-- Integrating East Asia into Undergraduate Education -East Asia: Culture as Arts,
Literature, and Performance
2103 Taliaferro Hall
June 6-17, 2005
9:30 am-3:00 pm
Curriculum Transformation Committee,
Center for East Asian Studies
Co-Chairs: Seung-kyung Kim (Women’s Studies),
Jing Lin (Education), Marlene Mayo (History)
University of Maryland, College Park
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Week 1:
June 6 – Monday
Morning:
Welcoming remarks:
1. Marlene Mayo: Introduction to Freeman Grant (founder
and its mission
2. Introduction to the workshop
3. Introduction: participants’ interests in teaching and
research; participants’ knowledge about East Asia
4. Discussion of East Asia and Globalization
-- Position of China, Japan, and Korea in an era of
globalization
-- Common aspects that cut across these three countries
-- Interaction among the three countries: flows of
cultural production
Readings:
Iwabuchi, Koichi. 2002. “Introduction: The 1990s-Japan’s Return to Asia in the
Age of Globalization.” In Koichi Iwabuchi, Recentering Globalization: Popular
Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. Durham: Duke University Press.
Napier, Susan J. 2000. “Chapter one: Why Anime?” & “Chapter two: Anime and
Local/Global Identity.” In Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke:
Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation. New York: Palgrave.
Websites on Chinese culture & philosophy:
http://www.the-gallery-of-china.com/china-resource.html
http://www.chinasprout.com/html/links.html
http://www.speakingofchina.com/links.htm
Afternoon:
Scholarly Arts of East Asia: Poetry, Painting, and
Calligraphy
By Jonathan Chaves – George Washington University
Discussions on East Asian Philosophy/Culture
The chairs will lead the discussions to cover the guiding
system undergirding the workshop.
Readings:
Chaves, Jonathan, trans. and ed. 1986. “Introduction.” In The Columbia Book of
Later Chinese Poetry: Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties (1279-1911). New York:
Columbia University Press.
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Watson, Burton, trans. and ed. 1984. “Introduction.” In The Columbia Book of
Chinese Poetry: From Early Time to the Thirteenth Century. New York:
Columbia University Press.
Recommended Readings:
1) “The Sister Arts in China: Poetry and Painting,” Orientations (September
2000): pp.2-3.
2) Jonathan Chaves, “Reading the Painting: Levels of Poetic Meaning in Chinese
Pictorial Art,” Asian Art (Fall/Winter 1987-1988): pp. 4-19.
3) Jonathan Chaves, “The Human Figure – Ephemerality of Love and Success,
Transcendence Through Music and Art,” in The Chinese Painter as Poet
(China Institute, 2000) on Wu Wei Painting of Famous Woman Musician.
Suggested Readings:
Tu, Wei-Ming. 2001. “The Ecological Turn in New Confucian Humanism:
Implications for China and the World.” Journal of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences (Fall): pp. 1-17.
Wu, Laurence C. & Robert Ginsberg. 1986. Fundamentals of Chinese
Philosophy. New York: University Press of America.
Watson, Burton. 1994. “Tang Poetry: A Return to Basics.” In Barbara Stoler
Miller, ed., Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective: A
Guide for Teaching. New York: An East Gate Book.
Elman, Benjamin A. et al., eds. 2002. “Introduction.” In Rethinking
Confucianism: Past and Present in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.
University of California, Los Angeles: UCLA Asian Pacific Monograph Series.
June 7 – Tuesday
Morning:
Neo-Confucianism, Popular Confucianism & China
By Qitao Guo – University of Hawaii at Manoa
Readings:
Guo, Qitao. 2005. “Introduction,” “Chapter 4: The Confucian Transformation of
the Mulian Tradition,” & “Conclusion.” In Ritual Opera and Mercantile Lineage:
The Confucian Transformation of Popular Culture in Late Imperial Huizhou.
Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Suggested Readings:
Ebrey, Patricia. 1995. “The Liturgies for Sacrifices to Ancestors in Successive
Versions of the Family Rituals.” In David Johnson, ed., Ritual and Scripture in
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Chinese Popular Religion: Five Studies, pp. 104-36. Berkeley: Publications of
the Chinese Popular Culture Project 3.
