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Confucianism, Communism, Capitalism (HIST30069)
Undergraduate level 3Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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Email: a.finnane@unimelb.edu.au
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This subject explores the nexus between culture and economy in East Asia, with a focus on China and comparative treatment of Japan and Korea. Confucianism has been advanced as an explanation both for the achievements of and for shortcomings in economic organization and development in East Asia. The subject is designed to equip students with the knowledge and critical skills to analyse and evaluate interpretations of economic activity as a function of Confucian culture. Major areas of study include the historical deployment of Confucian precepts in commercial life, and the influence of Confucian institutions on economic organization. Markets, merchants, shopping and banking, textile production and international trade are among the historical phenomena to be explored.
Intended learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this subject should be able to
- reflect critically on the relationship between culture and economy;
- demonstrate familiarity with significant developments in East Asian societies and economies;
- describe the major trajectories of East Asian economic and cultural change, considered in conjunction, over the last five hundred years;
- analyse and evaluate popular and academic accounts of Confucianism in relationship to changes in economies and societies in East Asia; and
- demonstrate an ability to analyse primary and secondary materials, textual and visual, in reflecting on cultural and economic change.
Last updated: 27 April 2024