INST 203 Final Review (All
Readings) with 100% correct
answers 2025
Edward Said, "Orientalism (Introduction)" - answer - reality vs
representations, the nature of language as representative and not
presentative
- defining the West through its opposition to the East
- material basis
Wang Hui, "A New Way to See World History" - answer - the issue of
modernity; a linear, teleological temporality? or something else?
- seeing Asia not as a beginning or as an object
- reject the presupposition of the nation-state
- how to go about a new world history?
Arlif Dirlik "Chinese History and the Question of Orientalism" - answer -
Said fails to address the "oriental response to orientalism," representing
the Orient as a passive and silent object
- Euro-American representations in the formulation of self-image
- using Orientalism and the concept of opposition to define the nation
Takeshi Hamashita, "Changing Regions and China" - answer - rejects the
perspective of the Western "impact" and the Asian "response"; "sleeping"
vs "awakening"
- Asian transformation must be understood in a unique way given East
Asia's internal dynamism (internal and external appropriations)
- Sino-centric tribute system brought into question the creation of treaties
, Fukuzawa Yukichi, "Western Civilization as Our Goal" - answer - European
civilization as the highest level, using Western civilization to strengthen
national polity (imperial line)
- "casting our lot with the West" vs the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity
Sphere
- context: internalized social Darwinism, scientific racism filled the gap
between the equality of sovereignty and the power disparities of reality
Vladimir Tikhonov, "The Race and Racism Discourses in Modern Korea" -
answer - racism filled the gap between the equality of sovereignty and
the power disparities of reality (hereditary belonging to zones of the world
economy)
- racism legitimizes inequality in opportunity, power, and wealth
- informed Yukichi's worldview
- Confucian mentality and barbarism
Benedict Anderson, "Imagined Community" - answer - nation is an
imagined political community inherently limited and sovereign
- political: includes notions of national polity
- imagined: not natural, but has a material basis and power (capitalism,
print technology, rise of the vernacular)
- limited: representation, draws boundaries
- sovereign: should not be encroached
- community: horizontal comradeship
- affinity or replacement of religious imagination, solved the problems of
suffering and meaning
Marxism and Nationalism - answer - complex relationship
- universal pattern of progress, international class solidarity
- very popular among elites and intellectuals and anti-imperialistic
- a temporary relationship between the nationalist and the socialist?
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