Prepared by: Patty Fekete; Media Specialist China (1200’s Medieval China) 2 Japan 4 Age of Exploration and Isolation 6 The Age of Enlightenment or Reason 7 Rise of Nations 9 Industrial Revolution 1700-1900 10 The Rise of Democracy 13 Imperialism 15 WWI 17 WWII 19 Russian Revolution 21 Rise of New Nations and end of colonies 22 World Literature (general) 23 World History(general) 24 1 China (1200’s Medieval China) The Song Dynasties (northern and southern) were marked by an interest in culture and in the intellectual. It is a period known as the “Chinese Renaissance;” a time when many books; encyclopedias and monographs were written. Timeline History of China http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/time_line.html Song Dynasty (907-1279) Song Neo-Confucian philosophers: Zhu Xi Yuan Dynasty (1270-1368) History of China http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/toc.html China: A Country Study http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cntoc.html Chinaknowledge: A Universal Guide for China Studies http://www.chinaknowledge.de/ The Canonical Books of Confucianism http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/hbcanonru-u.html#translations China-Related Resources http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/china.html The Analects of Confucius http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/contao/analects.htm Chinese Literature http://www.connect.net/ron/chineseliterature.html “The greatest Chinese poetry was created during the Tang dynasty (618-907). The Tang period produced a new poetic form called the tz'u, which reached its greatest popularity during the Song (Sung) dynasty (960-1279). Su Tung-po, was the best- known tz'u poet of China.” “Storytelling became a popular form and was printed in storybooks, called hua-pen, which later inspired the longer novels of China.” Chinese Literature: Styles of Literature http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0857314.html “It is generally agreed that China's greatest poetry was written in the T'ang dynasty. Wang Wei, Li Po, Tu Fu, and Po Chü-i are masters of this period. In the succeeding Sung dynasty Su Tung-p'o was perhaps the foremost poet.” 2 Chinese Literature: The Colombia Encyclopedia http://www.bartleby.com/65/ch/Chinesel.html During the Sung dynasty (960–1279), the four books that formed the Ssu Shu [four books] were thought to embody the quintessence of Confucian teachings. They are the Ta Hsüeh [great learning] and the Chung Yung [doctrine of the mean] from the Li Chi, the Lun Yü [analects of Confucius], and the Book of Mencius.” Chinese Cultural Studies: Concise Political History of China http://acc4.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chinhist.html China: History and Art http://history.evansville.net/china.html Sun-tzu or Sunzi Art of War http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism/suntzu.htm Taoism Information Page http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism/ Tao Te Ching http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism/ttcmerel.htm Chinese WWW Virtual Library http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/index.html Most, if not all, of the links are from educational sites and are gathered by librarian that can be contacted if necessary. WWW Virtual Library: Subject Catalog http://vlib.org/AlphaVL.html Introduction to Classical Chinese Historiography http://www.princeton.edu/~classbib/ Chinese Literature http://www.chineseliterature.com.cn/ Online Bibliographies for Chinese Studies http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/igbiblio.htm Provides bibliographies for Chinese studies in the following areas: reference, history, geography, economy, society, politics, literature, art, film, philosophy & religion, etc. Internet East Asian History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html 3 Japan Heian Period (784-1185) Kamakura-Muromachi Period (1185-1573) Edo Period (1603-1868) Japanese Literature http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/worldlit/wldocs/japan.htm Japanese Medieval Literature http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/worldlit/wldocs/japan.htm Stanford University’s Guide to Japan This site provides specific titles produced during the various periods of Japanese life, as well as information pertaining to the cultural, political and historical life of the Japanese. http://jguide.stanford.edu/ http://www.kanzaki.com/jinfo/jliterature.html Grand Inspiritors: Matsuo Basho [Edo Period (1603-1868)] http://opening.hefko.net/gi_basho.html New Reference Guide to Japanese Literature Provides a time line for Japanese writers, based on Japanese historical periods. http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/jds/writings/japanese/new-lit-ref.html Ancient Japan http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCJAPAN/CONTENTS.HTM The Flowering of Japanese Literature http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCJAPAN/LIT.HTM