HASS Term 1

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Readings

02.120

History of Traditional Chinese Short Fiction

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“Hsiao-shuo” in The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, volume 1, page 423-426.

"The Assassin-Retainers, Memoir 26" in Sima Qian, translated by William H. Nienhauser. The Grand scribe’s Records. Volume VII The Memoirs of Pre-Han China (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994) pp.319-334.

“Prince Tan of Yen” in Traditional Chinese Stories: themes and variations. edited by Y.W.Ma and Joseph S. Lau. (Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, 2002) pp. 43-49.

Selection from  Chapter 1, " Virtuous Conduct " Chapter 7, “Insight and Judgment” Chapter 8, "Appreciation and Praise" Chapter 9, " Classification according to Excellence" Chapter 14, "Appearance and Behavior" Chapter 17, “Grieving for the Departed” Chapter 21, "Skill and Art" Chapter 23, "The Free and Unrestrained" Chapter 35, “Blind infatuations” Chapter 36, “Hostility and alienation” in Richard B. Mather translated. A New Account of Tales of the World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1976.

Six Dynasties (222-589) Supernatural and Fantastic Tales: revenge, knight-errantry and supernatural manifestation

“The Jade Maiden From Heaven”, “Ch’in Chu-po and the Ghosts”, “Kan Chiang and Mo Yeh”, “the Filial Girl of Tung-hai”, “The Daughter of King of Wu”, “Li Chi, the Serpert Slayer” in Sou Shen Ji. seeKarl S. Y. Kao,  Classical Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the  Fantastic.(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985), pp. 65-69, 73-77, 92-95.

“The Daughter of Hsu Hsuan-fang”, “The Pure Maiden of the White Waters” in Sou Shen Hou Ji. see Karl S. Y. Kao,  Classical Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the  Fantastic.(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985), pp.130-134.

“The Man with the Curly Beard”, "The White Monkey"  translated by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang, in Tang Dynasty Stories.( Beijing: Panda Books, 1986), pp. 97-105, 144-149.

“The K’un Lun Slave” ,“Nie Yin-niang” in Karl S. Y. Kao,  Classical Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the  Fantastic.(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985), pp.351-362.

"The Story of Ying Ying", “The Courtesan Li Wa” in Y.W.Ma and Joseph S.M.Lau edited Traditional Chinese Stories: Themes and Variations. (Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, 2002), pp.139-145, 163-171.

Jiang Fang, "Prince Huo's Daughter," Tang Dynasty Stories, pp.43-55.

“Chao T’ai and his experience in Hell” in Karl S.Y.Kao edited Classical Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic: Selection from the Third to the Tenth Century. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985), pp.166-171.

“The Great Maudgalyayana rescues his mother from hell” in Traditional Chinese Stories: themes and variations. edited by Y.W.Ma and Joseph S. Lau. (Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, 2002), pp.443-455.

"The Jade Kuanyin," Traditional Chinese Tales      

“The Oil Peddler Counts the Courtesan”, "The Pearl Shirt Reencountered", “Han Wu-niang Sells Her Charms at the New Bridge Market”, “Tu Shih-niang Sinks the Jewel Box in Anger” in Traditional Chinese Stories: themes and variations. edited by Y.W.Ma and Joseph S. Lau. (Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, 2002)

"The Judicial Murder of Tsui Ning," Traditional Chinese Tales 

“The Jest that Leads to Disaster”, “Lion Cub Lane”, “Magistrate T’eng and the Case of Inheritance” in Traditional Chinese Stories: themes and variations. edited by Y.W.Ma and Joseph S. Lau. (Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, 2002), pp. 467-502.

“An Ugly Husband Fears A Pretty Wife but marries a beautiful one”, “A male mencius’s mother raises her son properly by moving house three times”, “An actress scorns wealth and honour to preserve her chastity” in Partick Hannan edited Silent Operas (Wusheng xi). (Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1990). Pp. 1-42, 97-134, 161-201.

Selections from the Strange Tales from Make-do Studio, Tales # 6.Tales # 1.                            Tales # 11. Tales #43. Tales # 12.

02.110

The Chinese Lyrical Tradition: Arts, Literature and Landscape Design

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Kao Yu-Kung. “Chinese Lyric Aesthetics” in Alfreda Murck and Wen C. Fong edited. Words and Images: Chinese Poetry, Calligraphy and Painting. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991). Page 47-90.

