教學大綱 Syllabus

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

Course Schedule

Week 1  Organizational meeting and Introduction
 

I. Historical Background

Week 2 “Prequel 1” to Cold War: Imperialism and Colonialism

• Philip Dwyer and Amanda Nettelbeck, eds., Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
• Kirsten Ziomek, ed., Asia Pacific Journal reader: The Japanese Empire：Colonial Lives and Postcolonial Struggle, 2013
• Robert Eskildsen, Transforming Empire in Japan and East Asia: The Taiwan Expedition and the Birth of Japanese Imperialism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Week 3 “Prequel 2” to Cold War: the Second World War

• Seiji Shirane, Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945. Cornell Univ. Press, 2022

Week 4 Nationalism, Communism, and the “Hot” Cold Wars

• Masuda Hajimu, “What Was the Cold War? Imagined Reality, Ordinary People’s War, and Social Mechanism,” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 15:4, No. 3 (Feb 2017)
• Shichi Mike Lan, “U.S. Aid, Journalism Education in Taiwan, and a Transnational Network of Chinese-speaking Journalists”, in Yuka Tsuchiya Moriguchi Tsuchiya, Shin Kawashima, and Somei Kobayashi, eds., Knowledge Production in Cold War Asia: US Hegemony and Local Agency, Indiana University Press (USA), forthcoming April 2025 (*to be distributed in class)

Week 5 Supplementary teaching week: Online-learning

“Reconceptualizing the Cold War: On-the-ground Experiences in Asia”:
online archive of oral history collections concerning the Cold War and decolonization in Asia (https://rcw-asia.com/)

II. Cold War Ideologies in Asia

Week 6 Cold War Revisiting

• Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2010. “What Cold War in Asia? An Interpretative Essay.” The Cold War in Asia: The Battle for Hearts and Minds. Eds. Zheng Yangwen, Hong Liu, and Michael Szonyi. Leiden; Boston: Brill. 15-24. 
• Kim Watson, Jini. July 6, 2022. "Thinking Through the Other Cold War: Transpacific and Inter-Asia Approaches." Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South.

Online article: https://globalsouthstudies.as.virginia.edu/book-forum/penpoint-african-literatures-postcolonial-studies-and-cold-war/thinking-through-other

• Liu, Petrus. 2019. “Cold War as method.” Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature 16. 2: 408-431.

Week 7 Race and Modernity

• Lin, Chien-Ting. “Taiwan’s Transpacific Medical Modernity: Race and Disability in Buddha Bless America.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Vol 6.1 (2020):198-224.
• In class film screening: Buddha Bless America (太平天國，1996)

Week 8 Division and Feelings

• Klein, Christina. “Sentimental Education,” Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.
• Eno PJ, Chen. “Introduction: Cold War Division and Structures of Feelings,” Cold War Feelings, Taipei: NCCU UP, 2024.

III. Cultural Cold War

Week 9 PEN International

• Heonik, Kwon. “Cold War Culture in Perspective,” The Other Cold War. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. ​139-152.
• Andrew N. Rubin. “Chapter 2: Orwell and the Globalization of Literature,” Archives of Authority: Empire, Culture, and the Cold War. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.
• Watson, Jini Kim. “Writing Freedom from Bandung to PEN International.” Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization, 1st ed., 29–58. Fordham University Press, 2021.

Week 10 America

• Yoshimi, Shunya, and David Buist. “‘America’ as Desire and Violence: Americanization in Postwar Japan and Asia during the Cold War.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 4, no. 3 (2003): 433–50.
• Hyunjoon, Shin, and Ho Tung‐hung. “Translation of ‘America’ during the Early Cold War Period: A Comparative Study on the History of Popular Music in South Korea and Taiwan.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 10, no. 1 (2009): 83–102.

Week 11 Cinema

• Sang Joon, Lee. “Introduction: The Cultural Cold War and the Birth of the Asian Cinema Network,” Cinema and the Cultural Cold War. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2020.
• Sang Joon, Lee. “The Asia Foundation’s Motion-Picture Project and the Cultural Cold War in Asia.” Film History, vol. 29, no. 2 (Summer 2017), pp. 108-137.

IV. Gender and Sexuality in Cold War

Week 12 Anti-Communism and Gender Norms

• Epstein, Barbara. “Anti-Communism, Homophobia, and the Construction of Masculinity in the Postwar U.S.” Critical Sociology 20 (1994): 21–44.
• Eno PJ, Chen. “Specters of Subversion - Anti-Communism and Sexual Politics in Taiwan and South Korea 1950s-1960s”

Week 13 Cold Sex War and Feminism

• Ding, Naifei. 2015. “In the Eye of International Feminism: Cold Sex Wars in Taiwan.” Review of Women's Studies 50. 17: 56-62.
• Eno PJ, Chen. “Cold War Genealogy of Feminism in Taiwan and South Korea,” unpublished momograph.
• Klein, Christina.  “Cold War Cosmopolitan Feminism,” Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema. 2020: 32-52.

Week 14 Race and Gender

• Shibusawa, Naoko. “Chapter 1&7,” America’s Geisha Ally: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy. Harvard University Press, 2006.
• Heo, Na Sil. 2022. “Racializing Baby Boys: Racial and Gender Politics in Infant Formula Advertisements in Cold War Korea 1950s-1960s.” Gender & History 34. 1: 243-262.

Week 15 Military Prostitution

• Kim, Hyun-sook. 1998. “Yanggongju as an Allegory of the Nation: Images of Working-class Women in Popular and Radical Texts.” Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism. Eds. Elaine H. Kim, and Chungmoo Choi. London and New York: Routledge. 175-202.
• Takeuchi, Michiko. “‘Pan-Pan Girls’ Performing and Resisting Neocolonialism(s) in the Pacific Theater: U.S. Military Prostitution in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952," Over There: Living with the U.S. Military Empire from World War Two to the Present, edited by Maria Hohn and Seungsook Moon, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2010: 78-108.

V. Review and Wrap-up

Week 16      Supplementary teaching week: self-learning

Week 17      Final Review

Week 18      Term paper (due on 31 Jan)