Class Assignment:

Week 1: Overview of Taiwan’s modern history; ethnic groups, time and space

Gold, Thomas B. “Taiwan Society at the Fin De Siécle.” The China Quarterly 148 (1996): 1091–1114

Week 2: Aborigines: Society and Culture

Guest Lecturer: Yi-tze LEE 李宜澤，Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures, National Dong Hwa University 國立東華大學原住民民族學院族群關係與文化學系助理教授

Week 3: 17th century popular culture

Guest Lecturer: Ann Heylen, Professor, Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages, and Literature, National Taiwan Normal University

Week 4: Urban space as history 1: Da Dao Cheng and Meng Jia (Bangka)

Visiting the Dadaocheng Customers of Tai-yi-hou in Nagasaki through Time Traveling, https://archives.ith.sinica.edu.tw/collections_con_en.php?no=47

Reminisce the Century-old Stores Lin-fu-zhen Store and Qian-yuan Pharmacy on Dihua Street, https://archives.ith.sinica.edu.tw/collections_con_en.php?no=48

Week 5: Japanese Culture in Taiwan

Guest Lecturer: Amae Yoshihisa天江喜久, Associate Professor, Chang Jung Christian University

Week 6: Urban space as history 2: Pro-colonial or post-colonial? Japanese-era architecture and urban planning

Guest Lecturer: Amae Yoshihisa天江喜久, Associate Professor, Chang Jung Christian University

Week 7: The great exodus of 1949

Movie screening:「香蕉天堂」

Yang, Dominic Meng-Hsuan. The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020

Week 8: Urban space as history 3: “Inner City” and political symbols

Guest Lecturer: Shu-mei HUANG黃舒楣, Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University

東亞城市再生比較研究、後殖民文化資產保存與記憶研究

Week 9: Industrialization and Food Safety

Guest Lecturer: Wei-an Yang 楊惟安, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

Mid-term paper due

Week 10: Agricultural production (sugar, banana, pineapple) and Industrialization

Week 11: Religion

Sutton, Donald S. “Ritual Drama and Moral Order: Interpreting the Gods' Festival Troupes of Southern Taiwan.” The Journal of Asian Studies 49, no. 3 (1990): 535–54

Jordan, David K. 1972. Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors: Folk Religion in a Taiwanese Village. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press

Sangren, P. Steven. “History and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy: The Ma Tsu Cult of Taiwan.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 30, no. 4 (1988): 674–97

Katz, Paul R. “Religion and the State in Post-War Taiwan.” The China Quarterly 174 (2003): 395–412

Week 12: Gender and Family

Guest Lecturer: Hsiu-hua SHEN 沈秀華, Associate Professor, Institute of Sociology, National Tsing Hua University

“Her History in Taiwan” website, https://archives.ith.sinica.edu.tw/collections_con_en.php?no=35

Week 13: Fine Arts

“Cross-Boundary Dream Pursuers: Taiwanese Painters’ Trajectories in Foreign Countries during the Japanese Colonial Period” website,

https://archives.ith.sinica.edu.tw/collections_con_en.php?no=57

“Convergence of Nature and Culture: Seeing Tamsui through Artists’ Eyes” website,

https://archives.ith.sinica.edu.tw/collections_con_en.php?no=55

Week 14: Visit and talk at the Palace Museum

Guest Lecturer: 鄭淑方

Wang, Horng-luen. “National Culture and Its Discontents: The Politics of Heritage and Language in Taiwan, 1949–2003.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 46, no. 4 (2004): 786–815

Week 15: Performing Arts, Theatre, Music

Guest Lecturer: Chun-yen Wang汪俊彥, Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University

Movie:「跳舞時代」

Week 16: class presentation

Week 17: class presentation

Week 18: Final Paper due

Students are required to finish assigned readings before class and participate in class discussion. Active class participation is required. The final grade will consist of the followings:

Class participation: 25%; Mid-term paper: 25%; Final research paper (including class presentation): 50%