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Part
1: Entire Course
Course
Description
Developed jointly by faculty of CUHK and Brown University,
this course provides an opportunity for students to compare
cultural heritage preservation strategies in two very different
areas.
In Hong Kong, students will
explore historical development of Hong Kong as exemplified
by, for example, cultural heritage, the conflict and negotiation
of economic and political interests in urban renewal and heritage
conservation and preservation. In Providence, students will
explore the history and present-day philosophy and politics
of preserving sites and stories from Colonial times to the
present, exploring avenues including historical archaeology,
historic preservation, museum exhibition, memorials, and oral
history.
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Learning
outcomes:
At the end of the course, students shall have been introduced to
cross-cultural, inter-disciplinary, and critical approaches to:
The historic background and heritage between the two cities
The significance
of their heritage properties
The economic, social
and political contexts of heritage conservation in the two cities
Learning
activities:
The course will meet two to three days a week, all day. Students
will spend 4 weeks in Hong Kong, at CUHK, and 4 weeks on the Brown
University campus in Providence, Rhode Island.
At each site there
will be approximately 45 contact hours of instruction, including
lectures and group discussions, trips to local institutions and
field work. In Hong Kong, students will visit museums and field-sites
in urban and rural areas. In Rhode Island, students will work at
the Greene Farm Archaeology Project; undertake oral history interviews
in the diverse Fox Point neighborhood of Providence; and explore
such local resources as the Rhode Island School of Design Museum,
the Mashantucket Pequot Museum, and Plymouth Plantation.
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Part
2: Hong Kong
8- 30 June, 2011 (a total of 8 sessions)
Lecture
topics/sessions (exact order to be confirmed)
Lecture topics/sessions
(exact order to be confirmed)
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Tracey
Lu (2 sessions)
I. 9:30-12:30: Lecture - Introduction to heritage conservation
in Hong Kong
2:00-3:00: Tutorial
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II. Whole day (6-8
hours)
Field visits to Central and Wanchai of the Hong Kong Island,
talking to local community and NGO |
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concerning heritage preservation
in Hong Kong, and discussing the political and economic agenda
of heritage conservation.
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Sidney Cheung
(2 sessions)
I. 9:30-12:30: Lecture - The historical backgrounds of the Tang
clan in the New Territories and |
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current socio- political issues
regarding indigenous rights and heritage ownership |
Afternoon: Fieldtrip
to Ping Shan Heritage Trail in Yuen Long, New Territories |
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II. 9:30-12:30:
Lecture - The history of coastal resource development in the
Inner Deep Bay, |
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traditional freshwater fish
farming system, relationships between agricultural heritage
and wetland conservation in the New Territories, and ecotourism
development in Hong Kong |
Afternoon: Fieldtrip
to Tai Shan Wai in Yuen Long, New Territories |
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Jenny
F. So (2 sessions) |
I. 9:30-12:30: Lecture
- Collecting Chinese art in Hong Kong: The Role of Public and
Private |
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Collections |
Afternoon: Fieldtrip
to Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Sha Tin (collections of popular
culture in |
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Hong Kong) |
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II. Whole day (6-8
hours) - Field visits to Hong Kong History Museum (exhibits
on Hong Kong |
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history) and Flagstaff House
Museum of Tea Ware (gifts from a single private collector housed
in a historical building inside Hong Kong Park) |
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Oscar Ho (2 sessions) |
I. 9:30-12:30: Lecture
- Concept, history, critical issues and impacts of community
cultural
actions as instrument for cultural preservation |
2:00-4:00: Case
studies and tutorial |
Star Ferry and NTK
Open Rice |
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II. Whole day (6-8
hours) - Field visit to Sham Shiu Po and meeting with members
of SOCO in the morning, and visit to Shek Kip Mei and discussion
with community cultural action group CCCD in the afternoon. |
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Required
readings
Week
1
Government of HKSAR 1976 Antiquities
and Monuments Ordinance. Hong Kong: Government Press.
Lu, Tracey L-D. 2009. "Heritage
Preservation in Post-Colonial Hong Kong." International
Journal of Heritage Studies, 15 (2-3): 258-272.
Lu, Tracey L-D. 2003. "The
Management of Cultural Heritage in Hong Kong." The
Chinese
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University of
Hong Kong Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies Occasional
Paper No.
137. Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Australian ICOMOS.
1999. The Burra Charter.
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Graham,
B., G. J. Ashworth and J. E. Tunbridge. 2005. "The Uses
and Abuses of Heritage." In Heritage, |
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Museums and Galleries,
G. Corsane ed., pp. 26-37. London and New York: Routledge. |
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Week
2
Cheung, Sidney 2011 "The
Politics of Wetlandscape: Fishery Heritage and Natural
Conservation in Hong Kong". International Journal
of Heritage Studies, vol.17, no.1,
pp.36-45.
