With reference to lectures, assigned readings, films, and the poem answer only one of the
following three questions. No other sources are allowed. For questions 1 and 2, you must
refer to at least three essays covered in class and at least one of the four films or poem.
For question 3 you must refer to at least two essays covered in class and at least two of
the films (or one of the films and the poem). Your chosen texts should not only be from
one national situation. Essays should be approximately six to eight pages (double-spaced,
using 12 point Times New Roman or equivalent font).

2.The problem of geography is one that all thinkers must face and is shot through

with power relations. Throughout the course of your essay you should introduce
the problem of geography itself and then articulate the respective viewpoints and
strategies of your chosen authors, produce an argument about how geographical
form is important for the analysis of geography and how it might influence the
larger project of East Asian Studies. Your analysis should not simply summarize
the thinkers we have studied in the course, but should use their analyses as a point
of departure for your own argument. Attention should also be given to the way
cultural producers (the filmmakers and/or poet) engage these same issues?

Please choose any four  resources of them , two are necessary.

1. Tsai Ming Liang’s What Time is it There? (Film)
2. Wong Kar Wai’s 2046 (Film) (necessary)

3.Lewis, M. W., & Wigen, K. (1997, August 11). The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (First). University of California Press.

4.Seidman, S., & Said, E. (1996, May). Empire and Knowledge: More Troubles, New Opportunities for Sociology. Contemporary Sociology, 25(3), 313. https://doi.org/10.2307/2077439

5.Yue, M. (2006). Shanghai and the Edges of Empires. (First edition ed.). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.