meccarelli M., Le antiche vie della Cina. Un'indagine archeologica e artistica, Manfredi, Bologna, 2020.

 

For Japanese majors:

 

1. Gatti F., Caroli R., Storia del Giappone, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2016.

 

2. Meccarelli M., Le antiche vie della Cina. Un'indagine archeologica e artistica, Manfredi, Bologna, 2020.

 

For Chinese and Japanese majors:

 

Roberts J.A.G. Storia della Cina Il Mulino, Bologna, 2013;

Gatti F., Caroli R., Storia del Giappone, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2016;

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

 

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

 

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

Knowledge and skills necessary to pass the exam. With reference to the decisions voted unanimously at point 2 of the Department Council meeting of 6 May 2020, and relating to the measures for limiting the number of out-of-course students, the knowledge and skills necessary to achieve the required pass the exam of Chinese Culture and Literature I

DISCUSSION OF THE TOPICS COVERED IN THE LESSON AND OF THE TEXTS INDICATED IN THE EXAM PROGRAM

Knowledge of the contents of the texts discussed and ability to report on the topics addressed in class. Learning definitions and technical terms of the discipline. Ability to connect between the exam texts. Ability to rework the acquired knowledge in a personal and critical way. Expressive properties of use, in particular, of specialized terminology. Ability to grasp linguistic aspects.

Sufficient 18-21

Good 22-24

Very good 25-27

Excellent 28-30

Excellent 30 and praise

The assessment of the exam will take into account the mastery of the contents and skills acquired, linguistic accuracy and lexical properties, as well as the argumentative ability demonstrated by the candidate.

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

The birth of the empire in China

The origins of Japan

evolution of tax relations between China and Japan

The ancient roads of China and the contacts with Japan.

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