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Global City and its Discontents

Dear all, here are the readings. I have deleted from the syllabus one required reading (pls refer to the updated sylalbus), so now you only have one by Sassen. Required Reading Saskia Sassen. “Global City: Introducing a Concept” http://pan.baidu.com/s/1ntHg7Kt Reference Reading Yomota, Inuhiko , “ Stranger than Tokyo: Space and Race in Postnational Japanese Cinema”, Jenny Kwok Wah Lau eds. Multiple Modernities: Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia . Philadelphia: Temple University Press http://pan.baidu.com/s/1kToetEJ

on the Final Paper

Dear all, Here are some important issues on our final paper. 1) Deadline move to February 3rd, 8am, 2014 . However, NO late submission is allowed; if late submission happens, grading will be influenced. Please ONLY submit it to this email address ranandran@foxmail.com ; and I would send you confirmation mail on the same day. 2) what you are expected to do on our final seminar Topic of the paper (I know it's conditional, but you have to at least give us a rough idea)  and 2 essay references should be submitted and discussed on Jan 21 st at the essay workshop. a) 2 essay references as I stated earlier, at least ONE "REQUIRED READING" should be quoted in your final paper; and another reference source could either be from REQUIRED or REFERENCE readings. Beyond these 2 references, whichever  sources you want to use are up to you.    I suppose you have our syllabus in hand, for instance, I have clearly indicated which ones are required read...

January seminar

Dear all, According to our syllabus, we have the January seminar on Jan 14th, Tuesday. Please don't forget your assignment that day as well ; ) Meet you on Friday the 10th then! cheers Ran