Cheung, Sidney. 1999. "The
Meanings of a Heritage Trail in Hong Kong." Annals
of Tourism Research,
26 (3): 570-588.
Cheung, Sidney 2000. "Martyrs,
Mystery and Memory Behind a Communal Hall." Traditional
Dwellings and Settlements Review, 11 (2): 29-39.
Cheung, Sidney 2001. "Land
Use and Fung-shui: Negotiation in the New Territories,
Hong Kong."
Cultural Survival Quarterly, 25 (2): 70-71.
Cheung, Sidney 2003. "Remembering
through Space: The Politics of Heritage in Hong Kong."
International Journal of Heritage Studies, 9 (1): 7-26.
Cheung, Sidney 2004. "Keeping
the Wetland Wet: How to Integrate Natural and Cultural Heritage
Preservation." MUSEUM International, 56 (3): 29-37.
Cheung, Sidney 2007. "Fish
in the Marsh: A Case Study of Freshwater Fish Farming in Hong
Kong." In
Food and Foodways in Asia: Resource, Tradition, and Cooking,
edited by S.C.H. Cheung and C.B. Tan,
pp. 37-50. London and New York: Routledge.
Cheung, Sidney 2008. "Wetland
Tourism in Hong Kong: From Birdwatcher to Mass Ecotourist."
In
Asian Tourism: Growth and Change, edited by J. Cochrane,
259-267. London: Elsevier Science.
Leung, M.W.H. and D. Soyez.
2009. "Industrial Heritage: Valorising the Spatial-Temporal
Dynamics
of Another Hong Kong Story." International Journal
of Heritage Studies 15: 57-75.
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Week
3
So, Jenny F. 2000. "Cultural
Property: Owner's Rights and Obligations." Hong Kong
Visual Arts
Yearbook 2000. Harold K. Mok and Y.K. Chan eds. (Hong
Kong: Arts Development Council and Fine
Arts Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002),
pp. 10-15.
White, Shelby. 2005. "Building
American Museums: The Role of the Private Collector."
In Who Owns
the Past? Cultural Policy, Cultural Property, and the Law,
Kate Fitz Gibbon ed., pp. 165-178. New Brunswick, N.J. &
London: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
American Council for Cultural
Policy Editorial Board. "Conclusion: Museums at the Centre
of Public Policy." In Who Owns the Past?, Kate
Fitz Gibbon, ed., pp. 319-26.
MAG report on "M+"
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Week
4
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Borrup, Tom. 2009.
"The Creative Community Builder's Handbook." In The
Role of |
Culture in Community
Building, pp. 3-15. Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fieldstone Alliance.
Ma, Shan ed. 2008. "West Kowloon: Where Life, Heritage
and Culture Meet." In Flying Packaging, pp. |
14-55. Hong Kong:
Society for Community Organization.
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Recommended
reading list/references |
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Anderson, Eugene
N. 1972. "Chinese Methods of Dealing with Crowding."
Urban Anthropology 1:141-50.
Brim, John A. 1974. "Village
Alliance Temples in Hong Kong." In Religion and Ritual
in Chinese Society, Arthur P. Wolf ed., pp. 93-103. Stanford:
Stanford University Press.
Constable, Nicole. 1997. Maid to Order in Hong Kong: Stories
of Filipina Workers. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Cooper, Eugene. 1980. The
Wood-Carvers of Hong Kong: Craft Production in the World Capitalist
Periphery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Guldin, Gregory E. 1989. "Intra-Urban
Migration and the Hidden Ethnic Neighborhood (Fujianese Chinese)."
Ethnic Groups, 7 (4): 345-59.
Lau, Siu-kai, and Kuan Hsin-chi.
1988. The Ethos of the Hong Kong Chinese. Hong Kong:
The Chinese University Press.
Ong, Aihwa. 1996. Cultural Citizenship as Subject-Making:
Immigrants Negotiate Racial and Cultural Boundaries in the
United States. Current Anthropology 37(5): 737-762.
Palmer, Michael J.E. 1987.
"The Surface-Subsoil Form of Divided Ownership in Late
Imperial China:
Some Examples from the New Territories of Hong Kong."
Modern Asian Studies 21(1):1-119.
Potter, Jack M. 1968. Capitalism
and the Chinese Peasant: Social and Economic Change in a Hong
Kong Village. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Scott, Janet. 1986. Administrative
Reform and Local-level Leadership in Hong Kong: The District
Boards. Special Issue on Anthropological Studies of China,
New Asia Academic Bulletin 6: 23-56.
Smart, Alan. 1992. Making Room: Squatter Clearance in Hong
Kong. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong, Centre of Asian
Studies.
Smart, Josephine. 1989. The
Political Economy of Street Hawkers in Hong Kong. Centre
of Asian Studies Occasional Papers and Monographs, no. 81.
Hong Kong: Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong.
Ward, Barbara E. [1985] 1989.
