LAS 325, Matibag, Spring 2003
Exam 3 Study Guide
Part 1. Find definitions or identifications for the following terms. You will have to match a number of
these terms with a given definition or identification on the exam, scheduled for Monday, May 5, 9:45-11:45
a.m., in 213 MacKay.
Turn in your Reading journals on Tuesday, April 29. You are not required to write journal responses on
the Warren I. Cohen book. The reading assignment for that day is Chapter 2 of The Asian American
Century; for the following Thursday, Chapter 3.
The terms read from top to bottom in each column, and the columns run from left to right on each page.
Following this sequence, each term belongs to the underlined author name or title that precedes it.
Asian Indian
Americans (Lecture
Notes)
Sikhs
Indira Ganesan, The
Journey
The Eightfold Path
216
Renu Krishnan
392-8
Dalai Lama 217
Karma 231, 232
Samsara 232
Caste, or Varna 232
Akalovitesara 217
1965 Hart-Celler
Act
Pi 392
Harijans 232
Long Island 392-3
Nam Myo Ho Ren
Geh Kyo 218
Brahma 232
Cousin Anu 396-7
D.T. Suzuki 218
Vishnu 232
Uncle Adda 397
Vipassana 218
Shiva 232
Arranged marriage
398
Zazen 218
“Yoga” (EST)
Sesshin 218
Patanjali 204
“Salman Rushdie”
(EST)
Swami
Vivekananda 204
The Satanic Verses
48
The word “Yoga”
204
Samadhi 204
Guru Nanak
Govind Singh
Har Dayal
Mahatma Gandhi,
satyagraha
“Gurus” (EST)
Movie: Mississippi
Masala, with Mina
and Demetrius
Maharishi Mahesh
Yogi 228
Zia Jaffrey, “The
Monkeyman”
Deepak Chopra
228-9
Mr. and Mrs. Mehta
122-3
Sun Myung Moon
230
The Ayatollah
KhoMahabharata
232meini 48
Kartar Dhillon,
“The Parrot’s
Beak”
“Buddhism” (EST)
“Taj Mahal” (EST)
Gautama
Siddhartha 216
Nirvana 216
Shah Jahan 23
Khandas 216
“Hinduism” (EST)
Mahayana 216
Boddhisattva 216
Bhakti 231
“You parrot’s
beak” 276
Kwangbok
Margaret Cho
Donald Trump 23
Christine Choy
Chachi 276, 277
Gadar Party 278
Punjabi 282, 283
(Karma) 276
Korean American
Lecture Notes
Syngman Rhee
The Four Noble
Truths 216
Krishna 232
Pyongyang and
Seoul
Dharma 232
The 38th Parallel
“Naim June Paik”
(EST)
Kwangju, South
Korea 274
Kim Ronyoung,
Clay Walls
Mary Paik Lee,
Quiet Odyssey: A
Pioneer Korean
Woman in America
Video art 15
Rodney King 276,
288, and passim
Yangban 301, 306
Claremont 162-3
John Cage 15
The Mugunghwa
Club 302
Colusa 163-4
Charlotte Moorman
15
Harry S Truman
Ice cream 166
Ruth Johnson 306
Kimchee 309, 311
Walt Whitman 310,
312
Roberts Island 16773
Elaine H. Kim,
“Home Is Where
the Han Is”
(photocopy)
Edward Song Lee
283
Juche sasang 284,
288-9
Latasha Harlins;
Soon Ja Du 285
Sikhs 171
Han 270
Kye 285
Sa-i-ku 270
Warren I. Cohen,
The Asian
American Century
Shad 171-2
Hangchow
Restaurant 312,
314-15
Tiananmen Square
37, 75, 123
Canned peaches
172
Young Men’s
Christian
Association 60
Ti-yung 37
Woodrow Wilson
42
William McKinley
64
Raise the Red
Lantern 272
Ang Lee 85
Isamu Noguchi
100-2
Ghost Dog 85
John Cage 103-4
Jessica Hagedorn
86, 87
Buddhism 105-7
Lucy Liu 87
Phil Jackson 107-8
Walt Whitman 43
Corazon (“Cory”)
Aquino 64
Anime 87-8
Thich Nat Hanh
110
Yao Ming 49
Ilustrados 68
Iron Chef 90
Babe Ruth 50
New Deal
liberalism 72
Ajinomoto 90
Hsi Lai 112
McDonald’s 52-3
Tae kwon do 91
Horace Allen 8, 58,
114
Akira Kurosawa 84
Kentucky Fried
Chicken 54
American
Protestant
missionaries 56-7
Feng shui 94
Jet Li 84-6, 91-2,
118
Nam June Paik 989
Sun Myung Moon
120-1
Wen Ho Lee 124
Zhang Yimou 84-5
Short Essay Questions. You will be asked to write on two of the following topics in Exam 3.
1. Give a short, short overview of Indian-based religious practices, including Hinduism, Yoga and
American movements. (Be selective.)
2. What is unique in the Asian Indian American historical and cultural experience?
3. What are the major chapters of Korean American history?
4. Giving some supporting examples and illustrations, summarize Warren I. Cohen’s two major concepts:
the Americanization of Asia, and the Asianization of America.