INDIA CHINA INTERACTIONS CRN 7396, Sec A

Spring 2012 Wednesdays, 8-7:50pm Rm TBA

L.H.M. Ling

Office: 6th Floor, 66 W. 12th St. Office Hours: Wednesday 4-6pm Email: [email protected] Phone: 212.206.3524 ext 2422

Course Description

This course is designed for students interested in Sino-Indian interactions. We will cover the historical and contemporary exchanges between India and China given their dramatically different cultural, political, and historical experiences. We aim not only to understand the uniqueness of the connections between India and China, but also how these two civilizations have contributed to global exchanges and flows. The course will highlight similarities and differences between the two societies, their mutual perceptions, cultural exchanges and influences, patterns of development, causes of conflict as well as possibilities for cooperation, and their role in world history and the contemporary global economy. We will read primary and second materials, including films and documentaries.

Course Objectives

1. To understand Sino-Indian interactions more comprehensively and concretely; 2. To close our gaps in knowledge through direct interactions and investigations; 3. To improve teaching of and learning about India and China; and, 4. To support a group of young scholars interested in expanding existing scholarship on India China interactions.

Requirements

1. Class Participation (10%). Students are encouraged to participate in this class. This means asking questions, commenting on readings or other people‟s comments, and challenging/debating the instructor. 2. Two Response Papers (15% each, 30% total). Students will write a response paper (no more than 2 pages, double-spaced, size 12 font) on a reading in class on the day the reading is due. Please write your response papers early, as this is the only way the instructor can spot and address any writing problems you may have.

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3. One Class Presentation (25%). Students can present individually or in teams on India-China interactions in ONE of the following areas: Southeast (4/18), Africa and Latin (4/25), US and Europe (5/2), Future Prospects and Challenges (5/9). Students can focus on social, economic, political, OR cultural aspects of India-China interactions in these areas. Students will draw on what the mainstream media is reporting on these topics. The following questions should guide the presentation:

a. What is your topic? Why did you choose it? What is its significance for India-China interactions? b. What are the mainstream media (broadcast, print, internet) saying about this topic? Are there any counter arguments proposed in the independent media? c. What conclusions do you draw from this survey of media reports on this topic?

Prepare to select your topic early in the semester.

4. One Research Paper (35%). Students will place the topic they selected for the Class Presentation within a context of deeper, academic discussions drawing on concepts and theories we have covered in this class. This research paper should be no more than 20 pages, double- spaced, and in size 12 font. The following questions should guide the paper:

a. What is your Argument about Topic X? How does your Argument advance our understanding of India-China interactions? b. Where does your Argument come from? In other words, what are the conceptual or theoretical origins of your Argument? Why do you choose this focus? c. What are the implications of your Argument for future relations in world politics? (You may choose to focus on India-China relations or US-India-China relations or world politics in general.)

The Research Paper is due on 18 May 2012. You may send it in by email.

NOTE ON PLAGIARISM

Any words, terms, or concepts taken from another author or text, whether from a book, magazine, or the Internet, must be duly cited. Failure to do so constitutes plagiarism and could get the offender expelled from the program and the university.

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READINGS

I recommend you purchase the following books (all are available on amazon.com):

Siddhartha DEB, The Beautiful and The Damned: A Portrait of the New India (New York: Faber & Faber, 2011).

PA Chin, Family [1931], Introduction by Olga Lang, Translated by Sidney Shapiro (Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc., 1972).

Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008):

Jianying ZHA, Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China (New York: The New Press, 2011).

All other readings will be available on the class website. Make sure you sign up for it.

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COURSE OUTLINE

Session 1 (1/25): Introduction

F.W. HEGEL, Philosophy of History (1830-1831) Part I: The Oriental World: (http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hi/lectures1.htm)

TAN Chung (ed.), Across the Himalayan Gap: An Indian Quest for Understanding China (New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and Gyan Publishing House, 1998):

TAN Chung, “A Sino-Indian Perspective for India-China Understanding,” pp. 133-148.