Ooms, Herman. 1985. “Chapter 3: Trajectory of a Discourse: Systemic
Sacralization and Genesis Amnesia.” In Tokugawa Ideology: Early Constructs,
1570-1680. New York: Princeton University Press.
Recommended Readings:
Feng Menglong. 1958. “The Pearl-Sewn Shirt,” trans. by Cyril Birch. In Stories
from a Ming Collection: The Art of the Chinese Story-Teller, 37-96. New York:
Grove. A translation of a seventeenth-century short story.
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, trans. 1991. Chu Hst’s Family Rituals: A TwelfthCentury Chinese Manual for the Performance of Cappings, Weddings, Funerals,
and Ancestral Rites. Princeton University Press, skim section on Ancestral Rites.
Afternoon:
Shinto & Buddhist sounds or Sacred Sounds
By Miyuki Yoshikami – University of Maryland
Readings:
Song, Bang-Song. 2000. “The Exchange of Musical Influences between Korea
and Central Asia in Ancient Times.” In Vadime Elisseeff, ed., The Silk Roads:
Highway of Culture and Commerce. New York: Berghahn Books.
Web resource:
Shotoku taishi, Buddhism Web site:
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/japan/asuka/p-shotoku.html
Kukai, shingon for shingon sect Web site:
http://www.compsoc.net/~gemini/simons/historyweb/shingon.html
Saicho, Tendai for tendai sect Web site:
http://www.compsoc.net/~gemini/simons/historyweb/tendai.html
Shinran for Jodo shinshu Web site:
http://www.seattlebetsuin.com/a_brief_introduction_to_jodo_shinshu.htm
Shinto Web site:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/shinto.htm
June 8 – Wednesday
Morning:
Religions, Architecture, Music & Film
By Peter Grilli – Japan Society of Boston
Readings:
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Kurosawa, Akira. 1982. “Introduction.” In Something like an Autobiography,
translated by Audie E. Bock. New York: Alfred A. Knopf .
Isozaki Arata. 1989. “Of City, Nation, and Style.” In Masao Miyoshi and H. D.
Harootunian eds., Postmodernism and Japan. Durham: Duke University Press.
Grilli, Peter. 1978. “Filming the Japanese Gods.” The Japan Society Newsletter.
Grilli, Peter. “TORU TAKEMITSU -- An Appreciation” (11/8/1996)
Homework:
DVD film: “Kurosawa: A Documentary on the Acclaimed Direction” (PN 1998
A3K893 2002, Nonprint Media Services, 4th floor, Hornbake Library)
Afternoon:
Early Japanese Literature: Gender, Genre, and Buddhism in
The Tale of Genji, The Pillow Book, and Essays in Idleness
(Tsurezuregusa)
By Linda Chance – University of Pennsylvania
Readings:
Seidensticker, Edward G. & Haruo Shirane. 1994. “The Tale of Genji.” In
Barbara Stoler Miller, ed., Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative
Perspective: A Guide for Teaching. New York: An East Gate Book.
Makura Soshi. 1955. “The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon.” In Donald Keene, ed.,
Anthology of Japanese Literature from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth
Century. New York: Unesco Collection of Representative Works.
Yoshida Kenko. 1955. “Essays in Idleness.” In Donald Keene, ed., Anthology of
Japanese Literature from the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century. New
York: Unesco Collection of Representative Works.
Suggested Readings:
Murasaki Shikibu. 2001. “Introduction.” In The Tale of Genji, translated by
Royall Tyler. New York: Viking.
Genji & Heike. 1994. Chapters One and Two of Selections from The Tale of
Genji and The Tale of Heike, translated by Helen Craig McCullough. Stanford:
Stanford University Press.
Sarra, Edith. 1999. “Chapter 6: The Poetics of Voyeurism in The Pillow Book.”
In Fictions of Femininity: Literary Inventions of Gender in Japanese Court
Women’s Memoirs. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
June 9 – Thursday
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Morning:
Hanryu: Cultural Flows in East Asia
By Jung-sun Park – California State University at
Dominguez Hill
Readings:
Park, Jung-Sun (in progress). “The Korean Waves: Transnational Cultural Flows
in East Asia,” in Steve Kotkin et al., eds., Korea at the Center: Regionalism in
Northeast Asia. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe.