Primary Reading: Selected Poem from The Book of Odes

Qu Yuan. Li Sao and “Nine-Songs” in Stephen Owen. An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginning to 1911. (New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996).pp.162-175.

Primary Reading: Song Yu. “Gao Tang Rhapsody” and “Goddess Rhapsody ”.  in John Minford and Joseph S.M.Lau page.272-278.

Primary Readings: Selected Poem from “Nineteenth Old Poems” in  Stephen Owen. An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginning to 1911. (New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996)pp. 253, 255-261.

Primary Reading: Selected Poems from Xie, Tao and Wang. in Burton Watson. translated and edited. The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry. Columbia University Press, 1984.

Primary Reading: Selected Chinese Landscape Painting and Selected Calligraphic works

Owen, Stephen, "Tang Xian-zu, Peony Pavilion: Selected Acts," in Stephen Owen, ed. An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997. p. 880-906

On-line resource. Selected Acts of Peony Pavilion performed by Zhang Jiqing:

Scholar-beauty romance (Yu Jiao Li)

David Hawkes translated The Story of the Stone, Vol I The Golden Days, chapter 5.

Ji Cheng. translated by Alison Hardie. The Craft of Gardens. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988).

Dream of the Red Chamber, Chapter 17.

Ji Cheng. translated by Alison Hardie. The craft of gardens. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988).

Shen Congwen. Translated by Jeffrey C. Kinkley. Border Town: A Novel.

2.131

Non-fiction and Ethnographic Film: Theory and Practice

Bernard, S. (2011). Documentary storytelling creative nonfiction on screen (3rd ed.). Amsterdam ; Boston: Focal Press.

Heider, K. (2009). Ethnographic Film. University of Texas Press.

02.223

Morals and Markets

Abend, Gabriel (2013). The Origins of Business Ethics in American Universities, 1902–1936. Business Ethics Quarterly. 23:2.

Abend, Gabriel (2014). The moral background. An inquiry into the history of business ethics. Princeton University Press. (Chapter 2).

Anderson, Elizabeth (1995). Value in ethics and economics. Harvard University Press. (Chapter 1, pp. 1-16)

Banerjee, Subhabrata (2008). Corporate social responsibility: The good, the bad and the ugly. Critical Sociology, 34(1), 51-79.

Becker, Gary. S., & Elias, Julio J. (2007). Introducing incentives in the market for live and cadaveric organ donations. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21(3), 3-24.

Bernstein, E. (2007). Temporarily yours : Intimacy, authenticity, and the commerce of sex (Worlds of desire). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Debord, Guy. Society of the spectacle. (Chapters 1 and 2).

Fourcade, Marion & Healy, Kieran (2007). Moral views of market society. Annual Review of Sociology, 33(1), 285-311.

Freeman, R. Edward (1999). Divergent stakeholder theory. Academy of Management Review, 24(2), 233-236.

Friedman, M., & Friedman, Rose D. (2002). Capitalism and freedom (40th Anniversary ed.).

Friedman, Milton (1970). The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits. The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970.

Geis, Gilbert (1995). White collar crime: The heavy electrical equipment antitrust case of 1961. In Contemporary Masters in Criminology (pp. 139-156). Springer US.

Gneezy, Uri; Meier, Stephan and Rey-Biel, Pedro (2011). When and why incentives (don't) work to modify behavior. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 25(4), 191-209.

Graafland, Johan (2007). Economics, Ethics and the Market. (Chapter 2.1-2).

Healy, Kieran, & Healy, K. (2006). Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs. University of Chicago Press.

Jackall, Robert. (1988). Moral mazes: The world of corporate managers. Oxford University Press. (Introduction, chapter 1).

Livne, Roi (2014). Economies of dying the moralization of economic scarcity in US hospice care. American Sociological Review, 79(5), 888-911.

Marcuse, Herbert. One-dimensional man.

Piff, Paul K.; Stancato, Daniel. M.; Côté, Stéphane; Mendoza-Denton, Rodolfo and Keltner, Dacher (2012). Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(11), 4086-4091.

Sandel, Michael J. (2012). What money can't buy: The moral limits of markets. Macmillan. (Chapter 4.)

Satz, Debra (2010). Why some things should not be for sale. Oxford University Press. (Chapters 1, 3 and 4)

Sutherland, Edwin H. (1940). White-collar criminality. American sociological review, 5(1), 1-12.

