“Teaching East Asian Literature in the High School”

East Asian Studies Center Summer Workshop

Bloomington Courtyard by Marriott Hotel

July 13-19, 2003

 

Schedule of Events

 

 

 

Unless otherwise indicated, all workshop events take place in the conference facilities located inside the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel.

 

 

 

Sunday, July 13

 

                3:00 PM                  Check-in at Courtyard by Marriott Hotel (hereafter known as CMH)

 

                4:45-5:30 Registration (conference facilities, CMH)

                                                Refreshments and resources available, as are hotel facilities (pool, fitness center,

and patio)

 

5:30-6:30                 Welcome and Information Session—ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST BE PRESENT (conference facilities, CMH)

ŸDiscuss requirements

ŸSign up for teaching units

ŸApply for book grants

 

6:30-8:00 Dinner in CMH conference facilities

                                Welcome and Introductions

Ice Breaker Activity: Chinese Zodiac

 

8:30-10:00               Movie: The Eel (Unagi); location Waldron Arts Center, Fireside Bay

 

 

 MONDAY, July 14                        Pre-Modern Chinese Literature

                                                                                (From Beginnings to 1911)

 

                8:00-8:30                 Continental Breakfast

 

                8:30-9:30 Lecture and Discussion:  Imperial China

                                                                Prof. Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Indiana University at Bloomington

 

                9:30-9:45 Break

 

                9:45-11:00               Lecture and Discussion:  Traditional Chinese Literature

                                                Session 1:  Philosophy and Poetry

                                                                Professor Yingjin Zhang

                                               

·         ·         Excerpts from Confucius’ The Analects  [R]

 

·         ·         Excerpts from Chuang Tzu   [R]

 

·         ·         LIU Zongyuan, “River Snow” [R]

 

·         ·         SIMA Qian, “Letter in Reply to Ren An”  [R]

 

·         ·         ZHANG Ji, “Night-Mooring at Maple Bridge” [R]

 

·         ·         TAO Qian, “The Peach Blossom Spring” [R]

 

·         ·         LI Po, “Bring the Wine” and “Y’ Chieh Y’an” [R]

 

·         ·         WANG Wei, “Bamboo Grove,” “Bird-Singing Stream,” and  “Deer Enclosure” [R]

 

·         ·         MENG Haoran, “Springtime Sleep” and “Stayover at Chien-The River” [R]

 

·         ·         DU Fu, “Spring Scene” [R]

 

·         ·         LI Yü, Tune: “Beauty Yü”  [R]

 

·         ·         XIN Qiji, “Moon of the Western River”  [R]

 

·         ·         MA Zhiyuan, Tunes: “Sky-Pure Sand” [R]                                            

               

 

11:00-11:15             Break

 

                11:15-12:30 PM     Teaching Strategies for Traditional Chinese Literature

                                                                Judith DeWoskin and Cecilia Boyce

 

12:30-1:45               Lunch (Buffet)

 

                1:45-2:15 Cultural Activity (TBA)

 

2:15-3:30 Lecture and Discussion: Traditional Chinese Literature

                                                Session 2: Prose Narrative

                                                                Professor Yingjin Zhang

                                               

·         ·         YUAN Chen (Yuan Zhen), “The Story of Ts’iu Ying-ying”  [R]

 

·         ·         Po Hsing-chien (Bo Xingjian), “The Story of Miss Li”  [R]

 

·         ·         FENG Menglong, “The Pearl-Sewn Shirt”  [R]

 

 

                3:30-3:45 Break (with refreshments)

 

                3:45-4:00 Daily evaluation

 

4:00-5:00                 Walk with EASC Director Jacques Fuqua (optional) through IU’s campus; or Exploratory Time (optional): Participants can look at teaching resources on display and begin research for teaching units

 

 

5:30                         Meet in CMH hotel lobby to arrange transportation to dinner

 

5:45-8:00                 Dinner at Mikado Restaurant (895 S. College Mall Rd.)

