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ERIC #:	EJ984421
Title:	Monsoon Asia
Authors:	Williams, Philip F.
Descriptors:	Western Civilization; Foreign Countries; Non Western Civilization; Asian History
Source:	Academic Questions, v25 n1 p114-124 Mar 2012
More Info: Help Peer Reviewed:	Yes
Publisher:	Springer. 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013. Tel: 800-777-4643; Tel: 212-460-1500; Fax: 212-348-4505; e-mail: service-ny@springer.com; Web site: http://www.springerlink.com
Publication Date:	2012-03-00
Pages:	11
Pub Types:	Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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.)
Abstractor:	ERIC
Reference Count:	0

Note:	N/A
Identifiers:	Asia; China; India; Western Hemisphere
Record Type:	Journal
Level:	N/A
Institutions:	N/A
Sponsors:	N/A
ISBN:	N/A
ISSN:	ISSN-0895-4852
Audiences:	N/A
Languages:	English
Education Level:	Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Direct Link:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12129-011-9269-0

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