Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Tut = 10%
Book review (by W12) (< 1000 words, suggested books) = 30%
Project (story on cultural borrowing) = 20%
Assess 1 W6 (open book) = 15%
Assess 2 Last day of sem W13 (take home essay) = 25%
LECT 1:
Tanaka meets Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai in china 1972 to work to
normalize relations between the 2 countries
Pork Barrel Relations (giving a useless incentive)
Zhou gives Tanaka a gift of HALF of a quote
Great empires do bad things (more powerful, worse)
1. Ppl think china can only "borrow" not "create", but cultural borrowing
can be a creative process, NOT COPY BUT CREATE when ppl borrow
2. Globalization, in a broad sense, is not new, sped up of an older process
3. Cultures not superior or inferior, just different preferences and choose
where you stay
4. All cultures are hybrids: No such thing as "pure" culture (but some ppl
BELIEVE it as pure)
5. All cultures are dynamically changing, no static/stagnant
Japan & China:
Lots of water as barrier, but not too much, hence can travel via boats to
cultural borrow/TRADE (ideas, books, technologies etc.)
e.g. Ganjin/Jianzhen; buddhist priest tried travelling from C to J 6 times
(finally succeeded on 6th)
e.g. Mongol Invasions
LECT2:
HiSTORY OF CHINA & JAPAN
CHINA:
ZHOUQIN- unified period
SIX DYNASTIES-falling apart, battles; Start of Japan and China
kingdoms beginning to have contact
(Chinese envoys travel to Japan to observe culture; Japan envoys travel to
China bringing them slaves and bringing back tech(technologies how to
write/build AND TECHNIQUES OF GOVT)/artefacts); Japan begins to
adapt Chinese lang and writing
LECT 3:
When we look at a culture that's not our own, we understand/observe it
through our own cultural lenses, can be misunderstood
Prince Shotoku: he said we're equal (Japan and China), respect us/Japan,
China unhappy
Abe no Nakamaro passed the "China" exam and became prominent and
good friends with..
Jianzhen/Ganjin: fails 5 times to go to japan and even got blind. In the
past, have to go China to get ordained and be a priest. Until his travel
there
Kukai: from a humble origins/background, went to China and back
End of the envoys (1894): No point gg to China because Japan has
already learned what it can. No more envoys but we have traders crossing
the sea for profits e.g. tea, books, copper and sulfur, swords...
The Muromachi period: Ashikaga shogunate 1336-1573 cultural things
begin towards end of this period e.g. tatami mats, tea ceremonies
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu: Mongels try to conquer Japan twice, unhappy
relations so he tries to reunite two imperial courts, title of king from Ming
(dk exact reasons why), gained alot in terms of trade and political power
because China willing to trade with him/Japan and he got rich, ppl
suspect he tryna overthrow Japan and bring his entire family as the
imperial but he died before succeeding
Q: Introduction of Chi cultural, political and economical elements to
Japan. How did Japan engage with these elements? How different is this
kind of engagement from present day encounters with other cultures? compare to your own cultural experiences
LECT 5:
Language is diverse for a number of reasons, pick up new words,
creole/pidgins and jargon
e.g. English/German/French has changed alot... but when we match these
genetically related languages and trace back to a proto-language
the daughter languages share vocab/grammar,etc..
code-switch between standard and colloquial/dialect language (e.g.
singlish and english)
e.g. Chinese is a member of the Sino-Tibetan language family
Sino-Tibetan: 300 languages, 2 major branches (Tibetan/Burmese and
Sinitic - Sinitic made up of "Han" languages of China aka chinese
dialects HK/TC...)