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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: 575 McCone Class Time: M 12:30-3:30 Course control number: 36549 Units: 4 |
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This seminar is designed for upper level undergraduate students who are interested in development issues in China, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. The seminar will provide the basic training in conducting independent research projects. We will invite several authors of the books that we read to discuss their experience in conducting and writing about research. Although it is focused on China, East Asia and Southeast Asia, we welcome those who are interested in other parts of the world, and would like to compare them with East Asia. |
1. Read the required readings.
2. Actively participate in class discussion.
3. Prepare questions (one page) for each class meeting of “book and the author” or “book without the author.”
4. Class presentation during the final weeks of the semester. The instructor will hold individual meetings with the students to help them prepare for the presentations.
5. A term paper based on the presentation, (10-12 pages, 1.5 space, Size 12 font) due on May 14th.
| Week 1 | January 19 | MLK Day | |
| Week 2 | January 26 | Introduction | |
| Week 3 | February 2 | Doing research and writing about research |
Please note: This class meeting will start at 1:30 PM. You are expected to attend a research lecture from 12 to 1:30pm, at #119 Moses Hall, by Professor Stanley Lubman, UC Berkeley Law School, on “Law Reform, Rights, and Legal Culture in China.” We will start our class with the discussion of this lecture by Lubman after we return to our classroom. |
| Week 4 | February 9 | Book and the author: | You-tien Hsing, 1998, Making Capitalism in China: The Taiwan Connection, Oxford University Press. |
| Week 5 | February 16 | President’s Day | |
| Week 6 | February 23 | Book without the author | Chin, Christine, 1998, In Service and Servitude: Foreign Female Domestic Workers and the Malaysian “Modernity” Project. NY: Columbia University Press. |
| Week 7 | March 1 | Book and the author: | Amita Baviskar Associate professor of sociology at the University of Delhi, India. In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley (Oxford University Press 1995) |
| Week 8 | March 8 | Individual meetings with YTH | |
| Week 9 | March 15 | Book without the author (Author may come to the class in April): | Lee, Ching Kwan, 1998, Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women. Berkeley: University of California Press. |
| Week 10 | March 22 | Spring Break | |
| Week 11 | March 29 | Book and the author: | Terry Woronov, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley Constructing China's Future: Quality Children and National Development |
| Week 12 | April 9 (FRIDAY) | Book and the author: | Zhang Li, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, UC Davis. Stranger in the City: Reconfiguring of Space, Power, and Social Networks with China’s Floating Population |
| Please note that this week’s meeting is scheduled on Friday because of the speaker can not make the regular Monday afternoon meeting. | |||
| Week 13 | April 12 | Individual meetings with YTH | |
| Week 14 | April 19 | Student presentation | |
| Week 15 | April 26 | Student presentation | |
| Week 16 | May 3 | Student presentation | |