EAS critical thinking

15问：Through the course, we’ve talked about history (time) and geography (space). We also learned about subjectivity and ontology.

1.is about Yoshida’s film,shooting a train: a.there is always a blind point that you can’t see the camera,b. the train can’t see its dynamic viewing angle,c. you can’t see past, now and future at the same time. d.Trains are the embodiment of modern technology. 2.is about a blink of eye, some impossible action,spatial component of hope, fear tragedy. 3.history trap: You are stuck in the moment when you want to think about history. 4.history is about historiography and historicity. 5.teleology, origin-based, genealogy, evolutionism. Story on curfew. 6.Utopian history, hope in despair. 7.Deconstruction - the time, matter, geo of writing. 8.Who are we, the Deconstruction of east asian the geo of east asian and the concept of east asian. The object of study of Orientalism changed from the Middle East, India to China, Japan and South Korea, and the geographical scope of East Asia was constantly changing. Russia also has a part in Asia, why not count it when studying Asia? Why was Japan divided into the East after the Meiji Restoration and its departure from Asia and Europe? Is Japan's "Asian is one", pan-Asianism a confrontation with Western culture? 9.map is a. the way of organizing and visualizing space,b. is the connection between regional events, c. is the translation of space representation,d. is politicized, e. cannot transcend from a certain perspective. Countless projections of themselves in the mirror. 10. difference between oriental and east. Orientalism is discriminatory， Orientalism is only an idea, not a study of the real East.

11.relationship between east and west a.firstly, in academic image, East exists as a fixed concept rather than a variable reality. The East exists as an image of the Other, and the West shapes the West through this contrast, which also has an important meaning for the West. However, they fixed their belief that the West is advanced and that all backwardness is attributed to the East, which also reflects Eurocentrism and is also a continuation of colonialism. b.Secondly, the way of thinking in the East and the West is also different, because of the difference in the subject in ontology. For example, the language structures people speak are different. c. Western culture is dominant, reconstructive, and authoritative above East. There is a superiority to East culture, because Eastern culture is subjective.12.Actually Asians also subconsciously share this kind of self-Oriental. For example, Japan's cars are very advanced, everyone says that it is Western technology, and acquiesced to the backwardness of Asia. 13.The linear view of history ignores the diversity of civilizations. eg.The Emperor of Japan is not a "feudal".constitutional monarchy — the removal of the monarchy. The dual meaning of subject, is not only to control the dependence on the other party but also to have self-knowledge.though “ritual”and “material sign on physical landscape” establish a new Japanese

religion. The use of the Meiji Restoration, strong self- identity, and the establishment of nationalism to modernize Japan, similar to the significance of the French Revolution, reshaped people's daily lives and mental states. 14.cultural hegemony. Power relations in the concept of East and West. We need to become unruly, change the subjective to objective.15. Who are we? what are eastern culture?What is Chinese culture? How to deal with knowledge?