SEA 10A FALL 2015
PROFESSOR PENNY EDWARDS
SYLLABUS & SCHEDULE
Voices, Places and Traces of Mainland Southeast Asia
SEA 10A Fall 2015 SCHEDULE OF CLASSES/READINGS (= in Reader)
WEEK ONE
Thurs Aug 27
Introduction: The Who, How, What, Where & Why of SEA 10A
 Saw Pho Kwar Mines
WEEK TWO
Founding Myths and Methods in Southeast Asia/n Studies
Tues Sep 1
Thurs Sep 3
David Wyatt, “Silver Bullet”
 Heine-Geldern, “Kingship in Southeast Asia”
WEEK THREE
Tues Sep 8
Thur Sep 10
13th Century Cambodia: One place, two voices, three traces
Zhoudaguan, A Record of Cambodia, Introduction (p.1-30), pp. 45-53
Zhoudaguan A Record of Cambodia, pp. 54-84
Queen Indradevi’s Inscription (c. 1190-1200 AD)
WEEK FOUR Borders of Truth: Preah Vihear Temple Then & Now
Tues Sep 15 John Burgess Temple in the Clouds (2015)
Thur Sep 17 Shane Strate “A Pile of stones?” (2013)
WEEK FIVE
China in Southeast Asia
Tues Sep 22 Alexander Ong Eng Ann “Contextualising the Book Burning Episode
during the Ming Invasion and Occupation of Vietnam” (2010)
Thurs Sep 24 U Thaw Kaung “Bogus Chinese Envoys, Spurious Chinese Princesses at
18th Century Myanmar Royal Court” (2014)
WEEK SIX
18th/19th Century Literature of Vietnam
Tues Sep 29 Tale of Kieu pp. 3-85
(line 1 - 1626)
Thurs Oct 1 Tale of Kieu pp. 85-167 (line 1627-end)
WEEK SEVEN Early 20th Century Khmer and Thai Literature
Tues Oct 6 Ind Journey to Angkor/Nirieh Nokor Vat
Thurs Oct 8 Siburapha Behind the Painting pp. 14-79
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WEEK EIGHT Early 20th c.Thai and Burmese Literature
Tues Oct 13
Siburapha Behind the Painting pp 79 - 158
Thurs Oct 15 Zeyar Linn “My History is Not Mine” (u.d.)
 Hla Pe, Anna Allott, John Okell,”Three Immortal Burmese Songs” (1963)
Ma Mya Lay’s Last Poem (1800s)
 U Yar Pyat Shwe Pyi Gi (Golden Land) (u.d.)
WEEK NINE
Colonial Voiceovers and Burmese Voices
Tues Oct 20
Kwasi Kwateng “White Elephant” (2011)
George Orwell “Shooting an Elephant” (1936)
George Orwell “Letters to F. Tennyson Jesse” (1946)
Noel Coward “Mad Dogs and Englishmen”
Thurs Oct 22 Maitrii Aung Thwin The Return of the Galon King (2011)
Thein Pei Myint Oil (1938)
WEEK TEN
Vietnamese Satyre in Colonial Hanoi
Tues Oct 27 Vu Truong Phong Dumb Luck p. 33-111
Thurs Oct 29 Vu Truong Phong Dumb Luck p. 111-189
WEEK ELEVEN Doing time in Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma
Tues Nov 3
Thurs Nov 5
Peter Zinoman “Prisoners and Prison Society” (2001)
Khun Srun “The Accused” (1971)
Aung San Suu Kyi Two Letters (1995)
Kyaw Zwa Moe The Cell (Irrawaddy, 2011)
Kenneth Wong Empty Chairs (Short story, Agnes, 2011)
WEEK TWELVE Popular Beliefs/Spirit Culture in Thailand/Vietnam
Tues Nov 10 Richard Ruth “Dressing for Modern War in Old-Fashioned Magic:
Traditional Protective Charms of Thailand’s Forces in the Vietnam War” (2012)
Thurs Nov 12  Benedicte Brac de la Perriere “The Taunbyon Festival” (2005)
WEEK THIRTEEN Contemporary Burmese Writing
Tues Nov 17 Nu Nu Yi Smile as they bow pp. 1-79
Thurs Nov 19 Nu Nu Yi Smile as they bow pp. 80-146
WEEK FOURTEEN THANKSGIVING NO CLASS
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WEEK FIFTEEN Transnational Southeast Asia: Themes & Memes
Tues Dec 1
Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier “Rapping (in) the Homeland” (2006)
praCh “Three Rap Lyrics from Dalama” (2001)
Thurs Dec 3 Jane Ferguson “Burmese Super Trouper: How Burmese Poets and
