Required Readings or Events	Optional Readings or Notes
9/6	Introduction and Administrivia
9/13	Overview DeBary, The Trouble with Confucianism Various, “Roundtable on The Trouble with Confucianism”	*Huang, “Shen Shih-hsing, First Grand-Secretary” in 1587: A Year of No Significance *Chang, Chinese Intellectuals in Crisis Davies, “‘Star Wars’ and the Confucian Ethic” Chan, “Confucianism and Deng’s China”
9/18	Lecture: Benedict Kiernan, "Genocide in the Twentieth Century"	Attendance is required; 8 p.m., Russell House
9/20	A History of Criticisms of Confucianism, and the Concept of Tradition Chen Duxiu, “The Consitution and Confucianiusm” Berthrong, “The New Confucians” MacIntyre, "The Rationality of Traditions" Narayan, “Essence of Culture and a Sense of History” Paper One Assigned	Schneewind, "MacIntyre and the Indispensibility of Tradition" MacIntyre, "Reply to Schneewind" *Metzger, Escape from Predicament Kam Louie, Critiques of Confucius in Contemporary China Levenson, Confucian China and its Modern Fate
9/27	Authoritarianism Bell, East Meets West	Wong, “Rights and Community in Confucianism” *Dardess, Confucianism and Autocracy *Wood, Limits to Autocracy
10/4	Pluralism Martin & Mohanty, “Feminist Politics: What’s Home Got To Do With It?” Peerenboom, “Confucian Harmony and Freedom to Think” Chan, “Confucian Attitudes Toward Ethical Pluralism” Wong, “Confucianism and Pluralism”	DeBary, “‘Think Globally, Act Locally’ and the Contested Ground Between”
10/6	Paper One Due	By 5 p.m., in class box in 2nd floor lobby, Russell House
10/11	Rights Ci, “The Right, The Good, and the Place of Rights in Confucianism” Chan, “A Confucian Perspective on Human Rights for Contemporary China” Ames, “Continuing the Conversation on Chinese Human Rights” Donelley, “Conversing with Straw Men While Ignoring Dictators: A Reply to Roger Ames”	Bloom, “Mencius and Human Rights” Rosemont, “Whose Democracy? Which Rights? A Confucian Critique of...Liberalism” Peerenboom, “What’s Wrong with Chinese Rights?”
10/18	Individualism Pye, “The State and the Induvidual” King, “The Individual and the Group in Confucianism” Ci, “The Confucian Relational Concept of the Person and Its Modern Predicament” DeBary, “Neo-Confucian Individualism and Holism” Paper Two Assigned	DeBary, Learning for One’s Self
10/19	Lecture: Xiao Yang, "The Invention of the Will (and Morality) in Early Confucianism."	Attendance is required. 4:30 p.m., Freeman East Asian Studies Center
10/25	Self-Denial, Autonomy, Community Munro, “The Concept of ‘Interest’ in Chinese Thought” Angle, “Legitimate Desires” Chan, “Moral Autonomy, Civil Liberties, and Confucianism”	Alitto, The Last Confucian
11/1	Environment Kalton, “Extending the Neo-Confucian Tradition,” Taylor, “Companionship with the World” Tu, “The Continuity of Being,”	Ivanhoe, “Early Confucianism and Environmental Ethics,” Taylor, “Of Animals and Men: The Confucian Perspective,” Tucker, “Relevance of Chinese Neo-Confucianism for the Reverence of Nature” Rolston, “Can the East Help the West to Value Nature”
11/3	Paper Two Due	By 5 p.m., in class box in 2nd floor lobby, Russell House
11/8	Gender He Zhen, “Women’s Revenge” Sin-yee Chan, “Gender and Relationship Roles in the Analects and the Mencius” Lee, “Li Zhi and John Stuart Mill: A Confucian Feminist Critique of Liberal Feminism”	Li, ed., The Sage and the Second Sex
11/15	Family and Hierarchy Li, “Family: Duty vs. Rights” De Vos, “Confucian Family Socialization” Tu, “Probing the ‘Three Bonds’ and the ‘Five Relationships’ in Confucian Humanism”
11/29	Portable Tradition? Neville, Boston Confucianism
12/1	Research Paper Rough Draft Due, 5 p.m.
12/6	Conclusion Student Research Presentations
12/13	Research Paper Due	By 5 p.m., in class box in 2nd floor lobby, Russell House