Geography 153
Geography of Social and Economic Development in East Asia
Spring 2004



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Instructor: You-tien Hsing
email: yhsing@berkeley.edu
office phone: 642-2077
office: 545 McCone Hall
office hours: T,Th 3:30-4:30		 Class Location: 145 McCone
Class Time: TuTh 2-3:30

Course control number: 36526
Units: 3
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Three hours of lecture per week. This course focuses on the political economy of development in East and Southeast Asia. Topics include the colonial legacy in Southeast Asia, the transition of the developmental state, woman workers in the global economy, the politics of deforestation, the politics of urbanization, and Asian identities. This is a lecture course designed mainly for upper level undergraduate students with preliminary background in East Asian studies or/and development studies.

Course Requirements:

1. Participants are expected to attend the classes and read required readings. There will be a reader prepared for you. Study guides will be provided for all required readings.
2. Take home mid-term and final exams based on course readings, lectures, and documentaries shown in class.

Required Text:
Grades will be determined as follows:
Final Exam 60%
Midterm Exam 40%
CLASS SCHEDULE:
Week 1 Tuesday, 1/20 Introduction
Thursday, 1/22 Film: The Pacific Century (1992, 52 min.) Media Center C2505
Required Reading for weeks 2&3:
Susan Morgan, 1996, Place Matters,
Reading #1 Chapter 2, Port of Entry: Colonial Singapore
Reading #2 Chapter 3, The Holy Land of Victorian Science
Reading #3 Chapter 4, Botany and Marianne North
Reading #4 Chapter 5, The Company as the Country
Week 2 Tuesday, 1/27 Film: Kings and Coolies (Dutch Colonialism in Indonesia) (1992, 52 min.) Media Center C4590
Thursday, 1/29 Lecture: Colonialism in East Asia
Week 3 Tuesday, 2/3 Film: Sentimental Imperialists (1992, 60 min.) Media Center C2504
Thursday, 2/5 Lecture: Colonial legacy in East Asia
Required Reading for week 4:
Reading # 5 Baehr, Peter, 1997, Problems of aid conditionality: the Netherlands and Indonesia, Third World Development 18(2):363-376.
Week 4 Tuesday, 2/10 Film: Viva Timor
Thursday, 2/12 Review of class materials (I)
Required Reading for week 5:
Reading #6 Castells, Manuel, 1992, Four Tigers with a dragon head: A comparative analysis of the state, economy, and society in the Asian Pacific Rim, in Henderson, Jeffrey and Richard Appelbaum eds., States and Development in the Asian Pacific Rim.

Reading #7 Kuo. Eddie. 1996, Confucianism as political discourse in Singapore, in Tu Wei-ming eds., Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity. Harvard University Press.
Week 5 Tuesday, 2/17 Film: Ghost of Confucius (1992, 60 min.) C2502
Thursday, 2/19 Lecture: The East Asian Developmental State
Required Reading for week 6:
Reading #8
McKendrick, David et al., 2000, From Silicon Valley to Singapore: Location and Competitive Advantage in the Disk Drive Industry. Chapters 5&6.
Week 6 Tuesday, 2/24 Film: The Fight for Democracy (South Korea) (1992, 60 min.) Media Centre C2503
Thursday, 2/26 Lecture: Microelectronics Industry and Technology Exchange across the Pacific
Week 7 Tuesday, 3/2 Lecture: Women service workers
Thursday, 3/4 No Class
Required Reading for week 8:
Reading #9 Chin, Christine, 1998, In Service and Servitude: Foreign Female Domestic Workers and the Malaysian “Modernity” Project. NY: Columbia University Press. Chapters 4&5.

Reading #10 Law, Lisa, Dancing on the bar: sex, money and the uneasy politics of third space, in Steve Pile and Michael Keith eds., Geographies of Resistance. NY: Routledge
Week 8 Tuesday, 3/9 Film: Behind the Smile (Thai woman workers) (1993, 46 min.) C8310
Thursday, 3/11 Review of class materials (II)
Week 9 Tuesday, 3/16 Take home Mid-term Exam
Thursday, 3/18 No Class
Mid-term exam due on March 19 (Friday) at 4:00 PM.
Week 10 Spring Break
Required Reading for week 11:
Reading #11 Wade, Robert, 1998, The Asian debt-development crisis of 1997-? Causes and consequences, World Development 26(8):1535-1553.

Reading #12 Searle, Peter, 2000, Coping with corruption and cronyism, in Segal, Gerald and David Goodman eds., Towards Recovery in Pacific Asia. NY: Routledge.

“Who sank, or swam, in choppy currents of a world cash ocean,” and three other articles by N. Kristof, E. Wyatt, D. Sanger, and S. WuDunn, The New York Times, Feb. 15,16,17,18, 1999. (background reading, included in the reader)
Week 11 Tuesday, 3/30 Films: Asian value Devalued (1998, 39 min.)
IMF and financial crises (1999, 36 min.) 		C7288 and C7289
Thursday, 4/1 Lecture: Globalization and Asian Financial Crisis
Required reading for week 12:
Reading # 13 Peluso, Nancy Lee and Peter Vandergeest, 2001, Genealogies of the political forest and customary rights in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, The Journal of Asian Studies, 60 (3):761-812.
Week 12 Tuesday, 4/6 Guest lecturer on Environment
Thursday, 4/8 Lecture: Growth and Environment (1): Political economy of deforestation
Week 13 Tuesday, 4/13 Lecture: Growth and Environment (2): Politics of Resistance
Thursday, 4/15 Review of Class materials (III)
Week 14 Tuesday, 4/20 Lecture: Urbanization and urban politics in China (1)
Thursday, 4/22 Lecture: Urbanization and urban politics in China (2)
Required Reading for weeek 15:
Reading #14 Eng, Phoebe, 1999, Warrior Lessons: An Asian American Woman’s Journey into Power. Introduction and Chapters 4 (She questions her power), 5 (She takes back desire)& 12.

Reading # 15 Cheng, Lucie and Philip Yang, 1996, Asians: The “Model Minority” deconstructed, in Waldinger, Roger and Mehdi Bozorgmehr eds., Ethnic Los Angeles. NY: Russell Sage.
Week 15 Tuesday, 4/27 Film: Slaying the Dragon (Asian Women in American Mass Media) (1988, 58 min.)
Thursday, 4/29 Film: American Sons (about Asian American men) (1995, 41 min.)
AND Review of class materials (IV)		 Media Center C4391
Week 16 Tuesday, 5/4 Take home Final Exam. Due on May 11 (Tuesday) at 4:00 PM.
Take home Final Exam Due on May 11 (Tuesday) at 4:00 PM.

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