Through Other Eyes: An Anthropologist's View of Hong Kong.
Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.
Watson, James L. 1975. Emigration
and the Chinese Lineage: The Mans in Hong Kong and London.
Berkely: University of California Press.
Wong, Siu-lun. 1988. Emigrant
Entrepreneurs: Shanghai Industrialists in Hong Kong. Hong
Kong: Oxford University Press.
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Part
3: Providence
Brown
University
July 11 - August 6, 2010
This 4-week course, developed to run sequentially
and in tandem with a parallel offering at the Chinese University of Hong
Kong, provides an opportunity to explore cultural heritage preservation
in two very different areas.
Students enrolled in this course will,
while in Rhode Island, work at the Greene Farm Archaeology Project (Warwick,
Rhode Island);
work with oral history interviews in the diverse Fox Point neighborhood
of Providence; and explore such local resources as the Rhode Island School
of Design Museum, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum, and Plimoth Plantation.
Course
Requirements
Class Participation:
Students are expected to attend all sessions of the class, to do all assigned
readings by their assigned date, and to participate actively in discussions
and debates. Students may be asked to undertake small projects or presentations
from class session to class session as well.
Writing Assignments and Digital Media:
Students will be asked, on a weekly basis, to write essays or create digital
projects (ca. 5-7 pages or equivalent) drawn from, and developing, each
week's general theme. Specific topics will be developed over the course
of the week, with the assignment to be posted to the class wiki by the
following Tuesday morning. All students will have access to these postings,
and discussion of each other's work and thoughts (both in and out of class
time) will be encouraged.
An additional writing assignment will be
an ongoing blog (posted to the class wiki) providing students with a forum
in which to identify and ponder common thread, and distinct differences,
in the treatment of cultural heritage in Hong Kong and in Providence.
Again, these blogs will be accessible to the entire class, and will be
a source for interaction and debate, in class and out.
Grading
Class Participation: 30%
Weekly Writing Assignments: 40%
Individual blogs: 30%
Course
Schedule:
Course
Readings
All readings to be done by the Monday
class meeting
Week
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*Kwame Anthony Appiah,
"Whose Culture is it?" in the New York Review of
Books, Vol. 53, No. 2, Feb. |
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9, 2006. OCRA |
Mary C. Beaudry,
1995 Scratching the Surface: Seven Seasons at the Spencer-Peirce-Little
Farm, |
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Newbury, Massachusetts.
Northeast Historical Archaeology 24:19-49. |
James Deetz, 1996
[1977] In Small Things Forgotten: and archaeology of early
American life. Anchor: |
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New York. |
*David Lowenthal,
"Heritage Wars," OCRA |
Anne Yentsch, 1988
Legends, houses, families, and myths: relationships between
material culture |
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and American ideology.
In M. Beaudry, ed. Documentary archaeology in the New World,
CUP: Cambridge, 5-19. |
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Week
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H. Arthur Bankoff
and F. Winter. 2005 The Archaeology of Slavery at the Van Cortlandt
Plantation in |
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the Bronx, New York.
International Journal of Historical Archaeology 9(4):
291-318. |
John J. Bodinger
de UriarteI, "Imagining the Nation with House Odds: Representing
American Indian |
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Identity at Mashantucket,"
Ethnohistory 50:3 (Summer 2003) |
Shepherd, Nick.
2007 What does it mean 'To Give the Past Back to the People'?
Archaeology and |
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Ethics in the Postcolony.
In Y. Hamalakis and P. Duke, eds. Archaeology and Capitalism,
From |
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Ethics to Politics.
Left Coast Press; Walnut Creek, 99-114. |
Slavery and Justice.
2006 Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on
Slavery and Justice, |
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Brown University.
Read closely pgs. 7-31, skim remainder. |
S.E. Snow, Performing
the Pilgrims: A Study of Ethnohistorical Role-playing at Plimoth
Plantation |
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(University of Mississippi
Press, 1993) (selections) |
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Week
3
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*Briann Greenfield,
"Marketing the Past: Historic Preservation in Providence,
RI," in Giving |
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Preservation
a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United
States ed. Max Page |
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and Randall Mason.
OCRA |
*US Dept. of Commerce
and President's Committee on Arts and Humanities, White Paper
on Cultural |
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and Heritage
Tourism. OCRA |
Richard Kurin, "Safeguarding
Intangible Cultural Heritage in the 2003 UNESCO Convention:
A |
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Critical Appraisal,"
Museum, 56 (2004): 66-78. OCRA |
Linda Shopes, "Oral
History and the Study of Communities: Problems, Paradoxes, and
Possibilities," |
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Journal of American
History, 89 (2002). |
Alessandro Portelli,
"What Makes Oral History Different," in The Death
of Luigi Trastulli and Other |
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Stories: Form
and Meaning in Oral History (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1991):
45-58. OCRA |
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