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CLASS SCHEDULE
Introduction
Discourses of history
Elections
Austronesian
Elections
Early Colonialism
Qing Society
Japanese Takeover
Baseball
2-28
Little China
Democratization
Environment
Museums
Religion
Family and Marriage
Local and National
National and Global

ANTHROPOLOGY 469A/JSIS 484F

TAIWAN: CULTURE, SOCIETY, HISTORY

TOPICS AND READINGS FOR FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5

TOPICS
We will do the same thing we did on the 5th: Please watch the first reel of Hou Hsiao-hsien's A city of Sadness, 悲情城市 the classic work about 2-28, on reserve, and then we will watch the second reel together in class. We will talk about the uses to which 2-28 has been put by Taiwanese politicians and others from the time of the incident to the present, but particularly since the democratization.

READINGS ASSIGNMENT
By 8:00 a.m. on Monday, February 8, please post 200-400 words on whether you think one can ever determine the "real meaning" of 2-28.