Zelizer, Viviana A. (1978). Human values and the market: The case of life insurance and death in 19th-century America. American journal of sociology, 83(3), 591-610.

Suggested readings:

Almeling, Rene (2011). Sex cells: the medical market for eggs and sperm. University of California Press. (chapter 4).

Anderson, Eizabeth. (1995). Value in ethics and economics. Harvard University Press. (chapter 8)

Anteby, Michel (2010). Markets, morals, and practices of trade: Jurisdictional disputes in the U.S. commerce in cadavers. Administrative Science Quarterly, 55(4): 606-638.

Frey, Bruno S. (1997). On the relationship between intrinsic and extrinsic work motivation. International journal of industrial organization, 15(4), 427-439.

Hayek, Friedrich (1988). The fatal conceit. (Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5).

Hirschman, Albert O. (1997). The passions and the interests: Political arguments for capitalism before its triumph. Princeton University Press. (Part 1 and 2, pp. 9-113).

Jackall, Robert. (1988). Moral mazes: The world of corporate managers. Oxford University Press. (Chapter 2).

Orlitzky, Marc, Schmidt, Frank L., & Rynes, Sara L. (2003). Corporate social and financial performance: A meta-analysis. Organization studies, 24(3), 403-441.

Polanyi, Karl (1944). The great transformation. (Chapter 4, “Societies and Economic Systems”).

Quinn, Sarah. (2008). The Transformation of Morals in Markets: Death, Benefits, and the Exchange of Life Insurance Policies. American Journal of Sociology, 114(3), 738-780.

Salzinger, Leslie. (2003). Genders in production: Making workers in Mexico's global factories. Univ of California Press. (Chapter 2)

Sandel, Michael J. (2012). What money can't buy: The moral limits of markets. Macmillan. (Chapters 2 and 3).

Shleifer, Andrei (2004). Does competition destroy ethical behavior? American Economic Review, 94(2), 414-418.

Veblen, Thorstein (1899). The theory of the leisure class. (Chapter 1, “Introductory” and Chapter 4, “Conspicuous consumption”).

von Mises, Ludwig (2008). Human action. (Chapter 15.1-12).

02.003

Theorizing Society, the Self, and Culture
HASS

Abbott, A. (2004). Methods of Discovery. New York, NY: Norton and Co. (read Chapter 1, pp. 3-40).

Physical
Trouillot, M. (1995). Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. (read Chapter 1: The Power in the Story, pp. 1-30).

eBook
Trouillot, M. (1995). Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. (read Chapter 1: The Power in the Story, pp. 1-30).

Andaya, B. W. 2006. The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Early Modern Southeast Asia. Honolulu, HA: University of Hawai'i Press. (read pp. 42-69).

Elton, G. R. (1991). The Practice of History. Boston, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. (originally published 1967). (read pp. 46-60).

Sentilles, R. M. 2005. “Toiling in the Archives of Cyberspace.” In A. Burton (Ed.), Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History, pp. 136-56. Durham: Duke University Press.

Smith, A. (2010). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. New York, NY: Penguin Books. (originally published 1776). (read Book I, Chapters 1 and 2. pp. 110-121).

Smith, A. (1974). The Theory of Moral Sentiments. New York, NY: Penguin Books. (originally published 1759). (read Section 1: Of The Sense of Propriety, Chapter 1: Of Sympathy and Chapter 2: Of the Pleasure of Mutual Sympathy).

Bentham, Jeremy. (1972). An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. New York, NY: Wiley. (originally published 1781). (read Chapters 1 and 4, pp. 14-18, 31-34).

Elster, Jon. (1989). Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press, 1989. (read Chapters 2,3, and 4, pp. 13-41).

Ostrom, E. (1998). A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action. American Political Science Review, 92(1), pp. 1-22.

Downs, A. (1957). An Economic Theory of Democracy. New York: Harper and Row. (read Chapter 1, pp. 3-14).

Becker, G. S. (2010). Rational Choice. Boston, MA: MIT Press. (read Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 3-23).

Becker, G. S. (1992). Nobel Prize Lecture: The Economic Way of Looking at Life. Digital edition. (read pp. 38-58).

Tucker, R. C. (ed.) (1978). The Marx-Engels Reader. 2nd ed. W. W. Norton & Company. (read Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 – “Estranged labor”, p. 70-81; Capital Volume I, p. 302-308, 319-329, 397-403, 411-415; The Communist Manifesto, p. 473-491).