Park, Jung-Sun. 2004. “Korean American Youth and Transnational Flows of
Popular Culture across the Pacific.” Amerasia Journal 30.1: 147-69.
Afternoon:
Modern Japanese Women, Theater & Literature
By Ayako Kano – University of Pennsylvania
Readings:
Kano, Ayako. 1999. “Visuality and Gender in Modern Japanese Theater:
Looking at Salome.” Japan Forum, vol. 11, pp. 43-55.
Suggested Readings:
High, Peter B. 2003. The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen
Years’ War, 1931-1945. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Suzuki, Tadashi. 1986. The Way of Acting: The Theatre Writings of Tadashi
Suzuki, translated by J. Thomas Rimer. New York: Theatre Communications
Group.
Brazell, Karen, ed. 1998. Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays,
translated by James T. Araki, et al. New York: Columbia University Press.
June 10 – Friday
Morning:
Cinema & Society in Contemporary South Korea
By John Finch – University of Maryland
Readings:
Moon, Seungsook. 2002. “The Production and Subversion of Hegemonic
Masculinity: Reconfiguring Gender Hierarchy in Contemporary South Korea.” In
Laurel Kendall, ed., Under Construction: The Gendering of Modernity, Class,
and Consumption in the Republic of Korea. Honolulu: University of Hawaii
Press.
Kim, Kyung Hyun. 2004. “Introduction: Hunting for the Whale” & Chapter 3:
“‘Is This How the War Is Remembered?’: Violent Sex and the Korean War in
Silver Stallion, Spring in my Hometown, and the Taeback Mountains.” In The
Remasculinization of Korean Cinema. Durham: Duke University Press.
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Afternoon:
Opera in the Qing Metropolis
By Andrea S. Goldman – University of Maryland
Readings:
Excerpts from “Folk Operas.” 2000. In Wm. Theodore de Bary and Richard
Lufrano, comp., Sources of Chinese Tradition, second edition, vol. 2., 92-117.
New York: Columbia University Press.
Birch, Cyril. 1995. “Introduction” & “Chapter 1.” In Scenes for Mandarins: The
Elite Theater of the Ming, 1-60. New York: Columbia University Press.
Recommended Readings:
Dolby, William. 1976. Chapter 5, “A Diversity of Dramatic Styles during the
Early Qing.” In A History of Chinese Drama, 114-56. London: Paul Elek.
Volpp, Sophie. 2003. “The Literary Consumption of Actors in SeventeenthCentury China.” In Judith T. Zeitlin & Lydia H. Liu, eds., Writing and
Materiality in China., 133-83. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center.
Suggested Readings:
Carlitz, Katherine. 1997. “Desire & Writing in the Late Ming Play Parrot
Island.” In Ellen Widmer and Kang-I Sun Chang. eds., Writing Women in Later
Imperial China, 101-30. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Week 2:
June 13 – Monday
Morning:
Japanese Blues
By E. Taylor Atkins – Northern Illinois University
Readings:
Atkins, E. Taylor. 2000. “Can Japanese Sing the Blues?: ‘Japanese Jazz’ and the
Problem of Authenticity.” In Timothy J. Craig, ed., Japan Pop!: Inside the World
of Japanese Popular Culture. New York: M.E. Sharpe.
Yano, Christine R. 2000. “The Marketing of Tears: Consuming Emotions in
Japanese Popular Song.” In Timothy J. Craig, ed., Japan Pop!: Inside the World
of Japanese Popular Culture. New York: M.E. Sharpe.
Afternoon:
Chinese Popular Music and Film
By Andrew Jones – University of California,
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Berkeley
Readings:
Jones, Andrew F. 2001. "Introduction" and Chapter 3, "The Yellow Music of Li
Jinhui." In Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese
Jazz Age, 1-20 & 73-104. Durham: Duke University Press.
Hansen, Miriam Bratu. 2000. "Fallen Women, Rising Stars, New Horizons:
Shanghai Silent Films as Vernacular Modernism." In Film Quarterly, vol. 54.1
(Autumn).
