ARTS1210 Course Outline
School of Humanities and Languages
ARTS1210, Concepts of Asia
Semester 1, 2015
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Course Staff and Contact Details
Course Details
Learning and Teaching Rationale
Teaching Strategies
Course Assessment
Extension of Time for Submission of Assessment Tasks
Attendance
Class Clash
Academic Honesty and Plagiarism
Course Schedule
Course Resources
Course Evaluation and Development
Student Support
Grievances
Other Information
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1. Course Staff and Contact Details
Course Convenor
Name
Professor Mina Roces
Phone
93852348
Consultation Time Wednesdays 10-12
Lecturer
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Phone
Consultation Time
Tutors
Professor Louise
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Edwards
Phone
93851027
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Dr. James Paull
Phone
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Dr. Blanca Tovias
Phone
Room
Email
Morven Brown 359
[email protected]
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Morven Brown 332
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[email protected]
[email protected]
2. Course Details
Units of Credit (UoC) 6 uoc
Course Description
This Gateway subject introduces students to the different
countries that make up the Asian region and the interdisciplinary
methods used to research and study Asia known as Asian
Studies. Using an all-Asia approach with a focus on the
twentieth century, it will give students a broad knowledge of the
diversity of the societies that constitute Asia. Students will learn
about the different cultures that make up East, South and
Southeast Asia, including religion and culture (and the major
literary texts that have influenced cultural identity), general
colonial histories, constructions of gender, population and
demography, Asian cities, the politics of democracy and
authoritarianism, and Asian diasporas.
Course Aims
This course is the first step in the process of making
students ‘Asia-literate’. It aims to:
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build the foundational knowledge essential for a basic
understanding of Asian societiesand
Investigate the many disciplinary approaches to the study
of Asia through specific themes. While the course is
designed with an all-Asia approach in mind (that is, that
students study themes across a number of Asian countries
rather than using a country-specific focus), students will
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also read and analyze scholarship from the disciplines of
history, women’s and gender studies, religious studies,
migration studies, and politics. As a Gateway subject to the
Asian studies major, it intends to deliver the background
knowledge necessary in order to do more in-depth analysis
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of specific Asian regions, or specific themes across Asia
(the second year offerings). It is in the third year where
students can specialize in one Asian country.
At the completion of this course students will be able to:
Student Learning
Outcomes
1. write a research essay that makes an argument showing an
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Graduate Attributes
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interpretation about an event or an issue using scholarly
literature
summarise and critically evaluate scholarly literature from
interdisciplinary fields from the Humanities and Social
Sciences
know about the diversity of Asian societies and cultures
and develop and Asian perspective in the analysis of these
cultures through time
to be able to analyse scholarship and present their own
interpretations in class and in written work
An informed understanding of diversity of the human
experience, history, culture and society in the Asian region
A capacity to engage in and appreciate the value of
reasoned and open-minded discussion and debate
Effective oral and written communication skills
The capacity for critical analysis of scholarship, writing
and sources on and about Asia
These Graduate Attributes will be developed through several types of assessment tasks. The
weekly journal will compel them to read academic scholarship in the various disciplines in
Asian Studies and to analyze them critically. Class participation will give them the skills to
present their interpretations orally and to defend their positions through debate with their
peers. The content of the reading materials will give them a broad knowledge of the latest
scholarship on the field. Essay topics require that students use case studies of more than one
Asian country to develop an all-Asia approach to the subject.
The essay component of the course will develop research, writing and analytical skills. This
is a first year subject and it will train them to write in a formal academic manner. Journal
assignments will provide the training in academic writing to get practice for the essay. The
quizzes and the map assignment will make sure they have a broad knowledge of Asian
societies.
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Learning and Teaching Rationale
My teaching philosophy is to make students enthusiastic about the subject matter and equip
them with the skills to then research and learn on their own. It is important that students learn
in particular the skills of critical analysis where they develop a questioning mind when they
approach primary and secondary sources. These skills need to be developed regularly over
time and tutorials are a fundamental part of this learning process. The reason why journal
assessments are a major part of the assessment component is because this ensures that
students come to tutorials prepared. They would have done the readings and reflected on the
issues raised by the literature. Writing a journal then allows them to participate in an
informed manner and debate with their colleagues who have thought and reflected on the
reading matter as well. This task is rewarded with a 20% component. The map exercise is
worth 5%, the Historical Site and Memory assignment is worth 15%, the Asian City group
tutorial exercise is worth 10% of the marks. Students therefore are required to give their
arguments orally each week and defend these arguments. By the end of the semester they not
only develop critical skills but also a mature confidence in presenting their ideas in public.
The essay is the one assessment that develops an individual’s research, analytical and writing
skills in an in depth manner. It is this assignment that highlights one’ s development as a
scholar. Since the essays require students to explore a theme across more than one Asian
country, this assessment task is there to get students to develop an all-Asia approach and give
them a broad knowledge of the region as a whole.
The Historical Site and Memory assignment is a creative one and is an opportunity for
students to have their own original research project. It is also about national memory and
national forgetting so students are challenged to be critical about their chosen site and analyze
what the site commemorates and what it forgets. Students present this orally during class and
are expected to do this in only 3-5 minutes but are challenged to use innovative sources such
as the websites and photographs. There are two lectures designed to help students with this
exercise.
The Asian City group work tutorial exercise is a creative assignment that encourages students
to work collaboratively to present a particular Asian City to the class. The class votes for the
best group presentation and that entire group will receive a perfect 10/10 for that assessment.
The tutor will mark the rest of the class but each group will receive a common mark.
The overall course design gives content on the religious and cultural traditions of East, South
and Southeast Asia including contemporary forms of religious practice, the languages of Asia,
and the major literary texts that have been critical to particular region’s identity and history.
Brief histories of Asian monarchies and concepts of power, Asian and Western empires
provide students with the basic knowledge about how the past has shaped the contemporary
region. In addition, in order to transform students into Asian specialists, they will need to
know about philosophy, population, demography, gender, migration, music, food and dress in
Asia.
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Teaching Strategies
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My teaching strategy is to get students to do all the readings and reflect on them and then
reward them for this weekly effort. The journal assessment component ensures that this
outcome is achieved. Tutorial time is for students to discuss their ideas so the tutor merely
chairs discussions. An important teaching strategy is to ensure students do all the readings for
the subject and get them to think about the issues raised by the discussion question each week.
This assessment task is for the development of Graduate Attributes that have to do with
developing critical and analytical skills.
Lectures are used to provide the background material for the specialized readings in tutorials.
Documentary and feature films are used as points for discussion with some excerpts shown in
the middle of lectures. Guest lectures from the fields of history, linguistics, anthropology, and
philosophy, will showcase the Faculty’s expertise in Asian studies and introduce students to
Asian studies taught in the various disciplines. Pop Quizzes are a strategy to test student’s
comprehension of class lectures and to develop interpretative and analytical skills. Quizzes
are there to ensure students absorb the lecture material and have successfully gained the
empirical knowledge base to begin the process of making them Asia-literate or Asian studies
specialists.
5. Course Assessment
Assessment
Task
Length
Map Quiz
Journal and
Participation
Research
Essay
Historical Site
and Memory
Exercise
Asian Cities
Group
Exercise
3 Pop quizzes
Weight
Learning
Outcomes
Assessed
Graduate
Attributes
Assessed
Due Date
Week 3 at
tutorials
At tutorials
wks 4,5,6,7
5%
3
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500-600
words x 4
5% each ,
20% total
2,3,4
1,2,3,4
2000 words
35%
1,2,3,4
1,2,3,4
May 8,2015
3-5 minutes
15%
2,3,4
1,2,3
Once from
weeks 10-12
5 minutes
per group
10%
3.4.
1,2,3
Week 13
1-3
paragraphs
5% each
total of 15%
3
1,3
pops up
anytime during
lectures
Please Note: The Arts and Social Sciences Protocols and Guidelines state:
A student who attends less than 80% of the classes/activities and has not submitted
appropriate supporting documentation to the Course Authority to explain their absence may
be awarded a grade of UF (Unsatisfactory Fail).
The Attendance Guidelines can be found in full at:
https://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/current-students/academic-information/Protocols-Guidelines/
Journal
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The journal is an extremely important component of the assessment. Tutorials will only work
if students come to the class prepared for discussion. Students should do the required reading
for the week and contribute to the class discussion in an informed manner. The submission of
the journal assignment each week ensures that students will come to class prepared. All
tutorial readings have been digitised and the links are provided here in this course outline
under the sections on tutorial readings. Students are then required to answer the journal
questions and submit them at the end of each tutorial. The journal should be used as the basis
for your participation. The tutor will collect the journals at the end of each session and return
them to the students the following week with a mark from 0-5 (each journal assessment is
worth 5%, the total of all journals is 20%). (There will be no comments given from the
instructor on the weekly journal because the answers to all questions will be discussed at the
tutorial—you will however receive long comments on your essays). The marks will be based
on students written work plus the oral participation. This is the section of the assessment
where the instructor is the most generous in awarding marks for effort (the essays are graded
on brilliance and not just effort). If you make a reasonable attempt to answer the questions
you will get a 2.5 or a pass. If you answer all questions, chances are you will get a 3 or a
credit or a 3.5 Distinction. A four out of 5 is an HD, and students who answer all questions
very well will receive a 5/5. Journals should be about around 500-600 words only or not more
than a page and a half of type written double spaced text. A sample journal is enclosed in this
course outline but we would like you to aim to write even a shorter one.
POP Quizzes at Lecture Times
There will be three of these held during the lecture times. They will be unannounced and are
worth 5% each for a total of 15%. Students will be asked to write a paragraph in answer to a
question about previous lectures. The quiz will take no more than 10-15 minutes. THERE IS
NO CLASS TEST.
Map Quiz in Week 3
At the start of the tutorial in Week 3, students will be handed a blank map of Asia and will be
asked to fill in the names of all the Asian countries (worth 5% of the marks).