I. INDIA-CHINA, TODAY AND YESTERDAY

Session 2 (2/1): China Today [Guest Lecturer: Jianying ZHA, The New School]

Jianying Zha, Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China (New York: The New Press, 2011):

Part I: The Entrepreneurs, pp. 13-14. i. A Good Tycoon, pp. 15-48. ii. The Turtles, pp. 49-76. iii. The Barefoot Capitalist, pp. 77-94. . Part II: The Intellectuals, pp. 95-96. i. Beida, Beida!, pp. 97-137. ii. Enemy of the State, pp. 138-166. iii. Servant of the State, pp. 167-216.

Session 3 (2/8): Ancient Linkages

LIU Xinru, Ancient India and Ancient China: Trade and Religious Exchanges, AD 1- 600. (Oxford University Press, 1988).

“Introduction,” pp. 1-22. “Trade Routes and Centres from the First to the Early Sixth Centuries,” pp. 25-? “The Structure of Trade,” pp. xx-xx.

Tansen SEN, “The Travel Records of Chinese Pilgrims Faxian, Xuangzang, and Yijing: Sources for Cross-Cultural Encounters between Ancient China and Ancient India,” Education About Asia 11(3) 2006: 24-33.

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TAN Chung (ed.), Across the Himalayan Gap: An Indian Quest for Understanding China (New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and Gyan Publishing House, 1998):

Haraprasad RAY, “Unveiling Xuanzang and the Xuanzang Spirit,” pp. 149-154.

A. RAHMAN (ed.), India’s Interaction with China, Central and West Asia, Volume III, Part 2 (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002):

Sujatha REDDY, “India-China Cultural Synthesis – Contributions to Medicine,” pp. 315-330.

Session 4 (2/15): India Today [Guest Lecturer: Siddhartha DEB, The New School]

Siddhartha DEB, The Beautiful and The Damned: A Portrait of the New India (New York: Faber & Faber, 2011).

“The Great Gatsby: A Rich Man in India” “Ghosts in the Machine: The Engineer‟s Burden” “Red Sorghum: Farmers in the Free Market” “The Factory: The Permanent World of the Temporary Workers” “The Girl from F&B: Women in the Big City”

II. COLONIALISM AND ITS AFTERMATH

Session 5 (2/22): The Meaning of Colonialism and Postcolonialism [Guest Lecturer: Payal BANERJEE, Smith College]

TAN Chung (ed.), Across the Himalayan Gap: An Indian Quest for Understanding China (New Delhi: Gyan Publishing House and Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 1998):

Ravni THAKUR and TAN Chung, “Enchantment and Disenchantment: A Sino- Indian Introspection,” pp. xx-xx.

Payal BANERJEE, “Chinese Indians in Fire: Refractions of Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality and Citizenship in Post-Colonial India‟s Memories of the Sino-Indian War,” China Report 43:4 (2007): 437-463.

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Session 6 (2/29): Legacies of the Opium War [Select Topics for Presentation]

Amitav GHOSH, Sea of Poppies (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008):

Part I: Land, pp. 3-165.

PA Chin, Family [1931], Introduction by Olga Lang, Translated by Sidney Shapiro (Long Grove, Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc., 1972). [Note: “PA Chin” is “BA Jin” in .]

Lydia H. LIU, The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004):

“The Birth of a Super-Sign” (Chapter 2), pp. 31-69.

III. CREATING THE POSTCOLONIAL STATE

Session 7 (3/7): Nation-Building

G.P. DESHPANDE and Alka ACHARYA (eds), 50 Years of India China: Crossing a Bridge of Dreams (New Delhi: Tulika, 2001):

Surjit MANSINGH and C.V. RANGANATHAN, “Approaches to State Sovereignty,” pp. 446-466.

Kuan-Hsing CHEN and CHUA Beng Huat (eds), The Inter-Asia Reader (New York: Routledge 2007):

Partha CHATTERJEE, “ and the Violence of the State: A Political Negotiation of Death,” pp. 163-177.