Musicians turn Global Popular Music into Copy Thachin” (2013)
Kenneth Wong “Rebel Burmese Rap” (2014)
“Burma’s Lady Gaga”, Mizzima (2015)
Phyu Phyu Kyaw Thein Lyrics (Name, War, Drug Sin)
WEEK SIXTEEN DEAD WEEK
Tues Dec 8 REVISON/ ATTENDANCE OPTIONAL
Thu Dec 10 REVISION/ ATTENDANCE OPTIONAL
OPTIONAL EXTRA CREDIT EVENTS
1 extra credit point will be gained for your attendance at the following event and completion
of a **BRIEF** email report to Trent Walker (trentwalker@berkeley.edu) cc. Penny Edwards
(pennyedwards@berkeley.edu) explaining what you learned from/got out of the event:
Thurs 17 Sep
4-5.30 pm (reception from 5.30-6 pm)
Burmese Gay Rights Film Premiere
Geballe Room, Townsend Center, Stephens Hall
This Kind of Love with artist/activist Aung Myo and Professor Tamara Ho, UC Riverside
19 October 2015 4-5.30 pm,
Cambodia Lecture by Professor Erik Davis
Doe Library
Past Lives Present, Tense: Past-Life Memory in Contemporary Cambodia
REQUIRED MATERIALS
SEA 10A 2015 Course Reader
Copy Central, 2576 Bancroft Way, Tel: 510-848-8649
Peter Harris Zhou Daguan: A Record of Cambodia, the land and its people (Silkworm)
Huynh San Thong Tale of Kieu (Yale University Press)
Siburapha, trans. D. Smyth Behind the Painting and Other Stories (Silkworm)
Vu Trong Phung, trans. P. Zinoman and Cam Nguyet Nguyen Dumb Luck (UM Press)
Nu Nu Yi Smile as They Bow (New York: Hyperion, 2008)
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ASSESSMENT AND ASSIGNMENTS
Font & Spacing: All written assignments must be in 12 point font, 1.5 spacing
(I) ACTIVE PARTICIPATION/EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
(TOTAL 30%)
LECTURE (10%)
SECTION (10%)
FIELDWORK ASSIGNMENT (10%)
Visit **at least one** of the four following sites and write a **two page report**
Asian Area (and Hot House), Botanical Gardens, UC Berkeley
botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu
Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin Street, SFO www.asianart.org
Vat Mongkolratanaram (Thai Temple), Russell Street, Berkeley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Mongkolratanaram
Buddhist Shrine, Lake Merritt, Oakland
https://oakland.net/2014/10/21/buddha-of-oakland
(II) ESSAY ASSIGNMENTS
(TOTAL 55%)
ASSIGNMENT #1: SHORT CRITICAL ESSAY
(10%)
Critical review essay: 2 pages
skills-set: correct citation practice, ability to distinguish between PRIMARY &
SECONDARY sources; ability to identify, summarize and evaluate the key argument in a scholarly
essay (the secondary source) and to apply relevant data from a primary source.
ASSIGNMENT #2: MIDTERM ESSAY:
(15%)
Analytical essay: 5 pages
skills-set: analysis, ability to structure an argument; ability to integrate independent
analysis with information from secondary sources
ASSIGNMENT #3: RESEARCH PROJECT:
(30%)
Long essay: 12-15 pages
skills-set: research design, identification of resources, primary source analysis;
interpretation and presentation of findings.
PART 1
PART 2
PART 3
PART 4
[Week 8] Project Proposal, 1 page:
[Week 10] Presentation in Class
[Week 11] Intro and Bibliography
Essay (12-15 pp) [Week 14]
(III) FINAL EXAM
Multiple choice: Key concepts
Histoy/anthropology
Literary analysis
(5%)
(5%)
(20%)
(15%)
(5%)
(5%)
(5%)
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GRADING POLICY
Penny Edwards and Trent Walker work as a team, jointly developing grading rubrics and
computing your final course grade.
