Readings
List of required texts:
July 2_ Unit 4-2: Division and it’s Overcoming--CHEN Yingzhen
1. “Loyalty and Filiality Park” [忠孝公園] by CHEN Yingzhen [陳映真]
July 3_ Unit 1-2: National Cultures--Rabindranath TAGORE
2. “Nationalism” by Rabindranath TAGORE
July 4_ Unit 2-1: Gandhism and Maoism--M. K. GANDHI
3. Hind Swaraj (Chapter 1-14 and 17) by M. K. GANDHI
4. “Final Encounter: The Politics of the Assassination of Gandhi” by Ashis NANDY
July 5_ Unit 2-2: Gandhism and Maoism--MAO Zedong
5. “On Protracted War” [論持久戰] by MAO Zedong [毛澤東]
6. “In Memory of Norman Bethune” [紀念白求恩] by MAO Zedong [毛澤東]
7. “Serve the People” [為人民服務] by MAO Zedong [毛澤東]
July 7_ Unit 3-1: Asia as Method-- TAKEUCHI Yoshimi
8. “Asia as Method” [方法としてのアジア] by TAKEUCHI Yoshimi [竹內好]
9. “Overcoming Modernity” [近代の超克] by TAKEUCHI Yoshimi [竹內好]
July 8_ Unit 3-2: Asia as Method-- MIZOGUCHI Yuzo
10. “China as Method” [方法としての中国] by MIZOGUCHI Yuzo [溝口雄三]
July 9_ Unit 4-1: Division and it’s Overcoming--PAIK Nak-chung
11. “Making the Movement for Overcoming the Division System a Daily Practice”
by PAIK Nak-chung [白樂晴(백낙청)]
12. “National Literature, the Division System, and Overcoming Modernity: Some
Fragmentary Thoughts” by PAIK Nak-chung [白樂晴(백낙청)]
July 10_ Unit 1-1: National Cultures--LU Xun
13. “Story of A-Q” [阿Q正傳] by LU Xun [魯迅]
14. “Diary of a Madman” [狂人日記] by LU Xun [魯迅]
July 12_ Workshop on Conceptualizing the Political in our Time: Day 1
15. “Against Corruption = Against Politics” by Partha CHATTERJEE
16. “Our Corruption, Our Selves” by Arjun APPADURAI
17. “Specialization of the Rural: Reinterpreting the Labour Mobility of Rural Young Women in Post-Mao China” by YAN Hairong
18. “Peasant cultures of the twenty-first century” by Partha CHATTERJEE
19. "Neo-liberalism and Democracy" by Prabhat PATNAIK
20. "The Necessity of Corruption" by Shiv VISVANATHAN
July 13_ Workshop on Conceptualizing the Political in our Time: Day 2
21. “Embodying the Sexual Limits of Neoliberalism” by Sealing CHENG
22. “Penumbral Visions: Neo-Liberalism, Sexual Commerce and the Case of Indian Bar Dancing” by Prabha KOTISWARAN
23. “Law Reform and Movement Building,” and “This is a Protest not a Parade!" by Dean SPADE
*For the following texts, please click on the hyperlinks:
-Walden Bello. “Thailand’s Edsa 2: from civil conflict to uncivil war?”
http://focusweb.org/content/thailand-s-edsa-2-civil-conflict-uncivil-war#sthash.fJwkkTHk.dpuf
-Walden Bello. “Does corruption create poverty?”
http://focusweb.org/node/1594
-Davide Torsello. “The Ethnography of Corruption: Research Themes in Political Anthropology”
http://www.qog.pol.gu.se/digitalAssets/1357/1357836_2011_2_torsello.pdf
http://kafila.org/2011/08/28/against-corruption-against-politics-partha-chatterjee/
http://kafila.org/2011/08/30/our-corruption-our-selves-arjun-appadurai/