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Unit I: Introduction 導論
1.
9/9
Topic: Introduction
- Problematics of Inter-Asia cultural studies
- Asia: Histories and Contexts
Background Knowledge:
A. The Sinicization of Southeast Asia LINK
B. Asia and the Lights of Civilization: A history of exchanges LINK
C. What is the Belt and Road initiative? | CNBC Explains LINK
D. East Asian cultural sphere, or the Sinic sphere LINK
E. South East Asia history LINK
F. The History of Northeast Asia 1700 - 2017: Every Year - YouTube LINK
G. The History of South Asia: Every Year LINK
H. The History of Central Asia: Every Year - YouTube LINK
I. Global Commerce: Maritime Empires in Asia LINK
2.
9/16
Topic: Cultural Trauma and the Making of Unequal Citizenship
Required Readings:
- The Look of Silence (2014) by Joshua Oppenheimer, with English subtitle LINK
- Scott, P. D. (1985). "The United States and the Overthrow of Sukarno, 1965-1967." Pacific Affairs 58(2): 239-264.
- Roosa, J. (2014). "Interview with Joshua Oppenheimer." Rethinking History 18(3): 413-422.
Reference:
A. Roosa, J. (2006). Pretext for Mass Murder : The September 30th Movement and Suharto's Coup D'Etat in Indonesia. Madison, Wis, University of Wisconsin Press.
B. AHeryanto, A. (2006). State Terrorism and Political Identity in Indonesia : Fatally Belonging. Florence, UNITED STATES, Routledge.
C. Peter Nyers, "Introduction : Why Citizenship Studies." Citizenship Studies 11(1): 1-4.
D. The Act of Killing (2012) (Indonesian: Jagal, meaning "Butcher") directed by Joshua Oppenheimer and co-directed by Christine Cynn and an anonymous Indonesian. LINK
E. Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI (Treachery of G30S/PKI) (1984), directed by Arifin C. Noer, with English subtitle. LINK
3.
9/23
Topic: Introduction to Online Electronic Resources
Guest Lecturer: Shu-Chuan Chang, Librarian, Division of Research and Academic Services 推廣服務組 張淑娟
Focus: EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero, Electronic Database, turnitin, etc.
Unit II: Colonial Legacy, Post-Colonial Era, Post-War and Cold War Regime
4.
9/30
Topic: Taiwan Conditions: Colonial History, Martial Law and its Aftermath
Required Readings:
- J. Bruce Jacobs, "Myth and Reality in Taiwan’s Democratisation." Asian Studies Review. 09 January 2019, Vol. 43(1), pp. 164-177.
- Liqun Cao, Lanying Huang ＆amp; Ivan Sun, "From authoritarian policing to democratic policing: a case study of Taiwan." Policing and Society. 26.6, 642-658.
- 葉虹靈，〈台灣白色恐怖創傷記憶的體制化過程：歷史制度論觀點〉， "Institutionalizing White-Terror Traumatic Memories in Taiwan: An Historical Institutionalism Perspective". 《台灣社會學》，2015-06-01，29期，pp. 1-42.
Reference:
A. White Terror (Taiwan) LINK
B. Le Moulin 《日曜日式散步者》LINK
C. City of Sadness 《悲情城市》full movie, English subtitleLINK (6:18 minutes clip)
D. A Borrowed Life 《多桑》LINK (no subtitle)LINK (clip, 9:10 minutes)
E. Super Citizen Kuo《超級大國民》 LINK (official trailer)
F. Monga 《艋舺》 LINK (official trailer)
G. Journey to the Promised Island 《寶島夜船》劉吉雄 LINK (trailer)LINK (clip)
5.
10/7
Topic: Cold War Communist Phobia and Left-wing Movement in the Asian Context
Required Readings:
- Duara, P. (2011). "The Cold War as a historical period: An interpretive essay." Journal of Global History, 6(3), 457-480.
- Arif Dirlik (2015) "The Bandung legacy and the People's Republic of China in the perspective of global modernity," Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 16:4, 615-630.
