1. Volker H. Schmidt, “Multiple Modernities or Varieties of Modernity?” Current Sociology Vol. 54, No. 1 (January 2006), pp. 77-97 (http://csi.sagepub.com/content/54/1/77.short)
Arif Dirlik “Global Modernity? Modernity in an Age of Global Capitalism” European Journal of Social Theory Vol. 6 No. 3 (August 2003), pp. 275-292. (http://est.sagepub.com/content/6/3/275.short )
2. Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, “Multiple Modernities”, Daedalus Vol. 129, No. 1, (Winter, 2000), pp. 1-29 (http://www.spp1448.de/fileadmin/media/Oeffentlich/Eisenstadt_2000_MultipleModernities.pdf)
Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay, London: Profile Books, 2015, pp.335-399.
3. Immanuel Wallerstein, “The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis” Comparative Studies in Society and History Vol. 16 Issue 04 (September 1974), pp 387-415 (http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/jhamlin/4111/2111-home/CD/TheoryClass/Readings/WallersteinWorldSystem.pdf)
Immanuel Wallerstein, "The Rise of East Asia, or The World-System in the Twenty-First Century" Keynote Address at Symposium on "Perspective of the Capitalist World-System in the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century," sponsored by Project, "Perspectives on International Studies," Institute of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University, Jan. 23-24, 1997: http://www.webalice.it/michele.castellano/politica/Note/Wallerstein/The%20Rise%20of%20East%20Asia,%20or%20The%20World-System%20in%20the%20Twenty-First%20Century.pdf
G. Arrighi, T. Hamashita, and M. Selden ,“Introduction: The rise of East Asia in regional and world historical perspective,” in G. Arrighi, T. Hamashita, and M. Selden (eds) The Resurgence of East Asia. London and NY: Routledge, 2003, pp. 1-17
Kaoru Sugihara, “The East Asian Path of Economic Development: A Long-term Perspective,” in G. Arrighi, T. Hamashita, and M. Selden (eds) The Resurgence of East Asia. London and NY: Routledge, 2003, pp. 78-124.
G. Arrighi, Po-Keung Hui, Ho-Fung Hung and M. Selden, “Historical Capitalism, East and West” in G. Arrighi, T. Hamashita, and M. Selden (eds) The Resurgence of East Asia. London and NY: Routledge, 2003, pp. 259-334.
4. Sven Saaler and Christopher W. A. Szpilman. ‘Introduction: The Emergence of Pan-Asianism as an Ideal of Asian Identity and Solidarity, 1850-2008. In: Pan-Asianism: A Documentary History, Volume 1: 1850-1920 (2011), pp. 1-42.
Tessa Morris-Suzuki. ‘Invisible Countries: Japan and the Asian Dream.’ Asian Studies Review 22:1 (1998), pp. 5-22
Tran My-Van. ‘Japan through Vietnamese Eyes (1905-1945).’ Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 30:1 (1999), pp. 126-146.
5. Jeffrey Weng, ‘What Is Mandarin? The Social Project of Language Standardization in Early Republican China’ The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 77, No. 3 (August) 2018, pp. 611–633.
Hyun-Bok Lee, ‘Differences in language use between North and South Korea’ International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Vol. 82, 1990, pp. 71-86
6. Sergei O. Kurbanov, ‘North Korea's juche ideology: indigenous communism or traditional thought?,’ Critical Asian Studies, Vol. 51, Issue 2, 2019, pp. 296-305
Don Baker, ‘A Slippery, Changing Concept: How Korean New Religions Define Religion’
Journal of Korean Religions, Vol. 1, No. 1/2, September 2010, pp. 57-91
More articles will be added and made available before the start of the semester.