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	Week 1: Introduction to Orientalism
1	Kowallis, Jon Eugene von, Da Ban (Tai-Pan) 1986 -- Summary.	1-3
2	Spence, Jonathan, 1990, "Western Perceptions of China from the Late Sixteenth Century to the Present" in Heritage of China: Contemporary Perspectives on Chinese Civillization, ed., ROPP, Paul S. (Berkeley, Los Angeles & Oxford: University of California Press) pp. 1-14	4-13
	Week 2: Overview of the Subject
3	Zhang, Longxi, 1988, "The Myth of the Other: China in the Eyes of the West" Critical Inquiry Vol. 15 Autumn. pp. 108-131.	14-26
4	Von Kowallis, JE, Lin Tse-hsu/Lin Zexu (1959) -- Summary.	27
5	Gernet, Jacques, 1996, A History of Chinese Civilization second edition, trans., Foster, J. H., and Charles Hartman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) pp. 532-657.	28-53
	Week 3: Said and His Configuration of Orientalism
6	Said, Edward William, 1979, Orientalism (New York: Vintage Books) pp. 1-49; 322-349.	54-94
7	Leys, Simon, 1986, "Orientalism and Sinology" in The Burning Forest: Essays on Chinese Culture and Politics (New York, Rinehart & Winston) pp. 95-99	95-99
8	Bernstein, Richard, 2003, "Edward W. Said, Literary Critic and Advocate for Palestinian Independence, Dies at 67", Obituaries, The New York Times. 26 September 2003. P. A23	100-102
	Week 4: Early Western Despictions of China
9	De Rachewiltz, I., 1971, Papal Envoys to the Great Khans (California: Stanford University Press) pp. 19-40.	103-116
10	Marco Polo et al., The Travels of Marco Polo (New York: The Orion Press) pp. 4-18; 109-135; 169-177; 246-255.	117-153
11	Von Kowallis, JE, The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) -- Summary. pp. 1-2.	154-155
	Week 5: China and the European Enlightenment
12	Montesquieu, Charles Louis, Lettres Persanes ("The Persian Letters") (1721); Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World (aka “The Chinese Letters") (1762) (New York & London: M. Walterdunne) pp. 1-13; 25-48; 94-109; 133-141; 282-325; 405-427.	156-224
13	Von Kowallis, JE, Da di (The Good Earth) (1937) -- Summary. pp. 1-2.	225-226
14	Smith, Arthur H., 1894, Chinese Characteristics (New York, Chicago & Toronto: Fleming H. Flevell Company) pp. 5-25; 98-124; 314-342.	227-271
	Week 6: Subaltern
15	Lu Xun, The New Year's Sacrifice in Selected Stories of Lu Hsun, trans. YANG Hsien-yi and Gladys YANG (Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972) pp. 125-143.	272-284
16	Buck, Pearl S., 1931, The Good Earth (London: Methurn & Co. Ltd.; reprint 1962) pp. v-xvi; 1-23; 330-339.	285-308
17	Lu Xun Research Monthly 2002 Vol. 6. pp. 15-18	309-313
18	Von Kowallis, JE, Zhufu (lit. Benediction; usu. trans. "The New Year Sacrifice") (1956) -- Summary. pp. 1-4.	314-317
	Week 7: The Subaltern and the West
19	Lu Xun, 1972, Preface to the First Collection of Short Stories, "Call to Arms" in Selected Stories of Lu Hsun, trans. YANG Hsien-yi and Gladys YANG (Peking: Foreign Languages Press) pp. 1-6.	318-321
20	Lu Xun, 1972, A Madman's Diary in Selected Stories of Lu Hsun, trans. YANG Hsien-yi and Gladys YANG (Peking: Foreign Languages Press) pp. 7-18.	321-326
21	Lu Xun, 1972, Kung I-Chi in Selected Stories of Lu Hsun, trans. YANG Hsien-yi and Gladys YANG (Peking: Foreign Languages Press) pp. 19-24.	326-329
22	Lu Xun, 1972, Medicine in Selected Stories of Lu Hsun, trans. YANG Hsien-yi and Gladys YANG (Peking: Foreign Languages Press) pp. 25-33.	329-333
23	Lu Xun, 1972, My Old Home in Selected Stories of Lu Hsun, trans. YANG Hsien-yi and Gladys YANG (Peking: Foreign Languages Press) pp. 54-64.	334-339
24	Lu Xun, 1972, The True Story of Ah Q in Selected Stories of Lu Hsun, trans. YANG Hsien-yi and Gladys YANG (Peking: Foreign Languages Press) pp. 65-112.	340-365
25	Liu, Lydia H., "Translating National Character: Lu Xun and Arthur Smith" in Translingual Practice (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995) pp. 45-76.	366-383
