Class Schedule (Fall 2005)
Weekly readings will be marked by where they can be found: bookstore
(see Course Book List); book reserve
(see Course Reserve List for complete
listing by week), article reserve, e-reserve, office for my office,
or online for articles available for downloading from the web. E-reserve
articles can be found on the library's Course
Page for Anth 362 E-reserves. Just type in the password and
find the article you need. Note that most of the articles and excerpts
are available in books on reserve. Note all e-reserves are available
in one hard copy in library folders. Please let me know as soon
as possible if you have any trouble obtaining the readings. Please
print out all online and e-reserve readings to read them. Bring
all readings to class.
For paper guidelines and a summary of assignment due dates, click
HERE.
Part I: Nationalisms and Rethinking Histories
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Part II: Post-Mao Cultural Politics
Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11-12
Week 13
Week 14
Part I: Nationalisms and Rethinking Histories
Week One: Locating "Tibet"
Aug. 30 Introductions and Goals of the Course.
Week One Film Assignment: 7-9pm Wed. Aug. 31,
Lost horizon, Frank Capra, 1937, Bio 19
Sept. 1 Locating "Tibet"
- Lopez, Donald. "Introduction," in Prisoners of Shangri-La:
Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1998. (11pp) (book reserve)
- Goldstein, Melvyn: "Preface" in The Snow Lion and
the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama. Berkeley: Univ.
of CA Press, 1997. (bookstore and book reserve) (4 pp)
- Bishop, Peter. "Ch. 4: The Axis Mundi Appears (mid-19th
century)" (pp. 97-135). The Myth of Shangri-La. 1989 (book
(1 copy), e-reserve.
Images: Maps of China and
Tibet
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Week 2: Imagined Communities
Week Two Film Assignment: 7 pm Sunday, Sept. 4,
Bio 19 Red
Flag Over Tibet, PBS Frontline, 1994, 56 min.
Sept. 6 Nation, Culture and Identity Theorized
- Anderson, Benedict. "Introduction" and "Cultural
Roots" in Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin
and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, 1983. (26 pp). (bookstore,
book reserve)
- Ana Maria Alonso. The Politics of Space, Time, and Substance:
State Formation, Nationalism, and Ethnicity. Annu. Rev. Anthropol.
1994 , Vol. 23: 379-405. Alonso
Online (JSTOR).
- Maalki, Lisa. "National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples
and the Territorialization of National Identity Among Scholars
and Refugees," in Gupta and Ferguson, eds. Culture, Power,
Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology. Durham: Duke University
Press, 1997. (bookstore, bookreserve)
Sept. 8 Narratives of Nation
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Week 3: Making Majorities: From Empire to Nation in China and
the Invention of Nationality
Week Three Chronology: Moments
in Chinese Narratives of History
Sept. 13 Empire and Nation in China
- Duara, Prasenjit. "Introduction," and "Linear
History and the Nation-State" in Rescuing History From the
Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1995. (50 pp.) (bookstore and book reserve)
- Hevia, James. Ch. 2 "A Multitude of Lords: The Qing Empire,
Manchu Rulership, and Interdomainal Relations," in Cherishing
Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of
1793. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. (27 pp.) (e-reserve,
article and book reserve)
- Ebrey, Patricia. "Surnames and Han Chinese Ethnicity,"
in Brown, ed. Negotiating Ethnicities in China and Taiwan. Berkeley:
Institute of East Asian Studies, 1996. (book reserve)
Images: Linear History
and Maps of China
Sept. 15 Ethnicity and Nation in the PRC
- Harrell, Stevan. "Civilizing Projects and the Reaction
to Them," in Cultural Encounters on China's Ethnic Frontiers.
Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1995. (33 pp) (bookstore and
book reserve)
- Fei Xiaotong. "Ethnic Identification in China," in
Toward a People's Anthropology, Beijing: New World Press, 1981.
(17 pp). (e-reserve
and article reserve)
- Munson, Todd. "Selling China: www.cnta.com and Cultural
Nationalism," The Journal for Multimedia History 2, 1999.
(Available on-line) http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol2no1/chinaweb.html
Film clip: "Amazing Marriage Customs",
Nanhai Film Co., 1992, ~20 min.
