India & China

Summer Institute 1996

India & China. IN COMPARATIVE AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
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1996

July 8 - August 2

The 1996 Summer Institute focused on the examination of a select set of major themes and issues pertaining to India and China, primarily in the post-1500 period. Our emphasis during this Institute was to continue building a foundation of solid knowledge through reading, reflection and discussion.

TOPICS

  • Mughal India and the Coming of Europeans: Prelude to Empire
  • China: From Feudalism to Semi Colonialism, Part I
  • Nineteenth Century Imperialism and the Raj in India
  • China: From Feudalism to Semi Coloinialism, Part II
  • Class, Caste, and Social Conflict in India
  • China: From Nationalism to Communism, Part I
  • Imperialism, Industrialization, and Economic Development
  • Toward Independence: Nationalism & Mass Movement in India
  • Leaders and Masses in the Struggle for Freedom
  • China: From Communism to Non-Communism
  • Cultural Revolution and the Reform in the 1980s
  • 1947 and Aftermath: Ethnic and Religious Conflicts in Modern India
  • China: 1989 Beijing Democratic Movement and Aftermath
  • Food and Cuisine in India
  • Film, Theater, Popular Culture, & Street Life in Contemporary India
  • Democratization of Indian Culture and Anxieties over Modernity
  • China: Socio-Cultural Changes and People's Life Today
  • 'Can the Subaltern Speak?': Twentieth-Century Women Writers of India and China
  • Women in India and China

READINGS

Reference Books:

  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India
  • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China

Required Books

  • Mulkraj Anand, The Untouchable. New York: Penguin, 1940.
  • Daniel Headrick, The Tools of Empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981
  • V. S. Naipaul, India: A Million Mutinies Now. New York: Penguin, 1990.
  • Jonathan Spence, In Search of Modern China. New York: Norton , 1990
  • Rabindra Nath Tagore, The Home and the World. New York: Penguin, 1985.
  • Jianying Zha, China Pop. New York: The New Press, 1995

Selected Pages from the following Books and Articles:

HSI, Chu. "The Great Synthesizer." In Carsun Chang The Development of Neo-Confucian Thought. London: Vision Press, 1958.

GENGYE, Luo. "Discontent." In Perry Link (ed.), Stubborn Weeds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.

GOODMAN, David S.G. China Without Deng. New York: Editions Tom Thompson, 1995, pp. 15-68.

HONIG, Emily & Gail Hershatter. Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's. California: Stanford University Press, 1988, pp. 308-333.

HSUN, Lu. "Medicine." In Joseph S.M. Lau, C.T. Hsia, and Leo Ou-Fan Lee (eds.) Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas 1919-1949. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. pp. 6-10.

HSUN, Lu. Complete Stories of Lu Xun. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981, pp. 184-219.

JING, Wang, "In the Archives of Society". In Lee Yee (ed.) and Ellen Klempner (trans.) The New Realism. New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., 1983. pp. 102-141.

SHI, Hu. "The Greatest Event in Life." In Edward M. Gunn (ed. & trans.) Twentieth-Century Chinese Drama an Anthology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983. pp. 1-9.

SHIFU, Wang. "Romance of the West Chamber." In Willam McNaughton (ed.), Chinese Literature an Anthology. Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1974. pp. 498-524.

SUN, Yat-Sen. "Three Principles of the People." In San Min Chu I. Chunking: Ministry of Information of the Republic of China, 1943. pp. 3-28, 151-188, 363-407.

XIANQUAN, He. "Blossoms on a Frosted Pane." In Perry Link (ed.), Stubborn Weeds. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.

XIAOPING, Deng. "Build Socialism with Chinese Characteristics," "We Shall Speed Up Reform," "One Country and Two Systems and Other Talks." From Fundamental Issues in Present Day China. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1987.

YU-NING, Li. Chinese Women Through Chinese Eyes. New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1992. pp. 208-333.

ZEDONG, Mao. "Analysis of Classes in Chinese Society," "Talk with Anna Louis Strong," "On Contradiction," "Farewell, Leighton Stuart," and "Friendship of Aggression." From Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung. Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1967.

AMIN, Shahid. "Gandhi as Mahatma: Gorakhpur District, Eastern UP, 1921-22." In Ranajit Guha & Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (eds.), Selected Subaltern Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. pp. 288-342.

APPADURAI, Arjun. "Street Culture." The Indian Magazine, Vol. 8, Dec. 1987, pp. 13-23.

BASU, Tapan et al. "Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flags", In Neeladri Bhattacharya (ed.), Tracts for the Times. Orient Longman, pp. 56-110.

BANDYOPADHYAY, J. and Vandana Shiva. "Chipko," Seminar, No. 330, Feb. 1987, pp. 33-39.

BHASIN, Kamla and Nighat Said Khan. Some Questions on Feminism and its Relevance in South Asia. New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1991, pp. 1-22.

CHANDRA, Bipan. "Colonial India: British Versus Indian Views of Development." Review, Volume 24, No. 1, Winter 1991. pp. 81-167.

CLEMENT, Catherine. "India: Of Crows and Democracy." India International Center Quarterly, Vol. 20, Nos. 1-2, Spring/Summer 1993, pp. 50-60.

CRONIN, Richard. "Indian Trains." London Magazine, Vol. 25, Nos. 9-10, Dec. 1985/Jan. 1986, pp. 47-61.

