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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Jackson School of International Studies JSIS 203 Autumn 2013 TTH 10:30-12:20 am

Anderson Hall, Room 223

Gary Hamilton Office: 427 Thomson Hall Office Hours: Wednesday: 2:30-3:30 and Thursday 1:30-3:00 or by appointment Email: ggh@u.washington.edu Phone: 543-5883 THE RISE OF ASIA Introduction In the past forty years, Asia has been transformed. At the beginning of the 1960s, all the countries of Asia retained the look and feel of their past. Indian cities looked Indian, Chinese cities looked Chinese. There could be no mistake about which country one was in. Although, by 1960, colonialism had ended in most (but not all) locations, the colonial layout of cities was apparent, and the colonial buildings continued to be used for government and ceremonial purposes. In the cities, as well as in the countryside, traditions in dress, food, and culture, more generally, persisted. And poverty was everywhere. In the 1970s, in slow ways, the appearance of Asia began to change. By the late 1950s Japan had already begun rapidly to recuperate from World War II. By the 1970s, Japan was truly a success story, and Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea began slowly to reshape themselves. In those early days of rapid social change, even for Japan, it would have been impossible for anyone to have imagined the changes that would occur in the next forty years. The worlds most modern cities are now in Asia. The highest skyscrapers, the largest malls, the newest and best transportation systems, the fastest rates of economic growth, and the lowest birthrates in the worldall these characterize Asia today. These changes have not been confined to a few large cities in a few selected countries. Instead, remarkably, in nearly every country along the rim of Asia from India in the South to South Korea and Japan in the northeast, these changes are widespread: in the countryside, where agriculture has modernized; in primary and secondary schools, where bilingualism is being taught; in factories, where world-leading manufacturing techniques are commonplace; and even in the home, where new designs for living and creative Asian cuisines are being developed. More than one person has told me that, by almost every measure, Asia has changed more in the last forty years than in the previous four hundred. The second half of the course will focus on these most recent decades. The Rise of Asia is a required course for students majoring in Asian Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies. The purpose of this introduction is to give students the historical, political, and sociological contexts with which they can interpret this Asian transformation. The potential scope of the course is enormous. Asia contains about twenty countries, close to fifty percent of the worlds population, and a number of the largest economies in the world. It is

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impossible, in a ten-week course, to give adequate coverage to any range of topics in even a few selected countries, and so I will not even try to do so, however briefly. What I do want to do is to give you a flavor for what is happening in Asia, a sense of how extensive and profound the changes are. But I also want to give you a feel for what is not changing, or at least not as much. Equally important are the differences in the pace and organization of these changes. There is not one uniform pattern of change, but rather every society is changing in its own way. The complexity and variability of these changes are at the core of what I want you to take away from this course, and to do that you need some analytic tools: ways to ask and to answer research questions; ways and locations to collect evidence; and ways to present your findings. This course should provide a foundation for you to build upon. Whether you major in Asian Studies or not, I encourage you to take additional courses in Asian Studies to gain deeper understandings of issues, cultures, histories, and languages of particular countries. The outline of the course is simple enough. The first three weeks of the course will concentrate on the historical context, and in particular on different perspectives to analyze change over time and on different kinds of historical narratives, some more historical and some more sociological and political. This part of the course aims to get you thinking about different ways to explain the same (or nearly the same) set of historical events and conditions. After this introduction, the bulk of the course will emphasize the post World War II era. This period, from 1945 until the present, will be divided into three parts: The first part will be about the immediate post wars years, from 1945 to 1970, during which time fixed boundaries and new states were established all across Asia. The second part, covering roughly from 1970 to the present, will be the rise of Asian capitalism in the midst of a changing world order. The third and final part of the course will be an examination of Asian society today and an assessment of what has not changed as much. Format The course format consists of two, two-hour lecture classes and one, one-hour discussion section per week. Lectures are scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday, 10:30-12:20, but I will not be talking the entire time. I will make time in the lecture period for debate about the readings. The teaching assistants will guide the discussion sections. You are required to attend both the lecture and the discussion sections. The TAs for the course are K. Mehmet Kentel ( kentel@uw.edu) and Nathan Stackpoole (nstack@uw.edu). TA office hour locations and times will be announced as they are arranged. Students may not change section assignments without my permission, and may not under any circumstances transfer into a full section. Course Requirements and Grading The most basic assignment of this course is that you come prepared for and attend assigned lectures and sections. Coming prepared means that you have done assigned work in time for discussion section. There will be a midterm and a final, both of which will consist of short answers and essay questions. The final will be given at the assigned time, Monday, December 9, 2013, 10:30-12:20 in our regular classroom, Anderson 223. In addition, I will assign two worksheets. The first worksheet will cover material leading up to the mid-term and the second worksheet segments will cover material leading up to the final. Each worksheet will typically be six double-spaced pages in length. Detailed descriptions of the worksheet assignments will be passed out in due course.