Images: Ethnic Minorities
in the PRC
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Week 4: Constructing a Pan-Tibetan Identity: From Empire to Nationalism
in Tibet
Week Four Chronology: Creating
Tibetan Identities
Sept. 20 Empire and State in Tibet
- Golstein, Melvyn. Ch. 1, "The Imperial Era," and Ch.
2, "Interlude: de Facto Independence," (35 pp) The Snow
Lion and the Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama.Berkeley:
Univ. of CA Press, 1997. (book reserve)
- Goldstein, Melvyn. "Preface" and "Introduction,"
A History of Modern Tibet, 1913-1951: The Demise of the Lamaist
State. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. (36 pp)
(book reserve)
- Goldstein, Siebenschuh and Tashing Tsering. The Struggle for
Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering. NY: ME Sharpe,
1997. ch 1-4 (47 pp) (bookstore, book reserve)
Images: Tibet late 19th-early
20th century
Sept. 22 The Threat of Modernity: Nationalist
efforts (Charlene at Rutgers)
- Goldstein, Siebenschuh and Tashing Tsering. The Struggle for
Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering. NY: ME Sharpe,
1997. ch 5-6 (40 pp) (bookstore, book reserve)
- Shakya, Tsering. 1993 Whither the Tsampa Eaters? Himal Sept-Oct:
8-11 (e-reserve
and article reserve)
- Schwartz, Ronald, "Conclusion: the Dimensions of Tibetan
Nationalism," and "Appendices A-C": excerpt of
Tibetan Exile Constitution, Workplans of the Regional Party, and
An Urgent Appeal, in Circle of Protest: Political Ritual in the
Tibetan Uprising. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. (29
pp). (bookstore, book reserve)
In class Film Assignment: A Stranger in My Native
Land, 1997 (33 min).
Images: Tibet early 20th
century
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Stranger/Nationalism film commentary due Mon., Sept. 26,
5 pm my office, 312 Vollum
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Week 5: Gendered Nationalisms
Week Five Film Assignment: Sunday, Sept. 25, 7
pm, Through Chinese Women's Eyes, Mayfair Yang, 1997, Bio 19, 53
mins.
Week Five Chronology: Nationalism
and Gender in China
Sept. 27 Gender, Nation and Modernity
- Nira Yuval Davis. "Ch. 1: Theorizing Gender and Nation,"
Gender and Nation, Sage: London, 1997. (bookstore and book reserve).
- Duara, Prasenjit. "The Regime of Authenticity: Timelessness,
Gender, and National History in Modern China," in History
and Theory 37(3), October 1998: 287-308. (e-reserve
and article reserve)
- Wolf, Margery. Ch. 1 "Eating Bitterness: The Past and the
Pattern," Revolution Postponed Women in Contemporary China.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985. (26 pp) (book reserve)
Sept. 29 Engendering Tibet
- Enloe, Cynthia. "Nationalism and Masculinity," in
Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International
Politics, 1989. (19 pp) (bookstore, book reserve)
- Denchen, Pema. "The Oppression and Resistance of Tibetan
Women," in The Anguish of Tibet. Berkeley: Paralax Press,
1991. (3 pp) (e-reserve
and article reserve)
- Na Zhen. Women, Marriage and the Family," in Tibet. New
York: McGraw Hill Book Co., 1981. (4 pp) (e-reserve
and article reserve)
- Ama Adhe (with Joy Blakeslee). Ch.s 1-4, Ama Adhe, the Voice
That Remembers : The Heroic Story of a Woman's Fight to Free Tibet
. Wisdom Publications, 1997. (40 pp) (book and article reserve)
(4 copies)
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Week 6: One Nation Under Mao: Erasing Difference During The Radical
Years
Week Six Film Assignment: 7-9 pm Sun, Oct. 2,
Bio 19: "XiuXiu: The Sentdown Girl", Joan Chen, Stratosphere
Films, 1998, 99 mins. **Warning: This film contains graphic sexual
violence
Week Six Chronology: The
Radical Years in the PRC
Oct. 4 The Pursuit of Gradual Assimilation: Reform
and Revolt
- Shakya, Tsering. Ch. 6 "The Revolt," ch. 9, "Reform
and Repression," skim ch. 7, "The Flight of the Dalai
Lama," and The Dragon in the Land of the Snows. NY: Columbia
University Press, 1999. (~60 pp.) (bookstore and book reserve)
- "Black Wickedness" article, 1958, translated in Tibet
and the Chinese People's Republic: a Report to the International
Commission of Jurists. Geneva: International Commission of Jurists,
1960. (4 pp) (e-reserve
and article reserve).