 

8:30                         Film (optional): Shower (Xizao) (China)

                                                Conference Room at CMH

 

 

tUESDAy, July 15 Modern Chinese Literature

                                                                (1912-Present)

 

8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast

 

8:30-9:30 Lecture and Discussion: Chinese History

                                Modern China (1912-Present)

                                Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Indiana University

                                               

9:30-9:45 Break

 

9:45-11:00               Lecture and Discussion: Modern Chinese Literature

                                Session 1:  May-Fourth Tradition

                                Professor Yingjin Zhang

 

·         ·         LU Xun, “Preface to A Call to Arms,”  “A Madman’s Diary,” [Columbia   Anthology]

 

·         ·         LU Xun,“Medicine” [R]

 

·         ·         YU Dafu, “Sinking”  [R]

 

·         ·         XU Zhimo “Second Farewell to Cambridge” [R]

 

·         ·         WEN Yidou “Dead Water” [R]

 

·         ·         DING Ling, “Shanghai, Spring, 1930” [R]

 

·         ·         DAI Wangshu “Rainy Alley” [R]

 

 

11:00-11:15             Break

 

11:15-12:15             Teaching Strategies for Modern Chinese Literature

                                                Judith DeWoskin and Cecilia Boyce

 

12:15-1:45pm         Lunch (on your own) (Room open for exploratory time)

 

1:45-3:00pm           Lecture and Discussion:  Modern Chinese Literature

                                Session 2:  Alternative Visions

                                Professor Yingjin Zhang

 

·         ·         ZHANG Ailing, “Sealed Off”  [Columbia Anthology]

 

·         ·         LU Xinhua, “The Wounded”  [R]

 

·         ·         BEI Dao, “Perfect,” “February,” “Showing Up,” “Untitled,” and “Landscape over Zero” [R]

 

·         ·         HAN Shaogong, “Homecoming?” [R]

  

·         ·         SU Tong, Raise the Red Lantern [R]

 

·         ·      SHEN Congwen “Xiaoxiao” [R]

 

 

3:00-3:15                 Daily evaluation

 

              3:30                           Leave for field trip to Indiana University Museum of Art

 

3:45                         Arrive at Indiana University Museum of Art

                               

                4:00-5:00                 Guided tour of museum’s permanent collection of East Asian art

 

5:30-7:00                 Buffet dinner at Indiana Memorial Union; State Room East

 

8:00-9:00                 Salon (optional): TBA

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 16                  Korean Literature

 

                8:00-8:30                 Continental Breakfast

 

8:30-9:30                 Lecture and Discussion:  Modern Korean History and Culture

                                Professor Michael Robinson

                                                                                                                                               

9:30-9:45                 Break

 

9:45-11:00               Lecture and Discussion:  Survey of Korean Modern Literature

                                Session 1:  Short Stories of 20th Century

                                                Professor Rebecca Ruhlen

 

·         ·         Our Twisted Hero [R]

 

 

11:00-11:15             Break 

 

11:15-11:45             Cultural Activity:  TBA

 

                11:45-12:15             Teaching Strategies for Korean literature

                                                Moderated by Judith DeWoskin and Cecilia Boyce

 

12:15-1:30pm         Lunch (Buffet) – Room open for exploratory time

                                               

1:30-2:45 Lecture and Discussion:  Modern Korean Literature by Women

Session 2:  Culture in Korean Literature

                                                                Professor Rebecca Ruhlen

 

·         ·         “Scarlet Fingernails” by Kim Min-suk

in Wayfarer, New Fiction by Korean Women

 

·         ·         Selection from Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood

 

               

2:45-3:00 Break

 

3:00-3:30 Teaching Strategies for Korean Literature

                                Moderated by Judith DeWoskin and Cecilia Boyce

 

3:30-3:45                 Daily evaluation

 

3:45-4:45                 Exploratory Time: chance to ask EASC staff for additional resources, copyright

                                issues, overview additional materials

 

4:45-7:00                 Dinner (on your own)

 

7:30-8:30 Salon (optional): Anne Prescott (tentative title of Music from Japan’s Past and

Present); (CMH)

 

 

 

 

Thursday, July 17                      Traditional Japanese Literature

                                                                                (From Beginnings to 1868)

               

                8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast

               

8:30-9:30 Lecture and Discussion: Japanese History

                                Pre-modern Japan

                                Professor Keirstead

 

9:30-9:45 Break

 

9:45-11:00               Lecture and Discussion:  Traditional Japanese Literature

                                Session 1:  Tradition of Courtly Love

                                                Professor Andra Alvis

 

