Problems and problematics of teaching cultural studies in Taiwan |
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| Authors: | Kuan‐Hsing Chen |
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| Institution: | 1. College of Liberal Arts, Shanghai University, Shanghai, PRChaixiali30@163.com |
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| Abstract: | Abstract The essay was written in the context of a Teaching Cultural Studies (in Asia) Workshop. In dialogues with practitioners and young faculty in Taiwan and Asia, it utilizes the author's own past and present experiences to articulate the difficulties and problematic of teaching Cultural Studies. The main argument proposes that teaching Cultural Studies needs to be grounded in local intellectual traditions and histories upon which critical works out of Asia and the Third World will have to be actively engaged to overcome the dominant condition of knowledge which singularizes the West as the only source for intellectual interventions. |
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| Keywords: | Belles-lettres Yang Shou style Beauty and Poetry Cross-Cultural Writing Zen lack of literary complexity canonical work Humanity landscape the gaze |
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