Oct. 6 The Homogeneous and Androgynous Ideal:
The Cultural Revolution and the Collective State
- Shakya, Tsering. Ch. 12, "The Cultural Revolution,"
The Dragon in the Land of the Snows. NY: Columbia University Press,
1999. (bookstore and book reserve)
- Evans, Harriet. "Comrade Sisters: Gendered Bodies and Spaces,"
in Evans and Donald, (Eds.), Picturing Power in the People's Republic
of China: Posters of the Cultural Revolution. Oxford: Rowan and
Littlefield, 1999. (13 pp.). (e-reserve,
article, book reserve).
- Goldstein, Siebenschuh and Tashing Tsering. The Struggle for
Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering. NY: ME Sharpe,
1997. ch 7-10 (49 pp). (bookstore, book reserve)
Handout Take-Home Midterm
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Week 7: The Eighties Reforms: Reasserting Dangerous Difference
Week Seven Film Assignment (7-9 pm Sun, Oct. 9,
Psych 105): "Dao Mazei" (The Horse Thief), Xi'an Film
Studio, 1987, 100 min.
Week Seven Chronology: "Reform
and Opening Up" in the PRC
Oct. 11 Reform and Opening Up
- Shakya, Tsering. Ch.s 13-14 The Dragon in the Land of the Snows.
NY: Columbia University Press, 1999 (80 pp). (bookstore, book
reserve)
- Hessler, Peter. "Tibet Through Chinese Eyes," in The
Atlantic Monthly, Feb. 1999. (10 pp). (e-reserve
and article reserve)
Oct. 13 Living the Reforms
- Yezhol and Li Tao. "Doilungdeqen Farmers Have New Life,"
China's Tibet. Vol. 3, no. 4, Winter 1992. (2 pp) (e-reserve
and article reserve)
- Goldstein, Siebenschuh and Tashing Tsering. The Struggle for
Modern Tibet: The Autobiography of Tashi Tsering. NY: ME Sharpe,
1997. ch. 11-13 (28 pp). (bookstore, book reserve)
- Goldstein, Melvyn and Cynthia Beall. "The Impact of China's
Reform Policy on the Nomads of Western Tibet," in Asian Survey
29(6), June 1989. (21 pp). (e-reserve
and article reserve)
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Take-Home Midterm due Friday, Oct. 14, 5 pm, my office
312 Vollum
October Break Oct. 15-23
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Part II: Post-Mao Cultural Politics
Week 8: The Cultural Politics of Development
Oct. 25 Nation, Ideology and Development
- Escobar, Arturo. Ch. 1 "Introduction: Development and the
Anthropology of Modernity," Encountering development : the
making and unmaking of the Third World. Princeton, 1995. (30 pp)
(book reserve)
- PRC State Council. White Paper: "Tibet's March Toward Modernization,"
Nov. 2001. (available on-line) http://www.china.org.cn/e-white/20011108/index.htm
- Tibetan Govt. in Exile. "Height of Darkness: Chinese Colonialism
on the World's Roof," Dec. 2001. (available on line: click
here to download) http://www.savetibet.org/documents/document.php?id=1
Oct. 27 Living Development in Tibet: Myth and
Reality
- Vigoda, Marcy. "Religious and Socio-Cultural Restraints
on Environmental Degradation among Tibetan Peoples--Myth or Reality"
Tibet Journal, vol. 14, 4, 1989. (article and e-reserve)
- Huber, Toni. "Traditional Environmental Protectionism in
Tibet Reconsidered," Tibet Journal 16(3), 1991. (10 pp) (article
and e-reserve)
- Clarke, Graham. "Socio-Economic Change and the Environment
in a Pastoral Area of Lhasa Municipality," in Clarke, ed.,
Development, Society and Environment in Tibet. Proceedings of
the 7th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies,
Graz, (1995), Wien 1998. (20 pp) (book reserve)
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Week 9: Gender and the Family in the Reform Era
Week Nine Film Assignment: (7-8 pm, Sun. Oct.
