Syllabus

East Asian Cultural Studies 30

Tourism in East Asia

(Please Note: All information on this page is current as of Fall 2006. This class is not scheduled to be offered during Fall 2007. It may be offered at a later date, at which time all information on this page is subject to change.)

Professor: Hyung-Il Pai
Email: hyungpai@eastasian.ucsb.edu
Office: HSSB 2235
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.

TA: Caitlin Healy
Email: caitlin_healy@umail.ucsb.edu
Office: HSSB 2215
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.

Locations and Times
Lecture: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30 - 10:45 A.M., Phelps 1425
Sections: Fridays, 8:00 and 9:00 A.M., Girvetz 1108

Course Description

This course is designed as an introductory survey to the major archaeological/historical sites, monuments, and museums that have served as the most famous tourists destinations in

China

Japan

, and

South Korea

. Adopting a case study and interactive media approach using video, photographs, and the internet, the class lectures will analyze folk villages, theme parks, monuments, travel magazines, and museums. By taking an inter-disciplinary comparative approach and critical eye to the many facets of the increasingly global and lucrative contemporary tourist industry, we will analyze the following common themes and controversies facing national governments, indigenous peoples, local communities and citizens as well as the casual visitor: (1) The politics of authenticity and cultural heritage management, (2) The production of knowledge and the “invention of tradition,” (3) The negotiation and the commodification of ethnicity, (4) The politics of history and the re-writing of memories, (5) Who owns Native Culture? (6) Who is Tourism for?

Requirements:

The lectures as outlined in the following class schedule constitute the most important part of the course. Since slide viewings are an essential supplement to the lectures, please plan to attend all classes. Every Friday, there will be a discussion session in which a student will summarize that weeks reading and be prepared to answer questions from your fellow students. During the final week of the class, we will have students who will present their own analysis of tourist sites related to Asia they have visited personally. We will have occasional pop quizzes and exam questions will include identifications and descriptions of sites, maps, and names as well as analytical essays. The final paper will consist of your own analysis of a tourist site of your choice with instructor’s approval. The maximum length is ten pages, excluding bibliography, maps, and illustrations. The textbook is called, The Tourist, by Dean MacCannell and can be purchased at the UCEN Bookstore. Readings can be downloaded from the on-line reserve through the library website under services (http://eres.library.ucsb.edu.) Grading percentages break down as indicated below:
Class Participation: 25% (Assignments - 15%, Class and section attendance and participation - 10%)
Mid-term: 20%
Final Paper: 20% (Paper length - 10 pages)
Final Exam: 35%

Class Schedule and Reading List:

Sept. 28 (Thurs.): Introduction to Class

Sept. 29th (Friday): Sections times: 8-9 and 9-10 am,
Assignments and Course requirements - Students are required to give a short summary of the week’s readings to the class and have Q & A.

Oct. 3 (Tues.): Why Study Tourism?
Readings: Textbook, MacCannell, The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class, Chapters 2, 3, 4: pp. 39-89

Oct. 5 (Thurs.): The History of Tourism
Reading: Lofgren, On Holiday - The History of Vacation
Introduction (Elsewhereland), Part 1: Landscapes and Mindscapes

Note: All students must attend the performance of at least one of the three parts of the Chinese opera “The Peony Pavilion,” on October 6, 7, or 8 at the Lobero Theater downtown.

Oct. 6 (Friday): Approaches and Themes (First student presentations)

Oct. 10 (Tues.): Analysis of Tourist Space
Reading: Tim Tangherlini, “Choson Memories: Spectatorship, Ideology, and the Korean Folk Village”
Recommended Readings: Edensor, Tourists at the Taj, Chapter 1: Constructing Tourist Space, pp. 10-28

Oct. 12 (Thurs.): Ethnic Theme Parks in Japan and China
Readings: Hendry, “Foreign Country Theme Parks” and “...or Disneyfication?”
Timothy S. Oakes, “Ethnic Tourism in Rural Guizhou: Sense of Place and the Commerce of Ethnicity”

Oct. 13 (Friday): Section Discussion theme: The Politics of Representation and Staged Authenticity (Discussion on Opera “The Peony Pavilion”)

Oct. 17 (Tues.): Guest Lecture by Amy Bowen, student/website designer
Her analysis of theme park “Splendid China,” (PPT presentation) - Q and A
Readings: Robert E. Wood: “Tourism and the State: Ethnic Options and the Constructions of Otherness”
Hillman, “Paradise under Construction: Minorities, Myths and Modernity in Northwest Yunnan”

Oct. 19 (Thurs.): Photography and Visualizing the Exotic
Reading: Lutz and Collins, Reading National Geographic (1993), pp. 15-33, pp.47-85;
Weisenfeld: Touring Japan as Museum: NIPPON and Other Imperialists Travelogues (2000), Positions 8 (3)