Historical Site and Memory Exercise presented in Weeks 10-13
Students need to select a historical site in any country from Asia and talk about why it is
important for 2-3 minutes in class. This is your original research project. You alone in the
entire world will be the expert on the site you have chosen. Think about how visiting that site
will give insights into understanding that particular Asian country (in terms of history,
religion, culture, philosophy, economy, environment, society etc). Think about what sort of
historical interpretation of an event the site commemorates and what historical issues are
‘forgotten’ or effaced. You may use the internet to find photos of the site to show to class but
you should do a little bit of reading on your own (beyond wikipidia) so you can make a good
analysis and have an original interpretation. To help you with this exercise 2 lectures on how
to do this exercise are given on April 29 and May 4. This exercise is worth 15%.
Asian Cities Group Exercise in Week 13
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Students will be divided into groups. Each group will choose an Asian city. You will then
need to promote your city so you will need to do a little bit of research about your city and
decide as a group what angle you will need to do to promote it. Your group will need to come
up with a particular interpretation of your Asian city. For example, thing about, does it have
an ethnic identity? Etc.? The presentation should only take 5 minutes. It is not essential for
every single person in the group to say something but everyone in the group should have
contributed to the presentation in some way. At the end of the class the class votes on which
group gave the best presentation and they will get a 10/10. The tutor will allocate a group
mark to everyone.
Research Essay
The essay is worth 35% of the mark and should be around 2000 words in length. It must be
typed and double spaced with ample margins for the tutor to make comments. See instructions
for assignment submission below.
The essay is due on Week 9 Friday May 8 at 4pm. Students should see their tutor regarding
the essay topics. There is a recommended bibliography included here after each essay
question. Students should consult this bibliography in the first instance as these are the
leading scholars writing on the topic but are encouraged to explore other material as well. The
recommended readings are the established works on that topic. Students are also encouraged
to explore recent issues of journals (available electronically through the UNSW library
website). A list of recommended journals is in the section on essay questions.
Students should consult the academic specialized literature and not textbooks.
What about the web or internet? Remember secondary sources on the web may not be
refereed so be careful. Anyone can put any article on the web. Books and journals have a
rigid refereeing process. I usually recommend the web for literature searches---looking for
bibliographies and also for primary sources such as newspapers and archival material that are
now so easily available through web sites. Students are encouraged to access this material.
Grades
All results are reviewed at the end of each semester and may be adjusted to ensure
equitable marking across the School.
The proportion of marks lying in each grading range is determined not by any formula or
quota system, but by the way that students respond to assessment tasks and how well they
meet the objectives of the course. Nevertheless, since higher grades imply performance that
is well above average, the number of distinctions and high distinctions awarded in a typical
course is relatively small. At the other extreme, on average 6.1% of students do not meet
minimum standards and a little more (8.6%) in first year courses. For more information on the
grading categories see: https://student.unsw.edu.au/grades
Submission of Assessment Tasks
Assignments which are submitted to the School Assignment Box must have a properly
completed School Assessment Coversheet, with the declaration signed and dated by hand.
The Coversheet can be downloaded
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from https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/students/courses/course-outlines/. It is your responsibility to
make a backup copy of the assignment prior to submission and retain it.
Assignments must be submitted before 4:00pm on the due date. Assignments received after
this time will be marked as having been received late.
Late Submission of Assignments
The Arts and Social Sciences late submissions guidelines state the following:
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An assessed task is deemed late if it is submitted after the specified time and date as
set out in the course Learning Management System (LMS).
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The late penalty is the loss of 3% of the total possible marks for the task for each day
or part thereof the work is late.
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Work submitted 14 days after the due date will be marked and feedback provided but
no mark will be recorded. If the work would have received a pass mark but the
lateness and the work is a compulsory course component a student will be deemed to
have met that requirement. This does not apply to a task that is assessed but no mark
is awarded.
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Work submitted 21 days after the due date will not be accepted for marking or
feedback and will receive no mark or grade. If the assessment task is a compulsory
component of the course a student will automatically fail the course.
The Late Submissions Guidelines can be found in full at:
https://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/current-students/academic-information/Protocols-Guidelines/
The penalty may not apply where students are able to provide documentary evidence of
illness or serious misadventure. Time pressure resulting from undertaking assignments for
other courses does not constitute an acceptable excuse for lateness.
6. Extension of Time for Submission of Assessment Tasks
The Arts and Social Sciences Extension Guidelines apply to all assessed tasks regardless of
whether or not a grade is awarded, except the following:
1. any form of test/examination/assessed activity undertaken during regular class
contact hours
2. any task specifically identified by the Course Authority (the academic in charge of the
course) in the Course Outline or Learning Management System (LMS), for example,
Moodle, as not available for extension requests.
A student who missed an assessment activity held within class contact hours should apply
for Special Consideration via myUNSW.
The Arts and Social Sciences Extension Guidelines state the following:
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A student seeking an extension should apply through the Faculty’s online extension
tool available in LMS.
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A request for an extension should be submitted before the due time/date for the
assessment task.
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The Course Authority should respond to the request within two working days of the
request.
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The Course Authority can only approve an extension up to five days. A student
requesting an extension greater than five days should complete an application for
Special Consideration.
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The Course Authority advises their decision through the online extension tool.
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If a student is granted an extension, failure to comply will result in a penalty. The
penalty will be invoked one minute past the approved extension time.
7. Attendance
The Arts and Social Sciences Attendance Guidelines state the following:
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A student is expected to attend all class contact hours for a face-to-face or blended
course and complete all activities for a blended or fully online course.
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If a student is unable to attend all classes for a course due to timetable clashes, the
student must complete the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Permitted Timetable
Clash form (see information at Item 8 below). A student unable to attend lectures in a
course conducted by the School of Education can apply for “Permission to Participate
in Lectures Online”.
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Where practical, a student’s attendance will be recorded. Individual course
outlines/LMS will set out the conditions under which attendance will be measured.
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A student who arrives more than 15 minutes late may be penalised for nonattendance. If such a penalty is imposed, the student must be informed verbally at the
end of class and advised in writing within 24 hours.
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If a student experiences illness, misadventure or other occurrence that makes
absence from a class/activity unavoidable, or expects to be absent from a
forthcoming class/activity, they should seek permission from the Course Authority,
and where applicable, should be accompanied by an original or certified copy of a
medical certificate or other form of appropriate evidence.
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Reserve members of the Australian Defence Force who require absences of more
than two weeks due to full-time service may be provided an exemption. The student
may also be permitted to discontinue enrolment without academic or financial penalty.
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If a Course Authority rejects a student’s request for absence from a class or activity
the student must be advised in writing of the grounds for the rejection.
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A Course Authority may excuse a student from classes or activities for up to one
month. However, they may assign additional and/or alternative tasks to ensure
compliance.
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A Course Authority considering the granting of absence must be satisfied a student
will still be able to meet the course’s learning outcomes and/or volume of learning.
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A student seeking approval to be absent for more than one month must apply in
writing to the Dean and provide all original or certified supporting documentation.
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The Dean will only grant such a request after consultation with the Course Authority
to ensure that measures can be organised that will allow the student to meet the
course’s learning outcomes and volume of learning.
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A student who attends less than 80% of the classes/activities and has not
submitted appropriate supporting documentation to the Course Authority to
explain their absence may be awarded a final grade of UF (Unsatisfactory Fail).
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A student who has submitted the appropriate documentation but attends less than
66% of the classes/activities will be asked by the Course Authority to apply to
discontinue the course without failure rather than be awarded a final grade of UF. The
final decision as to whether a student can be withdrawn without fail is made by
Student Administration and Records.
Students who falsify their attendance or falsify attendance on behalf of another
student will be dealt with under the Student Misconduct Policy.
8. Class Clash
Students who are enrolled in an Arts and Social Sciences program (single or dual) and have
an unavoidable timetable clash can apply for permissible timetable clash by completing an
online application form. Students must meet the rules and conditions in order to apply for
permissible clash. The rules and conditions can be accessed online in full at:
https://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/media/FASSFile/Permissible_Clash_Policy.pdf
For students who are enrolled in a non-Arts and Social Sciences program, they must seek
advice from their home faculty on permissible clash approval.
9. Academic Honesty and Plagiarism
Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s thoughts or work as your own. It can take many
forms, from not having appropriate academic referencing to deliberate cheating.
In many cases plagiarism is the result of inexperience about academic conventions. The
University has resources and information to assist you to avoid plagiarism.
The Learning Centre assists students with understanding academic integrity and how to not
plagiarise. Information is available on their website: https://student.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism/.
They also hold workshops and can help students one-on-one.
If plagiarism is found in your work when you are in first year, your lecturer will offer you
assistance to improve your academic skills. They may ask you to look at some online
resources, attend the Learning Centre, or sometimes resubmit your work with the problem
fixed. However, more serious instances in first year, such as stealing another student’s work
or paying someone to do your work, may be investigated under the Student Misconduct
Procedures.