30, Bio 19): "Women of the Yellow Earth", 50 min., John
Bulmer, Cicada Films, 1995, 50 min
Nov 1 Marriage and Family
- Marriage Law of the PRC, 1959. (e-reserve
and article reserve)
- Marriage Law of the PRC, 1980 (available on-line) http://www.helplinelaw.com/law/china/marriage/mlaw.php
- Davis, Deborah and Stevan Harrel. "Introduction: The Impact
of Post-Mao Reforms on Family Life," Deborah Davis and Stevan
Harrell, Eds., Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1993. (book. article reserve)
- Tubdain. "Herders in Horqung Village," China's Tibet.
Vol. 5, no. 3, 1994. (4 pp) (e-reserve
and article reserve)
- Xu Ping. "The Dobgyai Family," China's Tibet. Vol.
3, no. 4, Winter 1992. (pp. 29-31). (e-reserve
and article reserve)
- Yangtso Kyi (Lauren Hartley, trans.). "Journal of the Grassland,"
in Song of the Snow Lion: New Writing from Tibet, Manoa 12(2),
2000.(book reserve and online) Yangtso
Kyi Online (Project Muse). Choose Volume 12, 2000, Issue 2,
2000. Then scroll down to article.
- Review: Goldstein, Melvyn and Cynthia Beall.
"The Impact of China's Reform Policy on the Nomads of Western
Tibet," in Asian Survey 29(6), June 1989. (e-reserve
and article reserve).
Nov. 3 Gender, Ethnicity and the State:"Family
Planning"
- Anagnost, Ann. "A Surfeit of Bodies: Population and the
Rationality of the State in Post-Mao China," in Ginsburg
and Rapp, (Eds.) Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics
of Reproduction. Berkeley: Univ. of CA Press, 1995. (20 pp). (book
reserve)
- Goldstein, Melvyn and Cynthia Beall. "China's Birth Control
Policy in the Tibet Autonomous Region," in Asian Survey 31(3),
March, 1991. (18 pp) (e- reserve and article reserve)
- Kerr, Blake. "Tibetans Under the Knife," in The Anguish
of Tibet, Berkeley: Paralax Press, 1991. (10 pp) (e- reserve and
article reserve)
- Tears of Silence: Tibetan Women and Population Control. Tibetan
Women's Association, May 1995. (Available on-line) http://www.tibet.com/Women/tears1.html
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Week 10: Religious Revival and Ethnic Nationalism
Week Ten Film Assignment: (7-9 pm, Sunday Nov.
6, Bio 19): The XVII Karmapa's return to Tsurphu, 1993 (110 min.)
Nov 8 Gender, Ethnicity, Religion and the State
- Gladney, Dru. "Salman Rushdie in China: Religion, Ethnicity
and State Definition in the People's Republic," Keyes, Kendall
and Hardacre, eds. Asian Visions of Authority: Religion and the
Modern States of East and Southeast Asia. Honolulu: University
of Hawaii Press, 1994. (20 pp) (book reserve)
- Schwartz, Ronald. Ch. 2, "Inventing Political Ritual,"
and Ch. 3, "The Anti-Splittist Campaign," in Circle
of Protest: Political Ritual in the Tibetan Uprising. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1994. (45 pp) (bookstore and book reserve)
- Karmay, Samten. "Mountain Cults and National Identity in
Tibet," in Barnett, ed. Resistance and Reform in Tibet. London:
Hurst and Co., 1994. (8 pp) (book reserve)
Nov. 10 Gender and religious revival: the case
of nuns
- Havnevik, Hanna. "The Role of Nuns in Contemporary Tibet,"
in Barnett, ed. Resistance and Reform in Tibet. London: Hurst
and Co., 1994. (7 pp) (book reserve)
- Makley, Charlene. "The Body of a Nun: Nunhood and Gender
in Contemporary Amdo," in Hanna Havnevik and Janet Gyatso,
Eds., Women of Tibet . (31 pp) (e-reserve
or article reserve)
- Geyang. "An Old Nun Tells her Story," in Song of the
Snow Lion: New Writing from Tibet, Manoa 12(2), 2000. (book reserve
and online) Geyang Online (Project Muse). Choose Volume 12, 2000,
Issue 2, 2000. Then scroll down to article.
Film: "Satya", Ellen Bruno, 1994,
28 min
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Paper proposal and Annotated Bibliography Due Friday Nov.
11, 5 pm, my office.
