History 548
Professor Hastings
Spring 2017
CONFLICT IN East Asia: TWENTIETH CENTURY
Required Texts:
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities. Verso, 1991.
Angst, Linda Isako. “Loudmouth Feminists and Unchaste Prostitutes: ‘Bad Girls’ Misbehaving in Postwar Okinawa.” U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal, No. 36 (2009): 117-141.
Hwang Sun-won. “Cranes.” Manoa 14.2 (Winter 2002):150-153.
Eggleston, Karen. "KWANGJU 1980 AND BEIJING 1989." Asian Perspective 15, no. 2 (1991): 33-73.
SCHEDULE OF LECTURES, READINGS, AND ACTIVITIES
January 10Introduction to the Course
Introduction to East Asia: Geography, Language
Edward Said and Orientalism
January 12East Asia in 1900
DISCUSSION: Anderson Chapters 1-2.
January 17Russo-Japanese War
DISCUSSION: Anderson, Chapters 3-4.
January 19World War I in East Asia
DISCUSSION: Anderson, Chapters 5-7.
January 24Chinese Revolution, China Incident, Civil War
DISCUSSION: Anderson, Chapters 8-11.
January 26Pacific War
DISCUSSION: Angst
January 31DISCUSSION: Critiquing the National Narrative
Come to class with two copies of a 2-page critique, drawing from Anderson, of the national narrative you have chosen for this course.
February 2Korean War
DISCUSSION: Hwang, “Cranes”
February 7Government vs. Students: AMPO, Kwangju, Tiananmen
DISCUSSION: Eggleston
February 9Review for the Examination, Plan for the Paper
What is your monument?
February 14HOUR EXAMINATION
February 16Individual Appointments
February 21Individual Appointments
February 23Placing an Event in the National Narrative: Sakuradamon Incident
DISCUSSION: Finding scholarly articles.
PROPOSALS DUE.
February28PRESENTATIONS: New York Times I
Hand in two paragraphs using the source for your paper.
March 2PRESENTATIONS: New York Times II
March 7PRESENTATIONS: Placing an Event in the National Narrative I
March 9PRESENTATIONS: Placing an Event in the National Narrative II
March 21Guest Lecture: “The Transition from Edo to Tokyo”
Professor Keiko Takayama, Utsunomiya University
March 23LIBRARY DAY
Meet on the first floor of HSSE
March 28PRESENTATIONS: Scholarly Materials I
What the article is arguing, how you will use it, three things to remember.
Hand in two paragraphs using the source for your paper.
March 30PRESENTATIONS: Scholarly Materials II
April 4BIBLIOGRAPHY DAY
Hand in preliminary bibliography and evaluate someone else’s.
April 6Organizational Meeting
COMPLETE DRAFTS DUE
Bring 3 copies to class.
April 11Consultations
April 13Consultations
April 18Presentations I
April 20Presentations II
April 25Presentations III
April 27Presentations IV
FINAL DRAFTS DUE
BE SURE TO HAND IN YOUR DRAFT WITH YOUR FINAL VERSION.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE COURSE
1. EXAMINATION. There will be one essay examination over the readings and lectures for the first part of the course. February 14. 20% of the final grade. If because of a special university activity, serious illness, or some other personal emergency, you have to miss an examination, be sure to notify the instructor in advance at 494-4150. Number grades are assigned on the assumption that 98-100=A+, 93-97=A, 90-92=A-, 88-89=B+, 83-87=B, 80-82, B-, 78-79=C+, 73-77=C, 70-72=C-, 68-69=D+, 63-67=D, 60-62=D-.
2. ATTENDANCE and demonstrated knowledge of the reading. 15% of the final grade.
3. JOURNAL. For at least ten of the fifteen weeks of the course, students should submit at least 100 words reflecting on the materials for the course and or progress on their papers. 10% of final grade.
4. PROPOSAL: Write a three-page preliminary paper proposal, in which you identify a violent event and suggest a thesis about how it fits into a national narrative (or more than one), using insights derived from Benedict Anderson. Outline what sources you think are available. Due February 23. 15% of the final grade.
5. Complete First Draft, 15% of final grade. Due April 6.
6. PAPER. Benedict Anderson concludes the revised edition of Imagined Communities with the observation that, “[T]he nation’s biography snatches, against the going mortality rate, exemplary suicides, poignant martyrdoms, assassinations, executions, wars, and holocausts.” Select a suicide, martyrdom, assassination, or execution from twentieth century East Asia on which you can find some primary source material. Making use of the theories of Benedict Anderson and others, place your event in or against one or more national narratives. Be sure to include in your analysis of how your event relates to the national narrative at least three scholarly works. The paper should be approximately 4000 words. 25% of final grade. First draft due April 6; revised draft due April 27.
These are your papers. They must be written in your words and each must have a thesis and structure of your own. Be sure that any time you use anyone else's words, anyone else's ideas, or anyone else's information, you acknowledge your source with an exact page reference. You should give exact page references for examples that support your argument, even when you do not quote directly and even when your information comes from books that were assigned for this course. Be sure that you include complete bibliographic information for every item that you use. For books, use the following format: Author. Title. Place of publication: Publisher, Date. Please number the pages of your paper. BE SURE TO HAND IN YOUR DRAFT WITH YOUR FINAL VERSION.
7. Students are expected to adhere to the highest standards of academic integrity. The Dean of Students’ Office provides a useful guide entitled "Academic Integrity: A Guide for Students" (
9. There will be Blackboard Learn for this course. Check for announcements.
10. EMERGENCY PROCEDURE: If Purdue University is open, this course will meet. In the event of a major campus emergency, it may be necessary to make changes in course requirements, deadlines, and grading percentages; any such changes will be announced on Blackboard Learn.
Instructor: Professor Hastings,
Office: University Hall 021, 494-6783.
Office Hours: Tuesday, 4:30-5:30 p.m.; Thursday, 10:30-11:30 a.m.