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 131-146 Inventing Asian Traditions

Note

Formerly available as 158-219/319 and 110-021. Students who have completed 158-219/319 or 110-021 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Assoc Prof C Coppel & Dr C Stevens

Prerequisites

50 points of study at First Year.

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

A 2-hour lecture/workshop and a 1-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description

This is the core subject for the Interdepartmental Program in Asian Studies, offering 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. 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, with a focus on Japan, Korea, China and Indonesia. Students should complete the subject with the foundation for more specialised studies on Asia.

Assessment

Written work totalling 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • L Hsun, H-Y Yang & G Yang (trans), Selected Stories. Foreign Languages Press 1989.
  • E Said, Orientalism. Penguin 1995.
  • G Evans, Asia's Cultural Mosaic. Prentice Hall 1993.
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