I should note that I have developed the worksheet as a basic component of teaching. In this course, worksheets focus on topics that I most want you to understand. These topics will also appear on the midterm and final. In this sense, the worksheets should help prepare you for the tests and are not substitutes for them. To answer the worksheet questions, you will need to do additional research and careful, concise writing. Equally important, you will be able to use online resources to answer all the worksheet questions, although I also encourage you to go to the library as well. Also, some of the reading assignments can be accessed online (usually at the UW library website) or on the course website. Accordingly, in addition to the course content, one of the goals of the course is to further develop your ability to access and use web-based material. Your grade will be broken down as follows: Midterm and final (25% each), two worksheets (20% each) and class participation (10%). The class participation grade will be based on your participation in discussion sections and will be suggested by the TAs. Readings and Films You are required to read a number of books and articles for the course and to watch a number of films. The following four books are available from the bookstore. 1. ZHANG Weiwei, The China Wave. World Century, 2012. 2. CHUA Beng Huat. Structure, Audience, and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture. Hong Kong University Press, 2012. 3. James L. WATSON (ed.). Golden Arches East. Stanford University Press, 2nd edition, 2006. A number of articles are also required; these will be available to you either online or at the course website. These readings and where you can obtain them are listed in the weekly outline below. In addition, I am assigning you to watch a number of films. I will not show these films in class. You are required to see them on your own, either singly or in groups. These films are all readily available in a number of locations. You may rent them in a local video store. All the films are available in the library, and these have been placed on reserve. You may wish to open a Netflix account, which is fairly cheap, for the durations of the course. These films will be discussed in class and in discussion sections, you will write short essays about them for discussion section, and there will be questions about them on the midterm and final exams. The purpose of watching films is that this is the fastest and best single way, during a ten-week course, to obtain a subjective sense of Asia at particular times and places. However, always remember that films, like books and articles, are constructed perspectives that convey a narrative. I am asking that you understand the narrative, as well as get a sense of the time and place. Both are equally important.

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Weekly Topics and Assignments:

Week One (September 26, October 1-3): Perspectives and narratives Topics of the week: The rise of Asia as a phenomenon to be examined and explained. What is perspective? In drawing? In social science and history? Theory and method in social science are integral to social science and historical perspectives and are the tools building objective narratives. Assignments: Read Zhang, The China Wave, pp. 1-82 Suisheng ZHAO, The China Model: Can it replace the Western model of modernization? Journal of Contemporary China 19, 65 (June), 419-436. (Download from UW Library website) Watch Rashomon, directed by Akira Kurosawa. Week Two (October 8-10): Colonialism as a grand narrative of what happened to Asia in the 18th and 19th centuries Topics of the week: The empires of Asia, tributary trade routes, and the process of colonization. What is an empire? Patrimonialism. What is a colony? The first and second ages of colonization. Assignments: Read Zhang, The China Wave, pp. 83-175 Read William A. Callahan: Sino-speak: Chinese Exceptionalism and the Politics of History The Journal of Asian Studies 71, 1 (February) 2012: 33-55. (Download from UW Library website) Read George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant. (Available online in numerous locations, including http://www.george-orwell.org/Shooting_an_Elephant/0.html) Watch The Last Emperor, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Worksheet assignment distributed in class on October 10; worksheet due October 24. Week Three (October 15-17): 19th and early 20th century colonialism and capitalism. Topics of the week: The Chinese and Indian Diaspora. Why did the age of imperialism end? Assignments: John Richards, Early Modern India and World History Journal of World History, Vol. 8, No. 2 (See course website). G. Hamilton, Hong Kong and the Rise of Capitalism in Asia. (This chapter from Commerce and Capitalism in Chinese Societies is available on the course website.) Examine on-line articles or books about the British East India Company. What did the Company do in India and in China? Watch Gandhi, directed by Richard Attenborough.

