Asian Studies 101
(GE Foundations)* *P. 87 of the SDSU General Catalogue 2006-2007 classifies
this class under... area "C" Humanities... in section 2. Art, Classics,
Dance, Drama, Humanities, and Music Asian Thought and Cultures Fall
2007
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Course
Objective: This course will explore the social, religious, political,
economic, and legal foundations of East and Southeast Asia. The course content
is designed to give the student a background to understand the traditions, the
values and thus the societies in East and Southeast Asia. In this course we will
focus on East and Southeast Asia.
Textbooks
required for the class: None.
All
required readings will be available online on ECR or hardcopy at the SDSU Reserve
Book Room.
Plus...
a new and improved "Course Pack" that I developed that is available
on ERes and Blackboard
AS101
- Course Reserve Series
Series
#
Title
Country
1
To
Live
China
2
Ashoka
India
3
Eat,
Drink, Man, Woman
Taiwan
4
The
Last Samurai
Japan
5
Dekada
’70 1 of 2
Philippines
6
Dekada
’70 2 of 2
Philippines
7
The
Scent of Green Papaya
Vietnam
8
The
Legend of Suriyothai
Thailand
9
Kundun
Tibet
10
The
Twilight Samurai
Japan
11
Spring,
Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring
Korea
12
Gol
and Gincu
Malaysia
13
The
Year of Living Dangerously
Indonesia
14
Beyond
Rangoon
Burma/Myanmar
Please note: (1) The tests
should be taken on the assigned date and there are no make up tests without a
doctor's note. (2) Attendance is mandatory for this class. You risk failing
the class if you miss more than four classes. If you need to be absent from class
for medical or family emergency reasons, you are required to provide proper documentation
(doctor's note or supervisor/parent letter) to the instructor before or after
class. An advanced notice is always appreciated even under such circumstances.
It is also important for you to come to class on time and stay until the end of
each session unless you have notified me beforehand about your intention to leave
class early on a particular day. I encourage regular and active participation
in the class. There will be a variety of venues for your to participate, including
commenting on the readings, and raising questions in class. You do not need to
have profound things to say every time you raise your hand. A simple question
or a short comment from you may just be right to set a conversation going. Try
to form the habit of speaking up early in the semester. Please be attentive and
respectful to your classmates when they speak. A portion of your final grade will
be based on your attendance record and my assessment of your participation effort
in class through the weekly reading quizzes. (3) The videos shown in class
should be watched carefully as there will be questions from them on the tests.
Same goes for speakers/invited guests. (4) There will be no midterm or final
exam so each test is of equal importance. (5) Missing a combination of 4 Reading
and/or Movie Quizzes results in an automatic D in the class (6) Missing a combination
of 5 Reading and/or Movie Quizzes results in an automatic F in the class
Aug. 28 - 30: Asia as a Cultured Space
Sept. 4 - 6: Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism in China
Sept 11 - 13: Buddhist China
Sept. 18 - 20: India [QUIZ 1]
Sept. 25 - 27: Mongolia
Oct. 2 - 4: Tibet
Oct. 9 - 11: Japan
Oct. 16 - 18: Korea [QUIZ 2]
Oct. 23 - 25: Philippines
Oct. 30 - Nov. 1: Indonesia
Nov. 6 - 8: Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei
Nov. 13 - 15: ASEAN as well as the 1997 Asian Financial
Crisis [QUIZ 3]
Nov. 20 - 22: Vietnam and Cambodia
Nov. 27 - 29: Burma and Thailand
Dec. 4 - 6: Laos [QUIZ 4]
CLASS
SCHEDULE & LECTURE OUTLINES
Week
1 - Aug. 28 - 30: Asia as a Cultured Space Asia
as a Cultured Space
*by
the end of the week, make sure the requirements are clear. Aug. 28 - Asia
as a Cultured Space Heinz: Chapter 1 (3-9) Aug. 30 - Introduction
to Southeast Asia Heidhues: Introduction (7-15) Reading
Quiz 1: Please have read Course Pack 29 to 48 and see sample questions in 31,
39-40, 48 for quiz.
Week
2 - Sept. 4 - 6: Confucianism, Daoism, and
Legalism in China Confucianism,
Daoism, and Legalism
Sept. 4 - Confucianism An
Introduction to Confucianism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucianism Nelson - The Analects (50-56) Movie
Quiz 1: To Live Sept. 6 - Taoism An Introduction to Taoism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoism Nelson
- Tao Te Ching (58-66) Reading Quiz 2: Please have read
Course Pack 20-22 & 67-76 and see sample questions in 22 & 71 for quiz.