Repeated plagiarism (even in first year), plagiarism after first year, or serious instances, may
also be investigated under the Student Misconduct Procedures. The penalties under the
procedures can include a reduction in marks, failing a course or for the most serious matters
(like plagiarism in an Honours thesis) or even suspension from the university. The Student
Misconduct Procedures are available
here: http://www.gs.unsw.edu.au/policy/documents/studentmisconductprocedures.pdf
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10. Course Schedule
To view course timetable, please visit: http://www.timetable.unsw.edu.au/
Lecture and Tutorial Schedule
Week 1: 2-6 March
Lecture 1: Introduction: What is Asia? (MR)
Lecture 2: Religion and Civilization of South Asia (MR)
No Tutorials
Week 2: 9-13 March
Lecture 1: Religion and Civilization of Southeast Asia (MR)
Lecture 2: Caste in India (Guest Lecturer: Associate Professor Kama MacLean)
Tutorial: Introduction, How to Write a Journal
Week 3: 16-20 March
Lecture 1: Religion and Civilization of East Asia (MR)
Lecture 2: Major Texts of Asia: The Ramayana (MR)
Tutorial: Map Quiz and Essay Writing
Week 4: 23-27 March
Lecture 1: Major Texts of Asia: Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Tale of Genji (MR)
Lecture 2: Empires Part 1 (Western colonization South and Southeast Asia) (MR)
Tutorial: Contemporary Religions: Media and Popular Catholicism in the Philippines and
Shamanism in Korea
Week 5: 30 March-2 April
Lecture 1: Gender Part 1: Men (MR)
Lecture 2: Gender Part 2: Women (MR)
Tutorial: Excerpts from the Major Texts of Asia: Ramayana, Romance of the Three
Kingdoms, Tale of Genji
Mid-semester recess, 3-12 April
Week 6: 13-17 April
Lecture 1: Empires Part 2: (Western colonization of East Asia) (MR)
Lecture 2: Empires Part 3: (Asian Empires) (MR)
Tutorial: Life Under Colonial Rule
Week 7: 20-14 April
Lecture 1: Languages of Asia (Dr. Wang Ping)
Lecture 2: Asian Thought (Associate Professor Karyn Lai)
Tutorial: Constructions of Gender: Theorizing Chinese Masculinity and Gender Discourses in
Java
Week 8: 27 April-1 May
Lecture 1: Asian Music (Guest Lecturer: Associate Professor Manolete Mora)
Lecture 2: Nation, Memory and Forgetting (To Help with Historical Site Exercise) (MR)
Tutorial: Group in-class exercise, commemorating World War II in Asia
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Week 9: 4-8 May
Lecture 1: Asian Studies and Museums (to help also with the Historical Site Exercise) (MR)
Lecture 2: Film: Red Cliffs
Tutorial: FILM either Water or Raise the Red Lantern and Discussion
ESSAY DUE THIS WEEK
Week 10: 11-15 May
Lecture 1: Asian Cities (MR)
Lecture 2: Asian Borderlands (Associate Professor Duncan McDuie-Ra)
Tutorial: Historical Site and Memory Exercise
Week 11: 18-22 May
Lecture 1: Asian Food and Identity (MR)
Lecture 2: Population and Demography (MR)
Tutorial : Historical Site and Memory Exercise Continued
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Week 12: 25-29 May
Lecture 1: Asian Concepts of Power: Politics, Democracy, Authoritarianism and People
Power Revolutions (MR)
Lecture 2: Asian Dress and Identity (MR)
Tutorial: Historical Site and Memory Exercise Continued
Week 13: 1-5 June
No Lectures
Tutorial: Asian Cities Group Exercise
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11. Course Resources
Textbook Details: The readings for the course have been digitised by the library. Simply type
the words “ARTS1210” In the library search engine. They are arranged in alphabetical order by
author’s surname. All journal articles however will need to be accessed by typing the title of the
journal in the search engine and looking for the date and finding the issue. Some of the books are
available as ebooks and in this case type the title of the book and search for the relevant chapter.
Journals (see attached bibliographies for essays)
Additional Readings (see attached bibliographies for essays)
Websites (see attached bibliographies for essays)
Each lecture has a handout summarizing the points and handouts will be uploaded on the
Moodle site a week before the lecture is given. Please use this to review the previous lectures
so you will be ready for pop quizzes. Look at the file marked “Lecture Handouts”
The readings for the tutorials are all digitised. See also the bibliographies provided for each
essay question. The library has lmost all of the material and I’ve also provided call numbers.
Some of them are digitised.
See also the maps enclosed in this course outline and a sample journal (but please write a
shorter version than the one enclosed here). I will upload the footnote system and the criteria
for marking essays in the Moodle platform.
Lectures are video-taped and should be available via the Moodle platform.
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TUTORIAL READINGS AND JOURNAL QUESTIONS
*ALL THE READINGS FOR THIS COURSE HAVE BEEN DIGITISED FOR YOU
BY THE UNSW LIBRARY
How to access the readings.
1) Log on to: the library and type “ARTS1210” in the library search engine
2) Then search for the author and title you need to read for the week.
3) If it is from a journal article, type the title of the journal and search for the relevant issue
4) If it is a book and not in the list, type the title of the book because it is available in an
ebook which you can read from your computer via the library website.
Week 2: Introduction and How to Write a Journal
Readings
Sample Journal: see the back of this course outline
Maps of Asia (uploaded in Moodle under Resources)
Week 3: Map Quiz AND Essay Writing
Readings:
“The Cat Sat on the Mat” in the Moodle platform
“Marking Criteria” available in the Moodle platform
“The Footnote System” available in the Moodle platform
*Map Quiz: the tutor will hand out a blank map of Asia and students will be required to fill
out the names of countries. A list of countries you need to put in is available in the Moodle
platform.
*The tutor will give a presentation on the basic requirements of an undergraduate essay
including referencing.
Week 4: Contemporary Religions: Media and Popular Catholicism in the Philippines and
Shamanism in Korea
Readings
Katherine L. Wiegele, Investing in Miracles El Shaddai and the Transformation of Popular
Catholicism in the Philippines, (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2005), pp. 41-58.
Laurel Kendall, Shamans, Nostalgias and the IMF South Korean Popular Religion in Motion,
(Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2009), pp. 129-153.
Journal Questions:
What was the role of the media in the development of the El Shaddai in the Philippines? Why
do you think it has such a large following among Filipinos?
What is Kendall’s explanation for the popularity of shamans in contemporary Korean life
particularly among business entrepreneurs? Do you agree with her? Why or why not?
Week 5: Major Asian texts
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Readings
Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji, (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1977) translated by Edward
G. Seidensticker, chapter 1, “The Paulownia Court”, pp. 3-10.
Lo Kuan-Chung, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, (Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Company,
1959), pp. 1-10) (chapter 1 “Feast in the Garden of Peaches: Brotherhood Sworn: Slaughter of
rebels: The Brothers Heroes”).
R. K. Narayan, The Ramayana, A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic,
(London: Chatto & Windus, 1972), pp. 161-2 (chapter 13, “Interlude”).
Journal Questions: What do the three readings tell us about role models in Japan (Genji),
China (Romance of the Three Kingdoms), and South and Southeast Asia (Ramayana)? How
do they depict the ideal rulers, ideal male and female and ideal values?
Week 6: Life Under Colonial Rule
Readings:
George Orwell, Burmese Days, (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1934, 1962) pp. 516.
Jose Rizal, El Filibusterismo (The Reign of Greed), translated by Charles Derbyshire,
(Quezon City: Giraffe Books, 1997), pp. 24-32.
Chapter entitled “Cabesang Tales”
Tran Tu Binh, The Red Earth A Vietnamese Memoir of Life in a Colonial Rubber Plantation,
(Athens Ohio: Ohio University Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series
No. 66, 1985, pp. 23-31.
Journal Questions: What picture of colonial life appears from these accounts? How would
you as a scholar treat these accounts of history (these are primary sources)? (Hint: look at
different points of view of authors, Jose Rizal for example was a Filipino nationalist and this
novel you are reading inspired the revolution against Spain in 1896).
Week 7: Constructions of Gender
Readings:
Kam Louie, Theorising Chinese Masculinity, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2002), pp. 1-21 (“Introducing wen-wu: Towards a Definition of Chinese Masculinity”)
Suzanne A. Brenner, “Why Women Rule the Roost: Rethinking Javanese Ideologies of
Gender and Self-Control”, in Aihwa Ong and Michael Peletz (eds.), Bewitching Women,
Pious Men Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia, (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1995), pp. 19-50.
Journal questions: How is masculinity defined in China (or what is meant by wen/wu)?
Would you be able to give examples of this from Romance of the Three Kingdoms (reading
for week 4) or the films with Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fat and Jet Li?
How is status measured in Java and how come women lose out when they hold the purse
strings? How are the masculine and feminine defined in Java?
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The class can discuss the experience of bargaining in Asian markets.
Week 8: Group in-class exercise, “Commemorating World War II”
The class will be divided into groups of 4-5 students each. Each group will represent 1
country.
Choose from 1. Japan, 2. China, 3. Korea, 4, Indonesia, 5, Philippines or Vietnam or Burma.
Each country/group needs to come up with an idea on how the nation is going to
commemorate World War II in their country. The commemorations must deal with notions of
national memory and they must be diplomatic (for example, if you were assigned Japan, the
Prime Minister of Japan could not possibly visit the Shinto Shrines or else China, Korea and
all the formerly Japanese-occupied Southeast Asian countries would protest). The group
should justify why they decided on running a particular event or justify their choice of
commemoration ceremony.
The discussion should go on for 15-20 minutes for each group. Then there will be a general
class discussion and one person from each group will pretend to be the Prime Minister and tell
the class what the group planned/organized for the commemoration ceremonies, and justify or
explain why they have chosen to run that particular event or commemoration ceremony.
Readings:
Paul H. Kratoska, “Southeast Asia from the Japanese Occupation to Independence”, in
Norman G. Owen (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian History, (London: Routledge,
2014), pp. 65-74.
Christina Twomey and Ernest Koh (eds.), The Pacific War 1941-45. Aftermaths,
Remembrance and Culture, (London: Routledge, 2014). This is available as an ebook. You
may skim the book and look for relevant chapters. This is the latest book on memory and
commemoration of World War II.
Week 9: Film Showing and Discussion
No readings
Films are on women in India or China (either Raise the Red Lantern or Water). Discussion
Week 10: Historical Site and Memory Exercise
No readings
Students need to select a historical site in any country from Asia and talk about why it is
important for 2-3 minutes orally in class. Pick a site and talk about why it is important. Think
about how visiting that site will give insights into understanding that particular Asian country
(in terms of history, religion, culture, philosophy, economy, environment, society etc). You
will need to discuss what site commemorates and what the site ‘forgets’. You may use the
internet to find photos of the site to show to class but you should do a little bit of reading on
your own (beyond wikipidia) so you can make a good analysis and have an original
interpretation.
*Two lectures are given to help you with this exercise (April 29 and May 4).
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Week 11: Historical Site Exercise Continued.
No Readings as above in Week 10.
Week 12: Historical Site Exercise Continued.
Week 13: Promote and Interpret An Asian City Group Exercise
Students will be divided into 4-5 groups and each group will be assigned an Asian city. The
group will do a 3-4 minute presentation on their Asian city. At the end of the class the class
will vote for the best presentation and that group will receive an automatic 10/10. The tutor
will give a common mark for each group. This is worth 10% of the mark. Not everyone is
required to say something on the day but everyone should have contributed to the final
presentation. The general class discussion should also assess the presentations, and discuss
what was good about each presentation (or what was missing from a presentation).
