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EALC 505 Introduction to East Asian Languages and Cultures
Instructor: Sunyoung Park, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Class Hours:Tues. 2-5 pm
Classroom: Doheney 110C, East Asian Studies Library (THH 371 for Oct. 12 only)
Office Hours: Mon. 2-4 pmOffice: THH 378
TEL: 213-740-8256Email:
Course Description
This core seminar aims to present first-year graduate students of EALC, as well as those invested in East Asia-related studies in other departments, with a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to the field of East Asian studies. Over the semester, faculty members from EALC and other East Asian studies programs on campus will be invited to give a presentation on their research projects and conduct a Q&A discussionwith students. A class will typically consist of the guest speaker’s two-hour presentation and Q&A followed by a separate, one-hour session among the instructor and students. In the latter session, we will focus on situating the day’s talk in the broader discursive context of our class so as to achieve a cumulative understanding of the perspectives, problems, and methods that are inherent to the field of East Asian Studies.
Accommodation for Students with Disabilities:
Any student requesting academic accommodations based on a disability is required to register with Disability Services and Programs (DSP) each semester. A letter of verification for approved accommodations can be obtained from DSP. Please be sure the letter is delivered to me or the TA as early in the semester as possible. DSP is located in STU 301 and is open 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.The phone number for DSP is (213) 740-0776.
Academic Integrity and Plagiarism:
University policies concerning academic dishonesty will be strictly enforced, and students are responsible for familiarizing themselves with these policies. Plagiarism and/or cheating on exams is subject to the sanctions set forth in the Student Conduct Code and may include expulsion or suspension from the university. For a detailed description of plagiarism and other types of academic dishonesty and the sanctions pertaining thereto,please refer to Academic Integrity: A Guide for Graduate Students available at
Requirements:
1. Participation (10%): Regular attendance and active class presence is mandatory for a graduate seminar.
2. Weekly Response Papers (30%): Every week, each student will submit on Blackboard a brief analytical response to the week’s readings. (The submission deadline is at midnight on the day before class.) Your response may engage in a critical discussion of the readings, raise a set of study questions, and/or note interesting claims and passages.
3. Journal Review Presentation (20%): Each student will survey major journals in her field of expertise, select one title that is most appealing to her, and read its recent issues from the last three to five years. You will then offer a presentation to the class on the journal’s general character, addressing features such as its editorial orientation, scholarly contributions, special issue themes, major contributors, or a list of representative articles.
4. Book Review (20%): Your book review should be a critical piece, in which you provide an informed assessment of the chosen title(s) for an academic audience. For tips on how to write book reviews, you may want to reference the guideline at the Writing Tutorial website of Indiana University:
5. Annotated Bibliography (20%): Every student will prepare a subject-oriented bibliography to be turned in at the end of the semester. Thebibliography should include critical annotations on at least five titles. You may consult a faculty member with relevant research interest for your selection of the titles. For tips on how to write an annotated bibliography, you may reference the guideline at the Writing Center website of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
Guest Speakers:
David Bialock (EALC/Comp. Lit)
BettineBirge (EALC/History)
Dominic Cheung (EALC/Comp. Lit)
Joshua Goldstein (History)
Kyung Moon Hwang (History)
David Kang (KSI/Political Science)
Akira Lippit (SCA/EALC/Comp. Lit.)
Viet Nguyen (English/ASE)
Sunyoung Park (EALC)
Stanley Rosen (EASC/Political Science)
Schedule
August 24
Week 1Introduction and Organization
August 31
Week 2Critical Thoughts on Area Studies
H.D. Harootunian and Masao Miyoshi, “Introduction: The ‘Afterlife’ of Area Studies,” Learning Places, Duke University Press, 2002, pp. 1-18; Rey chow, “Theory, Area Studies, Cultural Studies: Issues of Pedagogy in Multiculturalism,”
ibid., 103-118; and Bruce Cumings, “Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations, and Area Studies during and after the Cold War,” ibid., 261-302.