DAVIS, Clarence B. "Railway Imperialism in China, 1895-1939." In Clarence B. Davis & Kenneth Wilburn (eds.), Railway Imperialism. Wesport: Greenwood Press, 1991. pp. 155-173.

DESAI, A.R. Social Background of Indian Nationalism. Bombay: Popular Prakashan. pp. 243-262, 281-306.

DOCUMENT, "The Political Abuse of History: Babri Masjid-Rama Janmabhumi Dispute." Social Scientist, Vol. 18 (Nos. 200-201) Jan-Feb 1990, pp. 76-81.

DUTT, Romesh Chunder. "The Causes of India's Poverty." In Stephen Hay (ed.), Sources of Indian Tradition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. pp. 120-127.

HIRO, Dilip. "The Untouchables of India." London: Minority Rights Group, No. 26, pp. 1-17.

JINNAH, Muhammed Ali. "Founder of Pakistan." In Stephen Hay (ed.), Sources of Indian Tradition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. pp. 222-242.

KHOSLA, G.D. Stern Reckoning: A Survey of the Events Leading up to and Following the Partition of India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1989 [1943], pp. 88-141.

LAL, Vinay. "Hindu `Fundamentalism' Revisited." Contention, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1995, pp. 165-173.

___. "The Discourse of History and the Crisis at Ayodhya: Reflections on the Production of Knowledge, Freedom, and the Future of India", Emergences, Nos. 5-6, 1993-94, pp. 4-44.

___. "Indians and the Guinness Book of Records: The Cultural and Political Contours of a National Obsession." Suitcase, Vol 1, No 1 &2, 1995.

___. "The Near Impossibility of the 'Other' in Modern Hindi Films." forthcoming in Ashish Nandy (ed.), The Secret Politics, London: Zed Books, 1997.

LAWSON, Philip. The East India Company: A History. London: Longman, 1993. pp. 86-102, 164-166.

MANTO, Saadat Hasan. Kingdom's End & Other Stories. (Trans. by Khalid Hasan) London: Verso, 1987, pp. 11-38.

MUKHERJEE, R. (ed.) The Penguin Gandhi Reader. India: Penguin Books, 1993, pp. 3-15, 18-34, 69-85, 95-109, 116-139, 148-156, 163-176, 194-197.

NANDY, Ashish. "The Final Encounter." In A. Nandy (ed.), At the Edge of Psychology: Essays in Politics and Culture. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1980, pp. 70-98.

___. "An Intelligent Critic's Guide to Indian Cinema: part I." Deep Focus, No. 1, Dec. 1987, pp. 68-72.

___. "An Intelligent Critic's Guide to Indian Cinema: part II." Deep Focus, No. 2, June 1988, pp. 53-60.

___. "An Intelligent Critic's Guide to Indian Cinema: Part III." Deep Focus, No. 3, Nov. 1988, pp. 58-61.

PANDEY, Gyan. "Peasant Revolt and Indian Nationalism: The Peasant Movement in Awadh, 1919-22." In Ranajit Guha & Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (eds.), Selected Subaltern Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. pp. 233-287.

PREMCHAND. "Chess Players." In Gurdial Malik trans., Short Stories of Premchand. Bombay: Nalanda Publications, 1946. pp. 129-143.

RICHARDS, John F. "The Mughal Empire." In The New Cambridge History of India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 185-297.

ROY, Rammohun. "How the British Took Control of India." In Stephen Hay (ed.), Sources of Indian Tradition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. pp. 15-19.

SETHIA, Tara. "Railways, Raj, and the Indian States: Policy of Collaboration and Coercion in Hyderabad." In Clarence B. Davis & Kenneth Wilburn (eds.), Railway Imperialism. Wesport: Greenwood Press, 1991. pp. 103-120.

___. "The Rise of the Jute Manufacturing Industry in Colonial India: A Global Perspective." Journal of World History, Volume 7, No. 1, 1996. pp. 71-99.

TILAK, Bal Gangadhar. "Father of Indian Unrest." In Stephen Hay (ed.), Sources of Indian Tradition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. pp. 140-148.

WOLPERT, Stanley. "Resurgent Hindu Fundamentalism." Contention, Vol. 2, No. 3, Spring 1993, pp. 9-18.

FIELD TRIPS

  • To the Hindu Temple, Malibu
  • To the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  • To the Huntington Gardens, Pasadena

FACULTY

Faculty Team:

  • Tara Sethia (Director)
  • Zijiang Ding, Cal Poly Pomona
  • Vinay Lal, UCLA

Guest Speakers, Consultants & Artists:

  • Ching Chen, Beijing University
  • Liliane Fucalaro, Cal Poly Pomona
  • Howard Jian, Cal Poly Pomona
  • Guru Rattan Kaur Khalsa, Thiel College
  • Deirdre Lashgari, Cal Poly Pomona
  • Celia Yu Liu, Independent Artist
  • Ranjit Makkuni, Xerox and Indira Gandhi Center for the Arts, New Delhi
  • James Manley, Cal Poly Pomona
  • Anil Sadgopal, University of Delhi
  • Lucia Nunez, SPICE
  • Lin Wu, Cal Poly Pomona

External Program Evaluator: Lynda Shaffer, Tufts University