·         ·         Excerpts from Man’y­ōshū:  “Your basket…” (33), “In the sea of Iwami…,” (34-5), “On the occasion of temporary enshrinement of Princess Asuka” (36-7), “After the death of his wife” (37-40), Three poems by Lady Kasa (41), “Love’s complaint” (42), “An elegy on the impermanence of human life” (45-6), “A dialogue on poverty” (46-8), “Dialogue poems” (52)  [R]

 

·         ·         Excerpts from Kokinshū:  Selected poems of ARIWARA Narihira and ONO no Komachi  [R]

 

·         ·         SEI ShÇnagon, The Pillow Book (excerpts)  [R]

 

·         ·         MURASAKI Shikibu, The Tale of Genji (“Evening Faces” Chapter)  [R]

 

 

                11:00-11:15             Break

 

                11:15-12:15             Teaching Strategies for Traditional Japanese Literature

                                                                Judith DeWoskin and Cecilia Boyce

 

                12:15-1:30 PM       Lunch  (on your own)

 

1:30-2:45 Lecture and Discussion:  Traditional Japanese Literature

                                Session 2:  Buddhist Themes in Medieval and Edo Literature

                                Prof. Andra Alvis

 

·         ·         Setsuwa tales:  Excerpts from Tyler’s Japanese Tales and Ury’s Tales of Times Now Past  [R]

 

·         ·         Excerpts from The Tale of the Heike  [R]

 

·         ·         YOSHIDA KenkÇ, Essays in Idleness (excerpts)  [R]

 

·         ·         MATSUO BashÇ, The Narrow Road to the Deep North  [R]

 

·         ·         CHIKAMATSU Monzaemon, The Love Suicides at Sonezaki  [R]

 

·          ·         MAKINO, Eri, Sproing [R]     

 

 

3:15-7:00                 Field Trip: Brown County State Park-Nature Walk (Dinner Included); daily evaluation

 

8:00-10:30               Movie (optional): JSA: Joint Security Area (Korea) in Wiley Hall 005

 

Friday, July 18                Modern Japanese Literature

                                                                (1868 – Present)

 

7:30-8:00 Continental Breakfast

 

8:00-9:00 Lecture and Discussion:  Japanese History

                                Tokugawa – Modern Japan

                                Professor Keirstead

 

9:00-9:15 Break

 

9:15-9:45 Cultural activity: TBA

 

9:45-11:00               Lecture and Discussion:  Modern Japanese Literature

Session 1:  Psychological 'Realism' in Modern Japanese Literature           Professor Andra Alvis

 

·         ·         HIGUCHI Ichiyō, “Troubled Waters”   [R]

 

·         ·         NATSUME Soseki, Kokoro 

 

·         ·         SHIGA Naoya, “For Grandmother”  [R]

 

·         ·         DAZAI Osamu, “A Sound of Hammering”  [R]

 

·         ·         TAKAHASHI Takako, “Congruent Figures”  [R]

 

 

11:00-11:15             Break

 

11:15-12:15             Teaching Strategies for Modern Japanese Literature

                                                                Judith DeWoskin and Cecilia Boyce

 

12:15-1:45pm         Lunch (on your own) (Room open for exploratory time)

 

1:45-3:00 Lecture and Discussion:  Modern Japanese Literature

                                                Session 2:  Japanese Fantasy Literature

                                                                Prof. Andra Alvis

               

·         ·         KŌDA Rohan, “Encounter with a Skull”  [R]

 

·         ·         EDOGAWA Rampo, “The Hell of Mirrors”  [R]

 

·         ·         KINOSHITA Junji, “The Twilight Crane”  [R]

 

·         ·         ENCHI Fumiko, “A Bond for Two Lifetimes—Gleanings”  [R]

 

·         ·         TSUTSUI Yasutaka, “Standing Woman”  [R]

 

·         ·         AKUTAGAWA Ryūnosuke, “The Spider's Thread”  [R]

 

 

                3:00-3:15                 Break

               

                3:15-4:00                 Workshop Overview of Lesson Plans (EASC Staff)

 

                4:00-5:00                 Concluding Remarks, Daily and Overall Evaluations, and Post-workshop survey

 

                5:00-6:00                 Exploratory Time

               

                6:00                         Meet in CMH lobby to arrange transportation to dinner

 

                6:15-8:15                 Farewell Banquet at Mark Pi’s