Semester | Fall Semester, 2020 | ||
Department | International Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, First Year International Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Second Year | ||
Course Name | Japanese Colonization in Asia and its Development | ||
Instructor | LAN SHI-CHI | ||
Credit | 3.0 | ||
Course Type | Elective | ||
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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 Empire, 1895-1945. 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 Empire, 1895-1945. 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 Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945. (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 Korea: Discourse 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 China, 1895-1937. 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 Empire: Japan 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 Colonialism, Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961. 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 Rule, 1895–1945: History, Culture, Memory. 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 Empire, 1895-1945. 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 AsiaReading: 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
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IMAS_2020_Japanese Colonization__Syllabus_202009 UPDATED.pdf |