教學大綱 Syllabus

每周課程進度與作業要求 Course Schedule & Requirements

教學週次Course Week	彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week	彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type
16+2週16+2 weeks	第 9 週 Week 9	完成指定課後作業或作品Completion of designated after-course assignment or work
	第 18 週 Week 18	完成指定課後作業或作品Completion of designated after-course assignment or work

 

2/20 Week 1: Asia as connected places

• Jesook Song; Positioning Asia in a Global Future? An Example through Rethinking Finance. positions 1 February 2012; 20 (1): 173–182. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-1471418

Supplementary readings:

• Tagliacozzo, Eric, Helen F. Siu, and Peter C. Perdue. Introduction in Asia Inside Out: Connected Places / Edited by Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue. Ed. Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, and Peter C. Perdue. Cambridge, Massachusetts; Harvard University Press, 2015. 

 

2/27 Week 2: Why Taiwan?

• Lin, Wei-Ping. Chapter 10 in Island Fantasia: Imagining Subjects on the Military Frontline between China and Taiwan, 2021.
• Dirlik, Arif. 2018. “Taiwan: The Land Colonialisms Made.” Boundary 2 45 (3): 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-6915545.

 

3/5 Week 3: No class. 

*The March 5th class takes place on May 21st, originally the university anniversary and athletic contest. 

 

3/12 Week 4: Inequality 

• Chan, Jenny, Mark Selden, and Ngai Pun. 2020. Preface in Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers. Haymarket Books.
• 人物，2020。“外卖骑手，困在系统里.” February 18, 2021. https://bit.ly/2OmfJMI English: https://chuangcn.org/2020/11/delivery-renwu-translation/

Supplementary readings:

• Ngai, Pun, and Jenny Chan. 2012. “Global Capital, the State, and Chinese Workers: The Foxconn Experience.” Modern China 38 (4): 383–410. https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700412447164.
• Solinger, Dorothy J., ed. 2019. Polarized Cities: Portraits of Rich and Poor in Urban China. Lanham, Maryland; London: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Cho, Mun Young. 2013. The Specter of the People: Urban Poverty in Northeast China. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
• Akhil Gupta, Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India.

 

3/19 Week 5: Exclusion

• Song, Jesook. South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: the Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society. Durham N.C: Duke University Press, 2009.
• Kar, Sohini. Financializing Poverty: Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018.

Supplementary readings:

• Rao, Yichen. "Dreaming like a market: The hidden script of financial inclusion in China's P2P lending platforms." Economic Anthropology 8, no. 1 (2021): 102-115.
• Positions: Asia Critique 14 (1): 37–66. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-14-1-37.
• Harms, Erik. 2016. “Urban Space and Exclusion in Asia.” Annual Review of Anthropology 45 (1): 45–61. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102215-100208.
• Song, Jesook. 2014. Living on Your Own: Single Women, Rental Housing, and Post-Revolutionary Affect in Contemporary South Korea. Albany, NY, USA: State University of New York Press. 

 

3/26 Week 6: Precarity

• Koch, Gabriele. Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020.
• Guérin, Isabelle, Santosh Kumar, and Govindan Venkatasubramanian. The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism. Stanford University Press, 2023.

Supplementary readings:

• Khan, Rimi. 2019. “‘Be Creative’ in Bangladesh? Mobility, Empowerment and Precarity in Ethical Fashion Enterprise.” Cultural Studies 33 (6): 1029–49. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1660696.
• Allison, Anne. 2013. Precarious Japan. Durham: Duke University Press.
• Brinton, Mary C. Lost in Transition: Youth, Work, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan. Cambridge; New York, 2010.
• Standing, Guy. 2011. The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class. London, UK; New York, NY: Bloomsbury.
• Zhang, Li. 2020. Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy. First edition. Oakland, California: University of California Press.
• Silva, Chikako Ozawa-de. The Anatomy of Loneliness: Suicide, Social Connection, and the Search for Relational Meaning in Contemporary Japan, 2021.

 

4/2 Week 7: Pop culture

• Kim, Suk-Young. K-pop live: Fans, idols, and multimedia performance. Stanford University Press, 2020.
• Kim, Ju Oak. "BTS as method: A counter-hegemonic culture in the network society." Media, Culture & Society 43, no. 6 (2021): 1061-1077.

