Question: How do you think the trauma that Okinawan women experienced during the Battle of Okinawa impacted their responses to the military base construction that the US military Occupation authorities enacted during the early 1950s that we see in the Isahama struggle? …

After weeks in this class, my perception of art and music has shifted and developed. Apart from the artistic expression of many art forms, I believe that some if not all art forms are basis for cultural identification. An art form might represent a cultural upbringing, their activities, or their…

Question: What do you think are some of the impacts of being labeled as spies, or national traitors by the state and military for internal relations within Okinawan society? …

Question: Why do you think Kawashima insists on focusing on the suppression of Korean workers in Japan by the Soaikai, a Korean welfare organization in his piece? What questions does his analysis raise about the way we might think about both the Taki Seihi strike and the love story between…

Week 3 Question : Why do you think that both Liang Qichao and He Zhen developed their politics on China while they were away from the country? Have you experienced something similar, where travel, or moving away shifted your self-identification? …

Question: The questions I would like you to engage with are as follows: How might paying attention to sound/soundscapes help us think about all of the ways that capitalism destroys our relationships to each other, as well as about how people continue to form new relationships with each other? Think…

Question: How can you use the concept of settler colonialism to construct a new map of East Asia that links the histories of Hawaii and China to US and Japanese imperialism? What happens when you add the Caribbean and British imperialism to the mix (think back to Goffe)? After diving…

Question: How might paying attention to sound/soundscapes help us think about all of the ways that capitalism destroys our relationships to each other, as well as about how people continue to form new relationships with each other? Think about this question by engaging Goffe’s concept of extra-coloniality. In Goffe’s article…