KSCB500 Workshop on Taiwan Studies

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2013
Extent and Intensity
0/13/13. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Táňa Dluhošová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Luboš Bělka, CSc.
Center for Chinese Studies – Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Táňa Dluhošová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Center for Chinese Studies – Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Since Taiwan Studies and Taiwan-related topics are still underrepresented in degree programmes at European universities, the workshop will be treated as the equivalent of a one-semester course (4 credits). The main emphasis will lie on Taiwanese culture, history, literature, film, and contemporary politics. The wider goal is to promote Taiwan Studies among Eastern and Western European students of Chinese Studies and other, related fields. Students will also be offered practical information about networking possibilities within Europe (EATS, Poland, UK) and study opportunities in Taiwan.
Syllabus
  • Taiwan history: from the perspectives of the film “A City of Sadness”
  • Japanese Colonial Period
  • ]Lecture on Taiwan history
  • Seminar on Taiwan history and the film, A City of Sadness
  • Taiwan in the 17th century
  • Making a Taiwanese Cultural Heritage
  • Dutch and Spanish Sources for Taiwan Historiography
  • Taiwanese literature
  • Japanese Colonial Literature
  • Post-war Literature Taiwan’s Political Transition
  • Overview: Why, How and So What?
  • The International Dimension
  • Taiwan’s International Projection: A Soft Power Deficit?
  • Seminar on Taiwan’s Political Transition
  • Civic Society and Civil Movements
  • Introductions to Civil Movements
  • Seminar: Students presentation on aboriginal movement and class discussion
  • Seminar: Students presentation on anti-nucelar movement and class discussion
  • Lecture: The women's movement and its relevance for Taiwan's civil society activism
Literature
    required literature
  • Neri, Corrado and Gormley, Kirstie (eds) (2009), Taiwan Cinema, Lyon: Asiexpo Edition.
  • Long, Simon (1991), Taiwan: China’s Last Frontier, London: Macmillan.
  • Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh T. (2013), ‘Cinema, identity and resistance: Comparative perspectives on A City of Sadness and The Wind that Shakes the Barley’, LSE e-Journal Taiwan in Comparative Perspective, vol.4
  • Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh T. (2012), ‘Taiwanese documentary’, in Gary Bettinson (ed.), Directory of World Cinema: China. London: Intellect, pp. 17–21.
    not specified
  • arvey, D.C (2001) Heritage Pasts and Heritage Presents: temporality, meaning and the scope of heritage studies International journal of heritage studies 7 : 319-333.
  • Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh T. (Fall/Winter 2011), ‘Cinema, historiography and identities in Taiwan cinema: Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s A City of Sadness’, Asian Cinema Journal 22 (2): 196–213.
  • Andrade, Tonio. “Pirates, Pelts, and Promises: The Sino-Dutch Colony of Seventeenth-Century Taiwan and the Aboriginal Village of Favorolang,” in: The Journal of Asian Studies (JAS) 64/2, pp. 295-322, 2005.
  • Huang, Chun-ming (2001), “The Taste of Apples.” Transl. by Howard Goldblatt. In Huang, Chun-ming, The Taste of Apples. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 135–156. Also in: Chinese Pen, 1976, summer, pp. 95–131.
  • Pai, Hsien-yung (1979), “Death in Chicago.” Trans. by Susan McFadden. In Tamkang Review. A Quarterly of Comparative Studies between Chinese and Foreign Literatures, IX, 3, pp 344–358.
  • Childs, Peter, Modernism. 2nd Edition. London: Routledge 2008, S. 1–36.
  • Murray A Rubinstein (ed) Taiwan, A new history, New York: ME Sharpe, 1999.
  • Borao, Jose (2010) “The Fortress of Quelang: Past, Present and Future,” Macau Cultural Studies.
  • Tang, Xiaobing (2007), “On the Concept of Taiwan Literature.” In: Wang, David Der-wei and Rojas, Carlos (eds.), Writing Taiwan. A New Literary History. Durham: Duke University Press, p. 51–89.
  • Leonard Blussé (2009) “The Cave of the Black Spirits. Searching for a vanished people,“ in David Blundell (ed) Austronesian Taiwan Taipei & Berkeley, pp. 134-158.
  • Andrade, Tonio. (2007) How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century, New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Roy, Denny (2003), Taiwan: A Political History, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
  • Yip, June (2004), Envisioning Taiwan, Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Teaching methods
Classes in this workshop will take the form of lectures combined with seminars and require active par­ti­ci­pa­tion from the students (discussion, group presentations).
Every student can register only for one question throughout the whole workshop. There can be 4 students per presentation. Presentation has to have altogether 20 min and it must be clear which part was done by whom. The presentation (PPT) should be submitted in advance.
Assessment methods
Every student will be asked to give a presentation in front of the class (15-30 min). Students may form groups of 3-4 people for this purpose but should take care to make each participant’s responsibility for his or her part of the presentation transparent. The draft of the presentation and the powerpoint presentation should be uploaded to the course e-learning in advance.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught: in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2013.
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