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Weeks 11-12: Work and the Rural-Urban Divide
Nov. 15 Work, Gender and the State
- Dutton. "Introduction" (on e-reserve
and article reserve), and selections Streetlife China: pp. 81-98;
115-129; pp. 214-221. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998 (~80
pp). (bookstore and book reserve)
- Honig and Hershatter, Ch. 7 "Women and Work," in Personal
Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 1988. (29 pp) (bookstore and book reserve)
Nov. 17 (Charlene in Berlin)
Nov. 22 Work, Gender and Education among Tibetans
- Fischer, Andrew Martin. "Urban Fault Lines in Shangri-La:
Population and Economic Foundations of Inter-Ethnic Conflict in
the Tibetan Areas of Western China," Crisis States Programme,
Working Papers series no. 1, London: Destin Development Studies
Institute, 2004. Fischer
Online.
- Liu Zhonglu. Women of Tibet, Beijing: China Intercontinental
Press, 1994. (23 pp) (article and e-reserve)
- Upton, Janet. "Home on the Grasslands? Tradition, Modernity,
and the Negotiation of Identity by Tibetan Intellectuals in the
PRC," in Melissa J. Brown, (Ed.), Negotiating Ethnicities
in China and Taiwan. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies,
1996. (24 pp) (book reserve)
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Thanksgiving Break: Nov. 24-27
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Week 13: Refiguring Identities: Globalization, Urbanity, and Consumption
Week Thirteen Film Assignment: (7-9 pm, Sun. Nov.
27, Bio 19): "Windhorse", Paul Wagner, 1998, 97 mins
Nov. 29 Han Disenchantment and the Commodification
of Minorities
Schein, Louisa. "Urbanity, Cosmopolitanism, Consumption,"
in Chen, et al, eds. China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary
Culture. Duke University Press, 2001. (bookstore, book reserve)
- Gladney, Dru. "Representing Nationality in China: Refiguring
Minority/Majority Identities," Journal of Asian Studies 53(1):92-123,
February 1994. (26 pp) (Online JSTOR)
- Chi Li. "The Heart More Than the Flesh" (Xin Bi Shen
Xian Lao), in Chinese Literature. Beijing: Chinese Literature
Press, 1999 (27 pp). (article and e-reserve)
Dec. 1 The Threat of Assimilation: Disenchantment
and the Negotiation of Modernity among Tibetans
- Shakya, Tsering. "The Waterfall and Fragrant Flowers: The
Development of Tibetan Literature Since 1950," in Song of
the Snow Lion: New Writing from Tibet, Manoa 12(2), 2000. (12
pp.) (book reserve and online) (Project Muse). Choose Volume 12,
2000, Issue 2, 2000. Then scroll down to article.
- Dhondup Gyal (trans. Tsering Shakya). "Waterfall of Youth"
in Song of the Snow Lion (book reserve and online) (Project Muse).
Choose Volume 12, 2000, Issue 2, 2000. Then scroll down to article.
- Lhagyal Tsering (trans. Janet Upton). "Tears of Regret
Flow Uncontrollably" in Song of the Snow Lion (book reserve
and online) (Project Muse). Choose Volume 12, 2000, Issue 2, 2000.
Then scroll down to article.
- Dpa' Dar (trans. Janet Upton). "Snow Mountain Tears"
in Song of the Snow Lion (book reserve and online) (Project Muse).
Choose Volume 12, 2000, Issue 2, 2000. Then scroll down to article.
- Selected media coverage on prostitution and/or beauty pageants
in Lhasa. (Handout)
- Makley, Charlene. "On the Edge of Respectability: Sexual
Politics in China's Tibet", positions: east asia cultures
critique, Winter, 2002. (Makley
Online) Scroll down to article and click pdf.
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Optional print ad/website analysis due Friday Dec. 2, 5
pm, my office
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Week 14: Conclusions: the Future of a Relationship
Dec. 6 Global Futures?
- Appadurai, Arjun. "Patriotism and its Futures," in
Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1996. (20 pp). (bookstore, book
reserve)
- Bob, Clifford. "Merchants of Morality," Foreign Policy
No. 129, Jan-Feb, 2002. (ereserve and article reserve).
- H.H. The Dalai Lama. Guidelines for Future Tibet's polity and
the basic features of its Constitution. (Dalai
Lama on-line)
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Final Paper Due Wednesday, Dec. 14, 5 pm my office 312
Vollum
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