Waiyee Loh
Associate Professor of World Literature

Week 1. Introduction

Aftermath of the First Opium War: The Treaty Port System

Lecture slides: W1. Introduction (for students).pptx

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Treaty Port: Yokohama

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Week 2. Samurai Stories

Reading: Extracts from Mitford, Tales of Old Japan

Lecture slides: W2. Mitford samurai (for students).pptx

PDF: Mitford. The 47 Ronins.pdf

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​Week 3. Old and New Japan

Reading: Extracts from Mitford, Tales of Old Japan and Mitford's Japan

Lecture slides: W3. Mitford Old and New Japan.pptx

PDF: Mitford. Note and Civil War.pdf

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Week 4. Yokohama Port Museum

Field trip to the Yokohama Port Museum

Lecture slides: W4. Field trip to Yokohama Port Museum.pptx

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Week 5. Travel Writing

Reading: extracts from Hearn, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan

Lecture slides: W5. Hearn glimpses of unfamiliar japan.pptx

PDF: Hearn. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan.pdf

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Week 6. Weird Tales

Reading: extracts from Hearn, Kwaidan

Lecture slides: W6. Hearn kwaidan.pptx

PDF: Hearn. Kwaidan.pdf

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Week 7. Port City Pictures: Yokohama-e

Reading: extracts from Dower, "Yokohama Boomtown"

(Read sections "Boomtown," "Interactions," and "Internationalism")

Lecture slides: W7. Yokohama-e (for students).pptx

Website: https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/yokohama/yb_essay01.html 

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Week 8. Port City Pictures: Yokohama-shashin

Reading: extracts from "Early Photography of Japan," Harvard Library CURIOSity Digital Collections

(Read sections "Japanese Tourist Photography" and "Japan: Described and Illustrated by the Japanese")

Lecture slides: W8. Yokohama-shashin.pptx

Website: https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/early-photography-of-japan

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Week 9. Digital Humanities Exercise: Exploring the "Early Photography of Japan" Collection

Show-and-tell presentation

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Treaty Port: Shanghai

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Week 10. The International Settlement

Reading: Giles, “Two Women” from China Coast Tales (Part 1)

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Website: https://archive.org/details/chinacoasttales00gileiala/page/n3/mode/2up

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Week 11. Representations of the Chinese

Reading: Giles, “Two Women” from China Coast Tales (Part 2)

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Website: https://archive.org/details/chinacoasttales00gileiala/page/n3/mode/2up

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Week 12. Film Screening

Lee Ang, Lust, Caution

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Week 13. Wartime Shanghai

Reading: Lee Ang, Lust, Caution

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Week 14. Conclusion

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Week 15. Essay due

Assignment instructions: Assignment instructions.pdf

Recommended reading list: Graduation Project recommended reading list.pdf

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