國立中興大學教學大綱

課程名稱	(中) 跨文化研究理論(8009)
	(Eng.) Introduction to Transcultural Studies
開課單位	跨文化學程
課程類別	必修			學分	3	授課教師	廖卓豪
選課單位	跨文化學程 / 博士班			授課使用語言	英文	英文/EMI	Y	開課學期	1141
課程簡述	This course aims to introduce students to the study of transcultural and transnational Asia. Each week, we focus on a theme that expands on the possibilities of transculturality. We will think through spatial, geographic, and ecological examples drawn from work in Asian studies. We read across different disciplines, such as anthropology, history, and sociology to borrow insights for our critical practice. In other words, we will learn to do comparative criticism together, informed by studies and theories of transnationality and transculturality. By tracking transnational/transcultural opportunities and potentials through concepts such as place, transmission, circulations, migration, diaspora, borderlands, and the environment, we reimagine connections that are obscured by national frameworks. One part of class will be used to close-read and discuss primary texts and the other, issues raised by the secondary texts. The primary texts are cultural texts, broadly defined, which include literature, film and selected histories. The secondary texts are a mix of contextual studies and theory. Together they help to illustrate themes that are areas of active research today. Readings: We will close read the texts in class together. Attendance and participation: You are expected to attend every class and participate in class discussion. For some weeks, you are expected to lead the class by listing 2-3 questions for discussion. (20%) Presentations: Each student will take turns to present in class on a secondary text, offering a 10-minute summary of that essay’s argument and some questions it raises for our primary readings that week. The presentation must simply be a summary and a set of questions, which helps to kickstart our discussion. (20%) Midterm assignment: Short close reading of a cultural text of your choice. (25%) Final paper: Long paper on a topic relevant to the course. (35%) Note: Readings subject to change.
先修課程名稱								課程含自主學習	Y

課程與核心能力關聯配比(%)			課程目標之教學方法與評量方法
課程目標	核心能力	配比(%)	教學方法	評量方法
This course provides opportunities for students to practice thinking transculturally, through pertinent cultural and theoretical examples.			討論 習作 講授	書面報告 出席狀況 口頭報告 作業
授課內容(單元名稱與內容、習作/每週授課、考試進度-共16週加自主學習)
週次 授課內容 第1週 9/12 Introduction to class 第2週 9/19 Who and what is the transnational subject? Tash Aw, “You Need to Look Away: Visions of Contemporary Malaysia.” International Organization for Migration (IOM), “Migrant.” Glossary on Migration Khachig Tololyan, “The Nation-State and its Others: In Lieu of a Preface.” 第3週 9/26 How do we map out “Asia”? Wong Yoon Wah, ”Banir Blues” and ”My Marginal Home” Benedict Anderson, “Census, Map, Museum.” In Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism James Scott - ”Authoritarian High Modernism” 第4週 10/3 Race, nation, and diaspora Shirley Lim, ”Monsoon History” Ien Ang, “Can One Say No to Chineseness? Pushing the Limits of the Diasporic Paradigm.” In On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West 第5週 10/10 School holiday 第6週 10/17 Contact zones, colonial cities, and creolization Celina Hung Tzu-hui, “There are no Chinamen in Singapore: Creolization and Self-Fashioning of the Straits Chinese in the Colonial Contact Zone.” Shirley Lim, Among the White Moon Faces 第7週 10/24 Representation For this class, we’ll do a review of the concepts that have already been discussed. We will also discuss the concept of cultural representation briefly. 第8週 10/31 Self-directed midterm assignment In this class so far, we have explored different theories of diaspora (Tololyan, Ien Ang, Celina Hung). Pick one of the theoretical texts as a lens, in order to “read” one of the literary texts that we’ve covered (Shirley Lim, Tash Aw, Wong Yoon Wah, Wong Phui Nam). Your essay should include these elements: i) Discussion of the concept “diaspora” from the point of view of one of the theories. In other words, write your own understanding of the theory. This helps to establish a framework for a reading of the literary text. (500 words) ii) Close reading of the literary text. Discuss at least 2 key passages of the literary texts you’ve chosen. Discuss whether they agree/disagree/expand on/reinforce/supplement etc. the theory you’re writing about. (500 words) 第9週 11/7 Oceans (i) Sunil Amrith, Crossing the Bay of Bengal (pg.1-31) Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace, Chapter 1 第10週 11/14 Oceans (ii) Huang Hsinya, Toward Transpacific Ecopoetics Three Indigenous Texts Syaman Rapongan, The Eyes of the Sky 第11週 11/21 Globality Anna Tsing, Friction Allan Sekula, Fish Story A Land Imagined (2018, film) 第12週 11/28 Resource frontiers Anna Tsing, Friction Asimetris (documentary) 第13週 12/5 Supply chains and transnational capitalism Allan Sekula, Fish Story Aihwa Ong, Flexible Citizenship https://research.cornell.edu/news-features/asian-societies-and-unexpected-connections https://theaseanpost.com/article/robert-kuoks-legacy-malaysia 第14週 12/12 Transnational capitalism (ii) Aihwa Ong, Flexible Citizenship Ian Teh, Confluence 第15週 12/19 The planetary and the Anthropocene ”Haunted Landscapes of the Anthropocene” Tsing et al - Introduction - Haunted Landscapes of the Anthropocene Feral Atlas, TAKE (watch the short videos) https://feralatlas.supdigital.org/modes/take Feral Atlas, TAKE essay https://feralatlas.supdigital.org/?cd=true&rr=true&cdex=true&text=isc-take&ttype=essay Optional: Horn and Bergthaller, Introduction to The Anthropocene: Key Issues for the Humanities 第16週 2/26 Student presentations and final paper workshope/2 Final paper consultationse/9 Self-directed final assignment Building on one of the theoretical concepts of the second half of class, students will write a final paper that discusses how a visual text complements, challenges or interrogates the concept (1000-1500 words). This will also be based on your presentation in the previous week. In your paper, please ensure your address these three things: 1) A short summary or discussion of the concept in question. 2) A short discussion of the background of the visual text. 3) Your own analysis of the style and content of the visual text. 自主學習 內容
學習評量方式
Readings: We will close read the texts in class together. Attendance and participation: You are expected to attend every class and participate in class discussion. For some weeks, you are expected to lead the class by listing 2-3 questions for discussion. (20%) Presentations: Each student will take turns to present in class on a secondary text, offering a 10-minute summary of that essay’s argument and some questions it raises for our primary readings that week. The presentation must simply be a summary and a set of questions, which helps to kickstart our discussion. (20%) Midterm assignment: Short close reading of a cultural text of your choice. (25%) Final paper: Long paper on a topic relevant to the course. (35%) Note: Readings subject to change.
教科書＆參考書目(書名、作者、書局、代理商、說明)
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