Documentary
Full
Length Feature
The
Pacific Century: Big Business And The Ghost Of Confucius (21822) 1992 VH -
TV7050V VTC 2498 - Eastern Philosophy: Part 1 (Confucius and Mencius) VTC
456 - Time Life's Lost Civilizations: China VTC 226 - Paradise of Adventure
(Tape 1) VTC 226 - Change in Heaven (Tape 2) VTC 226 - Roads to Freedom
(Tape 3) VTC 2785 - People's Century: Great Leap Cassette - China Through
The Ages Tape 1 (Lecturer's Collection) Cassette - China Through The Ages Tape
2 (Lecturer's Collection) Cassette - China Through The Ages Tape 3 (Lecturer's
Collection) Cassette - China Through The Ages Tape 4 (Lecturer's Collection)
DVD
1756 - Chinese Box DVD 1754 - The Soong Sisters VTC 1754 - King of Masks
Twin Warrior (Lecturer's Collection) Once Upon a Time in China (Lecturer's
Collection) Shanghai Triad (Lecturer's Collection) A World Without Thieves
(Lecturer's Collection) 20, 30, 40 (Lecturer's Collection)
Week
3 - Sept 11 - 13: Buddhist China Buddhism
Sept.
11 - India (Hinduism and Buddhism) Lowenstein (8-33) Nelson-Sermon
at the Deer Park Movie
Quiz 2: Ashoka
Sept.
18 - Hinduism Reading Quiz 4: Please have read Course
Pack 77-80 and see sample questions in 80 for quiz.
Documentary
VTC 2292 - Religions of the World: Hinduism
Full
Length Feature
VTC 400 - Gandhi DVD 1800 - The Making of the Mahatma DVD 1689 - Asoka
DVD 584 - Lagaan DVD 1510 - Bombay
Sept.
20 - Quiz 1
Quiz
1 - China and India (Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism) Sept. 20,
2006 Exam Review Questions - All Answers Found in PowerPoints
Week
5 - Sept. 25 - 27: Mongolia Mongolia
Sept.
25 - The Mongol Century (Part 1) The Mongol Century (1-6) http://www.geocities.com/mllora3/mongolia.htm Movie Quiz 3: Eat, Drink, Man, Woman Sept.
27 - The Mongol Century (Part 2) The Mongol Century (7-12) http://www.geocities.com/mllora3/mongolia.htm Reading
Quiz 5: Please have read "Introduction to the Five Principal Spiritual traditions
of Tibet" for quiz.
Documentary
Mongols: Storm From The East - Birth Of An Empire (23332) 1993 VH TV8302V
Mongols: Storm From The East - Tartar Crusaders (23334) 1993 VH TV8304V Mongols:
Storm From The East - The Last Khan Of Khans (23335) 1993 VH TV8305V Mongols:
Storm From The East - World Conquerors (23333) 1993 VH TV8303V The World -
A Television History: The Mongol Onslaught (14232) V TV3386V
Full
Length Feature
DVD 1572 - The Story of the Weeping Camel VTC 2603 - Urga (Close to Eden)
Guest
Speaker: Thubten Tashi Tashi
was a student of Institute of Buddhist Dialectics, Dharamsala, India from March
1991 to 1998 for the period of 7 years during which he studied following texts
and their commentaries: Year One: 1.The Collected Topics (sdus-grva) 2. The
study of mind (blorig) 3. The study of Logical Reasoning (rTagsrigs) 4. The System
of tenets (Grub mtha) Year Two to Seven: I studied the following principle
commentaries based on the fundamental root text of Abhisamaya-Alankara by Lord
Maitreya: 1. Acharya Haribhadra's Clear Commentaries ( Sphutartha) 2. Gyaltsab
Je's Quintessential Ornament of Correct Explanation (rnamshae Thar Lam gSal Byed) 3.