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ESSAY QUESTIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Choose one of the following questions. A Suggested Bibliography is provided and students
are encouraged to consult this bibliography. Journal articles are available through the
library’s website. These readings are recommended; students may explore others (since this
course uses an All-Asia approach so most of the major works that use this approach are
included here but there are many more that have not been included as the lists could be
enormous given the number of Asian countries). You may also consult their tutor and lecturer
on appropriate readings for their essay topics. Students are also encouraged to explore recent
issues of the following journals which have online access through the UNSW library website:
Population and Development Review
Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
Journal of Asian Studies
Modern Asian Studies
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
Critical Asian Studies
Asian Studies Review
Philippine Studies
Journal of South Asian Studies
Japan Focus Newsletter
Moussons
Modern China: An International Quarterly of History and Social Science
Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs
Journal of Contemporary Asia
Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies
Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (this is an e-journal coming out
of the Australian National University http://intersections.anu.edu.au/
Men and Masculinities
Culture, Society and Masculinities
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs (www.CurrentChineseAffairs.org), a free journal
South Asia
Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs
Bidjragen tot de Taal-, Land-en Volkenkunde (Southeast Asia/Indonesia Published in the
Netherlands has English and is a top journal)
Indonesia
Japanese Studies
Korean Studies
Asian Affairs
Urban Studies (for those doing the Asian Cities question)
1. In what ways have population growth and population issues been important in Asian
societies in the twentieth century? Compare two countries. How have politicians dealt
with the ‘population problem’ and what were the impacts of their policies?
Students can also consult the recent issues of the journal Population and Development
Review
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China
Carrillo, Beatriz, and Duckett, Jane, China’s Changing Welfare Mix: Local Perspectives,
(London: Routledge, 2011).
Croll, Elizabeth, Endangered Daughters Discrimination and Development in Asia, (London:
Routledge, 2000).
Davis, Deborah and Harrell, Steven (eds.) Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era, (Berkeley:
The University of California Press, 1993).
S306.850951/4
Goh, Esther, China’s One-Child Policy and Multiple Caregiving: Raising Little Suns in
Xiamen, (London:: Routledge, 2011). 306.85095 (and available on line)
Greenhalgh, Susan, “Science, Modernity and the Making of China’s One-Child Policy,”
Population and Development Review, vol. 29, no. 2 (June), 2003, pp. 163-96.
(This reading is important because it analyzes how the one child policy came about. This can
be downloaded from the UNSW library website.
Pang, Lihua, de Brauw, Alan, Rozelle, Scott, “Working Until You Drop: The Elderly of
Rural China”, The China Journal, No. 52, July 2004, p. 73-94.
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4127885
Poston, Dudley L, Lee, Che-Fu, Chang, Chiang-Fang, McKibben, Sherry L, and Wlather,
Carol S. (eds.), Fertility, Family Planning and Population Control in China, (London:
Rouledge, 2005).
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Rajan, S. Irudaya, “China’s One-Child Policy: Implications for Population Aging”, Economic
and Political Weekly, Vo. 29, No. 38, September 17, 1994, ,pp. 2502-2506.
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4401789
Tien, H. Yuan, “Demography in China: From Zero to Now”, Population Index, Vol 47, No. 4,
Winter, 1981, pp. 6830710.
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2736034
Japan
Bentelspacher, Carl and Minai, Keiko (eds.), Aging in Japan and Singapore, (Singapore:
Department of Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore, 1994).
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Coulmas, Florian, Population Decline and Ageing in Japan—The Social Consequences, (New
York: Routledge, 2007).
On order check
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Fu, Tsung-hsi and Rhidian Hughes (Eds.), Aging in East Asia Challenges and Policies for the
Twenty First Century, (London: Routledge, 2009)
Furkawa, Kojun, Social Welfare in Japan: Principles and Applications, (Melbourne: Trans
Pacific Press, 2008).
Goodman, Roger and Harper, Sarah, “Japan in the New Global Demography: Comparative
Perspective”, Japan Focus, Newsletter No. 28, 16 July 2007.
Kaizua, Keimi, and Krueger, Anne (eds.), Tackling Japan’s Fiscal Challenges: Strategies to
Cope with High Public Debt and Population Ageing, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
S336.52/4
Matsutani, Akihito Shrinking Population Economics: Lessons from Japan, (Tokyo:
International House of Japan, 2006). S304.62/20
Osawa, Mari, Social Security in Contemporary Japan, (London: Routledge, 2011). 361.952/3
Uchida, Yasuo and Gauld, Robin, Health Care Systems in Europe and Asia, (London:
Routledge, 2011). 82-1095/5
Wu, Youngmei, The Care of the Elderly in Japan, (New York: Routledge, 2004)
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(See also book review essay by Campbell, John Creighton, “Japan’s Aging Population:
Perspectives of “Catastrophic Demography”, Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 67, No. 4,
November 2008, pp. 1401-1406. (This reviews Matsutani, Kaizua, Coulmas, Wu and
Furkawa)
Matsumoto, Yoshiko (ed.), Faces of Aging The Lived Experience of the Elderly in Japan,
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011).
Singapore
Bentelspacher, Carl and Minai, Keiko (eds.), Aging in Japan and Singapore, (Singapore:
Department of Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore, 1994).
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Chan, Wing Cheong (ed.), Singapore’s Ageing Population: Managing Healthcare and End of
Life Decisions, (London: Routledge, 2011). 362.109595/4
Nasir, Kamaludeen Mohamed, and Turner, Bryan S., The Future of Singapore Population,
Society and the Nature of the State, (London: Routledge, 2014). Just ordered please check.
Sun, Shirley Hsiao-Li, Population Policy and Reproduction in Singapore Making Future
Citizens, (London: Routledge, 2014).
India and South Asia
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Guha, Sumit, Health and Population in South Asia: from Earliest Times to the Present,
(London: Hurst & Co., 2001).
MB304.60954/7
Patel, Tulsi, Fertility Behaviour: Population and Society in a Rajasthan Village, (New Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 2006).
S304.6320954/1
Hudson, Valerie, Bare Branches: the Security Impact of Asia’s Surplus Male Population,
(Cambridge Mass: MIT, 2004)1
S305.3095/2 (China and India)
Southeast Asia
Doeppers, Daniel and Xenos, Peter, Population and History: The Demographic Origins of
Modern Philippines, (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998).
S304.609599/1
Leete, Richard, Malaysia’s Demographic Transition: Rapid Development, Culture and
Politics, (Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1996).
SQ312.09595/1
General Asia
Croll, Elizabeth, Endangered Daughters Discrimination and Development in Asia, (London:
Routledge, 2000).
Walker, Alan (ed.), Active Aging in Asia, (London: Routledge, 2014).
2. How is the feminine and the masculine defined in Asia? You must consider at least
two countries and discuss both masculinity and femininity.
***There is a free internet journal called Intersections (ran by the ANU and edited by Carolyn
Brewer) that focuses on gender in Asia, more recent issues have focused on gender and sexuality
in the Asia-Pacific. You can access this in: http://intersections.anu.edu.au/
Check also the journals Men and Masculinities and Culture, Society and Masculinities.
Asian Journal of Women’s Studies.
See the Journal of Asian Studies, Vol 71, No. 4, November 2012 for the most recent roundtable
discussion on gender, sexuality and the state. Look at the bibliographies of articles.
China
Boretz, Avron, God’s Ghosts and Gangsters: Ritual Violence, Martial Arts and Masculinity
on the Margins of Chinese Society, (Honolulu: The University of Hawaii press, 2010).
796.8155/10
Edwards, Louise Men and Women in Qing China: Gender in "The Red Chamber Dream"
(Leiden; Honolulu: E.J. Brill; University of Hawaii Press, 2001).
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Louie, Kam, Theorising Chinese Masculinity, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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Louie, Kam, ‘Popular Culture and Masculinity Ideals in East Asia, with Special Reference to
China”, Journal of Asian Studies, Vol 71, No 4, November 2012, pp. 929-941.
Louie, Kam, “Sexuality, Masculinity and Politics In Chinese Culture: The Case of the
Sanguo Hero Guan Yu”, Modern Asian Studies, Vol 33, No. 4, October 1999,pp. 835-359.
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/313102
Japan
Aronsson, Anne Stefanie, Career Women in Contemporary Japan, (London: Routledge,
2014). Just ordered please check
Charlebois, Justin, Japanese Femininities, (London: Routledge, 2014). Just ordered please
check.
Dasgupta, Romit, Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan Crafting Masculinities, (London:
Routledge, 2012).
Germer, Andea, Makie, Vera and Wohr, Ulrike, Gender, Nation and the State in Modern
Japan, (London: Routledge, 2014). Just ordered please check.
Mackie, Vera (ed.), Gender in Japan Power and Public Policy, (London: Routledge, 2012).
On order please check.
Mackintosh, Jonathan D., Homosexuality and Manliness in Postwar Japan, (London:
Routledge, 2010). Online access via UNSW library.
Nihei, Chikako, “Resistance and Negotiation: “Herbivorous Men” and Murakami Haruki’s
Gender and Political Ambiguity”, Asian Studies Review, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2013, pp. 62-79.
McLelland, Mark,and Dasgupta,Romit, Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan,
(London: Routledge, 2005).
Roberson, James E and Suzuki, Nobue (eds.), Men and Masculinities in Contemporary
Japan: Dislocating the Salaryman Doxa, (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003).
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Check the recent Issues of the Asian Studies Review for a Special Issue on the Modern Girl in
Japan.
See the chapter by Elise Tipton in Mina Roces and Louise Edwards, Women in Asia (see
General Asia section below).
There is a lot of material also on “Good Wife and Wise Mother”.
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Korea
Jung, Sun, Korean Masculinities and Transcultural Consumption, (Hong Kong: Hong Kong
University Press, 2011). On order please check.
See chapter on Korea in Edwards and Roces (eds), Women in Asia, (Sydney: Allen & Unwin,
2000). Library has multiple copies and an ebook.
East Asia
Tam, Siumi Maria, Wong, Wai Ching Angela, and Wang, Danning (eds.), Gender and Family
in East Asia, (London: Routledge, 2014). Just ordered check.
South Asia
See the special issue of the journal Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in the Asia Pacific,
Issue 22, Facets of Woman: gender in the Indian Cultural Context, guest edited by Subhash
Chandra (2009 November). Online: http://intersections.anu.edu.au
Banerjee, Sikata, Make me a Man!; Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India,
(Albany N.Y: State University of New York Press, 2005).
