Reading List
At the end of winter and summer, I list three pieces of work that I read during that season and try to draw a theme from them. This idea is inspired by the “Seasonal Triptychs” on Prof. Elam’s website.
Here are the lists since the summer of 2022.
Berlin Wall
Winter 2023: Thinking from the “Self”
- Clara Han, Seeing like a Child
- Ge Sun, From Naha to Shanghai: Living in the State of Crisis （从那霸到上海：在临界状态中生活）
- Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Summer 2023: Conversing “Jokes”
- Jenkins Henry, Textual Poachers
- Hiroki Azuma, Otaku: Japanese Database Animal
- Jinghua Zhao, Post-modernism in Japan and the Intellectual Leftists（日本后现代与知识左翼）
Winter 2022: Navigating Memories
- Yi-Tae jun, Before and After Liberation
- Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Art of Writing
- Morris Suzuki, The Past within Us
Summer 2022: Interpreting Culture
- Clifford Geertz, Local Knowledge
- Malinowski, A Diary in the Strict Sense
- James Clifford & George E. Marcus, Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography
