Sources of images of Southeast Asia 
Major biases in discourse about Southeast Asia 
The roots of Western ethnocentrism regarding Southeast Asia A tetrahedron model for analyzing polities and cultures 
Reading: Edward W. Said, Orientalism. New York: Pantheon, 1978, pp. 1-28. 

April 9: Southeast Asia in the Nineteenth Century 

Critical review of Anna and the King of Siam and the film, RThe King and IS 

Readings: Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam. New York: John Day Company, 1944, pp. 33-60. 
William Warren, RWho Was Anna Leonowens?S pp. 89-95 in James OUReilly and Larry Habegger (eds.). TravelersU Tales Thailand. Sebastpol, Ca: OUReilly and Associates, 1994. 

April 16: Southeast Asia during the Pacific War 

Critical review of the film, The Bridge on the River Kwai 

Reading: Pierre Boule, The Bridge on the River Kwai. London: Fontana/Collins, 1986, pp. 59-76. 

April 23: Outside Involvement in Southeast Asia: Vietnam and the Colonial Legacy; A Country, not a War 

Critical review of the film, Indochine 

Readings: Graham Greene, The Quiet American. Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1986. 
Takeshi Kaiko, Into a Black Sun: Vietnam 1964-65. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1983. 
 

April 30: Southeast Asia Drawn into the Vortex of the Cold War 

Critical review of the film, The Ugly American 

Reading: William Lederer, The Ugly American. New York: Norton, 1958. 

May 7: The Forgotten Land of a Million Elephants: Laos and Laoism 

Critical review of the film, Air America 

Reading: Martin Stuart-Fox, A History of Laos. Cambridge: Cambridge 
University Press, 1997, pp. 168-208. (on reserve at Knight Library) 

May 14: Indonesia: Unity and Diversity 

The most important country about which we know the least. 

Critical review of the film, The Year of Living Dangerously 

Reading: C.J. Koch, The Year of Living Dangerously. Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1983. 

May 21: Revolution and Political Change in Southeast Asia 

Critical review of the film, The Killing Fields 

Reading: Jack Anderson and Bill Pronzini, The Cambodia File. Doubleday and Company, 1983 
pp. 53-61, 80-81, 87-92, 119-125, 135-141. 

May 28: Burma or Myanmar? Burma: Past and Present. The Next Killing Fields or a New Tiger? 

Critical review of the film, Beyond Rangoon 

Reading: Michio Takeyama, The Harp of Burma. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle, 1966. 

June 4: The Buddhist Alternative in Southeast Asia: Cultural Collisions between Modern and Traditional Values; Synthesis and Summary: Major Characteristics of Southeast Asian Politics and Culture 

Case study of Maha Chamlong Srimuang, Buddhist political leader of Thailand 

Readings: Sulak Sivaraksa, Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Version for Renewing Society. 
Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1992 , pp. 93-101, 119-129. 
Vivian Herman, Phallus--Image--Other: Reading Masculine Desire from Japanese 
Representations of Asia, in Valerie Wayne and Cornelia Moore (eds), 
Translations/Transformations: Gender and Culture in Film and Literature: 
East and West. 
Honolulu: University of Hawaii and East-West Center, 1993. 
Herman Hesse, Siddhartha. New York: Bantam, 1981. 

Requirements: 

Undergraduates: Mid-term (take-home examination): 45% 
Final (take-home examination): 55% 

Graduate students: Mid-term (take-home examination): 30% 
Final (take-home examination): 40% 
Bibliographic essay: 30% (Guidelines for preparing this essay will be distributed next week.)