Session 8 (3/21): World-Building: Bandung 1955

See Seng TAN and Amitav ACHARYA (eds), Bandung Revisited: The Legacy of the 1955 Asian-African Conference for International Order (: National University of Singapore Press, 2008):

Amitav ACHARYA and See Seng TAN, “Introduction: The Normative Relevance of the Bandung Conference for Contemporary Asian and International Order,” pp. 1-18. Itty ABRAHAM, “Bandung and State Formation in Post-colonial Asia,” pp. 48- 67. Adekeye ADEBAJO, “From Bandung to Durban: Whither the Afro-Asian Coalition?,” pp. 105-131.

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Rahul MUKHERJI, “Appraising the Legacy of Bandung: A View from India,” pp. 160-179.

Hee-Yeon CHO, “Revitalizing the Bandung Spirit,” in Kuan-Hsing Chen and Chua Beng Huat (eds), The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Reader (New York: Routledge 2007), pp. 578-591.

SPRING BREAK

IV. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND PROBLEMS

Session 9 (3/28): Travels and Diaspora

Anand A. YANG, “An Indian Subaltern‟s Passage to China in 1900.” Education About Asia 11(3) 2006: 12-15.

Tansen SEN, “The Formation of Chinese Maritime Networks to Southern Asia, 1200- 1450,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 49(4) November 2006: 421-453.

Rafeeq ELLIAS, “The Legend of Fat Mama” (2006, 23 minutes documentary)

“ – The Indian Diaspora” (http://indiandiaspora.nic.in/diasporapdf/chapter20.pdf)

The “Chinese Diaspora” and Southeast Asia (http://seaf.stanford.edu/news/2927):

“Beyond Representations? Portrayals of an Overseas Chinese Tycoon in Southeast Asia” “Rethinking the „Overseas Chinese‟: What‟s in a Name?‟

NO CLASS ON 4 APRIL

Session 9 (4/6): Borders and National Security

LEE Jung Nam, “The Revival of Chinese Nationalism: Perspectives of Chinese Intellectuals,” Asian Perspective 30 (4) 2006: 141-165.

Sanjib BARUAH, “Northwest by Northeast: A Tale of Two Frontiers,” Openindia 17 July 2009 (http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/email/northwest-by-northeast-a-tale-of- two-frontiers).

G.P. DESHPANDE and Alka ACHARYA (eds), 50 Years of India China: Crossing a Bridge of Dreams (New Delhi: Tulika, 2001):

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Mira Sinha BHATTACHARJEA, “1962 Revisited,” pp. xx-xx.

Paula BANERJEE, Borders, Histories, Existences: Gender and Beyond (New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2010):

“Borders as Unsettled Markers: The Sino-Indian Border,” pp. 39-61. “The Line of Control: Kashmir,” pp. 62-86.

”Indian, Pakistani, and Chinese Border Disputes,” The Economist 18 May 2011 (http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/05/indian_pakistani_and_chinese_bor der_disputes)

V. INDIA-CHINA & THE WORLD (Student Presentations)

Session 10 (4/11): Southeast Asia

Session 11 (4/18): Africa & Latin America

Session 12 (4/25): Developmental Challenges [Guest Lecturers: YAO Yang, Peking University and Sanjay REDDY, The New School]

Yao Yang, “The Disinterested Government: An Interpretation of China‟s Economic Success in the Reform Era,” China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, 31 October 2008 (http://policydialogue.org/files/events/Yao_Disinterested_Government_China.pdf)

Sanjay Ruparelia, Sanjay Reddy, John Harriss and Stuart Corbridge (eds), Understanding India’s New Political Economy: A Great Transformation? (London: Routledge, 2011):

Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss, Sanjay Ruparelia, and Sanjay Reddy, “Introduction: India‟s Transforming Political Economy,” pp. 1-16.

John Harriss, “How Far Have India‟s Economic Reforms Been „Guided by Compassion and Justice‟? Social Policy in the Neoliberal Era,” pp. 127-140.

Session 13 (5/2): US & Europe

Session 14 (5/9): Future Prospects & Challenges (Last Class: Libations!)

Research Paper due on 18 May 2012. You may send it via email.

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