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| January 8 (Tuesday): Introduction: Myths of Homogeneity in East Asia Film (In class screening): "The Faded Blue Blouse" January 10 (Thursday) Narrating the Nation: Constructing Majorities 1. Sanjek, Rojer - "The Enduring Inequalities of Race." (Course Reader) 2. Anderson, Benedict - Imagined Communities, p. 1-36 (Course Reader) January 15 (Tuesday) Narrating the Nation, p. II 1. Weiner, Michael - "The Invention of Identity: Race and Nation in Pre-War Japan." (in Dikotter, 1998) 2. Dikotter, Frank - "Racial Discourse in Republican China." (in Dikotter, 1998) 3. Harrell, Stevan - "The Role of the Periphery in Chinese Nationalism." (Course Reader) January 17 (Thursday) Narrating the Nation, p. III. 1. Cho hai-joang - "Constructing and Deconstructing 'Koreanness'" (Course Reader) 2. Moon, Seungsook - "Begetting the Nation: The Androcentric Discourse of National History and Tradition in South Korea." (Choi and Kim, pp. 33-66). January 22 (Tuesday) Subjectivities: Class, Race, Gender, Nation, Part I. 1. Hall, Stuart - "The Question of Cultural Identity." (Course Reader). 2. Gates, Hill - "Ethnicity and Social Class." (Course Reader). 3. Choi, Chung-moo - "Nationalism and Construction of Gender in Korea." (Choi and Kim, pp. 9-32). January 24 (Thursday) Subjectivities, Part II. 1. Yoshino, Kosaku - "Culturalism, Racialism, and Internationalism in the Discourse on Japanese Identity." (Course Reader) 2. Abelmann, Nancy - "Women, Mobility, and Desire: Narrating Class and Gender in South Korea." (Course Reader) January 29 (Tuesday) Subjectivities, Part III. 1. Edwards, Louise - "Women in the People's Republic of China: New Challenges to the Grand Gender Narrative." (Course Reader) 2. Hampson, Sasha - "Rhetoric or Reality? Contesting Definitions of Women in Korea." (Course Reader) 3. Kondo, Dorinne - "Fashioning Masculinity: Gender, Race and Nation in the Transnational Circuit." (Course Reader). 4. Weller, Robert P. - "Identity and Social Change in Taiwanese Religioin." (Course Reader). January 31 (Thursday) Exclusions: The Production of 'Otherness', Part I 1. Siddle, Richard - "The Ainu and the Discourse of Race" (Dikotter 1998) 2. Sautman, Barry - "Myths of Descent, Racial Nationalism and Ethnic Minorities in the People's Republic of China." February 5 (Tuesday) Exclusions, Part II. 1. Schein, Louisa - "Performing Modernity." 2. Hsieh, Shih-chung - "Tourism, Formulation of Cultural Tradition, and Ethnicity: A Study of the Daiyan Identity of the Wulai Atayal." (Course Reader) 3. White, Sydney D. - "State Discourses, Minority Policies, and the Politics of Identity in the Lijiang Naxi People's Autonomous County." (Course Reader) February 7 (Thursday) Identities, Modernity and Globalization, Part I. 1. Oakes, Tim - "China's Provincial Identities: Reviving Regionalism and Reinventing "Chineseness"" (Course Reader) ** MID-TERM PAPERS DUE IN CLASS ** |
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