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 158-219 Inventing Asian Traditions

Note

Available as 158-319 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Dr Jon Kowallis and Dr Carolyn Stevens

Prerequisites

50 points of study at first year level.

Semester

2

Contact

One 2 hour lecture/workshop and one 1 hour tutorial

Subject Description

This is the core course for the Interdepartmental Programme in Asian Studies, and aims to prepare students for more specialised studies on Asia. The course offers a comparative view of Asian societies through a critical approach to the texts and contexts within which knowledge about these societies is developed and transmitted. Religious, political, social and economic organisation are considered with a focus on Japan, Korea, China and Indonesia. The course will focus on the following themes: Orientalism, Inventing religions; Inventing Nations; Inventing the Family; Asia's contemporary relationship with Australia and the West.

Assessment

Written assignments totalling not more than 5,000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • Lu Hsun, Selected Stories. Translated by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang, Foreign Languages Press, 1989.
  • Oe, Kenzaburo, A Personal Matter. Charles Tuttle Co. 1994.
  • Said, Edward, Orientalism. Penguin 1995.
  • Evans, Grant, Asia's Cultural Mosaic. Prentice Hall 1993.
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