Japan Access http://www.sg.emb-japan.go.jp/JapanAccess/jaindex.htm Literature Includes titles from each literary/historical period, including: Tsurezuregusa (ca 1330; Essays in Idleness), by Yoshida Kenko (Heian Period). http://www.sg.emb-japan.go.jp/JapanAccess/bungaku.htm 4 Japanese Literatue “The foremost poet of the Manyo-shu is Kakinomoto Hitomaro flourished about 680- 710), who handled freely all forms of verse. The prevailing mood of the anthology is makoto (truth or sincerity), the full involvement of the person.” “The greatest works of Heian literature appeared in the late 10th and early 11th centuries, notably Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji, c. 1010) by Murasaki Shikibu and Makura-no-soshi (The Pillow-Book) by Sei Shonagon, another woman of the court.” http://www.connect.net/ron/japaneseliterature.html 2001 Waka A Japanese Poetry Site http://www.shef.ac.uk/japan2001/waka0001.shtml Oldpoetry Provides poetry from Hitomaro, etc. http://oldpoetry.com/poetry/29969 The Japanese Haiku Masters Links are provided on Basho, Buson and Issa. http://www.gardendigest.com/poetry/haiku6.htm#Basho Ancient Japanese Civilization. Provides Links http://www.archaeolink.com/ancient_japan.htm Timeline of Japanese History http://www.askasia.org/frclasrm/readings/t000013.htm Japan: A Country Study http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/jptoc.html#jp0013 The Arts: Literature http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+jp0132) Teaching (and Learning) About Japan Provides various cultural, historical and archeological information. http://www.csuohio.edu/history/japan/ Internet East Asian History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html 5 Age of Exploration and Isolation Literature during the 15th century includes historiographies, diaries, political satires, and fiction based on legends. Check out the following ALA Gateway site to European Literature for suggestions: http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2001/april2/westerneuropean.htm http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/UK-authors.html 15th Century in literature. http://encyclopedia.fablis.com/index.php/1500_in_literature Florence: History and Literature of Italy, 1300-1600 http://history.hanover.edu/courses/350lit.html MWH Notes This site provides numerous PowerPoint presentations from various periods in World History http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:_lWFFBitEAsJ:www.bnet.org/rbsd/ruhs/dlemire/notes .htm+%22age+of+exploration+and+isolation%22+links&hl=en Dr. B’s Homepage Site provides notes on different World History periods including the Age of Exploration and Isolation which provides information on the following themes: “European discoveries of Africa, Asia, America; Rise of Spanish colonial and Portuguese trading empires; Slow shift from self-contained to wider interactive economies; Gradations of social classes and differences in east and west; Internal and International wars born of religion and politics, out of which come new national consciousness; move toward absolutism, in France.” http://myschoolonline.com/folder/0,1872,999-126152-1- 103043,00.html McDougal Littell: Modern World History The publisher McDougal Littel provides a bank of lesson plans for their publication. Although they were written for the state of Virginia and aligned to their standards, they invite other educators from other states to use these plans as needed. They are very basic but provide a composite of core world history lessons. (2003) http://www.mcdougallittell.com/state/va/pdf/va_lp_mwh.pdf European Literature: Electronic Texts http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html 6 The Age of Enlightenment or Reason Some authors and titles include: John Locke’s Two Treatises Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract and The Discourse on Inequality, Kant, William Blake, Samuel Johnson, John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Rene Descartes’ Discourse on Method and The Search for Truth, Moliere’s The Misanthrope, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels, Poetry, Literature, & Significant Literary Events During the Age of Reason ~1650-1800 http://www.sonoma.edu/history/reason/www.poetry.html Age of Enlightenment http://history.evansville.net/enlighte.html The European Enlightenment http://www.wsu.edu/%7Edee/ENLIGHT/ENLIGHT.HTM Age of Reason and Enlightenment http://www.sonoma.edu/history/reason/ The Enlightenment http://ap_history_online.tripod.com/apeh7.htm http://academics.witcc.com/language_humanities_history/peiffer_jeff/WHCH18Notes.htm The Period of Enlightenment in France http://www.radicalacademy.com/philenlightenment.htm#rousseau French Revolution and Napoleon William Wordsworth’s The Prelude, Victor Hugo Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Voltaire Candide, Rousseau’s The Social Contract, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Marine, Robert Burns, William Blake’s