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Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs · ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Students undertaking this course remotely may have issues accessing materials online, please contact the CAP Student Centre for more information. We are being lied to at every turn. Our perceptions of the world are manipulated and things that matter to us are decided behind a veil of secrecy. At the same time, accusations of lying, 'false news' and conspiracy undermine social trust. Drawing especially from examples in and about Asia, this course examines how and why lies are constructed, why we believe them (and why we often want to believe them) and how we can use investigative techniques to get closer to the truth. This course utilises a historical approach combined with contemporary examples to understand the role of lies, conspiracy, and propaganda.
Five small writing tasks prepared for class
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3
Oral presentation 20% (rehearsal 5%, written summary and bibliog 5%, presentation 10%)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
Research essay
Learning outcomes 3, 4
Exam
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
2hr lecture followed by a 1hr tutorial made up of discussion, practical activities and student presentations.
N/A Preliminary Reading Frances Wood, Did Marco Polo go to China? New York: Westview Press, 1998 Stephan, John T., ‘The Tanaka Memorial (1927): Authentic or Spurious?’, Modern Asian Studies 7 no 4 (1973) pp. 733-745. Horace Freeland Judson, The great betrayal: fraud in science Orlando: Harcourt, 2004 LaFollette, Marcel C., Stealing into print: fraud, plagiarism, and misconduct in scientific publishing Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992 Brunvand, Jan Harold, The vanishing hitchhiker: American urban legends and their meanings New York: Norton, 1981 Georges Lefebvre, The great fear of 1789: Rural panic in revolutionary France New York: Schocken Books, 1989. James Siegel, "'I was not there, but...'," Archipel 46 (1993), pp. 59-65 Chalmers, What is this thing called science? Michael Shermer, Why people believe weird things (New York: Holt & Co. 2002) John Roosa, Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement & Suharto's Coup D'État in Indonesia, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007 Robert Cribb, 'Genocide in Indonesia, 1965-1966', Journal of Genocide Research 3 no. 2 (June 2001), pp. 219—239 Daniel Pipes, The Hidden Hand: Middle Eastern Fears of Conspiracy. by New York: St. Martin's Press 1998. Burhanuddin, ‘The Conspiracy of Jews: The Quest for Anti-Semitism in Media Dakwah’ Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 5, Number 2, August 2007 http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/sites/index.cfm?P=11338 Kruger, Rayne The devil's discus (London: Cassell, 1964) Stowe, Judith A, Siam becomes Thailand: a story of intrigue (London: Hurst, 1991) Teiwes, Frederick C., The tragedy of Lin Biao: riding the tiger during the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1971 Bathurst, NSW: Crawford House Pub., 1996 Lynch, Daniel C. After the Propaganda State: Media, Politics, and "Thought Work" in Reformed China. Stanford: Stanford U. Pr., 1999. Desser, David. ‚From the Opium War to the Pacific War: Japanese Propaganda Films of World War II’ Film History [Australia] 1995 7(1): 32-48. Larry Tye, The Father of Spin: Edward L. Bernays and The Birth of Public Relations Anthony Rhodes, Propaganda: The art of persuasion: World War II, John W. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War Landsberger, Stefan, Chinese propaganda posters: from revolution to modernization Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1995 Lynch, Daniel C. After the propaganda state: media, politics, and "thought work" in reformed China Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. Cheek, Timothy, Propaganda and culture in Mao's China: Deng Tuo and the intelligentsia Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.