Monsoon Asia

Autor/in	Williams, Philip F.
Titel	Monsoon Asia
Quelle	In: Academic Questions, 25 (2012) 1, S.114-124 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-4852
DOI	10.1007/s12129-011-9269-0
Schlagwörter	Western Civilization; Foreign Countries; Non Western Civilization; Asian History; China; India + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Indien
Abstract	Great Books programs and Western civilization courses have understandably emphasized the Greco-Roman and Hebraic origins of Western civilization, while moving on to a European focus, with some material relating to the Western Hemisphere usually brought in for good measure. After all, people have the ancient Greeks to thank for such landmark inventions as democratic thought and Euclidean geometry, while the ancient Romans have inspired much of law and architecture. Yet people have done this in a context in which they rely every day upon the decimal system in mathematics that was first developed in India and a paper and printing technology invented in China. This article suggests how the two leading civilizations in Monsoon Asia--India and China--may be smoothly incorporated into a Great Books or world civilization program, and moves on to propose how a two-semester course on Chinese civilization might be optimally organized. (Contains 13 footnotes.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10