As the semester is winding down, our academic readers are no doubt very busy doing their work. If you would like to do my work, however, we have something of a tradition here of posting our syllabi and asking for advice from older and wiser heads.<\/p>\n
This is a rough syllabus for a class segment to be called \u201cA Gu indeed\u201d which I will be teaching in the Spring. This is \u00bd of an Honors college thing for freshmen and this is for the segment on Art. I am supposed to be looking at art like a historian would. I chose to do bronzes and this is the reading list. I tried to cover all of the major ways you can get meaning out of old bronzes. Any tips on what to add, subtract, or substitute are very welcome. These are supposed to be smart kids, but not history majors, so I am using some fairly high-level stuff and counting on them to be able to deal with chapters pulled out of books.<\/p>\n
1 Introduction 2,3 Art and Authority<\/strong> 6 \u201dThe Shang Kings at Anyang\u201d from Thorp, Robert L. China in the Early Bronze Age: Shang Civilization. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. (More recent than Chang, and has more history of archeology)<\/p>\n How they (Ancient Chinese) understood Bronzes <\/strong><\/p>\n 7-Keightley, David \u201cThe Science of the Ancestors: Divination, Curing and Bronze-Casting in Late Shang China\u201d 8-Rites and music 9 -Puett, Michael \u201cHumans and Gods: The Theme of Self-Divination in Early China and Early Greece\u201d From Ancient China Early Greece Bronzes as art<\/strong> 11 Taotie .(a specific question on getting meaning out of bronzes ) 12 Wu Hung \u201cThe Nine Tripods and Traditional Chinese Concepts of Monumentality\u201d from Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture. Stanford University Press, 1997. (Cause you can\u2019t do a class like this without some Chicago stuff)<\/p>\n 13 Picture day. Slide lecture on bronzes and how to classify them (Not sure if this should be moved up, but I like the idea of doing it now when they will have some clue what is going on. I may just split them into groups and have them come up with presentations.)<\/p>\n Bronzes as technology How bronzes show social change<\/strong><\/p>\n 15,16 Stuff from -Falkenhausen, Lothar Von. Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (Monumenta Archaeologica). Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2006. 17 \u201cThe Household\u201d from Lewis, Mark Edward. The Construction of Space in Early China. State University of New York Press, 2006.<\/p>\n 18 \u201cThings of the past\u201d from Clunas, Craig. Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China. University of Hawaii Press, 2004. (A ncie bit on how Chinese collectors understood these things. Could use something on modern collectors)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the semester is winding down, our academic readers are no doubt very busy doing their work. If you would like to do my work, however, we have something of a tradition here of posting our syllabi and asking for advice from older and wiser heads. This is a rough syllabus for a class segment…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[94,165,119,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology","category-china","category-english","category-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-fh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4741,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/4741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nBackground Just enough Chinese history to be dangerous. <\/strong><\/p>\n
\n-Lu Liancheng and Yan Wenming \u201cSociety during the Three Dynasties\u201d from Kwang-chih Chang et. al. The Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archeological Perspective Yale, 2005
\n-Wyatt, James \u201cThe Bronze Age and the First Empires\u201d From Wen Fong, et. al. Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum. Taipei 1996<\/p>\n
\n4,5 Chang, K. C. Art, Myth and Ritual: The Path to Political Authority in Ancient China. Harvard University Press, 1988. (A bit of a golden oldie, but I want them to read a book and this one brings in a lot of different themes. Plus it is more or less before all the recent changes, so if we want to look at the development of the historiography this is good.)<\/p>\n
\n-Selections from the Book of Songs. Maybe something from Lewis\u2019s Sanctioned Violence<\/p>\n
\n-Xunzi 19 & 10 and Lu Buwei (transitioning into the end of the bronze age and other ways to interact with heaven)<\/p>\n
\n-\u201cThe Natural Philosophy of Writing\u201d from Lewis, Mark Edward. Writing and Authority in Early China. SUNY Press, 2007.<\/p>\n
\n10 Allen vs. Bagley (Sets up the major debates on how to look at these things)
\n-Sarah Allan \u201cArt and Meaning\u201d and Robert Bagley \u201cMeaning and Explanation\u201d both from Whitfield, Roderick. The Problem of Meaning in Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes. Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 1993.<\/p>\n
\n-Li, Rawson, Xiong and Wang, all from Whitfield, Roderick. The Problem of Meaning in Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes. Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 1993
\n– Kesner, Ladislav. \u201cThe Taotie Reconsidered: Meanings and Functions of the Shang Theriomorphic Imagery.\u201d Artibus Asiae 51, no. 1\/2 (1991): 29-53.<\/p>\n
\n14-Li Liu \u201cThe Products of Minds as Well as of Hands\u201d: Production of Prestige Goods in the Neolithic and Early State Periods of China
\n-\u201cCasting Bronze the Complicated Way\u201d Ledderose, Lothar. Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art. Princeton University Press, 2001.<\/p>\n
\n-Rawson from CHAC (Ritual Revolution and the debates about it)<\/p>\n