KSCB755 Chinese Cultures, Societies and Histories on the Periphery

Filozofická fakulta
jaro 2022
Rozsah
1/1/0. 5 kr. Doporučované ukončení: k. Jiná možná ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Prof. Allen Chun (přednášející), Mag. phil. Ute Wallenböck, Dr. phil. (zástupce)
Garance
Mgr. et Mgr. Dušan Vávra, Ph.D.
Seminář čínských studií – Centrum asijských studií – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Mag. phil. Ute Wallenböck, Dr. phil.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Seminář čínských studií – Centrum asijských studií – Filozofická fakulta
Předpoklady
TYP_STUDIA(N)
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
This course will focus primarily on the formation of contemporary Chinese societies or polities outside China proper. Are their histories and sociocultural processes attributable to or distinct from developments at the core, and how so?
Osnova
  • 1. Introduction: Are History of Civilization and Cultural Identity the Same?
  • Kim, Samuel S. & Lowell Dittmer, 1993, Whither China's Quest for National Identity? In China's Quest for National Identity, Chapter 10.
  • Chun, Allen, 1996, Fuck Chineseness: On the Ambiguities of Ethnicity as Culture as Identity, boundary 2 23(2): 111-38.
  • 2. Taiwan, Republic of China as the Politicized Invention of Tradition
  • Wachman, Alan M., 2000, Taiwan: Parent, Province, or Blackballed State? Journal of Asian and African Studies 35(1): 183–203.
  • Chun, Allen, 1996, From Nationalism to Nationalizing: Cultural Imagination and State Formation in Postwar Taiwan. in Chinese Nationalism, ed. J. Unger, pp. 126-47, Armonk: M.E. Sharpe.
  • 3. Multicultural Taiwan in the Misrecognition of Politics
  • Tu Weiming, 1996, Cultural Identity and the Politics of Recognition in Contemporary Taiwan, The China Quarterly 148: 1115-1140.
  • Chun, Allen, 2002, The Coming Crisis of Multiculturalism in “Transnational” Taiwan. Social Analysis: The International Journal of Cultural and Social Practice 46(2): 102-22.
  • 4. Taiwanization and De-Sinicization: Is it a Two-Way Street?
  • Chang Bi-yu, 2004, “From Taiwanization to De-sinification: Culture Construction in Taiwan since the 1990s”, China Perspectives 56: 34-44.
  • Chun, Allen, 2007, Ethnic Identity in the Politics of the Unreal, Taiwan in Comparative Perspective 1: 76-86.
  • 5. Colonial Hong Kong before and after the Great Transformation
  • Tang, James T.H., 1994, From Empire Defense to Imperial Retreat: Britain's Postwar China Policy and the Decolonization of Hong Kong, Modern Asian Studies 28(2): 317-37.
  • Chun, Allen, 1991, La Terra Trema: The Crisis of Kinship and Community in the New Territories of Hong Kong Before and After “The Great Transformation”. Dialectical Anthropology 16(3-4): 309-29.
  • 6. Hong Kong Culture Betwixt and Between
  • Abbas, Ackbar, 1997, Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance, Chapter 1, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Chun, Allen, 2013, Critical Cosmopolitanism in the Emergence of Cultural Modernity: Reflections on Discursive Imagination in Hong Kong and Shanghai, Postcolonial Studies 16(1): 46-65.
  • 7. Hong Kong Waiting for China
  • Chu Yiu-wai, 2013, Lost in Transition: Hong Kong Culture in the Age of China, Chapter 2, Albany: State University of New York Press.
  • Chun, Allen, 2010, Hong Kong “Identity” after the End of History, in Contemporary Asian Modernities: Transnationality, Interculturality and Hybridity, eds. Chu Yiu-wai and Eva Kit-wah Man, pp. 167-90, Bern: Peter Lang.
  • 8. Macau: Portuguese Colony or Appendix to China?
  • Gunn, Geoffrey C., 1996, Encountering Macau: A Portuguese City-State on the Periphery of China,1557–1999, pp. 13-34, Boulder: Westview Press.
  • Chun, Allen, 2019, (Post)Colonial Governance in Hong Kong and Macau: A Tale of Two Cities and Regimes Postcolonial Studies 22(4): 413-27.
  • 9. Socialist Humanism in China and Beyond: The View from Guanxi
  • Vogel, Ezra F., 1965, From Friendship to Comradeship: The Change in Personal Relations in Communist China. The China Quarterly 21: 46-60.
  • Gold, Thomas B., 1985, After Comradeship: Personal Relations in China Since the Cultural Revolution. The China Quarterly 104: 657-75.
  • Chun, Allen, 2002, From Culture to Power (and Back): The Many ‘Faces’ of Mianzi (face), Guanxi (connection), and Renqing (rapport). Suomen Antropologi 27(4): 19-37.
  • 10. Greater China in the Context of Transnationalism
  • Harding, Harry, 1993, The Concept of “Greater China”: Themes, Variations and Reservations, The China Quarterly 136: 660-86.
  • Chun, Allen, 2007, What Happened to “Greater China”? Changing Geopolitics in the China Triangle, Macalester International 18: 28-44.
  • 11. The New Rise of China and its Global Political Economy
  • Nonini, Donald M., 2008, Is China Becoming Neoliberal?, Critique of Anthropology 28(2): 145-176.
  • Smith, Richard, 2015, China’s Communist-Capitalist Ecological Apocalypse, Real-World Economics Review 71: 19-63.
  • 12. Singapore as Ethnicity, Nation and Society
  • Clammer, John, 1998, Managing the Multiethnic State: Ethnicity, Classifications and the Power to Name in the Construction of Singaporean Society “Reality”, in Race and State in Independent Singapore, 1965-1990: The Cultural Politics of Pluralism in a Multiethnic Society, pp. 1-26.
  • Chun, Allen, 2017, Forget Chineseness: On the Geopolitics of Cultural Identification, Chapter 11, Albany: SUNY Press.
  • 13. Overseas Chinese Society as Diaspora and Cosmopolis
  • Trocki, Carl, 1997, Boundaries and Transgression: Chinese Enterprise in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Southeast Asia, in Ungrounded Empires: The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese Transnationalism, eds. A. Ong and D.M. Nonini, London: Routledge.
  • Chun, Allen, 2001, Diasporas of Mind, or Why There Ain’t No Black Atlantic in Cultural China. Communal/ Plural: Journal of Transnational & Crosscultural Studies 9(1): 95-110.
Výukové metody
Lectures and discussion based on the reading of one narrative and one counternarrative.
Metody hodnocení
Class participation is essential, 100 % is required. In addition, students will be required to submit a written essay of 4000-5000 words on a topic of their choice by the end of term.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
The course will take place in intensive form in the last week of April or first week of May 2022.
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