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Introduction

No readings

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A constructivist approach: images as stereotypes

Pickering, Michael. 2001. Stereotyping: The Politics of Representation. New York: Palgrave. (Chapter 1,2)

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Orientalism

Said, Edward W. 1978. Orientalism. New York: Penguin Paperbacks. (Chapter 1: I,II,III)

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Occidentalism  

Buruma, Ian and Margalit, Avishai. 2004. Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies. London: Penguin.

(Chapter 1,2,3)

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3/17

Research proposal session

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3/24

China in Western imagination

1. Pan, Chengxin (2004) ‘The "China Threat" in American self-imagination: the discursive construction of Other as power politics’, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 29(3): 305-331.


2.  Ho, P. (2003) ‘Performing the “Oriental”: professionals and the Asian model minority myth’, Journal of Asian American Studies, 6(2), 149-175.


3. Allison, Graham. "China vs. America: Managing the next clash of civilizations." Foreign Affairs 96.5 (2017): 80-89.

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The West in Chinese imagination

1. Liu, Yang, and Fred Dervin. "Racial marker, transnational capital, and the Occidental Other: White Americans’ experiences of whiteness on the Chinese mainland." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2020): 1-18.


2. Camenisch, Aldina. "Middling whiteness: The shifting positionalities of Europeans in China." Ethnicities (2022): 14687968211058014.

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4/7

Representing birth tourism: conflicting views

1. Wang, Sean (2017) “Fetal Citizens? Birthright Citizenship, Reproductive Futurism, and the Panic over Chinese Birth Tourism in Southern California”, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 35 (2), 263-280.


2. Harrington, John (2005) “Citizenship and the Biopolitics of Post-Nationalist Ireland”, Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Sep., 2005), pp. 424-449.

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Guest speaker

Women, sexualities and visuality

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4/21

Inter-racial image construction: a gender perspective (I)

1. Silvestrini, M. (2020). “It’s not something I can shake”: The effect of racial stereotypes, beauty standards, and sexual racism on interracial attraction. Sexuality & Culture, 24(1), 305-325.


2. Darling-Wolf, Fabienne (2004) “Sites of attractiveness: Japanese women and westernized representations of feminine beauty”, Critical Studies in Media Communication 21(4): 325-345.


3. Louie, K. (2014). Chinese masculinity studies in the twenty-first century: Westernizing, Easternizing and globalizing wen and wu. NORMA, 9(1), 18–29.

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Inter-racial image construction: a gender perspective (II)

1. Rao, Rahul (2014) 'The locations of homophobia.' London Review of International Law 2 (2): 169-199.


2. Al-Wazedi, U. (2020). "Postcolonial feminism." Companion to feminist studies 155-173


3. Odeh, L. A. (1993). Post-Colonial Feminism and the Veil: Thinking the Difference. Feminist Review, 43(1), 26-37.

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5/5

Branding cities, regions, and nations

Anholt, S. (2007) Competitive Identity: The New Brand Management for Nations, Cities and Regions. [Electronic resource] Houndmills, Basingtoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. (Chapter 1,2,3,4)

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Case study: UNESCO Creative Cities

1. Pratt, A. (2018). Gentrification, artists and the cultural economy. In Handbook of gentrification studies. Edward Elgar Publishing.


2. Bolognani, Marta (2012) “Good culture, bad culture……no culture! The implications of culture in urban regeneration in Bradford, UK”, Critical Social Policy 32(4): 618-635.

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5/19

Guest speaker: Using political advertising to analyse party change in Taiwan

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5/26

End of term presentation

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6/2

End of term presentation

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6/9

Write-up and submission

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6/16

Write-up and submission