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Early East Asian Studies at Wesleyan--Courses and Lectures

Compiled by David Titus

Courses--1914-61

1. Comparative Government, 1914-23. Includes China and Japan:
2. Comparative Religions (Everett), 1945-51. Major emphasis given to the religions originating in India, China and Japan.
3. Comparative Religion I, 1952--55. (Wagers) Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism.
4. Religion 6. Comparative Religion II. (Swift). China, Confucianism, and Taoism. 1955-56.
5. Religions of India and China (Swift) 1956-57.
6. Major Religions of the World (Swift) 1957-58.
7. Far Eastern History (Abosch) 1958-59.
8. Buddhist Thought (Weedon) 1958-59.
9. Religion of India and China (Swift) 1958-59.
10. Introduction to Primitive and Oriental Art (Frazer and Green) 1959-60.
11. Far Eastern History : Japan (Abosch) 1959-60.
12. Far Eastern History : China (Abosch) 1959-60.
13. Eastern Religions (Swift) 1959-60.
14. Far Eastern History : Japan (Abosch) 1960-61.
15. Far Eastern History : China (Abosch) 1960-61.
16. Sino-Japanese Intellectual History (Abosch) 1960,61.

Lectures--1917-37

1. Opening of 'the East and the Diplomacy of King Cotton (Dutcher) 1917--18.
2. China as a Republic (Ferguson) 1918,19.
3. Tne Progress of Western Ideas in Eastern Lands, six lectures (Dutcher) 1922-23.
4. The Phillipines in the Making (Perez) 1923-24.
5. The Diplomatic Service (MacMurray-U.S. Minister to China) 1924-25.
6. The Student Movement in Old China (Yard '05 - West China University) 1925-26.
7. The Crisis in China (Beech '99) 1927-28.
8. China and the Problems of the Pacific (Hung) 1928-29.
9. Illustrated Lecture of China (Beech - President of West China University) - 1930-31.
10. Japanese Prints (Bidwell) 1931-32.
11. The Chinese-Japanese Situation (Outerbridge - Methodist China Mission) 1932-33.
12. Japanese Aspects of the Manchurian Question (Akagi) 1933-34.
13. Chinese Aspects of the Manchurian Situation (Whyte) 1933-.-34.
14. West China Union University (Stanley) 1936-.-37.
15. Chinese Music (Wiant) 1936-37.
16. The Industrialization of China (Morrison) 1936-37.
17. The Japanese Situation (Neumann) 1936-37

Catalogues searched from 1884 through 1961. Nothing relating to East Asia appeared between 1884 and 1914; therefore, the search was not carried out before 1884.