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1、EASTASIANHISTORICALRESEARCHDoingresearchonEastAsianhistoryrequiresanunderstandingofthekindofsourcesavailableandhowtousethem.Thishandoutisdesignedtointroducethemaintypesofsourcesthatareavailable.ItalsosuggeststhepathofdevelopmentthatyouwillfollowifyoupursuethestudyofEastAsianhistorybeyond

2、theundergraduatelevel.Withthisbackground,youwillhaveageneralideaofthekindofsourcesavailableforresearch.Beforewegettothesources,weneedtounderstandsomebasiccharacteristicsofthedisciplineofHistoryasitisappliedtoEastAsia.Doyouknowthelingo?Historyasanacademicdisciplineisalittleunusualinthatit

3、encompassesagreatdealofvariety.Theonlythingthatallitspractitionersagreeonisthathistoryistheanalyticalstudyofthehumanpast.Historiansthereforehappilyadoptwhatevertoolsareavailabletohelpthemmakesenseofthepast.Economichistoriansusethetoolsofeconomicanalysis;intellectualhistorians(whostudyide

4、asandvalues)usethetoolsofphilosophy;andsocialhistoriansoftendrawonanthropologyandsociology.AsyouresearchatopicinEastAsianhistory,youshouldpayattentiontothejargonthatauthorsuse.Iftheyseemtobeusingunfamiliarterminology,USERELEVANTDICTIONARIEStolearntheterms.Notonlywillthismaketheworkmoreco

5、mprehensible,youmayactuallyfindyourselfenjoyingtheintellectualpuzzle(yes,Iknow,butallowaprofessortodreamalittle!).Besidesthetechnicaljargonofthevarioushistoricalsubdisciplines,therearetermsfrequentlyencounteredinreadingChinese,Japanese,orKoreanhistorythatyouwillneedtobecomefamiliarwith.F

6、orexample,whenhistoriansofChinausetheword“memorial,”theyusuallymeanareportbyanofficialtotheEmperor.AcloisteredemperorinmedievalJapanesehistoryhasaparticularmeaning,asdoesyangbaninKoreanhistory.GoEastYoungPersonWell,weusuallyflywesttoendupinEastAsia,butyougettheidea.HereIwanttomakesomeobs

7、ervationsconcerningwhereyougofromhere(undergraduatehistorywriting).AmericanstudentstendtobespoiledbythefactthatEnglishhasbecomeagloballanguageandthatmostAmericansliveasignificantdistancefromnon-Englishspeakingcountries.Asaresult,Americansarealmostwillfullymonolingual.Byth