S320.540954/13
Chopra, Radhika, Osella, Caroline, and Osella, Filipp (Eds.), South Asian Masculinities
Context of Change, Sites of Continuity, (New Delhi: Kali for Women & Women Unlimited,
2004).
S305.310954/1
Doron, Assa, and Bloom, Alex, Gender and Masculinities Histories: Texts and Practices in
India and Sri Lanka, (London: Routledge, 2014). Just ordered check.
Fernandex, Leela, Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia, (London: Routledge, 2014).
Just ordered check the library.
McDuie-Ra, Duncan, “Leaving the Militarized Frontier: Migration and Tribal Masculinity in
Delhi”, Men and Masculinities, Vol 15, No. 2, 2012, pp. 112-131.
Reddy, Gayatri, With Respect to Sex Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India, (Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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General Asia (Collections of essays, choose your country or countries)
Edwards, Louise and Mina Roces (eds), Women in Asia: Tradition, Modernity and
Globalization, (Sydney and Ann Arbor: Allen & Unwin and The University of Michigan
Press, 2000). See chapters by Jasmine Chan (Singapore), Barbara Molony (Japan), Louise
Edwards (China), Sasha Hampson (Korea), Mina Roces (Philippines).
S305.420095/8 or /C or /E
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Louie, Kam and Low, Morris (eds.), Asian Masculinities, the Meaning and Practice of
Manhood in China and Japan, (London: Routledge, 2003). Online access
Roces, Mina and Louise Edwards (eds.) Women’s Movements in Asia: Feminisms and
Transnational Activism, (London: Routledge, 2010).
Rydstrom, Helle, Gendered Inequalities in Asia: Configuring, Contesting and recognizing
Women and Men, (Copenhagen: NIAS; Abingdon: Marston Distributor, 2010). 205.3095/3
Special issue: Gender Issues in Asia, Asian Studies Review, Vol. 38, No. 2, June 2014.
Weiringa, Saskia, Blackwood, Evelyn, Bhaiya, Abha (eds.), Women’s Sexualities and
Masculinities in a Globalizing Asia, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Wong, Aida Yuen, Visualizing Beauty: Gender and Ideology in Modern East Asia, (Hong
Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012). On order please check.
Peletz, Michael, Gender, Sexuality and Politics in Modern Asia, (Ann Arbor: Association for
Asian Studies, 2007).
***WEBSITE. Check the Women in World History, George Mason University Website:
http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/
Look at modules on Sati and Women in Southeast Asian Politics
Southeast Asia
Blackwood, Evelyn, Falling into the Lesbi World: Desire and Difference in Indonesia,
(Honolulu: The University of Hawaii press, 2010). 306.76/37
Chiye, Ikeya, Refiguring Women, Colonialism and Modernity in Burma, (Honolulu: The
University of Hawaii press, 2011). 305.488/8
Cruz, Denise. Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina. (Durham:
Duke University Press, 2012). eBook online access via UNSW library website
Davies, Sharyn Graham, Gender Diversity in Indonesia: Sexuality, Islam and Queer Selves,
(London: Routledge, 2010). eBook online access via UNSW library website
España-Maram, Linda Creating Masculinity in Los Angeles’s Little Manila: Working Class
Filipinos and Popular Culture, 1920s-1940s. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006).
(305.3889921/1) This one is on Filipino American masculinities (the migrant situation).
Ford, Michele and Lyons, Lenore (Eds.), Men and Masculinities in Southeast Asia, (London:
Routledge, 2011). 305.310954/4
Harriden, J., The Authority of Influence: Women and Power in Burmese History,
(Copenhagen: NIAS press, 2011). Online access.
Nurmila, Nina, Women, Islam and Everyday Life: Renegotiating Polygamy in Indonesia,
(London: Routledge, 2009). On line access via UNSW library website.
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Ong, Aihwa, and Peletz, Michael, (eds.), Bewitching Women, Pious Men Gender and Body
Politics in Southeast Asia, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).online access.
Peletz, Michael G., “Neither Reasonable nor Responsible: Contrasting Representations of
Masculinity in Malay Society,” Cultural Anthropology, vol. 9, no. 2 (May), 1994, pp. 135-78.
Peletz, Michael, Reason and Passion, Representations of Gender in a Malay Society,
(Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1996.
Roces, Mina, Women’s Movements and the Filipina, 1986-2008, (Honolulu: The University
of Hawaii press, 2012). 305.4209599/6
Stivens, Maila, “Modernizing the Malay Mother,” in Kalpana Ram and Margaret Jolly (eds),
Maternities and modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 50-80.
Werner, Jayne, Gender, Household and State in Postrevolutionary Vietnam, (London:
Routledge, 2009) online access via UNSW library website.
3.What are the most important environmental issues for the various countries of Asia?
What have Asian governments and transnational organizations done to address them?
*Also look at issues of the journals Environmental History and Environmental History
Review, and Forests and Conservation in History, which you can access electronically
through the UNSW library website.
Aiko, Mishima, Bitter Sea, the Human Cost of Minamata Disease, (Tokyo: Kosei Pub, 1992).
S626.8/266
Bankoff, Greg, Cultures of Disaster, Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines, (London:
Routledge, 2003).
S363.3409599/2
Bankoff, Greg, Frerks, Georg and Hilhorst, Dorothea, Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters,
Development and People, (London: Sterling, 2003).
S363.342/2
Bankoff, Greg, Environmental Regulation in Malaysia and Singapore, (Nedlands W.A.: The
University of Western Australia Press, 1994).
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Boomgaard, Peter, Henley, David and Osseweijer, Manon (eds.), Muddied Waters, Historical
and Contemporary Perspectives on Management of Forests and Fisheries in Island Southeast
Asia, (Leiden: KITLV Press, 2005).
S333.75/37
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Boomgaard, Peter, Columbijn, Freek, and Henley, David (eds.), Paper Landscapes,
Explorations in the Environmental History of Indonesia, (Leiden: KITLV Press, 1997).
Broadbent, Jeffrey, Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and Protest,
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
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Caldararo, Niccolo, ‘The Concept of the Sustainable Economy and the Promise of Japan's
Transformation’, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 3 (Summer, 2003), pp. 463-478.
George, Timothy, Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan,
(Massachusetts: Harvard East Asian Monographs, 2002). 615.925663/6
Hidayati, Deny Et al (Eds.), Population and Environment Issues in Maluku: The Case of
Western and Northern Seram, (Jakarta: Center for Population and Manpower Studies, 1999).
S333.7309598/3
Hirsch, Philip and Warren, Carol (eds.), The Politics of the Environment in Southeast Asia:
Resources and Resistance, (London: Routledge, 1998).
S363.70959/1
Ho, Mun S. and Nielsen, Chris P. (eds.), Clearing the Air: The Health and Economic
Damages of Pollution in China, (Cambridge Massachusetts: MIT, 2007).
S363.73920951/1
King, V. (ed.), Environmental Challenges in Southeast Asia, (Richmond: Curzon, 1998).
Kingston, Jeff, Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan, Response and Recovery after
Japan’s 3/11, (London: Routledge, 2012). Online access.
Lucas, Anton, The Dog is Dead so Throw it in the River: Environmental Politics and Water
Pollution in Indonesia: An East Java Case Study, (Clayton Vic: Monash Asia Institute,
2000).
SQ363.73940959/2
MacAndrews, Colin and Sien, Chia Lin (eds.), Developing Economies and the Environment:
The Southeast Asian Experience, (Singapore: McGraw-Hill, 1979).
S363.700959.1
Parnwell, Michael and Bryant, Raymond (eds.), Change in Southeast Asia. People, Politics
and Sustainable Development, (London: Routledge, 1996.
S333.70959/1
Partner, Simon, ‘Taming the Wilderness: The Lifestyle Improvement Movement in Rural
Japan, 1925-1965’, Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Winter, 2001), pp. 487-520.
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Schwela, Dieter, et al., Urban Pollution in Asian Cities: Status, Challenges and
Management, (London: Sterling, 2006). P363.7392095/1
Xie, Lie, Environmental Activism in China, (London: Routledge, 2009). S333.720951/3
Zerner, Charles (ed.), Culture and the Question of Rights: Forests, Coasts and Seas in
Southeast Asia, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003).
L/KT2696.3/C1/1
Websites: for Tsunami Reconstruction
www.e-aceh-nias.org/home
For Mekong region: www.mekong.es.usyd.edu.au
For Southeast Asian Rivers Network: www.seafdec.org
4. What is unique about the Asian city? Consider at least two cities from different
countries.
*The library has online holdings of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay which is later
called the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai. Check recent issues.
Also look up recent issues of the journal Urban Studies. Have a look at recent issues on Asian
cities.
Askew, M, Bangkok: Place, Practice and Representation, (London: Routledge, 2002).
Chiu, Stehen, and Lui, Tai-Lok, Hong Kong Becoming a Chinese Global City, (London:
Routledge, 2009). Online access.
Connell, J., “Beyond Manila: Walls, Malls and Private Spaces”, Environment and Planning A,
31, 1999, pp. 417-439.
Dick, H. W., and Rimmer, P. J., “Beyond the Third World City”, Urban Studies, Vo. 35, No.
12, 1998, pp,. 2303-2321.
Dowall, D., “A Second Look at Bangkok Land and Housing Market”, Urban Studies, Vol 29,
No. 1, pp. 25-38.
Eder, Norman R., Poisoned Prosperity: Development, Modernization and the Environment in
Modern South Korea, (Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1996).
S363.70095195/1
Eg Wu, Fulong, “The Global and Local Dimensions of Place-Making: Remaking Shanghai as
a World City”, Urban Studies, Vol 37, No. 8, 2000, pp. 1359-77.
Forbes, Dean, Asian Metropolis Urbanisation and the Southeast Asian City, (Melbourne:
Oxford University Press, 1996).
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Grijns, Kees and Nas, Peter J. M. (eds.), Jakarta-Batavia: Socio-cultural Essays, (Leident:
KITLV Press, 2000)
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Gugler, Joseph (ed.), World Cities Beyond the West Globalization, Development and
Inequality, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). (This has chapters on Jakarta,
Bangkok, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bombay/Mumbai.) I will put this book in
reserve.
