Quotation Reports

Quotation Reports

Quotation Reports (QRs) are 500-word explorations of the readings by focusing on a passage from one of the assigned texts. The aim of the assignment is to encourage you to think in very concrete terms about a specific text and the ways it connects to other texts from that week and the previous weeks.

In general, you should start the report by copying a quotation from a reading. It needn’t be long—a sentence or two should suffice. The quotation should be one that you find interesting and that you want to share with others. Give a proper citation for the quotation you have selected.

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Quotation Reports

Having chosen your quotation, you should then discuss the significance that the quotation represents to you in three contexts—on its own, in connection with other reading(s) for the week, and with course readings from another week. You may endorse the ideas present in the quotation, reject them, celebrate them or question them, but you must explain your rationale for choosing the particular quotation using your own words.

Week 3 (September 17): Area Studies and East Asian Studies in historical perspective

East Asian Studies in light of the history of the Cold War and its ‘ends’. The impact of war on the state: the shaping of public discourse and mass ideology. The relation of the nation-form to the birth of capitalism. Implications for imperialism and socialism. The politics of East Asian Studies.

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Quotation Reports

Reading 1: Harootunian, Harry and Masao Miyoshi, “Introduction: The ‘‘Afterlife’’ of Area Studies, in Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies, edited by Harry Harootunian and Masao Miyoshi, Duke University Press, 2002 (PDF)

Reading 2: Naoki Sakai, Chapter 4, “ ‘You Asians’: On the historical role of the binary of the West and Asia”, in The End of Pax Americana: Hikkikomori Nationalism and the End of the Japanese Empire, Duke UP, 2023 (PDF)

Supplementary Reading: Gavin Walker and Naoki Sakai, “The End of Area: A genealogy of Area Studies”, in positions: asia critique, vol. 27, no. 1, 2019, pp. 1-31. (PDF)