Program
Course Design
- Core Course: Introduction to Modern Asian Thought. An eight-day core course consists of 4 units of key issues and concepts in modern Asian though are introduced to students through taught classrooms and in-depth discussions.
- MAT Annual Lecture: Two-day lecture and discussion features Prof. Ashis Nandy.
- Workshop: An additional two-day workshop shall be held addressing specific research topics on contemporary debates.
- Field trips: Trips in and around the city, addressing local movements and development in a city where the “Science Park” is located.
Program
updated 2014.06.23
| Date | Time | Session | Instructors | Readings |
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| 7/1 Tue |
10:00 | 12:30 |
Opening and Student's Presentation | Joyce LIU, PAIK Wondam, Meaghan MORRIS |
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| 14:00 | 17:30 |
Student’s Presentation | - |
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| 18:00- | Welcome Party | |||
| 7/2 Wed |
13:00 | 18:00 |
Unit 4-2: Division and it’s Overcoming | Kuan-Hsing CHEN and Nishant SHAH | "Loyalty and Filiality Park” by CHEN Yingzhen |
| 19:00- | Salon 1 Screening Ghare Baire (The Home and the World) (1984) | |||
| 7/3 Thu |
13:00 | 18:00 |
Unit 1-2: National Cultures | Firdous AZIM and Hans HUANG | “Nationalism” by Rabindranath TAGORE |
| 7/4 Fri |
13:00 | 18:00 |
Unit 2-1: Gandhism and Maoism | Ashish RAJADHYAKSHA and Andy Chih-Ming WANG |
1) Chapter 1-14 and 17 in Hind Swaraj by M. K. GANDHI 2) "Final Encounter: The Politics of the Assassination of Gandhi" by Ashis Nandy |
| 7/5 Sat |
13:00 | 18:00 |
Unit 2-2: Gandhism and Maoism | CHEN Hsin-shing | "On Protracted War" by MAO Zedong "In Memory of Norman Bethune" by MAO Zedong "Serve the People" by MAO Zedong |
| 7/6 Sun |
13:00 | 18:00 |
Field trip |
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| Date | Time | Session | Instructors | Readings |
| 7/7 Mon |
13:00 | 18:00 |
Unit 3-1: Asia as Method | IKEGAMI Yoshihiko Hung-Yueh LAN |
"Asia as Method" by TAKEUCHI Yoshimi "Overcoming Modernity" by TAKEUCHI Yoshimi |
| 7/8 Tue |
13:00 | 18:00 |
Unit 3-2: Asia as Method | SUN Ge and Yuehtsen CHUNG | “China as Method” by MIZOGUCHI Yuzo |
| 19:00- | Salon 2 : "Hong Kong No More" by Stephen Ching-Kiu CHAN | |||
| 7/9 Wed |
13:00 | 18:00 |
Unit 4-1: Division and it’s Overcoming | BAIK Jiwoon and Chiyo WAKABAYASHI | 1) "Making the Movement for Overcoming the Division System a Daily Practice" by PAIK Nak-chung 2) "National Literature, the Division System, and Overcoming Modernity: Some Fragmentary Thoughts" by PAIK Nak-chung |
| 7/10 Thu |
13:00 | 18:00 |
Unit 1-1: National Cultures | WANG Xiao-Ming | 1) "Story of A-Q" by LU Xun 2) "Diary of a Madman" by LU Xun |
| 19:00 | Salon 3 Worker's Band Black Hand Nakasi | |||
| 7/11 Fri |
13:00 | 18:00 |
Day-off | - | - |
| 7/12 Sat |
13:00 | 18:00 |
Workshop on Conceptualizing the Political in (a) re-theorizing corruption; (b) labour, our Time: Day 1 subjectivity, capital | Sessions led by: Tejaswini Niranjana, Ding Naifei, Amie Parry, Nitya Vasudevan, Hsing-wen Chang, Wing-Kwong Wang | -Aditya Nigam, and Nivedita Menon. "Anti-Corruption Movement and the Left" -Wang Hui. 2006. "Depoliticized politics, multiple components of hegemony, and the eclipse of the Sixties". -Jon Moran. "Patterns of Corruption and Development in East Asia" -EPW Editorial. The Anti-corruption Crusade |
| 19:00- | Students' group presentation on field trips | |||
| 7/13 Sun |
13:00 | 18:00 |
Workshop on Conceptualizing the Political in our Time: Day 2 sex/gender, law, and the limits of neo-liberalism | Sessions led by: Tejaswini Niranjana, Ding Naifei, Amie Parry, Nitya Vasudevan, Hsing-wen Chang, Wing-Kwong Wang | |
| Date | Time | Session | Instructors | Readings |
| 7/14 Mon |
13:00 | 18:00 |
MAT Annual Lecture: Ashis Nandy | Chaired by Johnson CHANG Discussant: NGOI Guat Peng, Hilmar FARID, Vickie Ying-En CEHN | - |
| 7/15 Tue |
12:00 | Deadline for students to submit final reports | - | - |
| 13:00 | 15:00 |
Student's Discussion | - | - | |
| 15:30 | 18:00 |
Closing Wrap up Session | - | - | |
| 18:30 | |
Farewell Party | - | - | |