- Sidel, J. (2012). "The Fate of Nationalism in the New States: Southeast Asia in Comparative Historical Perspective." Comparative Studies in Society and History, 54(1), 114-144.
- Cheah Boon Kheng, “The left‐wing movement in Malaya, Singapore and Borneo in the 1960s: ‘an era of hope or devil’s decade’?” LINK
Reference:
A. Arif Dirlik (2004) "Spectres of the Third World: global modernity and the end of the three worlds," Third World Quarterly, 25:1,131-148
B. Kim Seong-Nae, “Mourning Korean Modernity in the Memory of the Cheju April Third Incident,” IACS 1.3 (2000): 461-476.
C. Giles Ji Ungpakorn, “The Impact of the Thai Sixties on the People’s Movement Today,” IACS 7.4 (2006): 571-588
D. Other examples
6.
10/14
Topic: 13 May Event of Malaysia, 1969 馬來西亞五一三事件
Lecturer: Director LAU Kek-huat 廖克發
Required Readings:
- McGregor, K. (2016). "Cold War scripts: Comparing remembrance of the Malayan Emergency and the 1965 violence in Indonesia." South East Asia Research 24(2): 242-260.
- Kloos, D. and W. Berenschot (2017). "Citizenship and Islam in Malaysia and Indonesia." Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia. W. Berenschot, H. S. Nordholt and L. Bakker, Brill: 178-208.
- Étienne Balibar, “Racism and Nationalism,” Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities, 37-68.
Reference:
A. Orang Asli LINK
B. Ethnic conflict of 13 May 五一三的種族衝突 LINK
C. New Village LINK
D. New Village LINK
E. 「馬來人至上」"Malay dominance” Ketuanan Melayu LINK
F. 513 事件 LINK
Unit III: Neoliberalism, Geo-Economics and New Colonialism
7.
10/21
Topic: Belt Road Initiative and the Operation of Logistics
Required Readings:
- Dadabaev, Timur (2018) ‘“Silk Road” as foreign policy discourse: The construction of Chinese, Japanese and Korean engagement strategies in Central Asia’, Journal of Eurasian Studies, 9, 1, 30-41.
- Mezzadra, Sandro and Brett Neilson (2013) “Extraction, logistics, finance: Global crisis and the politics of operations,” Radical Philosophy 178 (Mar/Apr): 8–18.
- Niccolò Cuppini and Mattia Frapporti, "Lotistics Genealogies: A Dialogue with Stefano Harney." Social Text 136. Vol. 36, No. 3. September 2018. 95-110.
- “Logistics of Power” in Viewpoint Magazine, no. 4 (September-October 2014): “The State,” particularly: Alberto Toscano, “Lineaments of the Logistical State”; Deborah Cowen, “Disrupting Distribution: Subversion, the Social Factory, and the ‘State’ of Supply Chains“; and Sergio Bologna, “Inside Logistics: Organization, Work, Distinctions”.
Reference:
A. Cai, Peter (2017) Understanding China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Lowy Institute. LINK
B. Arif Dirlik (2011) "The idea of a ‘Chinese model’: A critical discussion," International Critical Thought, 1:2, 129-137.
C. Arif Dirlik; "The End of Colonialism? The Colonial Modern in the Making of Global Modernity." boundary 2 1 February 2005; 32 (1): 1–31.
8.
10/28
Topic: Cold War Containment, Pax Americana and its Transition
Required Readings:
- David Harvey, "All About Oil," New Imperialism, Chap. 1.
- Merle C. Ricklefs. “The Cold War in hindsight: local realities and the limits of global power.” Cold War Southeast Asia. Ed. By Malcolm H. Murfett. Marshall Cavendish International (Asia), 2012. 322-343.
- Muto Ichiyo, “The Buildup of a Nuclear Armament Capability and the Postwar Statehood of Japan: Fukushima and the Genealogy of Nuclear Bombs and Power Plants,” IACS 14.2 (2013): 171-212.
- Examples of the influence Pax Americana in Asia
9.
10/28
Bernard Stiegler & YUK Hui 許煜 Lecture
Bernard Stiegler, Professor, University of Technology of Compiègne
Topic: Technical Tendencies, Technical Facts and Technodiversity
Yuk Hui, Associate Professor, Faculty of Media at Bauhaus University Weimar
Topic: The Paradox of Intelligence
Readings:
10.