Week Four (October 22-24): Country narratives: New States and new economies Topics of the week: Revolutions, wars of national independence, modernization, defeat and recovery. How to create a legitimate state? How to establish a domestic economy? Assignments: Cain, et.al., Accounting for Inequality in India: Evidence from Household Expenditures, World Development, 38, 3 (2010):282-297. (Download from UW Library website) Zhu Cuiping and Wan Guanghua, Rising Inequality in China and the Move to a Balanced Economy China and the World Economy 20, 1, 2012, pp. 83-104 (Download from UW Library website). Worksheet assignment is due in class on October 24.

Week Five (October 29-31) Narratives of the rise of capitalism in Asia Topics of the week: Free markets, global cities, and talented entrepreneurs; the developmental states and strong leaders. Assignment: Read Bruce Cummings. 1984. "The Origins and Development of the Northeast Asian Political Economy: Industrial Sectors, Product Cycles, and Political Consequences." International Organizations 38: 1-40. (Download from UW Library website) Midterm, October 29 Week Six (November 5-7) Narratives of the rise of capitalism in Asia, continued Topics of the week: The social foundations of business in Asia. Business groups, family firms, and state owned enterprises. Assignment: Read Tong Chee Kiong, Centripetal Authority, Differentiated Networks: The Social Organization of Chinese Firms in Singapore. (Available on the course website) Read G. Hamilton and N. Biggart, Market, Culture and Authority: A Comparative Analysis of Management and Organization in the Far East American Journal of Sociology 94 (Supplement): S52-S94. (Download from UW Library website) Week Seven (November 12-14) Narratives of the rise of capitalism in Asia, continued. Topics of the week: The global retail revolution, global retailing and the rise of Asian manufacturers Assignment: Read Hamilton, Petrovic, and Feenstra, Remaking the Global Economy: U.S. Retailers and Asian Manufacturers. (This chapter is available on the course website.) Read James Watson, Golden Arches East, McDonalds in East Asia, pp. 1-109.

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Watch Eat, Drink, Man, Woman, directed by Ang Lee Howard S. Becker, 1995. The Power of Inertia. Qualitative Sociology 18,3: 301-309. Available online from UW Library website, Electronic Journals.

Week Eight (November 19-21) New societies and the rise of the Asian consumer Topics of the week: Consumer societies: urban spaces, youth and new forms of consumption. Assignment: Read James Watson, Golden Arches East, McDonalds in East Asia, pp. 110-197. Read Tai-lok Lui, The Malling of Hong Kong. Pp. 23-46 in Gordon Mathews and Tai-lok Lui (eds.), Consuming Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. (This is available on the course website.) Read Chua, Structure, Audience, and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture, pp 1-50 Watch Tampopo, directed by Juzo Itami. Second worksheet will be available on November 14; worksheet due the last day of class, December 5. Week Nine (November 26) New societies and the rise of the Asian consumer, continued Topics of the week: Consumer societies: urban spaces, youth and new forms of consumption. Assignment: Read Chua, Structure, Audience, and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture, pp 51-153 Srinivas, Everyday Exotic: Transnational Space, Identity and Contemporary Foodways in Bangalore City, Food. Culture, and Society, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2007 , pp. 85-107 . (Download from UW Library website). Watch Monsoon Wedding, directed by Mira Nair Week Ten (December 3-5) Topics of the week: Continuity and change in Asia Assignment: Read Fei Xiaotong, From the Soil, pp. 60-93 Course conclusion Second Worksheet is due in class on December 5