September 7
Week 3War, Memory, and Asia (Viet Nguyen)
Viet Nguyen, “A Country Not Our Own:Southeast Asia in the United States, the United States in Southeast Asia” 1-39 (forthcoming, positions) and “Remembering War, Dreaming Peace:On Cosmopolitanism, Compassion, and Literature,” 149-174, The Japanese Journal of American Studies, No. 29 (2009): 107-146
September 14
Week 4Everyday Life and History in Contemporary China (Joshua Goldstein)
Joshua Goldstein, “Introduction” to Everyday Modernity in China (Studies in Modernity and National Identity),ed. Madeleine Yue Dong and Joshua Goldstein, University of Washington Press, 2006: 3-21 and “TheRemains of the Everyday: One Hundred Years of Recycling in Beijing,” ibid., 260-302
September 21
Week 5The North Korean Nuclear Puzzle (David Kang)
David C. Kang, “International Relations Theory and the Second Korean War,” International Studies Quarterly 47, no. 3 (September 2003), pp. 301-324; Byung-joonAhn, “The Man Who Would Be Kim,” Foreign Affairs73, no. 6 (Nov-Dec 1994), pp. 94-108; Jacques E.C. Hymans, "Assessing North Korean Nuclear Intentions and Capacities: A New Approach," Journal of East Asian Studies Vol. 8, No. 2 (May-August 2008), pp. 259-292.
September 28
Week 6Post-Cold War Reassessment of Socialist Cultures in East Asia (Park)
Marx and Engels, “Manifesto of the Communist Party” The Marx-Engels Reader, ed. Robert Tucker, 2nd ed., W.W. Norton Company, 1978, pp. 469-500; Marshall Berman, “All That Is Solid Melts into Air: Marx, Modernism, and Modernization,” All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity, Verso, 1983, pp. 87-131; Heather Bowen-Struyk, “Proletarian Arts in East Asia,”The Asia PacificJournal: Japan Focus, April 16, 2007, 1-19; and Sunyoung Park, “Rereading Colonial Leftist Literature after the Cold War,” unpublished manuscript, 1-37
Book Review Due
October 5
Week 7Chinese Cinema and Youth Culture (Stanley Rosen)
Stanley Rosen,"Contemporary Chinese Youth and the State," Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 68 (2), 359-369; more readings TBA
October 12
Week 8Colonial Modernity and State Development in Korea (Kyung Moon Hwang)
Kyung Moonn Hwang, “Nation, State, and the Modern Transformation of Korean
Social Structure in the Early Twentieth Century.”History Compass5.2 (2007): 330–346 and "Citizens through Schools: Perspectives on State Making in Early 20th Century Korea,” unpublished manuscript; Gi-wook Shin and Michael Robinson, “Introduction: Rethinking Colonial Korea,” in Colonial Modernity in Korea, Harvard University Asia Center, 2001, pp.1-20.
October 19
Week 9Journal Review Presentation
October 26
Week 10Language and Visuality in Contemporary Japanese Cinema (Akira Lippit)
Readings TBA
November 2
Week 11Classical Chinese Literature and Aesthetics (Dominic Cheung)
Readings TBA
November 9
Week 12Ecocriticism in Japan, East Asia, and Beyond (David Bialock)
Readings TBA
November 16
Week 13Gender and Ethnicity in Chinese History (BettineBirge)
BettineBirge, "Women and Confucianism from Song to Ming: the Institutionalization of Patrilineality," in The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History, ed. Paul Smith and Richard von Glahn, Harvard University Press, 2003, pp. 212-240; "Levirate Marriage and the Revival of Widow Chastity in Yüan China," Asia Major Vol. 8, no. 2 (1995), pp. 107-146; and Dorothy Ko, Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (UC Press, 2005), 1-6 (Intro); 9-23; 36-37; 38-43; 109-113; 193-195; 227-229.
November 23
Week 14Topic and Reading TBA
November 30
Week 15Last Class
Annotated Bibliography Due on December 8