10/28
Topic: Neoliberalism and East and Southeast Asia
Required Readings:
- Garry Rodan and Kevin Hewison. “Neoliberal globalization, conflict and security: New life for authoritarianism in Asia?” Empire and Neoliberalism in Asia. Ed. Vedi R. Hadiz. Routledge, 2006. 105-122.
- Jorn Dosch. “Managing Security in ASEAN-China Relations: Liberal Peach of Hegemonic Stability.” Asian Perspective. Vol. 31, No. 1. 2007. 210-236.
- Hongying Wang. “The Asian financial crisis and financial reforms in China.” The Pacific Review. Vol. 12. No. 4. 1999: 537-556.
- Cases of Asian financial crises
Second section of this class:
講題：'Overcoming individual on success based art practices: Some Indonesian art-practices and the difficulties of understanding mutual assistance.'
講者：reinaart vanhoe
時間：2019年11月11日（一），下午15：00～17:00
Introduction of the speaker:
Belgian artist-researcher reinaart vanhoe lives and works in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and is currently a resident artist at Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taipei.
For quite some years he has been a teacher at the Willem de Kooning Academie and guest teacher at different situations. With a background in fine art and experimental film, his practice has since diverged. His practice manifests itself in frameworks for collaborations and some writing, also translating these into exhibitions, installations and films. His latest concern in his practice is the concept of neighboring, or how to speak together, how to build together.
In 2015 he published the book ‘Also-Space: From Hot to Something Else’, which looks into an understanding of an art practice for a citizen-scene in contrast to an art practice for an art-scene. The book focuses mainly on the first 12 years of Jakarta-based artists' initiative ruangrupa, as well as several other Indonesian art practices and practitioners (including Wok the Rock, Moelyono Moel, lifepatch, Jatiwangi Art Factory).
In the coming years I would like to formulate a biotope of what I want to name a ‘caring/imaginative’ (art) practice’. How to understand art for a citizen-scene opposed to art for an art-scene, or culture-scene of a certain eductional class. This formulation will, probably, be based on a mix of certain practices in South East Asia. Important for such a practice is how to speak together, how to understand its ecology and how to understand different perspectives of how people enter interactions.
There is a need for formulations how these art-practices look like to give confidence and comfort to artists searching for new articulations. It serves to inspire a younger generation growing up with something named ‘global art’. What comes along with collaborations, how to understand effort, where to locate critique, what is materialisation, where is the audience, who is the audience.
Links:
Taipei places working with indonesian artist:
11.
11/18
Topic: White Slaves/Black Revolutionaries
—Who Has the Right to Have Rights? Who Has the Right to Resist? Explorations of the US and the Haitian Revolutions
Lecturer: Carroll Smith-Rosenberg is the Mary Frances Berry Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women’s Studies, Emerita, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg is known for her path-breaking scholarship in US women’s and gender history, and for her significant contributions to developing interdisciplinary programs and international scholarly networks addressing women’s history, gender studies, the history of sexuality, and cultural and Atlantic studies. Her book, This Violent Empire: The Birth of an American National Identity, won a Choice Award for Distinguished Scholarly Book in 2011, and her groundbreaking article, “The Female World of Love and Ritual,” established the legitimacy of lesbian history in the field. Her most recent project examines the historical trajectory of struggles for human rights and political agency.
Synopsis: Coterminous with US press coverage of US white “enslavement,” during the Barbary Wars, news of the slave uprisings in the French sugar colony of Saint Domingue hit the US popular press. Were the rebellious slaves in one of the most sadistic plantation slave economies justified in asserting their right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” or did they embody the worst threat to democratic rule—savage black mobs raping and murdering? This talk will explore the evolution of the Haitian Revolution and the radical press’s (in both France and the United States) response to Afro-Caribbean’s assertion to their rights to freedom, political agency and independence from French colonial rule.
12.
