History of East Asia from 1800
- Lecture 1 – Guidance – 2015/09/18
- No readings
- Lecture 2 – Overview of East Asia in the 1800s – 2015/09/25
- Holcombe, chapter 7 (required)
- Goldman & Gordon, chapter 1 (recommended)
- Lecture 3 – Opium Wars – 2015/10/02
- Brook & Wakabayashi, Introduction (required)
- Wong, chapters 3, 4 & 5 (recommended)
- Lecture 4 – Self Strengthening – 2015/10/09
- Ebrey, selections (required) from chapter 18, chapter 19, chapter 20 and chapter 21 (recommended)
- Goldman & Gordon, chapter 2, chapter 3 and chapter 4 (recommended)
- Lecture 5 – War with Russia – 2015/10/16
- Shimazu, chapter 1 (required)
- Lecture 6 – The Age of Westernisation – 2015/10/23
- Holcombe, chapter 8 (required)
- Lecture 7 – The dark valley – 2015/10/30
- Holcombe, chapter 9 (required)
- Lecture 8 – 2015/11/06
- Dower, chapter 5 (required)
- Lecture 9 – 2015/11/13
- Hein (required)
- Lecture 10 – 2015/11/20
- Drifte (required)
- Lecture 11 – 2015/11/27
- Biao (required)
- Lecture 12 – 2015/12/04
- Hayes (required)
- Lecture 13 – 2015/12/11
- No reading