26	Von Kowallis, JE, The World of Suzie Wong (1960) -- Summary. pp. 1-3.	384-386
	Week 8: The Debate Over Literature as National Allegory
27	Jameson, Fredric, 1986, "Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism" Social Text Vol. 15 (Fall) pp. 65-88.	387-410
28	Ahmad, Aijaz, 1986, "Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the ‘National Allegory'" Social Text Vol. 15 (Fall) pp. 3-25.	411-433
29	Jameson, Fredric, 1986, "A Brief Response" Social Text Vol. 15 (Fall) pp. 26-27.	434-435
30	Von Kowallis, JE, Wutai Jiemei (Stage Sisters) (1965) -- Summary. pp. 1-2.	436-437
31	Marchetti, Gina, 1990, "Wutai Jiemei" (Two Stage Sisters) in International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers vol. 1 (2nd edition, Chicago & London: St James Press) pp. 989-990.	438-439
	Week 9: Imperialism and the Diaspora
32	Tan, Amy, 1989, The Joy Luck Club (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons) pp. 15-41; 91; 97-101; 267-288.	440-474
33	Chow, Rey, 1993, "Tactlcs of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies" in Writing Diaspora (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press) pp. 1-26.	475-493
34	Von Kowallis, JE, The Sand Pebbles (1966) -- Summary. pp. 1-2.	494-495
	Week 10: Communism and "Eternal" China
35	Barme, Geremie & John Minford, ed., 1989, "Yellow Earth: an Unweicome Guest" in Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books) pp. 251-269.	496-507
36	Zhang, Yingjin, 1993, "Screening China: Recent Studies of Chinese Cinema in English" Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars vol. 29, no. 3 (Jul-Sep) pp. 59-66.	508-517
37	Von Kowallis, JE, Huang tu di (Yellow Earth) (1984) - Summary. pp. 1-2	518-519
	Week 11: Fetishization and Obsession with the "Center"
38	Segalan, Victor, 1990, René Leys (London & New York: Quartet Books Limited) pp. 7-13; 17-37; 63-86; 150-155; 166-220.	520-550
39	Von Kowallis, JE, Modai Huangdi (The Last Emperor) (1987) -- Summary. pp. 1-4.	551-554
	Week 12: "From Emperor to Citizen": Communism's Last Emperor?
40	Segalan, Victor, 1990, René Leys (London & New York: Quartet Books Limited) pp. 150-155; 166-220.	555-585
41	Von Kowallis, JE, Huolong (Fire Dragon) (1985) -- Summary. pp. 1-2.	586-587
	Week 13: The Final Conflict or the Apocalypse?
42	Rosen, Stanley, and Gary Zou, "The Chinese Television Documentary ‘River’ Elegy‘ (Part 1)" Chinese Sociology and Anthropolgy: A Joumal of Translations vol. 24, no. 2 (Winter, 1991-92) p1-18 ("In Search of a Dream", SU Xiao-kang); p84-90 ("Azure" [Sky Blue], Xie Xunjun and Yuan Zhiming).	588-602
43	Chen, Xiaomei, 1995, Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press) pp. 3-45.	603-626
44	Barme, Geremie & John Minford, ed., 1989, Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience (Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books) pp. 30-37; 68- 69; 120-131; 163-165; 226-231; 251; 311; 438-453; 476-491.	627-665
45	Owen, Stephen, 1990, "What is World Poetry?" The New Republic (November 19) pp. 28-32.	666-671
46	Zhang, Longxi, 1992, "Western Theory and Chinese Reality" in Critical Inquiry 19 (Autumn) pp. 105-130.	672-685
47	Von Kowallis, JE, Ju Dou (1989) -- Summary. pp. 1-2.	686-687
48	Von Kowallis, JE, Da hong denglong gaogao gua (Raise the Red Lantern) (1991) -- Summary. pp. 1-3.	688-689
49	Berry, Chris, 1996, "Writing as a Foreigner" UTS Review vol. 2, no.2 (Nov) pp. 181-190.	690-696
	Possible Additional Readings & Viewings
50	Von Kowallis, JE, Iron and Silk (1991) -- Summary. pp. 1 -2.	697-698
51	Von Kowallis, JE, An lian tao hua yuan (Secret Love: The Peach Blossom Land) (1993) -- Summary. pp. 1-5.	699-703
52	Von Kowallis, JE, 1996, "The Diaspora in Postmodern Taiwan and Hong Kong Film Framing Stan Lai's The Peach Blossom Land with Allen Fong‘s Ah Ying" in Transnational Chinese Cinema, ed., Lu, Hsiao-peng Sheldon (Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press) pp. 169-186.	704-718

 

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