11/25
Topic: Migration and Unequal Citizens--Past and Present, and the Politics of Citizenship
Required Readings:
Required Readings:
- Koh, K., ＆amp; Bonate, L. (2017). Connections and comparisons: Region and the world in framing early modern Southeast Asian history. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 48(3), 346-348.
- Andaya, B. (2017). Seas, oceans, and cosmologies in Southeast Asia. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 48(3), 349-371.
- Joppke, Christian. “Transformation of Citizenship: Status, Rights, Identity.” Citizenship Studies. 11:1, 37-48.
- Berenschot, Ward. Et al. (2017) “Introduction: Citizenship and Democratization in Postcolonial Southeast Asia.” Citizenship and Democratization in Southeast Asia. H. S. Nordholt, L. Bakker and W. Berenschot, Brill: 1-28.
- Cases of migrants and unequal citizens
Unit IV: Alternative Projects
13.
12/2
Topic: The Aesthetics of Attention: Exploring the Long Take in Sinophone Cinema
Lecturer: Louis Lo, Graduate Institute for Studies in Visual Cultures, National Yang-Ming University 勞維俊 陽明大學視覺文化研究所
Focus: How do political or social issues be represented in such 'artistic' cinematic devices as long take and slow cinema? To what extents are the political and cinematic poetics related to each other in Sinophone art-house cinema?
Required Readings:
- Lutz Koepnick, The Long Take: Art Cinema and the Wondrous. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. Ch.7 (especially pp. 187-207)
- Jean Ma, Melancholy Drift: Marking Time in Chinese Cinema. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011, Ch.1
* Recommended films to watch before the lecture. Film clips from others will be screened in class
- Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Good Men, Good Women (1995) *
- Jia Zhang-He, Platform (2000)
- Abbas Kiarostami, Like Someone in Love (2012) *
- Tsai Ming-Ling, Stray Dogs (2013) *
- Bi Gan, Kaili Blues (2015)
- Hu Bo, An Elephant Standing Still (2018)
Suggested readings:
- Louis Lo, ‘Enduring the Long-take: Tsai Ming-liang’s Stray Dogs (郊遊) (2013) and the Dialectical Image,’ CLCWeb Comparative Literature and Culture, vol. 21, Issue 5 (September 2019), Special Issue Suffering, Endurance, Understanding, ed. Simon Estok, Douglas Berman, and Frank Stevenson, Article 7.
- Song-Yong Sing (孫松榮). 入鏡｜出境：蔡明亮的影像藝術與跨界實踐 (Projecting Tsai Ming-liang: Towards Transart Cinema). Wunan Books, 2014.
- Yun-Hua Chen, ‘Deleuze and Hou Hsiao-hsien’s “Mosaic” in Good Men, Good Women (1995),’ Journal of Chinese Cinemas, vol. 8, no. 2, 2014, pp. 160-171.
14.
12/9
Topic: Cold Sex War 性冷戰
Lecturer: DING Naifei, Department of English/Center for the Study of Sexuality 丁乃非 中央大學性/別研究室，英文系
Focus: This course will closely read three sets of texts (units) as feminist narratives – theoretical (synthesizing knowledge toward an analytic of oppression and/or exploitation, personal change and systemic transformation). The topic on "cold sex wars" is built around a set of four core texts from seventies and early eighties US feminist “sex wars.” The four core essays are each representative of later, larger institutional knowledge formations, and thus can be closely read as speaking to and against one another in symptomatic ways. To some extent, the four texts constitute a feminist narrative grammar whose syntax and semantics continue to be in use today in languages other than English. Especially notable are a dual gender dichotomy and cold war syntax and semantics that continue to animate the contemporary moment, decontextualized of a racialized antechamber or predicate (Spillers).
Required Readings:
- Gayle Rubin, “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the “Political Economy” of Sex” (1975)
- Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence” (1980)
- Catharine MacKinnon, “Feminism, Marxism, Method and the State: An Agenda for Theory” (1982)
- Gayle Rubin, “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality” (1984)
Reference:
A. Hortense J. Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book” (1987)
B. 丁乃非，《女性主義的性論述》（2018）
C. 丁乃非，《家庭與婚姻的女性主義政治》，《人文與社會科學簡訊》，十卷三期
15.