Piketty, T. (2013). Capital in the Twenty-First Century, trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (read pp. 304-335).

Durkheim, E. (2013). Division of Labour in Society. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (originally published 1893). (read Introduction 33-38, Book 1 Chapter 1 41-45, 52-56, Chapter 2 57-67, 81-84.  Chapter 3 88-100).

Barnes, J. A. (1966). Durkheim's Division of Labour in Society. Man 1(2), 158-175.

Merton, R. K. (1934). Durkheim's Division of Labor in Society. American Journal of Sociology 40 (3), 319-328.

Pope, W. (1975). Durkheim as a Functionalist. The Sociological Quarterly 16(3), 361-379.

Weber, M. (2002). The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York, NY: Routledge. (originally published 1930). (read Chapter 1: Religious Affiliation and Social Stratification and Chapter 2: The Spirit of Capitalism).

Seidman, S. (2012). Contested Knowledge. Boston, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. (read part 1)

Geertz, C. (1973). The Interpretation of Cultures. New York, NY: Basic Books. (read Chapter 15: Deep play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight)

Geertz, C. (1965). The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man. InEd. J.R. Platt (Ed.), New Views on the Nature of Man. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Ruth B. (2006). Patterns of Culture. (read Chapter 1, Chapter 2 and Chapter 3)

Geertz, C. (1977). The Interpretation of Cultures. New York, NY: Basic Books. (read Chapter 1: Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture)

Clifford, J. and George M. (eds). (1984). Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Keesing R. M. (1987). Anthropology as Interpretive Quest. Current Anthropology Vol. 28 (2), 161-176.

Israel, I. & Hay, M. (2006). Research Ethics for Social Scientists: Between Ethical Conduct and Regulatory Compliance. (read chapter 1, pp.2-11, and chapter 7, p. 95-111).

Carrick-Hagenbarth, J., & Epstein, G. A. (2012). Dangerous Interconnectedness: Economists’ Conflicts of Interest, Ideology and Financial Crisis. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 36(1), 43-63.

Cramer, C. E. (2006). Why Footnotes Matter: Checking Arming America’s

Heath, C., Luff, P., & Svensson, M. S. (2007).Video and Qualitative research. Medical Education, 41(1), 109-116.

Liu, Xiaoxing. 2008. Research on the Na and Academic Integrity. Critique of Anthropology. Vol. 28 (3), 297-320.

Zimmer, M. (2008). More on the “Anonymity” of the Facebook Dataset–It’s

Goffman, E.  (1959).  The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.  Garden City, NJ: Doubleday.  (read chapter 1, pp. 17-76).

Fine, G. A. (1993). The Sad Demise, Mysterious Disappearance, And Glorious Triumph of Symbolic Interactionism. Annual Review of Sociology 19, 61-87.

Scheff, T. (2005). Looking-Glass Self: Goffman as Symbolic Interactionist. Symbolic Interaction 28 (2), 147-166.

Rawls, A. W. (1987). The Interaction Order Sui Generis: Goffman’s Contribution to Social Theory. Sociological Theory 2, 136-49.

Freud, S. (1989). Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Company. (originally published 1920). (read p. 318-337 and 404-444).

Chomsky, N. (2006). A Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior. In G. Marcus (Ed.), The Norton Psychology Reader. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company. (read p. 129-137).

Freud, S. (1989). New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. New York, NY: W. W. Norton and Company. (originally published 1933). (read 71-100).

Watson, J. & Rayner R. (2006). Conditional Emotional Reactions. In G. Marcus (Ed.), The Norton Psychology Reader. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. (read 117-129).

Miller, G. (2003). The Cognitive Revolution: A Historical Perspective. TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences 7(3), 141-144.

Fanon, F. (1952). Black Skin, White Masks. (read chapter 4)

Beauvoir (de), S. (1949). The Second Sex. (read the introduction)

Alatas, S. F. (2010). “The Call for Alternate Discourses in Asian Social Sciences”, in World Social Science Report. Paris: UNESCO Publications, pp. 171-172.

Nakano Glenn, E. (1999). The Social Construction and Institutionalization of Gender and Race. In Ferree, M. M., Lorber, J., & Hess, B. B. (Eds.), Revisioning gender, 3-43.

Sun, S. (2009). Re-producing Citizens: Gender, Employment, and Work-Family-Balance Policies in Singapore. Journal of Workplace Rights, 14(3), 351-374.