CAS350H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: May Fourth Movement, New Culture Movement, Filial Piety
Document Summary
Considering youth, nation, and modernity in early 20th century japan. Examine youth as an objective of political discourses and discipline. Explore ideological training of youth in the service of a violent empire. Consider youth in terms of class and capitalism. Youths in terms of class, gender, commodities, and capitalism in china, south korea, and. Towards the end of the end of the course, we explore resistance to neoliberalism in south. Critiquing objectivity of signs: youth, nation, and modernity. Youth seems to point to a real group of person, in an objective sense. Word is a signifier that represents its object (the signified) Course is about the instability of signs and the politics of knowledge. Filial piety: be good to one"s parents; to take care of one"s parents; to engage in good conduct not just towards parents but also outside the home so as to bring a good name to one"s parents and ancestors.