P307.76091724/22
Choose between: Weiping Wu and Shahid Yusuf, “Shanghai: Remaking China’s Future
Global City”, Yeong-Hyun Kim, “Seoul: Complementing Economic Success with Games”,
Douglas Webster, “Bangkok: Evolution and Adaptation Under Stress”, Alvin Y. So, “Hong
Kong’s Pathway To Becoming a Global City”, Janet Salaff, “Singapore: Forming the Family
for a World City”, and the Bombay contribution by Sujata Patel is the one in your study kit so
you may use that as well.
Howe, Christopher (ed.), Shanghai: Revolution and Development in an Asian Metropolis,
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
S951.132/7
Jessop, Bob and Sum, Ngai-Ling, “An Entrepreneurial City in Action: Hong Kong’s
Emerging Strategies in and for (Inter) Urban Competition”, Urban Studies, 27, pp. 2287-2313.
Liang, Samual Y., Remaking China’s Great Cities, (London: Routledge, 2014). ordered.
Lo, Fu-chen and Yeung, Yue-man, Emerging World Cities in Pacific Asia, (Tokyo: United
Nations University Press, 1996.
S307.76095/8
Lu, Hanchao, Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century,
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).
S951.132/20
Mckinnon, Malcolm, Asian Cities: Globalization, Urbanization and Nation Building,
(Copenhagen: NIAS press, 2011). 307.1416095/5
Meyer, David R. Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis, (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2000).
Mukhija, Vinit, Squatters as Developers?: Slum Redevelopment in Mumbai, (Burlington, VT:
Ashgate, 2003).
P307.76091724/22
Patel, Sujata and Masselos, Jim (eds.), Bombay and Mumbai The City in Transition, (New
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003).
954.79205/3
Pow, Choon-Piew, Gated Communities in China: Class, Privilege and the Moral Politics of
the Good Life, (London: Routledge, 2009). 307.77/7
Schneider-Sliwa, Rita (ed.), Cities in Transition: Globalization, Political Change and Urban
Development, (Dordrecht: The Netherlands, 2006). There are essays here on Bangkok, Ho
Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and Hong Kong as a Global City).
P307.1416/22
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Scott, Michael, El, Edith, and Dodwell, David, The Hong Kong Advantage, (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1997).
S910.13305125/1
Shelton, Barrie and Kvan, Thomas, The Making of Hong Kong, (London: Routledge, 2010).
Shirley, Ian and Neill, Carol (eds.), Asian and Pacific Cities, (London: Routledge, 2014).
Ordered.
Silver, Christopher, Planning the Megacity Jakarta in the Twentieth Century, (London:
Routledge, 2007).
Sorensen, André, The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twentyfirst Century, (London: Routledge, 2002).
P307.12160952/2
Teo, Siew Eng and Kong, Lily, “Public Housing in Singapore: Interpreting ‘Quality’ in the
1990s”, Urban Studies, Vol 34, No. 3, pp. 441-452.
Thorbeck, Susan, Gender and Slum Culture in Urban Asia, (London: zed Books, 1994).
S305.42095493/1
Wassestrom, Jeff, Shanghai Global City, 1850-2010 (London: Routledge, 2009).
Wilson, Ara, The Intimate Economies of Bangkok, Tomboys, Tycoons, and Avon Ladies in the
Global City, (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2004).
Yusuf, Shahid, and Wu, Weiping, The Dynamics of Urban Growth in Three Chinese Cities,
(New York: Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 1997).
P307.760951/10
Yusuf, Shahid and Wu, Weiping, “Pathways to a World City: Shanghai Rising in an Era of
Globalization”, Urban Studies, Vol 39, No. 7, pp. 1213-1240.
5. Why did the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere fail?
Bell, Roger, Brawley, Sean and Dixon, Chris, Conflict in the Pacific, 1937-1951, (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2005).
S909.09823/9
Duus, Peter, Myers, Ramon H, Peattie, Mark R (eds.), The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945,
(New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1996).
S950.41/12
Friend, Theodore, The Blue-Eyed Enemy: Japan Against the West in Java and Luzon, 1942-1945,
(Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University press, 1988. S 959.8022/23 A
Goodman, Grant K. (ed.), Japanese Cultural Policies in Asia During World War II, (New York: St.
Martin’s Press, 1991).
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Kleeman, Faye Yuan, In Transit The Formation of the Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere, (Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press, 2014).306.095/20
Kratoska, Paul, “Southeast Asia from the Japanese Occupation to Independence”, in Norman G.
Owen (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian History, (London: Routledge, 2014), pp.
65-74. (this is digitised for you in the ARTS1210 library list. DS525.R682014
Kratoska, Paul (ed.), Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire: Unknown Histories, (Armonk NY:
Sharpe, 2005).
940.531/29
Kratoska, Paul, The Japanese Occupation of Malaya: A Social and Economic History, (St Leonards: Allen
& Unwin, 1998).
S959.5103/7
Lebra, Joyce (ed.), Japan’s Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere in World War II, Selected Readings and
Documents, (Kuala Lumpur: OUP, 1974).
S327.5205/2
Masselos, Jim, The Great Empires of Asia, (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2010)
relevant parts. 950/134.
Young, Louise, Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism, (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1998).
S325.35209518/1
There is a lot of material on Japan’s Empire in World War II. Focus on the blueprint for the
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Theory and practice.
6. What would you isolate as the most important characteristics of the Great Asian
diasporas or migrations? Choose two out of: Chinese, Indian and Filipino
*Check for articles in the Journal of Asian American Studies, and Asian and Pacific
Migration Journal, and The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (On line Access UNSW
library).
See also Encylopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World,
(Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004).
SREF 304.8/45/(1)
Chinese Diaspora
*There is a journal called Journal of Chinese Overseas
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_chinese_overseas/
Ang See, Teresita, The Chinese in the Philippines: Problems and Perspectives, (Manila:
Kaisa Para sa Kaunlaran, 1990-2004).
Coppel, Charles, and Mabett, Hugh and Ping-ching, The Chinese in Indonesia, the Philippines
and Malaysia, (London: Minority Rights Group, 1982).
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Coppel, Charles, Indonesian Chinese in Crisis, (Kuala Lumpur and Melbourne: Oxford
University Press, 1983).
S959.8004951/3
Hamilton, Gary G. (ed.) Cosmopolitan Capitalists: Hong Kong and the Chinese Diaspora at
the End of the Twentieth Century, (Seattle: The University of Washington Press, 1999).
S330.951/10
Hoon, C.Y., The Resurgence of Chinese Identity in Post-Suharto Indonesia, (Brighton: Sussex
Academic Press, 2008).
Kuah-Pearce, Khun Eng and Davidson, Andrew P. (eds.), At Home in the Chinese Diaspora
Identities and Belongings, Basingstoke New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
S305.8951/22
Purcell, Victor, The Chinese in Southeast Asia, (London: OUP, 1965)
S325.251/3B
Purdey, Jemma, Anti Chinese Violence in Indonesia, 1996-99, (Honolulu: The University of
Hawaii Press, 2006).
S305.89510598/10
Song, Jiyoung, and Cook, Alistair D. B. (eds.), Irregular Migration and Human Security in
East Asia, (London: Routledge, 2014). Ordered, please check.
Tagliacozzo, Eric and Chang, Wen-Chin (eds.), Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities
and Networks in Southeast Asia, (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012). On order please
check.
Tan, Chee-Beng (ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora, (London: Routledge,
2012).On Order please check.
Wang Gungwu (ed.), Sojourners and Settlers, Histories of Southeast Asia and the Chinese,
(St. Leonards NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1996).
S959.004951/1
Warren, James Francis, Rickshaw Coolie: A People’s History of Singapore (1880-1940),
(Singapore: OUP, 1986).
S959.5703/1
South Asia Diaspora
Chaterji, Joya and Washbrook, David, Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora,
(London: Routledge, 2013). Ordered check if arrived.
Jayaram, N (ed.), The Indian Diaspora: Dynamics of Migration, (New Delhi: Thousand
Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2004).
S304.80954/2
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Lal, Brij V. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora, (Honolulu: University of Hawaii
Press, 2006).
SREF 909.0491411/3
Leonard, Karen Isaksen, Locating Home: India’s Hyderabadis Abroad, (Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2007).
S304.80954/4
Oon, Gijsbert (ed.), Global Indian Diasporas, Exploring Trajectories of Migration and
Theory, (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007). Available on line. Also
304.80954/7
Safran, William, Sahoo, Ajaya, and Lal, Brij V. (Eds.), Transnational Migrations: The
Indian Diaspora, (Routledge India, 2009). S304.80954/6
Shukla, Sandhya Rajendra, India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and
England, (Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002.
S305.8914/2
Varma, Roli, Harbingers of Global Change: India’s Techno-immigrants in the United States,
(Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, c2006).
S331.6254073/1
Filipino Diaspora
This is a crowded field so you can search journals and you may also want to include Filipino
Americans. ( See these two excellent books: Linda España-Maram, Creating Masculinity in
Los Angeles’s Little Manila: Working Class Filipinos and Popular Culture, 1920s-1940s.
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2006). (305.3889921/1), and Dawn Mabalon, Little
Manila is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton,
California. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013). (305.89921073/6)
See articles in the Special Issue of Southeast Asia Research, “Mediated Diasporas: Material
Translations of the Philippines in a Globalized World”, South East Asia Research, Vol 10,
No. 2, June 2011.
See articles in the Special Issue of The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, “Diasporic
Encounters, Sacred Journeys: Ritual, Normativity and the Religious Imagination Among
International Asian Migrant Women”, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Vol 11,
Nos 3-4, September-December, 2010.
Aguilar, Filomeno Jr., Maalwang Buhay: Family, Overseas Migration, and Cultures of
Relatedness in Barangay Paraiso, (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2009).
Aguilar, Filomeno Jr. (ed.), Filipinos in Global Migrations: At Home in the World?”,
(Quezon City: Philippine Migration Research Network and Philippine Social Science
Council, 2002).
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Bonifacio, Glenda Tibe (ed.). Gender and Rural Migration: Realities, Conflict and Change.
(London: Routledge, 2013). On order please check
Bonifacio, Glenda Tibe (ed.) Pinay on the Prairies Filipino Women & Transnational
Identities. (Vancouver: UBC press, 2013). On order please check.
