SemesterFall Semester, 2020
DepartmentInternational Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, First Year International Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Second Year
Course NameJapanese Colonization in Asia and its Development
InstructorLAN SHI-CHI
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule

Week 1: Course Overview; Review of Syllabus; Population and Geography; history of Japan before mid-19th century



 



Week 2: Internal Unrest, External Forces, and Meiji Restoration



Reading: Ramon H. Myers and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese Colonial Empire1895-1945. Princeton University Press, 1984: Part 1



Reading: Alexander Bukh, Japan’s National Identity and Foreign Policy: Russia as Japan’s ‘Other’. Routledge, London and New York, 2009



 



Week 3: 1st Attempt of (Southward) Expansion: Ryukyu and Taiwan, 1870s



Reading: Ramon H. Myers and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese Colonial Empire1895-1945. Princeton University Press, 1984: Part 2



Week 4: Japanese Colonization of Taiwan



Reading: Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945. Princeton University Press, 1996: Part 1



Week 5: Japan and Korea



Reading: Jun Uchida, Brokers of EmpireJapanese Settler Colonialism in Korea1876-1945. (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2011)



Reading: Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson, eds., Colonial Modernity in Korea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 1999



Reading: Alexis Dudden, Japan's Colonization of KoreaDiscourse and Power. University of Hawaii Press, 2005



 



Week 6: Japan and WWI



Reading: Frederick Dickenson, War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919 (Harvard University Press, 1999)



 



Week 7: Japan and China



Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese Informal Empire in China1895-1937. Princeton University Press, 1989



Reading: Reading: Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945. Princeton University Press, 1996: Part 2



 



Week 8: Japan and Manchuria/Manchukuo



Reading: Louise Young, Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998



Reading: Owen Lattimore, “Chinese Colonization in Manchuria,” Geographical Review, Vol. 22, no. 2, (April 1932), 177-195.



 



Week 9: Mid-term review; Final Project proposal due



 



 



Week 10: Japan and Southeast Asia: colonizer VS. colonizer



Reading: Ken'ichi Goto, Tensions of EmpireJapan and Southeast Asia in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003



Reading: Takashi Shiraishi and Saya S. Shiraishi, eds., The Japanese in Colonial Southeast Asia. Cornell University Press, 1993



 



Week 11: Japan and Southeast Asia: colonizer VS. colonized



Reading: Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945. Princeton University Press, 1996: Part 3



Reading: Satoshi Nakano, Japan's Colonial Moment in Southeast Asia 1942–1945: The Occupiers’ Experience. New York: Routledge, 2018



Week 12: Trans-Pacific Colonization



Reading: Eiichiro Azuma, In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2019



Reading: Sidney Xu Lu, The Making of Japanese Settler ColonialismMalthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration1868-1961. Cambridge University Press, 2020.



 



Week 13: Colonization and Culture



Reading: Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler, eds., Tensions of Empire: Colonial Culture in a Bourgeois World. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997



Reading: Nicholas B. Dirks, ed., Colonialism and Culture. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1992



 



Week 14: Colonial Legacy in Taiwan



Reading: Liao Ping-hui and David Der-wei Wang, eds., Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule18951945: HistoryCultureMemory. Columbia University Press, 2006



Reading: Amae, Yoshihisa, “Pro-colonial or Postcolonial?” (2011)



 



Week 15: Colonial Legacy in Korea



Reading: Ramon H. Myers and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese Colonial Empire1895-1945. Princeton University Press, 1984: Part 5



Reading: George Akita and Brandon Palmer, Japanese Colonial Legacy in Korea 1910–1945: A New Perspective, by. Portland, Maine: Merwin Asia, 2015



 



Week 16: Colonial Legacy and Legacy of the Second World War in Southeast Asia



Reading: Reading: Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie, eds., The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945. Princeton University Press, 1996: Part 4



 



Week 17 and 18: Presentation of Research Project



 



 


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant
Requirement/Grading

  1. This course will consist of lectures, discussion, and students’ presentation; active participation in class is expected. Students are expected to finish all required readings before class. Participation will be taken into consideration in determining students’ term grades.

  2. Each student needs to submit: 2 “Exploratory papers” on chosen topic between Week 3 and 16; 1 “Research Project” (5000 words minimum) on Week 18

  3. The term grade: Exploratory paper 25% X 2 = 50%, and Research Project (including Presentation) 50%


Textbook & Reference
Urls about Course
Attachment

IMAS_2020_Japanese Colonization__Syllabus_202009 UPDATED.pdf