[Crystal Hsia]

Hi Danhui, it's nice to meet you! It sounds like you have the important task of building new bridges between Mandarin learners and English learners in your current roles. We hope this course is beneficial to building the intercultural competence that, as you stated, is so necessary for students.

[Crystal Hsia]

Hi Ramon, it is nice to meet you and we are glad to have such a passionate learner with us! Your point about China as a modern, ongoing, and relevant subject to students certainly resonates with us at the USCI.

[Crystal Hsia]

Hello Debra, it's nice to meet you and it's exciting to hear that this course may help structure a new area of your curriculum! Human geography is one of the content areas that the USCI is trying to support through our programing this year, so your input will be higly valuable to help us best help you.

P.S. Would you like your attached picture uploaded as your forum profile photo?

 

[Crystal Hsia]

Hi Indy, it's nice to meet you! Glad to hear you are excited to gain new perspectives. In addition to the course content, I know us here in California will benefit from hearing about your experiences teaching in Omaha as well.

[Crystal Hsia]

Hi Tzu-Hsuan,

Nice meeting you! Welcome to Los Angeles. If you ever got an opportunity to visit USC, please visit us 🙂 We are glad that you can join us and we can learn from each other. What aspects of Chinese culture are you interested in particular? 

[Crystal Hsia]

Canons and Cannons: Japanese Public Culture in the First Half of the 20th Century - Noriko Aso, University of California, Santa Cruz

This is the recording of the 9/17 workshop. Feel free to post any thoughts or feedback here below.

 

[Crystal Hsia]

Imagining and Imaging Meiji Japan - Bruce Coats, Scripps College

This is the recording of the 9/17 workshop. Feel free to post any thoughts or feedback below.

 

[Crystal Hsia]

Here is the recording of the curriculum resources introducing by Director Clayton Dube. 

[Crystal Hsia]

Here is the recording of the curriculum resources introducing by Director Clayton Dube. 

[Crystal Hsia]

Hi Joanna,

The links are updated. Feel free to let me know if there is still an issue to get access to them.

[Crystal Hsia]

To have a better and more helpful learning experience, please check out the recourses recommended by Prof. Bruce Coats.

☞MIT Visualizing Cultures website about Asia in the 18-20th centuries.

☞Essays and prints about Yokohama and Yokohama-e

☞Essays and prints about Kobayashi Kiyoshika's Tokyo:

1. https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/kiyochika_tokyo/index.html
2. https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/kiyochika_tokyo_02/index.html
3. https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/kiyochika_tokyo_03/index.html

​☞Essays and prints about the "Westernization" of Japan:

1. https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/throwing_off_asia_01/index.html
2. https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/throwing_off_asia_02/index.html
3. https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/throwing_off_asia_03/index.html ​

​☞Reviews of "CHIKANOBU: Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints"​​​​​​​​​

1. http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/1006#.Yw2cSuzMKi4
2. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/22artswe.html​

☞Catalogs:

1. "Yokohama: Prints from 19th c. Japan" ed. Ann Yonemura, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990
2. "Kiyochika: Artist of Meiji Japan" by Henry D. Smith, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1988
3. "CHIKANOBU: Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints" ed. Bruce Coats, Brill, 2006

[Crystal Hsia]

To have a better and more helpful learning experience, please check out the recourses recommended by Prof. Noriko Aso. 

☞ Websites:  

1. Asia for Educators: This Columbia University site is largely composed of short essays, but the coverage in terms of both time span and region is broad.
2. Bodies and Structures (1.0) and (2.0): These are two Scalar sites that focus on spatiality in Asian history. The first (experimental) version centers on Japan; the second encompasses the first but adds modules to engage more broadly with East Asian history. This is the second volume’s list of modules, which includes my module (Japan) and my brother’s module (Vietnam). 
3. The National Diet Library, Japan Digital Exhibitions: This site has exhibitions in both Japanese and English, and range from what is basically a portrait gallery to more sophisticated examinations of, for example, Japan and the golden age of expositions. This site also has early modern materials. 
4. Visualizing Cultures: This MIT site was a pioneering digital project for Asian history that offers curated visual artifacts accompanied by scholarly essays by top figures in their fields. Most of the units are divided between China and Japan, but they continue to add content. 
5. Museums: For art – Japan Folk Craft Museum (Mingeikan); Ohara Museum of Art; Tokyo National e-Museum; For war– Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum; Himeyuri Peace Museum; Yasukuni Shrine Museum (Yushukan)

 

☞Books on Japanese Visual Culture–First Half of the Twentieth Century:

 

1. Brandt, Kim. Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan.
2. Hori, Hikari. Japan’s Promiscuous Media: Film and Visual Culture in Imperial Japan, 1926-1945.
3. Loo, Tse May. Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa’s Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879-2000.
4. Tansman, Alan, ed. The Culture of Japanese Fascism.
5. Tseng, Alice. Modern Kyoto: Building for Ceremony and Commemoration, 1868-1940.
6. Weisenfeld, Gennifer. Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923.

[Crystal Hsia]

I work mainly with highschool students. So for the curriculum idea, I will like to integrate what we have learned at this seminar to the AP foreign language topics that the college board highlights.

1. I think the K-Beauty and K-Pop can supplment the theme in "Beauty and Aesthetics - Fashion". I will use the video that Dr. Jung-Kim Jennifer played last week about the change of beauty for the past 100 years as a prompt to think about what components influence peoples' view. 
2. The other idea that I'd like to integrated the movie "Kim Ji-young: Born 1982" introduced on week 2 to talk about the theme "Families and communities. How do family structures/roles in various cultures differ? 

Look forward to hearing more from this awesome group!

[Crystal Hsia]

True! I think the lost in translation really hurts the movie watching experience. 

[Crystal Hsia]

Hi Claudia,

Glad that I can help! I'd love to join the class of Pop Cultures of East Asia. Would love to hear your sharing of aha moments and anything that you echo from this course with your teaching experiences!

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