ECON 6355-01 LEC 11324 Economic Development of Asia (Lecture) June 6, 2011-July 5, 2011
ECON 6355-02 LEC 13133 Economic Development of Asia (Lecture) July 11, 2011-August 8, 2011



See syllabus for Economics 3355 Summer 2011 for details.


Reading on China for the Economics 3355 course:

 

·         The Cambridge Illustrated History of China, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Cambridge University Press.

·         Science and Civilization in China, Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 2, Agriculture by Joseph Needham and Francesca Bray, Cambridge University Press

·         The Great Divergence: China , Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy by Kenneth Pomeranz., Princeton University Press

·         China's Great Economic Transformation by Loren Brandt,  Cambridge University Press; 2008

 

Those taking the class for graduate credit will also be required to use: 

 

·         On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900 [Hardcover] by Benjamin A. Elman, Harvard University Press

 

and either

 

·         The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China by Dieter Kuhn and Timothy Brook, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

or

·         A Cultural History of Modern Science in China (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medicine) [Paperback] by Benjamin A. Elman, Harvard University Press

 

This is in ADDITION to the books for the undergraduate section. Students do a forty to fifty page paper on the issues defined in the syllabus for Econ 3355.

 

Option ONLY for those doing the Southeast Asia/Viet Nam Study Abroad trip Summer 2011 ONLY:

 

·         Vietnam: Rethinking the State by Martin-Gainsborough. Zed Books, 2010.

and

·         Vietnam Business Guide: Getting Started in Tomorrow's Market  by Kimberly Vierra and Brian Vierra. Wiley, 2010.

 

This is in ADDITION to the books for the Southeast Asia/Viet Nam option for the undergraduate section. Students do a forty to fifty page paper on the issues defined in the syllabus for Econ 3355.

 

 

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