Supplementary readings:

• Phillips, Kathryn, and Thomas Baudinette. "Shin-Ōkubo as a feminine ‘K-pop space’: gendering the geography of consumption of K-pop in Japan." Gender, Place & Culture 29, no. 1 (2022): 80-103.
• Fuhr, Michael. Globalization and popular music in South Korea: Sounding out K-pop. Routledge, 2015.
• Cruz, Angela Gracia B., Yuri Seo, and Itir Binay. "Cultural globalization from the periphery: Translation practices of English-speaking K-pop fans." Journal of Consumer Culture 21, no. 3 (2021): 638-659. 

 

4/9 Week 8: Education competition

• Chiang, Yi-Lin. Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global Competition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 
• Xu, Jing. The good child: Moral development in a Chinese preschool. Stanford University Press, 2020.

Supplementary readings:

• Lan, Pei-Chia. 2018. Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration, and Class in Taiwan and the US. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
• Ho, Louis. 2019. “Policy, Mobility, and Youth Subjectivity: The Case of the Hong Kong-Australian Working Holiday Scheme.” Cultural Studies 33 (6): 944–63. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2019.1660692.

 

4/16 Week 9: Midterm week. No Class.

 

4/23 Week 10: Sound and Noise

• Hsieh, Jennifer C. “Making Noise in Urban Taiwan.” American Ethnologist 48, no. 1 (2021): 51–64. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13003.
• Rumsby, C. (2020). ‘Retrospective (re)presentation: turning the written ethnographic text into an ‘ethno-graphic’’ entanglements, 3(2):7-27. https://entanglementsjournal.org/retrospective-representation-turning-the-written-ethnographic-text-into-an-ethno-graphic/ 

Supplementary readings:

• Manabe, Noriko. 2015. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music After Fukushima. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

 

4/30 Week 11: Technology and innovation

• Seaver, Nick. Computing taste: algorithms and the makers of music recommendation. University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Supplementary readings:

• Silvia M. Lindtner, Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation (Princeton University Press, 2020).
• Pedersen, Morten Axel, Kristoffer Albris, and Nick Seaver. "The political economy of attention." Annual Review of Anthropology 50 (2021): 309-325.
• Boyer, Dominic. 2013. The Life Informatic: Newsmaking in the Digital Era. Expertise. Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge. Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press.
• Mullaney, Thomas S., Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, and Kavita Philip, eds. 2021. Your Computer Is on Fire. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

 

5/7 Week 12: Environment 

• Li, Tania Murray. Land′s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014.
• Cheng, Eric Siu-kei. "The mobile spatialization of agriculture in Hong Kong." Journal of Rural Studies 106 (2024): 103208.

Supplementary readings:

• Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. 2015. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Lukas Ley. 2021. Building on Borrowed Time: rising seas and failing infrastructure in Semarang. University of Minnesota Press. 
• Kimura, Aya Hirata. Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after the Fukushima. Duke Ebooks. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
• Blanchette, Alex. 2020. Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm. Durham: Duke University Press.
• Masco, Joseph. 2021. The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making. Durham: Duke University Press Books.

 

5/14 Week 13: Encounters

• Chapter three in Mathews, Gordon. The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China’s Global Marketplace. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
• Kwon, June Hee. Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers. Duke University Press, 2023.

Supplementary readings:

• Mathews, Gordon. Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
• Byler, Darren. Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.
• Franceschini, Ivan, and Nicholas Loubere. 2022. “Global China as Method.” Elements in Global China, July. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108999472.
• Siu, Helen F., and Mike McGovern. 2017. “China-Africa Encounters: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Realities.” Annual Review of Anthropology 46 (1).

 

5/21 Week 14: Speed

* The class of March 5th takes place on this day of the University anniversary and Athletic contests.

• Park, Seo Young. Stitching the 24-Hour City: Life, Labor, and the Problem of Speed in Seoul. Ithaca, 2021.

 

5/28 Week 15: Pandemics

• Bird, J. and Green, D. (2021). ‘Covid spaces and places: The uncanny, the weird, and the eerie’, entanglements, 4(2):32-49. https://entanglementsjournal.wordpress.com/covid-spaces-and-places/
• Yang, Guobin. The Wuhan Lockdown. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.

Supplementary readings:

• NYU Press. “Big Farms Make Big Flu.” Accessed December 5, 2022. https://nyupress.org/9781583675892/big-farms-make-big-flu.
• Fearnley, Lyle. 2020. “Virulent Zones: Animal Disease and Global Health at China’s Pandemic Epicenter,” October. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478012580.

 

6/6 [Thursay] Week 16: Final Project presentation - ICI joint presentation event

* The class of June 4th takes place on June 6th. 

 

6/11 Week 17: Field trip 

• TBD (To be proposed and organized by the students.)

 

6/18 Week 18: Wrap up. No class.