Panchen Sonam Drakpa's General Explanation of the Meaning of Prajna Paramita (Phar
Chin sPhi Don) and Decisive Argumentation of Prajnaparamite (Pharchen mtha dPyod)
As a supplement to the above text, he also studied the great Master Tsongkhapa's
Golden Rosary of Fine Explanation (Legs bShad gSer Phreng), and many other related
sub-commentaries. Having succesfully completed this seven-year course, he received
the Master's Degree in Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Buddhist Philosophy
in 1998
Documentary
VTC 456 - Tibet: The End of Time VTC 3017 - Requiem for a Faith DVD 438
- Robert A.F. Thurman on Buddhism
Full
Length Feature
VTC 1443 - Kundun DVD 1775 - Lost Horizon Phorpa [The Cup] (Lecturer's
Collection) Tibet - Cry of the Snow Lion (Lecturer's Collection)
DVD 1457 - Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire VTC 2498 - Eastern Philosophy:
Part 1 (Shinto) 30 min in. VTC 1932 - No VTC 1816 - Bunraku VTC 1933
- Gagaku
VTC
1968 - The Tale of Genji VTC 2722 - Black Rain VTC 2592 - Sisters of Gion
VTC 2459 - Akira Akira (Lecturer's Collection) VTC 2068 - Madame Butterfly
DVD 422 - Princess Mononoke DVD 713 - The Last Samurai DVD 554 - Throne
of Blood DVD 462 - The 47 Ronin DVD 413 - Wandafuru raifu DVD 82 -
Ran DVD 854 - Seven Samurai DVD 440 - Grave of the Fireflies
The
8th Annual San Diego Asian Film Festival will be October 11-18, 2007 Mark
Your Calendars!
Week
8 - Oct. 16 - 18: Korea [QUIZ
2] Korea
Oct.
16 - Modern History Handbook of Korea (91-115) Handbook of Korea
(424-443) Reading Quiz 8: Please have read Inheriting
the "Moro Problem": Muslim Authority and Colonial Rule in British Malaya
and the Philippines in The American Colonial State in the Philippines (118-147)
for quiz.
Documentary
VTC 279 - Korea: The Land of Harmony VTC 1700 - Pulguksa, Sokkurum VTC
2111 - The Clothes of Nature VTC 280 - Korea's Culture
Full
Length Feature
DVD 1653 - Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring DVD 1760 - Joint Security
Area Untold Scandal (Lecturer's Collection)
Quiz
2 - Central and East
Asia: Mongolia, Tibet, Japan, Korea October
18, 2006 Exam
Review Questions - All Answers Found in PowerPoints
Week
9 - Oct. 23 - 25: Philippines Philippines
The
juxtaposition of Christianity and Islam in Southeast Asia Oct. 23 - Christian
Philippines Islam and Christianity: Heidhues - 77-84
Movie Quiz 4: Dekada '70 Oct. 25 - Muslim
Philippines Muslim Separatism
and the Bangsamoro Rebellion in Muslim Rulers and Rebels (138-169) SOUTHERN
PHILIPPINES BACKGROUNDER:TERRORISM AND THE PEACE PROCESS PHILIPPINES
TERRORISM: THE ROLE OF MILITANT ISLAMIC CONVERTS Reading
Quiz 9: Please have read Becoming Indonesia 1900-1959 (296-311) for quiz.
Documentary
Views
Of Asia: The Philippines - The Furthest Cross (22948) 1979 VH - TV7935V
Full
Length Feature
DVD 652 - Dekada '70 Jose Rizal (Lecturer's Collection)
Week
10 - Oct. 30 - Nov. 1: Indonesia Indonesia
Oct.
30 - Indonesia Becoming Indonesia, 1900-1959 in Modern Southeast Asia (296-311) Reading
Quiz 10: Please have read Singapore and Brunei in Modern Southeast Asia (422-430)
for quiz.
Documentary
Views Of Asia: Indonesia (14130) VH - TV659V
Full
Length Feature
DVD 1125 - The Year of Living Dangerously
Week
11 - Nov. 6 - 8: Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei Malaysia_Singapore_Brunei
Views
Of Asia: Malaysia (22968) 1976 VH - TV7937V Views Of Asia: Hong Kong/Singapore
- Fragrant Harbour, Lion City (22969) 19766 VH - TV7938V
Full
Length Feature
N/A
Week
12 - Nov. 13 - 15: ASEAN as
well as the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis [QUIZ 3] ASEAN Asian
Financial Crisis of 1997
Nov. 13 - ASEAN
as well as the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis Reading
Quiz 12: Please have read Southeast Asia: The Big Picture Heidhues - 68-75, Vietnam,
1700-1885: Disunity, Unity, and French Conquest in Modern Southeast Asia (106-116)
and Cambodia, 1796-1885:Politics in a Tributary Kingdom in Modern Southeast Asia
(117-122) for quiz. Nov. 15 - Quiz 3
Quiz
3 - Maritime Southeast Asia - Philippines/Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Darussalam/Indonesia ASEAN
as well as the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 Nov.
15, 2006 Exam
Review Questions - All Answers Found in this Reviewer
Nov.
