課程資訊
課程名稱
探索台灣:人文與社會
Exploring Taiwan: Selected Topics on Culture and Society 
開課學期
103-2 
授課對象
 
授課教師
陳峙維 
課號
Music3015 
課程識別碼
144E31500 
班次
01 
學分
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
 
上課時間
星期三5,6(12:20~14:10) 
上課地點
博雅301 
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本課程以英語授課。。A12:文學與藝術、歷史思維領域。
總人數上限:80人 
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課程概述

This course is especially offered for international students and open partially to local students of 'Taiwan Study Program', as one of the 'Exploring Taiwan' course series taught in English at NTU. Delivered by four course instructors it focuses on four themes: (1) History and social change in Taiwan, (2) Religious and folk culture in Taiwan, (3) Population and gender issues in Taiwan and (4) Cinema of Taiwan.

Through in-class lecture, video screening and field trips, students will go through a succinct yet thorough introduction of how the Island of Formosa becomes modern Taiwan, and look into some traditional beliefs, customs and local lives in Taiwan. They will also be led to appreciate films produced in different period and explore how various issues or events are presented in those films, as well as study Taiwan's demographic transition, marriage transformation and stalled gender relationship. 

課程目標
The course will

(1) Help international students gain a better understanding of Taiwan and equip them with basic knowledge to take advanced course of related subjects taught in Chinese.

(2) Lead local students to reassess their understanding of local history and culture and compare it with view of students from foreign countries.  
課程要求
Students are required to attend the lecture regularly, read the assigned reading materials or watch video materials and answer assigned questions on or contribute to the course website. 
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
每週三 15:30~17:30 
指定閱讀
All the required reading materials, listed below, will be uploaded by the four respective course instructors to the course website in due course.

(1) History and social change in Taiwan
Andrade, Tonio, ‘The Rise and Fall of Dutch Taiwan, 1624–1662: Cooperative Colonization and the Statist Model of European Expansion’, Journal of World History, 17:4 (2006), pp. 429-450.
Hsu, Wen-hsiung, ‘Ch’ing Policies Toward Taiwan’, in Marshall Johnson and Fred Y.L. Chiu (eds), Unbound Taiwan: Closeups from a Distance (Chicago: Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago, 1994), pp. 117-132.
Hsu, Ch’iung-erh, ‘The modern scene in the island capital’, in Kuo-ch’ing Tu and Robert Backus (eds), Taiwan Literature, English Translation Series, No. 19 (Santa Babara: The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, 2006), pp.123-130.
Chen, Ching-chih, ‘The Japanese ideal and ideals of Assimilation in Taiwan, 1895-1945, in Marshall Johnson and Fred Y.L. Chiu (eds), Unbound Taiwan: Closeups from a Distance (Chicago: Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago, 1994), pp. 31-48.
Rubinstein, Murray A., ‘Taiwan’s socioeconomic modernization, 1971-1996’, in, Murray A. Rubinstein (ed.), Taiwan: A New History (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1999), pp.366-402.

(2) Religious and folk culture
Overmyer, Daniel L. ‘Chinese religious traditions from 1900-2005: an overview’, in Kam Louie (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 173-197.
Davison, Gary Marvin and Barbara E. Reed, ‘Thought and Religion’, chap. 2, in Culture and Customs of Taiwan (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998), pp. 31-50.
Tsai, Wen-ting, ‘The Tachia Mazu pilgrimage: The sincerest form of travel’, Taiwan Panarama, 28:5 (May 2003), pp. 84-95.
Tsai, Ventine, ‘On parade with the gods: Taiwan's yi-ko and chen-t'ou’, Taiwan Panarama, 16:11 (July 1991), pp. 44-55.
Liu, Huanyue, ‘Taiwan’s seasonal festivals and customs’ and ‘Special regional customs and festivals’, in Folk Beliefs in Taiwan (Taipei: Government Information Office, 2001), pp. 7-36.

(3) Population and gender issues
Liu, Paul K. C., ‘Population policy and programs in Taiwan’, in Andrew Mason (ed.), Population Policies and Programs in East Asia (Honolulu: East-West Center, 2001), pp.65-87.
Thornton, A., T. Fricke, L. S. Yang and J. S. Chang, ‘Theoretical mechanism of family change’, in Social Change and the Family in Taiwan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), pp. 88-115.
Women and Men in R.O.C. (Taiwan): Facts and Figures (Taipei: Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, 2014)

(4) Cinema of Taiwan
Tso, Kuei-fang, ‘Cross border exchanges in Taiwan cinema between 1900-69’, 24th Hong Kong International Film Festival Retrospective Catalog (Hong Kong: Leisure and Cultural Services Department, 2000), pp. 30-35.
Chen, Edwin W., ‘Musical China, classical impressions: A preliminary study of Shaws’ huangmei diao film’, in Ain-ling Wong (ed.), The Shaw Screen: A Preliminary Study (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Film Archive, 2003) pp. 51-74.
Rodriguez, Hector, ‘Questions of Chinese Aesthetics: Film form and narrative space in the cinema of King Hu’, Cinema Journal, 38:1 (1998), pp. 73-97.
Lyman, Rick, ‘Watching movies with Ang Lee: Crouching memory, hidden heart’, The New York Times, 9 March 2001, E27.
Crowther, Bosley, ‘The Love Eterne (1964), Screen: Run Run Shaw’s No. 2 Here: Love Eterne arrives from Hong Kong’, The New York Times, 16 January 1965.
Chan, Kenneth, ‘The global return of the Wu Xia Pian (Chinese sword-fighting movie): Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’, Cinema Journal, 43:4 (2004), pp. 3-17. 
參考書目
Recommended further readings:

(1) History and social change in Taiwan
Lin, April C.J. and Jerome F. Keating, Island in the Stream: A Quick Case Study of Taiwan’s Complex
History, 4th edn (Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc., 2008).

(2) Religious and folk culture
Davison, Gary Marvin and Barbara E. Reed, Culture and Customs of Taiwan (Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 1998).
Liu, Huanyue, Folk Beliefs in Taiwan (Taipei: Government Information Office, 2001).
Wieman, Earl, Festivals in Taiwan (Taipei: Tourism Bureau, Ministry of Transportation and
Communications, Republic of China, 1997).

(3) Population and gender issues
Selva, Roger Mark, Development and Demographic Change in Taiwan (River Edge, N.J.: World Scientific,
2004).
Farris, Catherine, Anru Lee and Murray Rubinstein (eds), Women in the New Taiwan: Gender Roles and
Gender Consciousness in a Changing Society (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2004).

(4) Cinema of Taiwan
Davis, Darrell William and Ru-shou Robert Chen (eds), Cinema Taiwan: Politics, Popularity and State of
the Arts (New York: Routledge, 2007).
Hong, Gou-Juin, Taiwan Cinema: A Contested Nation on Screen (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). 
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