Assignments #1 and #2 and your Fieldwork Assignment will be graded by Trent.
Assignment #3 (your research project, including the in-class/in-section presentation),
will be graded by both Trent and Penny.
NO LATE ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED unless
(a) you have an accommodation allowing you extra time OR
(b) you can document EXTREME MITIGATING MEDICAL/PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES.
No Incompletes will be offered except in EXTREME MITIGATING AND DOCUMENTED
MEDICAL/ PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES.
ATTENDANCE POLICY
Participation in all sections and lectures is mandatory with these exceptions:
Students have one ALLOWABLE absence from either a section or a lecture for the
entire semester. No questions asked.
A second absence must be accompanied by a doctor’s note/request for advance
permission.
Trent Walker is in charge of monitoring attendance in lecture and section.
Special requests for leave of absence from lecture should be sent to Penny Edwards, cc
Trent and for leave of absence from section should be sent to Trent Walker, cc. Penny Edwards
SEA10A Fall 2015 EMAIL ETIQUETTE
Penny Edwards will handle the bulk of all email correspondence at the following times:
Monday – Friday
Monday – Friday
6.30-7.30 am
4-6pm
She will not respond to queries sent over the weekend (Saturday-Sunday), until Monday
morning. From 29 September to 14 October, and on 29-30 October, Edwards will be
traveling in different time zones and will respond more slowly/at different times.
Trent Walker will make his best efforts to always respond within 48 hours, but will
usually respond much faster. He doesn’t mind emails on weekends or evenings, but
please ask well ahead of time for important q’s about assignments and attendance.
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CLASSROOM CLIMATE
TWEET STREET: LAPTOP POLICY AND ELECTRONICS
The focus of our teaching is YOU, and NOT your electronic devices. These can be
distracting and disruptive. Our classroom is an arena for engaged discussion.
Student use of laptops, cellphones, ipads and other electronics in class is PROHIBITED.
Phones must be SILENCED and IGNORED at all times in class.
NO texting or tweeting.
RECORDING, PHOTOGRAPHING OR FILMING IN LECTURE OR SECTION IS PROHIBITED.
Save your camera/video/recording devices for FIELDWORK & SPECIAL PROJECT.
RESPECTING A DIVERSE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT UC Berkeley is a diverse learning
environment that respects the right of everyone to learn and appreciates the specific
needs of individuals. Your SEA 10A Instructors encourage the creative and constructive
exchange of views and expression of opinions. We will NOT tolerate comments or jokes
designed to embarrass or harass your classmates on the grounds of ethnic, gender,
physical disability, racial, religious, or sexual identity.
RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE If the observance of your religious practice coincides with our
scheduled class dates, exam times or assignment due dates, please notify us well in
advance so that we can make a specific accommodation to your needs.
LEARNING DIFFERENCES If you have a medical or other condition that requires
accommodation in the classroom, you are encouraged (but not required) to advise your
instructor, Penny Edwards who will treat any such information with the utmost
confidentiality. You may also wish to inform Trent Walker, who will also treat any
personal information with the utmost confidentiality. If you would prefer NOT to
discuss directly with your instructors, and you have not already done so, please contact
Disability Services. Once they have documentation of any condition requiring
accommodation, they will issue a notification direct to Edwards. For more information,
visit www.dsp.berkeley.edu/accommodation
HARASSMENT AND DISCRIMINATION
The University of California strives to prevent and respond to harassment and
discrimination. Engaging in such behavior may result in removal from class or the
University. If you are the subject of harassment or discrimination there are resources
available to support you. Please contact the Confidential Care Advocate
(sa.berkeley.edu/dean/confidential-care-advocate) for non-judgmental, caring
assistance with options, rights and guidance through any process you may choose.
Survivors of sexual violence may also want to view the following
website: survivorsupport.berkeley.edu.
For more information about how the University responds to harassment and
discrimination, please visit the Office for the Prevention of Harassment and
Discrimination website: ophd.berkeley.edu.