20 - Vietnam Vietnam, 1700-1885: Disunity, Unity, and French Conquest
in Modern Southeast Asia (106-116) Movie Quiz 5: The Scent
of Green Papaya Nov. 22 - Cambodia Cambodia, 1796-1885:Politics
in a Tributary Kingdom in Modern Southeast Asia (117-122) Reading
Quiz 13: Please have read Myanmar Becomes British Burma in Modern Southeast Asia
(83-92) and Siam: From Ayutthaya to Bangkok in Modern Southeast Asia (93-105)
for quiz.
Documentary
VTC 2391 - Raise the Bamboo Curtain (Vietnam) 49 min in. DVD 1450 - My Hanoi
Full
Length Feature
DVD 212 - Vertical Ray of the Sun DVD 1954 - Cyclo LD 11 - Indochine The
Scent of Green Papaya (Lecturer's Collection)
Documentary
Lost Civilizations - In the Shadow of Angkor Wat (Lecturer's Collection) VTC
2391 - Raise the Bamboo Curtain (Cambodia) 29 min in.
Dec.
4 - Laos Laos to 1975 in Modern Southeast Asia (371-375) Dec.
6 - Quiz 4
Quiz
4 - Mainland
Southeast Asia - Vietnam/Cambodia/Burma/Thailand/Laos December
6 , 2006 Exam
Review Questions - All Answers Found in PowerPoints
Finals
Week - December 8 - 15
In
partnership with
San
Diego Asian Film Festival Addendum...
Friday
October 12 Meet Director Justin Lin @ SDSU... Come
meet in person film director Justin Lin (FF3: Tokyo Drift, Annapolis, Better Luck
Tomorrow) and actors Sung Kang (FF3:Tokyo Drift) and Roger Fan (Annapolis, Better
Luck Tomorrow). They're coming to
SDSU to talk about their latest feature together called FINISHING THE GAME, a
mockumentary based on the real life death of Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee's shocking
death left legions of stunned fans and a legacy of 12 minutes from his unfinished
Game Of Death. Undeterred, studio executives launched a search for his replacement
chronicled here through the eyes of five aspiring thespians who find out what
the real game is. Plan on a block of time between 12:00 and 3:00 p.m. Exact
time and place to follow.
AS101
Owl
and the Sparrow: In modern-day Saigon, three
lonely strangers form a unique family as a ten-year old orphan plays matchmaker
to a zookeeper and a beautiful flight attendant. [Approved for AS101]
The
Great Happines Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief: Welcome
to The Great Happiness Space: Rakkyo Café. The club's owner, Issei (22),
has a staff of twenty boys all under his training to become the top escorts of
Osaka's underground love scene. During their training, they learn how to dress,
how to talk, how to walk, and most importantly, how to fake relationships with
the girls who become their source of income. Join us as Osaka's number one host
boy takes us on a journey through the complex and heartrenching world of love
for sale in the Japanese underground. [Approved for AS101]
5
Centimeters Per Second Realistic anime about the
distance between people, time, and love. [Approved for AS101]
Shanghai
Kiss: A struggling Chinese-American actor, who
unwittingly finds himself involved with a high school girl, learns he has inherited
his grandmother's home in Shanghai. The American-raised character moves to China
in an attempt to connect with his ancestry, leaving behind quite possibly the
only girl who has ever loved him. [Approved for AS101]
Nanking:
"Nanking" tells the story of the rape
of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Japanese
army murdered over 200,000 and raped tens of thousands of Chinese. In the midst
of the horror, a small group of Western expatriates banded together to save 250,000
-- an act of extraordinary heroism. Bringiing an event little-known outside of
Asia to a global audience, "Nanking" shows the tremendous impact individuals
can make on the course of history. It is a gripping account of light in the darkest
of times. [Approved for AS101]
New
Year Baby: Born on Cambodian New Year in a Thai
refugee camp, Socheata never knew how she got there. After her birth, the family
left the past behind and became American. Her parents hid the story of surviving
the Khmer Rouge genocide. In NEW YEAR BABY, she journeys to Cambodia and discovers
the truth about her family. She uncovers their painful secrets kept in shame which
also reveal great heroism. [Approved for AS101]
Know
Justice Know Peace: A
collection of short films about the universal search for truth and justice. From
the dramatic story of a young couple who hired an illegal immigrant and the civil
rights movement sparked by children of Japanese WWII internee to the cry for justice
of an Iraqi rapper. [Approved for AS101]
Bridging
the Gap: A collection
of compelling short films about family and the ties that bind us. From a hilarious
potluck dinner with a quirky filipino family to a father re-connecting to a son
who left home to pursue filmmaking to the emotional journey of an American to
see his dying father in India, this program is powerful as it is diverse. [Approved
for AS101]
DVD 713 - The Last Samurai ... and Shinto and Buddhism in Japan
Know
Justice Know Peace: 