Constable, Nicole, Maid to Order in Hong Kong, Stories of Filipina Workers, (Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1997).
S331.48164046/11A
Choy, Catherine Ceniza, Empire of Care, Nursing and Migration in Filipino American
History, (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press and Duke University Press, 2003).
Lan, Pei-Chia, Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan,
(Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2006). S331.48164046/13.
Mackay Stephen, “Filipino Sea Men: Constructing Masculinities in an Ethnic Labour Niche”,
Journal of Ethnic Migration Studies, Vol. 33, No. 4, May 2007, pp. 617-633.
McKay, Deidre, Global Filipinos Migrant’s Lives in the Virtual Village, (Bloomington:
Indiana Univeristy Press), 2012. On order please check.
Piper, Nicola, and Roces, Mina (eds.), Wife or Worker? Asian Women and Migration,
(Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). (relevant chapters by Roces, and MacKay).
S304.80820959/1
Parreñas, Rhacel, The Force of Domesticity, Filipina Migrants and Globalisation, (New
York: New York University Press, 2008). 331.4/154
Tyner, James, The Philippines Mobilities, Identities, Globalization, (London: Routledge,
2009).
Parreñas, Rhacel, Servants of Globalisation: Women, Migration and Domestic Work
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001). 305.4209599/6
S331.412791/2
Parreñas, Rhacel, Illicit Flirtations Labor, Migration and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo, (Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2011).
Parreñas, Rhacel, Children of Globalisation: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes,
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005).
Asia
Fielding, Anthony J., Asian Migrations, (London: Routledge, 2014). Ordered please check.
Ford, Michele, and Lyons, Lenore (eds.), Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in
Southeast Asia, (London: Routledge, 2012). On order please check.
Hewison, Kevin and Young, Ken, Transnational Migration and Work in Asia, (London:
Routledge, 2006). Online access.
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Huang, Shirlena, Yeoh, Brenda, and Raman, Noor Abdul (eds). Asian Women as
Transnational Domestic Helpers, (Marshal Cavendish, 2005). On order please check.
Madianou, Mirca and Miller, Daniel, Migration and New Media, Transnational Families and
Polymedia, (London: Routledge, 2012) on order please check.
Parreñas, Rhacel and Siu, Look C.D., (eds.) Asian Diasporas, New Formations New
Conceptions (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007). 304.8095/3
Yeoh, Brenda and Huang, Shirlena (eds), The Cultural Politics of Talent Migration in East
Asia, (London: Routledge, 2012) on order. See special Issue of Journal of Ethnic and
Migration Studies as this book started as a special issue of that journal.
7. In what ways is religion still very important in Asian societies in contemporary times
(from 1970s to the present)? Discuss two countries.
Hinduism
David, N. Lorenzen, "Who Invented Hinduism?" Comparative Studies in Society and History,
41(4), (1999), 630-659.
MacLean Kama, Pilgrimage and Power: The Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, 1765-1954, (New
York: Oxford University Press, 2008). Although it stops in 1954, the Kumbh is still
important in contemporary times so this is important reading.
S294.536/3
See also her article “Making the Colonial State Work for You: The Modern Beginnings of the
Ancient Kumbh Mela in Allahabad”, in the Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 873905 (the library has on line access).
McDermott, Rachel Fell, Revelry, Rivalry and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal: The
Fortunes of Hindu Festivals, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011). 294.536/4
Pechelis, Siva J. Raj, South Asian Religions, (London: Routledge, 2012). 200.954/6
Riaz, Ali, Religion and Politics in South Asia, (London: Routledge, 2010).
Rinehard, Robin (ed.) Contemporary Hinduism: Ritual Culture, and Practice, (Santa Barbara,
Calif: ABC-CLIO, 2004.
S294.5090511/1
Sanjay Seth, 'Reason or Reasoning? Clio or Siva?', Social Text, 78,
Vol. 22, no. 1, Spring 2004.
Hugh B. Urban, 'Avatar for Our Age: Sathya Sai Baba and the Cultural Contradictions of Late
Capitalism', Religion, 33, 2003, pp. 73-93.
Popular Christianity
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Aguilar, Filomeno V., “Experiencing Transcendence: Filipino Conversion Narratives and the
Localization of Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity”, pp. 585-627.
See Friend, Theodore (ed.), Religion and Religiosity in the Philippines and Indonesia: Essays
on State, Society and Public Creeds, (Washington DC: Johns Hopkins University, 2006).
S322.109598/7
Wiegele, Katherine L., Investing in Miracles El Shaddai and the Transformation of Popular
Catholicism in the Philippines, (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2005). One chapter is
in your study kit.
*There is a special issue of Philippine Studies (online access via UNSW library) that deals
with this topic. See Volume 54, Issue 4, 2006. See the following articles:
Wiegele, Katherine, “Catholics Rich in Spirit: El Shaddai’s Modern Engagements”
See articles in the Special Issue of The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, “Diasporic
Encounters, Sacred Journeys: Ritual, Normativity and the Religious Imagination Among
International Asian Migrant Women”, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Vol 11,
Nos 3-4, September-December, 2010.
Japanese Religion and Shintoism
Andrew Bernstein, ‘Whose Fuji?: Religion, Region, and State in the Fight for a National
Symbol’, Monumenta Nipponica, Volume 63, Number 1, Spring 2008, pp. 51-99.
Bremen, Jan van, and Martinez, D.P, Ceremony and Ritual in Japan: Religious Practices in
an Industrialized Society, (London: Routledge, 1995). S291.0952/3
Dessi, Ugo, Japanese Religions and Globalization, (London: Routledge, 2014). Just ordered
please check
Dorman, Benjamin, Celebrity Gods, New Religions, Media and Authority in Occupied Japan,
(Honolulu: The University of Hawaii press, 2012). 201.7/8
Starrs, Roy, Politics and Religion in Modern Japan: Red Sun, White Lotus. (Houndsmills:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). 200.952/11
Buddhism
Findly, Elison Banks (ed.), Women’s Buddhism, Buddhism’s Women: Tradition, Revision,
Renewal, (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2000)
S294.3082/2
Harris, Ian, Buddhism and Politics in Twentieth Century Asia, (London: Pinter, 1999)
Whittaker, Andrea, Abortion, Sin and the State in Thailand, (London: Routledge 2004).
Whittaker, Andrea, “Conceiving the Nation: Representations of Abortion in Thailand, Asian
Studies Review, Vol 25, No. 4, 2001, pp. 423-451. Library has on line version.
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Winichakul, Thongchai, Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-body of a Nation, (Honolulu:
The University of Hawaii Press, 1994), chapter 1 on Thai-ness and Thai –identity and
Buddhism.
S991.593/1
Islam
Ali Riaz, ‘"God Willing": The Politics and Ideology of Islamism in Bangladesh’,
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 23.1-2 (2003) 301-320
Barton, Greg, Indonesia’s Struggle: Jemaah Islamiyah and the Soul of Islam, (Sydney:
University of New South Wales Press, 2004).
S303.62450959/4
Friend, Theodore (ed.), Religion and Religiosity in the Philippines and Indonesia: Essays on
State, Society and Public Creeds, (Washington DC: Johns Hopkins University, 2006).
S322.109598/7
Millie, Julian. Splashed by the Saint: Ritual Reading and Islamic Sanctity in West Java.
(Leiden: KITLV press, 2010). 297.092/8
Nathan, K.S, and Kamali, Mohammad Hashim (eds.), Islam in Southeast Asia: Political,
Social and Strategic Challenges for the 21st Century, (Singapore: Institute of Southeast
Asian Studies, 2005).
Porter, Donald James, Managing Politics and Islam in Indonesia, (London: New York:
RoutledgeCurzon, 2005).
S959.8039/13B
Swain, Ashok (ed.), Islam and Violent Separatism: New Democracies in Southeast Aisa,
(London: Kegan Paul, 2007).
S322.1088297/2
Korea
Kendell, Lauren, Shamans, Nostalgias, and the IMF, South Korean Popular Religion in
Motion, (Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Press, 2009). S299.57/12
Kendell, Lauren, Korean Religion in Motion, (Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Press,
2007).
Kendell, Lauren, Shamans, Housewives, and Other Restless Spirits, (Honolulu: The
University of Hawaii Press, 1985). S299.57/1
China
Chau, Adam Yuet, Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation, (New
York: Routledge, 2011). 200/951/16
Chau, Adam Yuet, Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China,
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006). 299.51/40
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Fisher, Gareth, From Comrades to Bodhisattvas, Moral Dimensions of Lay Buddhist Practice
in Contemporary China, (Honolulu: The University of Hawaii press, 2014). Ordered please
check.
Goossaert, Vincent, The Religious Question in Modern China, (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2011). 200.951/17
Lim, Francis Khek Gee (ed.), Christianity in Contemporary China, Socio-Cultural
Perspectives, (London: Routledge, 2012). On order please check.
Poceski, Mario, Introducing Chinese Religions, (London: Routledge, 2009). S200.951/15
Asia/Southeast Asia
Arhem, Kaj, Animism in Southeast Asia, (London: Routledge, 2014). Ordered please check.
Johnson, Alan Andrew, Ghosts of the New City. Spirits, Urbanity and the Ruins of Progress
in Chiang Mai, (Honolulu: University of Hawaii press, 2014). Ordered please check.
Turner, Brian S. and Salemink, Oscar, The Routledge Handbook of Religions in Asia,
(London: Routledge, 2014). Just ordered please check
8. Do you see contemporary political regimes in Asia as dominantly authoritarian? Do
you see democratic tendencies or are democratic institutions like the press and elections
merely a façade legitimizing dictatorships? Use case studies of two Asian countries or
refer to a region (ie Southeast Asia), to illustrate your arguments.
Aspinall, Edward, Opposing Suharto: Compromise, Resistance and Regime Change in
Indonesia, (Stanford California: Stanford University Press, 2005).
S320.9598/87
Brook, Timothy and Frolic, Michael (eds.), Civil Society in China, (Armonk, NY: M.E.
Sharpe, 1997)
S301.0951/2
Brugger, Bill, Politics, Economy and Society in Contemporary China, (Basingstoke:
Macmillan, 1994).
