HIST 1112 - World History II - PENG & WANG: Readings

Columbia University-Asia for Educators-Asian Topics in World History

The oldest surviving Mongol-language literary work. It was written for the Mongol royal family after Chinggis Khan’s death by an anonymous author.

Two excerpts from the record written by Changchun's disciple Li Zhizhang, Xiyou ji [Journey to the west], translated by Arthur Waley.

New York Times Magazine, June 6, 1999, (available through Georgia Southern Library)

a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project

Akbar I, also known as Akbar the Great, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605

The Tokugawa Shogunate (Tokugawa Bakufu or Edo Bakufu) was the last feudal Japanese military government, 1600-1868

A writing by Wang Yangming, a Confucian scholar in Ming Dynasty China (1368-1644).

A book by Benjamin Kaplan, Harvard University Press, 2007.

Andrade, Tonio. “A Chinese Farmer, Two African Boys; and a Warlord: Toward a Global Microhistory.” Journal of World History 21, no. 4 (December 2010)

A chapter from Peter Stearns, The Industrial Turn in World History (Routledge, 2016).

A Youtube video, NHD 2011-2012 Revolution, Reaction, and Reform

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Elecbook, 2000), please focus on pp.51-56

Jonathan Spence, “Margaret Atwood and the Edges of History,” The American Historical Review
Vol. 103, No. 5 (Dec., 1998)

Select from David Lu, Japan : A Documentary History (Routledge, 1996)

A discussion of the painting "The Exotic White Man" by Susan Rimby, Women in World History Project.

Timeline, glossary, people and primary documents on Marxists Internet Archives

The Conversation, April 22, 2017