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Course title |
Introduction to East Asian Studies |
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Semester |
109-2 |
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Designated for |
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Instructor |
Chia-chen Chou |
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Curriculum Number |
COSS1001 |
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Curriculum Identity Number |
300E10040 |
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Class |
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Credits |
2.0 |
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Full/Half
Yr. |
Half |
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Required/
Elective |
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Time |
Friday 7,8(14:20~16:20) |
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Remarks |
The upper limit of the number of students: 80. |
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Ceiba Web Server |
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1092COSS1001_ |
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Course introduction video |
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Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning |
Association has not been established |
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Course Syllabus
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Please respect the intellectual property rights of others and do not copy any of the course information without permission
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Course Description |
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For those who are unable to attend the class in person (either under quarantine or due to entry restrictions to Taiwan), please click the following link to join the online class:
https://ntucc.webex.com/meet/chelseachou
The meeting time is every Friday 2:20-4:10pm (Taipei time).
Since this course requires discussion, you should try your best to join the online live meetings. If there are unsolvable difficulties to join the online discussion, you may check the recordings at NTU COOL (a cloud database) for off-online study:
https://cool.ntu.edu.tw/courses/5212
The old U-meeting course link was https://u.cyberlink.com/meeting/550765363
It's no longer available.
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This is an introductory course. The purpose of this course is to provide background knowledge to students who are interested in pursuing the East Asian concentration. To facilitate this goal, the course will invite speakers from various disciplines of social sciences and humanities to explore the geographical, political, economic, social and cultural situations of the East Asian region.
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Course Objective |
The course will outline the East Asian region’s political, economic, social and cultural development. Each speaker will focus on one of the aforementioned aspects. Accordingly, the course is divided into four sections exploring these four aspects respectively. Relevant readings are also assigned for class discussion. Students are required to actively participate in the discussion. |
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Course Requirement |
Class participation, Group presentation, Review article. |
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Student Workload (expected study time outside of class per week) |
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Office Hours |
Appointment required. Note: By appointment. Please email me. |
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Designated reading |
Please see the reading list. |
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References |
Please see the reading list. |
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Grading |
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Explanations for the conditions |
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Class participation |
30% |
Students are required to actively participate in the class discussion. Students are divided into groups to raise questions to speakers and group presentation in turn. |
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Group presentation |
30% |
For the weeks without guest speakers, we will have one group of students present the critical summary of the assigned readings. |
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Review article |
40% |
Each student is expected to write a review article on either the region’s political, economic, social or cultural development. The review article is due at the final week on 6/25. (Please email your article to the instructor by 2pm. Please use your name as the file name.) The article should review the talks, a least two of the readings and two supplementary articles. (You choose the two supplementary articles from academic journals. The two supplementary articles should be in English and not in other languages.) The review article should be about 2500 words, excluding bibliography. |
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Week |
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Topic |
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Week 1 |
2/26 |
Introduction |
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Week 2 |
3/05 |
Section 1: Politics and International Relations in East Asia
Topic: Taiwan, China, and the Region
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Week 3 |
3/12 |
Guest speaker (politics 1)
Prof. David Joseph Lorenzo (College of International Affairs, National Chengchi University) confirmed
Topic: Democracy on the East Asian region
Group 3 is to ask questions.
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Week 4 |
3/19 |
Guest speaker (politics 2)
Prof. Carl Minzner (School of Law, Fordham University NY, USA) confirmed
Topic: China and the End of Reform
Group 2 is to ask questions.
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Week 5 |
3/26 |
Guest speaker (politics 3)
Prof. Ping-Kuei Chen 陳秉逵 (Department of Diplomacy, National Chengchi University) confirmed
Topic: Prospective of US alliance relations with Asian partners: the future of the Quad
Reading:
Chen, Ping-Kuei. 2020. “The Prospects of the US Alliance System in Asia: Managing from the Hub.” Issues & Studies: A Social Science Quarterly on China, Taiwan, and East Asian Affairs, 56 (3): 2040012 (34 pages).
Group 1 is to ask questions.
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Week 6 |
4/02 |
No class. (Spring break.) |
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Week 7 |
4/09 |
Topic: Taiwanese Politics and Cross-strait Relations (Group 1 presentation)
Readings:
1. Lin, Syaru Shirley. 2016. Taiwan's China Dilemma: Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan's Cross-Strait Economic Policy. Stanford University Press, Chapter 1, pp. 1-17.