S951.05/369
Case, William (ed.), Governance and Democracy in the Asia Pacific, (London: Routledge,
2014). Just ordered check if arrived.
Cherian, Geroge, Freedom from the Press, State and Media in Singapore, (Honolulu: The
University of Hawaii press, 2012).
Chua, Liana, Cook, Joanna, Long, Nicholas, and Wilson, Lee, Southeast Asian Perspectives
on Power, (London: Routledge, 2012). On order please check.
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Guan, Lee Hock, Civil Society in Southeast Asia, (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian
Studies, 2004).
S300.959/2
Harriss, John, Stokke, Kristian, and Tornquist, Olle (eds.), Politicising Democracy; The New
Local Politics and Democratisation, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
S320.8091724/1.
Hewison, Kevin, Robson, Richard, Rodan, Garry (eds.), Southeast Asia in the 1990s:
Authoritarianism, Democracy and Capitalism, (North Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993).
Honna, Jun, Military Politics and Democratization in Indonesia, (London: Routledge, 2003)
S332.509598/7
Hutchcroft, Paul, Booty Capitalism, The Politics of Banking in the Philippines, (Quezon City:
Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1998).
S332.109599/6
Martin, Sherry L. and Steel, Gill (eds.), Democratic Reform in Japan: Assessing the Impact,
(Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008).
S320.952/53
Rodan, Garry, Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia: Singapore and
Malaysia, (London: Routledge, 2004)
S320.9595/31
Rodan, Garry (ed.), Singapore Changes Guard: Social, Political and Economic Directions in
the 1990s, (New York; St. Martin’s Press, 1993).
S959.5705/1
Taylor, R. H. (ed.), The Politics of Elections in Southeast Asia, (New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1996).
S324.959053/1
Tamada, Yoshifumi, Myths and Realities: The Democratization of Thai Politics, (Kyoto:
Kyoto University Press, 2008).
S320.09593/1
Tomsa, Dirk and Ufen, Andreas (eds.), Party Politics in Southeast Asia, (London: Routledge,
2012). On order please check.
Vatikiotis, Michael R. J., Indonesian Politics Under Suharto The Rise and Fall of the New
Order, (London: Routledge, 1998).
S959.803/76B
Weatherley, Robert, Politics in China since 1949: Legimitizing Authoritarian Rule, (New
York: Routledge, 2006).
S951.05/440
Zhou, Kate Xiao, Rigger, Shelley, and White III, Lynn T., Democratization in China, Korea
and Southeast Asia, (London: Routledge, 2014). Just ordered check.
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(Feel free to look at books on Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Ziang Zemin,
Suharto, Ferdinand Marcos, General Ne Win, the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan, etc.)
9. What is it like to be an untouchable in India (Dalit) and Japan (Burakumin)?
Amos, Timothy D., Embodying Difference: The Making of Burakumin in Modern Japan,
(Honolulu: The University of Hawaii press, 2011). 305.568/24
Lu, Malih Rustu Calikoa, Transformation of the Caste System and the Dalit Movement,
(VDM Verlag Dr. Muller Aktiengessellschaft & Co., 2009)
Narayana, Badri, The Making of the Dalit Public in North India: Uttar Pradesh, 1950present, (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2011). 305.5688/7.
Neary, Ian, ““Burakumin” at the End of History”, Social Research, Vol 70, No. 1, 2003, pp.
269-294.
Pai, Sudha, Dalit Assertion and Unfinished Democratic Revolution: The Bahujan Samaj
Party in Uttar Pradesh, (New Delhi: Sage, 2002). S 324.254083/3
Shah, Ghanshyam, Dalit Identity and Politics, (New Delhi: Sage, 2001). S 305.568/15.
Weiner, Michael A., Japan’s Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity, (London: Routledge,
1997). S 305.560962/2
10. How is Asian identity expressed in food? Compare two countries in your case studies.
Avieli, Nir, “Dog Meat Politics in a Vietnamese Town. Ethnology, 50, 1: 59-78.
Avieli Nir, “Vietnamese New Year Rice Cakes: Iconic Festive Dishes and Contested National
Identity”, Ethnology. Vol. 44, 2, 2005: 167-187.
Avieli Nir, “Roasted Pigs and Bao Dumplings: Festive Food and Imagined Transnational
Identity in Chinese- Vietnamese Festivals”, Asia Pacific Viewpoint. Vol. 46, 3, 2005: 281293.
Avieli Nir, Rice Talks: Food and Community in a Vietnamese Town. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2012.
Avieli Nir, “Eating Lunch and Recreating the Universe: Food and Cosmology in Hoi An,
Vietnam”, in Adams Kathleen and Katherine Gillogly (eds.) Everyday Life in Southeast Asia.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011.
Chan, S. C. 2010, ‘Food, Memories, and Identities in Hong Kong,’ Identities: Global Studies
in Power and Culture, vol. 17, no. 2–3: 204–227.
Coe, Andrew. Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Ebook online.
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Ku, Ji-Song, Manalansan, Martin, F. and Mannur, Anita (eds.), Eating Asian America: A
Food Studies Reader, (New York: New York University Press, 2013). Available in ebook
library website.
Law, Lisa, “Home Cooking: Filipino Women and Geographies of Senses in Hong Kong”, in
David Howes (ed.), Empire of the Senses: the Sensual Culture Reader, (Oxford: Berg, 2005),
relevant pages, CFA 306/541 A (I am ordering one for the Kensington library).
Leong-Salobir, C. 2011, Food Culture in Colonial Asia: A Taste of Empire. Routledge,
London and New York. 394.12095/1
Rath, Eric C., Japanese Foodways, Past, and Present, (Urbana: University of Illinois press,
2010). 641.5952/5
Watson, James L., Golden Arches East: McDonald’s in East Asia, (Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1997). S338.76164795/3
Wu, David Y.H., and Sidney C. H. Cheung, eds. The Globalization of Chinese Food.
Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2002.
Zialcita, Fernando, “As Yet an Asian Flavor Does Not Exist?” in Fernando Nakpil Zialcita,
Authentic Though Not Exotic, Essays on Filipino Identity, (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila
University press, 2005), pp. 239-268.
12. Course Evaluation and Development
In 2014 course evaluations were received from 45 respondents out of 162 enrolments. In
response to the statement “Overall, I was satisfied with the quality of this course” 38% said
they “strongly agreed” with it, with 44% saying they “agreed” with it, with 11% saying they
“mildly agreed” with it, and 4% saying they “mildly disagreed”, and 2% saying they
disagreed with the statement. The aggregate score this course received this question was 93
above the School’s average rating of 92 and the Faculty’s rating of 90. This means that this
subject was rated much higher than the School and Faculty average. 100% agreed with the
statement: “the aims of the course were met”. In general most of the comments were very
positive complementing the lecture delivery, the content, the use of interactive media, and
powerpoint images. Lecture handouts were appreciated so I will continue to do this and make
these available also in the Moodle site. Many preferred the pop quizzes to a class test so I am
continuing with this tradition. I have reduced the number of pop quizzes from 4 to 3 this year.
Comments revealed that students learned from the subject and enjoyed the lectures that they
found to be interesting, engaging and entertaining (with many commenting that they liked the
lecturer’s sense of humour). The quality of the teaching was rated higher than the marks for
the course evaluation. 100% said that “Overall, I was satisfied with the lecturer’s teaching”,
with 61% said they “strongly agreed” with that statement, 32% said they “agreed” with that
statement, 5% who ‘mildly agreed” with the statement and 2% who “strongly disagreed’ with
that statement.
There were one or two comments that preferred to have less small assessments so this year
2015 I have removed 3 pieces of assessment. I removed the Museum exercise, removed one
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of the pop quizzes (there used to be 4) and removed one journal exercise. Journals have been
reduced from 6 in 2013 to 4 in 2015.
Students put an enormous amount of effort into their historical site exercise in (2012) so I’ve
increased the value of this assessment from 10-15% for 2015.
Students also enjoyed the Represent your Asian city group exercise and put a lot of effort into
the group presentations so I’ve increased the marks here from 5% in 2014 to 10% in 2015.
In 2012, Mina Roces was the winner of the FASS Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence and
in 2013, she received the Vice Chancellor’s award for Teaching Excellence. Course
evaluations formed part of the portfolio of evidence in support of the nomination.
13. Student Support
The Learning Centre is available for individual consultation and workshops on academic
skills. Find out more by visiting the Centre’s website at:
http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au
14. Grievances
All students should be treated fairly in the course of their studies at UNSW. Students who
feel they have not been dealt with fairly should, in the first instance, attempt to resolve any
issues with their tutor or the course convenors.
If such an approach fails to resolve the matter, the School of Humanities and Languages has
an academic member of staff who acts as a Grievance Officer for the School. This staff
member is identified on the notice board in the School of Humanities and Languages. Further
information about UNSW grievance procedures is available
at: https://student.unsw.edu.au/complaints
15. Other Information
myUNSW
myUNSW is the online access point for UNSW services and information, integrating online
services for applicants, commencing and current students and UNSW staff. To visit
myUNSW please visit either of the below links:
https://my.unsw.edu.au
https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/atoz/ABC.html
OHS
UNSW's Occupational Health and Safety Policy requires each person to work safely and
responsibly, in order to avoid personal injury and to protect the safety of others. For all
matters relating to Occupational Health, Safety and environment,
see https://www.ohs.unsw.edu.au/
Special Consideration
In cases where illness or other circumstances produce repeated or sustained absence,
students should apply for Special Consideration as soon as possible.
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The application must be made via Online Services in myUNSW. Log into myUNSW and go to
My Student Profile tab > My Student Services channel > Online Services > Special
Consideration.
Applications on the grounds of illness must be filled in by a medical practitioner. Further
information is available at:
https://student.unsw.edu.au/special-consideration
Student Equity and Disabilities Unit
Students who have a disability that requires some adjustment in their learning and teaching
environment are encouraged to discuss their study needs with the course convener prior to
or at the commencement of the course, or with the Student Equity Officers (Disability) in the
Student Equity and Disabilities Unit (9385 4734). Information for students with disabilities is
available at: http://www.studentequity.unsw.edu.au/
Issues that can be discussed may include access to materials, signers or note-takers, the
provision of services and additional examination and assessment arrangements. Early
notification is essential to enable any necessary adjustments to be made.
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