Ye, Tan. “From the Fifth to the Sixth Generation: An Interview with Zhang
Yimou.” Film Quarterly, Volume 53, Number 2, Winter 1999-2000.
Web resource:
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Web site: http://mclc.osu.edu/
Click on Media & Music links for an extensive bibliography of relevant primary
and secondary sources on Chinese film and music.
Translation of “New Woman” film script available at:
http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/pubs/nw.htm
Suggested reading:
Berry, Chris. 2003. Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes. London: BFI
Publishing. ["Readings" of 25 films from Republican China, Taiwan, Hong
Kong, and the PRC] A good for general reference.
Baranovitch, Nimrod. 2003. China's New Voices: Popular Music, Ethnicity,
Gender, and Politics, 1978-1997. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Chen, Kuan-hsing. 2000. "Taiwanese New Cinema." In John Hill and Pamela
Gibson, eds. World Cinema: Critical Approaches, 173-77. NY: Oxford
University Press.
Homework:
2 DVD Chinese films: “Playthings” & “New Woman” (PN 1998 A3K893 2002,
Nonprint Media Services, 4th floor, Hornbake Library)
June 14 – Tuesday
Morning:
Japanese Buddhism
By William LaFleur – University of Pennsylvania
Readings: (to be finalized)
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LaFleur, William R. 1988. “A History of Buddhism.” In Buddhism: A Cultural
Perspective Englewood Cliffs, 10-45. NJ: Prentice Hall.
LaFleur, William R. “From AGAPE to Organs: Religious Difference between
Japan and America in Judging the Ethics of the Transplant.” In Zygon, vol. 37, no.
3 (September 2002), 623-42. The Joint Publication Board of Zygon.
Reynolds, Frank E. & Carbine, Jason A. eds. 2000. “Chapter 14”, in The Life of
Buddhism, Berkeley: University of California Press.
Siegel, Robert, ed. 1995. The NPR Interviews 1995. New York: Houghton Mifflin
Company.
Suggested Reading:
Miller, Lindsay. “Asking a Fish about Water: Reflections on Religion in Japan.”
Japan Society newsletter, November, 1993.
Afternoon:
Korean literature
By Kyeong-hee Choi – University of Chicago
Readings:
Park, Wan-Suh. 1999. “Momma’s Stake.” In Wan-Suh Park, A Sketch of the
Fading Sun, 94-199. Buffalo: White Pine Press.
Choi, Kyeong-Hee. 1999. “Neither Colonial nor National: The Making of the
‘New Women’ in Pak Wanso’s ‘Mother’s Stake 1.’” In Gi-Wook Shin and
Michael Robinson, eds., Colonial Modernity in Korea, 221-47. Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center.
June 15 – Wednesday
Morning:
Representing Atrocities in Visual Culture: Atomic Bombs
By Eleanor Kerkham – University of Maryland
Readings:
Oe, Kenzaburo. 1995. “Introduction” & Ibuse, Masuji. 1995. “The Crazy Iris.” In
Kenzaburo Oe, ed., The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic aftermath, 916, 17-125. New York: Grove Press.
Afternoon:
Chinese Material Culture, Buddhism, and Architecture
By Jason Kuo – University of Maryland
Readings:
Ledderose, Lothar. 1998. “Introduction” & Chapter 5, “Building Blocks,
Brackets, and Beams.” In Ten Thousand Thing: Module and Mass Production in
Chinese Art, 1-7 & 103-37. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
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Naquin, Susan. 2000. “Gods and Clerics.” In Peking: Temples and City Life,
1400-1900, 19-56. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Kieschnick, John. 2003. “Introduction” & “Chapter 3.” In The Impact of
Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture, 1-23 & 157-219. Princeton: Princeton
University Press.
Recommended Readings:
Clunas, Craig. 1997. “Introduction” & Chapter 2, “Positions of the Pictorial.” In
Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China, 9-76. Princeton: Princeton
University Press.
Clunas, Craig. 1996. Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China, 9103. Durham: Duke University Press.
June 16 – Thursday
Morning:
Japanese Media & Representation of Women
By Ayako Doi – Japanese Journalist Independent
Readings:
Doi, Ayako. “Asian Enmities.”
Afternoon:
Presentation
June 17 – Friday
Morning:
Presentation
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