2. Glaser, Bonnie S., Richard C. Bush, Michael J. Green. 2020. “Toward a Stronger U.S.-Taiwan Relationship.” A Report of the CSIS Task Force on U.S. Policy Toward Taiwan.
Group 4 is to ask questions.
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Week 8 |
4/16 |
Section 2: East Asian Civilization
Topic: East Asian Civilization and International Relations (Group 2 presentation)
Reading:
1. Kang, David C. 2003. “Getting Asia Wrong: The Need for New Analytical Frameworks.” International Security, 27 (4): 57-85.
2. Johnston, Alastair Iain. 2019. “China in a World of Orders: Rethinking Compliance and Challenge in Beijing’s International Relations.” International Security, 44 (2): 9-60.
Group 3 is to ask questions.
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Week 9 |
4/23 |
Guest speaker (culture 1)
Prof. Yu-Ting Lee 李宥霆 (Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University) confirmed
Topic: What is East Asia?
Reading:
Rozman, Gilbert. 1991. “Introduction: The East Asian Region in Comparative Perspective”. In Rozman, G. (Ed.), The East Asian Region: Confucian Heritage and Its Modern Adaptation. Princeton University Press, pp. 3-42.
Group 2 is to ask questions.
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Week 10 |
4/30 |
Roundtable Discussion
"Battling the Coronavirus: Social Values, Political Mindsets and Regime Legitimacy" |
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Week 11 |
5/07 |
Section 3: Economic Issues and Development Mode in East Asia
Topic: The East Asian Developmental State (Group 3 presentation)
Reading:
1. Woo-Cumings, M. 1999. The Developmental State. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 1-31.
2. Wu, Yongping. 2004. “Rethinking the Taiwanese Developmental State.” China
Quarterly, 177: 91-114.
Group 4 is to ask questions.
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Week 12 |
5/14 |
Guest speaker (economics 1)
Prof. Yu-Hsuan Su蘇昱璇 (Graduate Institute of National Development, National Chengchi University) confirmed
Topic: The Economics of “Taiwan Can Help”
Group 3 is to ask questions.
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Week 13 |
5/21 |
Guest speaker (economics 2)
Prof. Michelle Fei-Yu Hsieh 謝斐宇 (Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica) confirmed
Topic: Competing paths of Economic Development: Comparing Taiwan and South Korea
Group 2 is to ask questions.
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Week 14 |
5/28 |
Section 4: Social Situations in East Asia
Guest speaker (society 1)
Pro. Yeun-wen Ku 古允文 (Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University) confirmed
Topic: East Asian Welfare Regimes in Crisis: Technological Progresses, Social Risks and Policy Innovation
Group 1 is to ask questions.
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Week 15 |
6/04 |
Guest speaker (society 2)
Prof. Ming-sho Ho 何明修 (Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University) confirmed
Topic: Hong Kong's "Water Revolution" and its connection with Taiwan
Reading:
Ho, Ming-sho. 2020. “How Protesters Evolve: Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement Learned the Lesson of the Umbrella Movement.” Mobilization: An International Journal, 25 (SI): 711-728.
Group 4 is to ask questions.
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Week 16 |
6/11 |
Guest speaker (society 3)
Prof. Paul Jobin 彭保羅 (Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica) confirmed
Topic: Introduction to the East Asian Anthropocene
Reading:
Jobin, Paul, et al. 2021. “Introduction,” in Environmental Movements and Politics in the Asian Anthropocene.
(Supplementary readings:
Jobin, Paul. 2020. “The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and Civil Actions as a Social Movement.” The Asia-Pacific Journal, 18(9).
Jobin, Paul. 2021. “Our ‘good neighbor’ Formosa Plastics: petrochemical damage(s) and the meanings of money.” Environmental Sociology, 7(1): 40-53.
彭保羅，2020.12.07，拉圖、施密特與台北雙年展的戰爭和外交，芭樂人類學，https://guavanthropology.tw/article/6847 )
Group 3 and 4 is to ask questions.
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Week 17 |
6/18 |
Topic: Social Capital in East Asia (Group 4 presentation)
Reading:
1. Yoon, Kwang-Il. 2017. “The Individual-Level Implications of Social Capital for Democracy in East Asia.” Journal of International and Area Studies, 24 (1): 61-84.
2. Tsai, Lily L. 2007. “Solidary Groups, Informal Accountability, and Local Public Goods Provision in Rural China.” American Political Science Review 101 (May): 355-372.
Group 1 and 2 is to ask questions.
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Week 18 |
6/25 |
No class. (Review article due) |
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