A Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges to Promote Asian Studies
ASIANetwork Exchange (Fall 2007 Issue)
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From the Editors
Network News
- Teddy Amoloza, From the Executive Director: $1.3 Million Freeman Grant Renewed and other 2006-07 Highlights; ASIANetwork Initiatives (PDF)
- Wendy Doniger, The Story of my (Academic) Life, or, The Uses of Serendipity (PDF)
- Strategic Plan and Goals 2007-12 (PDF)
Teaching About Asia
Integrating the Silver Screen
- Don Clark, A Valuable Tool for Teaching Korean History (PDF)
- Nilanjana Bhattachajya, “But it has Some Good Songs ...”: Introducing Students to the Aesthetics of the Popular Hindi Film Through Music (PDF)
- Jim Matson, Teaching 20th Century China and India: Integrating Films and Texts (PDF)
Japanese Culture, Literature, and History
- Joan E. Ericson, Popular Culture’s Distorting/ Alluring Lens (PDF)
Japanese Comics as Literary Art Form
- Todd S. Munson, Osamu Tezuka’s Phoenix Series: Teaching Manga in the Literature Classroom (PDF)
Mao Controversy Continues
- Stephen Herschler, Mao’s Dao and the Core Curriculum on Western Thought (PDF)
- Jinxing Chen, Wild Swans as Class Text: Swan’s Seduction in Teaching the Mao Era (PDF)
Teaching About Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Susan Orpett Long, Exposing Incoming Students to Asian Studies: The Fortunate Intersection of First Year Seminar and a SIT Faculty Development Program (PDF)
For Our Students
Teaching About Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Christopher A. Hall, Study Abroad for Pre-Med Students: How a Course in Traditional Chinese Medicine Can Prepare a Student for a Medical Career (PDF)
Media Resources
- Susanne Alway, New Online Sources for Teaching and Research in Asian Studies (PDF)