12/16
Topic: Mobs and mobiles: Towards a critique of affective publics
Speaker: Abhijit Roy, Professor and Dean of Media, Communication and Culture, Jadavpur University
Abstract
This talk would like to present a critical agenda for studying emergent forms of publicness in India in relation to circulation of information across electronic and social media. I use ‘information’ in a very elementary sense of anything that circulates as a ‘fact’. It may or may not refer to a real happening, but it must appear (read/look/sound) to contain an element of truth, circulating in a range of forms from news on television channels to memes and fake news across social media. The paper explores why mobile phones generate certain user-behaviour of quickly forwarding such information without checking, creating conditions for rumour and lynch mobs in India. Can we say that social media tends to privilege circulation over content, speed and mobility over pause and emotion over urge for verification? It is with such questions in mind that I critically engage with Zizi Papacharissi's proposition in her book Affective Publics: Sentiment, Technology, and Politics that it is emotion and “feeling without knowing” that work through social media behind movements of regime change (Twitter behind #Egypt 2011 to be precise). I identify some of the key problems in valorising such publics as essentially facilitating democracy. I argue that such increasingly fashionable ‘civic’ discourse of participatory culture is unable to account for the way affective publics in India spread rumour on social media and messaging services like WhatsApp and frequently turn into lynch mobs. The talk would emphasize the need to restore faculties of ‘verification’ and ‘doubt’ in public culture, and the challenges involved in engaging 'reason' in a non-positivist way.
16.
12/23
Topic: Cultural Movements and the Politics of Memory 文化運動與記憶政治
Lecturer: Chen, Jui-Hua, Institute of Sociology, National Tsing Hua University 陳瑞樺 清華大學社會所
Focus: inquiries on civil society, civil agriculture, and memory politics公民社會和公民農業的探討，以及記憶政治的探尋
Required Reading:
- Chen, Jui-Hua, 2014, “Building a New Society on the Base of Locality -- Transformation of Social Forces in Taiwan during the 1990s.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 15(2): 291-305.
- 陳瑞樺，2016，〈以農之名：台灣戰後農運的歷史考察〉，《文化研究》22: 75-122。(Chen, Jui-Hua, 2016, “In the Name of the Farmer: A Historical Review of Agrarian Movements in Postwar Taiwan.” Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies, 22: 75-122.)
- Lii, Ding-Tzann, 2017, ‘The Cultural Politics of Food: Rice as an Anti-globalization Project.’ Gastronimica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, 17(1): 24-35.
- 陳瑞樺，2019，〈分斷體制與移建民族國家：臺灣「鄉土文學」概念的歷史考察〉。論文發表於「文學論戰與記憶政治：亞際視野」，新竹，國立清華大學人文社會學院，9月7-8日。
(Chen, Jui-Hua, 2019, “Division System and the Relocated Nation-State: A Historical Survey into the Concept of ‘Nativist Literature’ in Taiwan.” Paper presented at the conference “Literary Debates and the Politics of Memory: Toward an Inter-Asia Perspective”, organized by the Center for Asia-Pacific/Cultural Studies at National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Sep. 7-8.)
Reference:
A. Chuang, Ya-Chung, 2013, Democracy on Trial: Social Movements and Cultural Politics in Postauthoritarian Taiwan. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.
莊雅仲。2014。《民主台灣：後威權時代的社會運動與文化政治》。香港：香港中文大學。
B. 蔡晏霖，2017，〈農藝復興：台灣農業新浪潮〉，《文化研究》，22：23─74。(Tsai, Yen-ling, 2016, “Agricultural Renaissance in Taiwan.” Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies, 22: 23-74.)
C. 王智明、林麗雲、徐秀慧、任佑卿編，2019，《回望現實‧凝視人間：鄉土文學論戰四十年選集》（修訂版）。臺北：聯合文學。
Second session: Generation discussion on the issues we've discussed in the classroom: perspectives, problematics, and methodologies of Critical Inter-Asian Cultural Studies.
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12/30
Final Project Presentation
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1/6
Final Project Presentation
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