Project Abstract (150words) - Gender in East Asia: Project Abstract
Gender in East Asia: Project Abstract (150words)
This project will be on a self-selected topic related to gender in East Asia that you find interesting. To help get you started, this assignment asks that you write a 150 word abstract about your proposed final project. Within the limited word count, explain your topic’s significance, the methodology you will use, and your preliminary thesis. Also clarify if you will be writing a 6-8 page research paper.
Also, but not included in the word count, list your project’s title and provide a list of 5-6 sources that you will engage. At least half of your sources should be from outside of the assigned class readings. (Choose 3 sources from the Assigned Class readings List, then choose 3 sources from the outside sources).
An abstract serves as a concise summary of a larger work. A few of our readings have begun with abstracts. Looking over these examples might give you a better idea of how to compose your abstract:
Vladimir Tikhonov, “Masculinizing the Nation: Gender Ideologies in Traditional Korea and in the 1890s-1900s Korean Enlightenment Discourse” David Der-wei Wang, “Impersonating China” Tiantian Zheng, “Embodied Masculinity: Sex and Sport in a (Post) Colonial Chinese
City” Hung-Yok Ip, “Fashioning Appearances: Feminine Beauty in Chinese Communist
Revolutionary Culture” Hae Yeon Choo, “Gendered Modernity and Ethnicized Citizenship: North Korean
Settlers in Contemporary South Korea” Meredith Schweig, “‘Young Soldiers, One Day We Will Change Taiwan’: Masculinity
Politics in the Taiwan Rap Scene”
Assigned Class readings:
-James G. Karlin, Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan: Modernity, Loss, and the Doing of History (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2014), Chapter Two: “The Mythos of Masculinization: Narratives of Heroism and Historical Identity”
-ladimir Tikhonov, “Masculinizing the Nation: Gender Ideologies in Traditional Korea and in the 1890s-1900s Korean Enlightenment Discourse,” The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 66, No. 4 (Nov., 2007).
-Hyaeweol Choi, Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009),
Chapter Six: “Doing it for Her Self: Sin yŏsŏng (New Women) in Korea”
-David Der-wei Wang, “Impersonating China,” Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR), Vol. 25 (Dec., 2003). -Francesca Dal Lago, “Crossed Legs in 1930s Shanghai: How
‘Modern’ the Modern Woman?,” East Asian History, No. 19, June 2000.
-Tiantian Zheng, “Embodied Masculinity: Sex and Sport in a (Post) Colonial Chinese City,” The China Quarterly, No. 190 (Jun., 2007).
-Hung-Yok Ip, “Appearances: Feminine Beauty in Chinese Communist Revolutionary Culture,” Modern China, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Jul., 2003).
-Chiang Howard, “Christine Goes to China: Xie Jianshun and the Discourse of Sex Change in Cold War Taiwan,” Gender, Health, and History in Modern East Asia, Leung Angela Ki Che and Nakayama Izumi, eds. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2017).
-Katsuhiko Suganuma, Contact Moments: The Politics of Desire in Japanese Male-Queer Cultures (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012), Chapter Three: “The Hybridised Whiteness in ‘Rose’: The Displacement of Racialised/Gendered Discourse in a Japanese Queer Magazine in the 1970s”
-Kim Suk-Young, Illusive Utopia: Theatre, Film, and Everyday Performance in North Korea (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), Chapter Five: “Acting like Women in North Korea”
-Hae Yeon Choo, “Gendered Modernity and Ethnicized Citizenship: North Korean Settlers in Contemporary South Korea,” Gender and Society, Vol. 20, No. 5 (Oct., 2006).
-Meredith Schweig, “‘Young Soldiers, One Day We Will Change Taiwan’: Masculinity Politics in the Taiwan Rap Scene,” Ethnomusicology, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Fall 2016).
-Yuk-Lin Renita Wong, “When East Meets West: Nation, Colony, and Hong Kong Women’s Subjectivities in Gender and China Development,” Modern China, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Apr., 2004).
-Tari Young-Jung Na, Ju Hui Judy Han, and Se-Woong Koo, “The South Korean Gender System: LGBTI in the Contexts of Family, Legal Identity, and the Military,” The Journal of Korean Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Fall 2014).
-Christian Potter, “Queering Confucius: Mothers and Transgender Sons in Contemporary China,” Mothers and Sons: Centering Mother Knowledge, Besi Brillian Muhonja and Wanda Thomas Bernard, eds. (Ontario: Demeter Press, 2016).
-Jie Yang, “Nennu and Shunu: Gender, Body Politics, and the Beauty Economy in China,” Signs, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Winter 2011).
-Hideko Abe, “A Community of Manners: Advice Columns in Lesbian
and Gay Magazines in Japan,” Manners and Mischief: Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan, Jan Bardsley and Laura Miller, eds. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011).
-Gordon Mathews, “Being a Man in a Straitened Japan: The View from Twenty Years Later,” Capturing Contemporary Japan, Satsuki Kawano, Glenda S. Roberts, and Susan Orpett Long, eds. (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2014).