| Academic Year |
2024Year |
School/Graduate School |
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Master's Course) Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Integrated Arts and Human Sciences Program |
| Lecture Code |
WMJ31201 |
Subject Classification |
Specialized Education |
| Subject Name |
アジア文化論（伝統文化） |
Subject Name
（Katakana） |
アジアブンカロン(デントウブンカ) |
Subject Name in
English |
Asian Cultural Studies (Traditional Cultures) |
| Instructor |
ARAMI HIROSHI |
Instructor
(Katakana) |
アラミ ヒロシ |
| Campus |
Higashi-Hiroshima |
Semester/Term |
1st-Year, First Semester, 2Term |
| Days, Periods, and Classrooms |
(2T) Weds1-4：IAS K304 |
| Lesson Style |
Lecture |
Lesson Style
(More Details) |
Online (simultaneous interactive), Online (on-demand) |
| Lecture |
| Credits |
2.0 |
Class Hours/Week |
4 |
Language of Instruction |
J
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Japanese |
| Course Level |
5
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Graduate Basic
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| Course Area（Area） |
23
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Arts and Humanities |
| Course Area（Discipline） |
14
:
Cultural Studies |
| Eligible Students |
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| Keywords |
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Class Objectives
/Class Outline |
The Mogao Caves in Dunhuang are a national treasure for Chinese historical research, with over 45,000 m2 of murals that are visual materials for the 4th to 13th centuries. From the same Dunhuang Mogao Caves, in the beginning of the summer of 1900, the so-called Dunhuang manuscripts, a group of documents said to exceed over 60,000 in number from the Mogao library cave in Dunhuang, were discovered. These murals and documents have been preserved as precious research material and researched. "Dunhuang studies", which studies both of these areas, has solved many of history's mysteries.
In particular, the Dunhuang manuscripts are believed to be the documents stored in the Dunhuang temple, which was sealed for some reason around the year 1000. These include not only scriptures, such as Buddhist scripture, Taoist and Confucian documents, but also many documents from the average people which are normally not recorded in history, including economic documents such as ledgers, scripts for lectures on the sutras, fortune-telling books, song lyrics popular at the time, novels, materials for learning at the time, and materials that describe folk beliefs. From these documents, we have learned about the status of society and life of the average people, discovering the previously unknown backstage of history.
Among these Dunhuang manuscripts, we will use for our textbook in this course the scripts of prosimetric literature known as the "Bianwen" (transformation texts), using them to examine Chinese culture. |
| Class Schedule |
Lesson 1: Introduction/Overview of the Dunhuang manuscripts
Lesson 2: Reading
Lesson 3: Reading
Lesson 4: Reading
Lesson 5: Reading
Lesson 6: Reading
Lesson 7: Reading
Lesson 8: Reading
Lesson 9: Reading
Lesson 10: Reading
Lesson 11: Reading
Lesson 12: Reading
Lesson 13: Reading
Lesson 14: Reading
Lesson 15: Reading
Students will submit a final report. |
Text/Reference
Books,etc. |
handouts to be distributed in classes as needed |
PC or AV used in
Class,etc. |
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Handouts |
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Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review |
For the readings from Lesson 3 to Lesson 15, students must read not only the section they will be responsible for, but must thoroughly read the textbook and attend class. |
| Requirements |
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| Grading Method |
Active participation in class: 40%
Report: 60％ |
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| Message |
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Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching. |