Oct. 20 (Friday): Manipulation of Race, Sex, and Commodification of Ethnicity

Oct. 24 (Tues.): Sex Tourism in South Korea
Reading: E.S. Kim: “Itaewon as an Alien Space within the Nation-State and a Place in the Globalization Era”
Video viewing in Class: Camp Arirang (Camptown Prostitution)
Recommended reading: Katherine Moon, Sex among Allies

Oct. 26 (Thurs.): The Office of Cultural Properties and Making of National Treasures and Monuments in South Korea
Reading: Hyung Il Pai, “The Creation of National Treasures and Monuments: The 1916 Japanese Laws on the Preservation of Korean Remains and Relics and Their Colonial Legacies”

Oct. 27 (Friday): Section: Mid-term preparation – ID’s and Asia geography/map, Review readings and topics

Oct. 31 (Tues.): Mid-term Exams

Nov. 2 (Thurs.): State Manufactured Authenticity: Living National Treasures and Intangible Cultural Properties System in Japan
Readings: Siegenthaler, Peter (1999), “The Ningen Kokuho: A New Symbol for the Japanese Nation.” In Andon: Shedding Light on Japanese Art 62: 3-16.

Nov. 3 (Friday): Collecting Tradition and the Objectification of Identity: Discussions; What do you collect? Why? How do you collect and arrange your objects?
Reading: Elsner and Cardinal: The Cultures of Collecting, Introduction and Chapter 1: The System of Collecting
Recommended reading: Susan Pearce: Museums, Objects, and Collections, Chapter 1 and 2

Nov. 7 (Tues.): The Politics of Reconstruction: Tourism Development versus Preservation
Guest Lecture by Prof. Luke Roberts (Professor in Japanese history)
The Preservation of a Samurai House in Shikoku
Readings: Luke Roberts: https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/627
Peter Siegenthaler: Creation Myths for the Preservation of Tsumago Post-Town
Recommended reading: Sightseeing in Kochi City

Nov. 9 (Thurs.): Museums, Fieldwork, and Colonialism
Readings: H.I. Pai: "The Politics of Korea's Past: The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Archaeology in the Korean Peninsula." in Shih (East Asian History) Vol.7. pp.25-48.

Nov. 10 (Friday Section): Show and tell - What do you collect and Why?
Prepare to discuss your fieldtrip to the Getty or LACMA

Everyone must have a paper topic by this week.

Nov. 14 (Tues.): Displaying Antiquity and Ethnicity: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Museum Collections
Readings: Hooper-Greenhill, Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge, chapters 1, pp. 1-22 and Chapter 8 pp., 191-215
Kendall, “Peoples Under Glass: A Tale of Two Museums”

Nov. 16 (Thurs.): Student Guest Lecture: Andrew Vogel
War Memorials and Monuments in South Korea
Readings: Sheila Miyoshi-Jaeger: Manhood, the State and the Yongsan War Memorial
Recommended readings: A trip to Panmunjeom and the DMZ’s Wikipedia page

Nov. 17th (Friday Section): The Romantic Narrative of Return to the “Imagined” Ancestral Homelands
Reading: Liu Li, Who were the Ancestors? The Origins of Chinese Ancestral Cult and Racial Myths. Final paper/presentation topic due in class - Title and short bibliography list

Current Issues in Tourism and Heritage Management
Nov. 21 (Tues.): Ethnic Heritage Tourism to China
Reading: Louie, “When you are Related to the “Other”: (Re)locating the Chinese Homeland in Asian American Politics through Cultural Tourism”

Nov. 23 (Thurs.): THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

Nov. 28 (Tues.): Guest Lecture: Susan Chan-Egan
Lecture title: A Visitor of Chinese Descent: What I sought in China and What China Wanted Out of Me over the Decades
The Politics of Reconstruction: Tourism Development versus Preservation – (cf. Unesco World Heritage Site on-line)
Reading: Hevia, “World Heritage, National Culture and the Restoration of Chengde”

Nov. 30th (Thurs.): Student Presentations

Dec. 1 (Friday): Discussions and comments on presentations

Dec. 5 (Tues.): Student Presentations

Guidelines for your presentation:
1. Why did I pick this site?
2. What is this site famous for?
3. Why is this site relevant for this class?
4. Body of the presentation—DETAILS of the place/monument/museum
Student must have used five books or articles on the topic selected.
5. FACTS:
A.Who operates this place and what is their agenda?
B. How many visitors does this place have a year?
C. What are your impressions of this site?
D. How can you apply the issues discussed in class to the analysis of this place/topic?
E. If you were a developer of the site, how would you do it differently?

Dec. 7 (Thurs.): Class Review for exams (Exam guidelines handed out)

Dec. 8 (Friday): Paper due (last day of dead week) by 4:30 pm in Dept. office mailbox (NO EXCEPTIONS)

Dec. 13th (Wed.): Final Exam, 8-11 A.M.