Key Programming Guide

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
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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.”
2Chinese 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 /

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
3Japan
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://m

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








4Japanese 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





5Age of Exploration and Isolation
thLiterature during the 15 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


th15 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