East Asian Media - JKM004

• Title: East Asian Media
• Guaranteed by: Department of Media Studies (23-KMS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / 12 (12)
• Min. number of students: 10
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English, Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Mgr. Jan Miessler
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Jan Miessler
• Class: Courses for incoming students

Annotation

This course focuses on East Asian media and relevant theoretical frameworks.

Moodle: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=8475 (enrollment key is provided by the lecturer by email during the first week of classes)

Last update: Miessler Jan, Mgr. (21.10.2025)

Aim of the course

Students should acquire an understanding of East Asian media, contexts of their operation, and relevancy of related theories.

Last update: Miessler Jan, Mgr. (16.09.2025)

Course completion requirements

Discussion, paper and book reviews

Students should contribute to every class by joining the discussion. To pass the class, they have to do a short class presentation (10 minutes, 20 % of the grade) and write a final paper (6+ pages, 60 %) and a book review (2+ pages, 20 %).

Final grade spectrum:

Charles U students: Pass/Fail
Exchange students: A-F

Last update: Miessler Jan, Mgr. (16.09.2025)

Literature

BENEDICT, R. (1946) The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture. (various editions)

CHEN, K., (2010). Asia as Method: Toward Deimperialization. Duke University Press.

CHU, G. C. (1977) Radical Change Through Communication in Mao’s China. The University Press of Hawaii.

CURRAN, J., PARK, M. J. eds. (2000) De-Westernizing Media Studies. Routledge.

DOWNING, J. (1996) Internationalizing Media Theory: Transition, Power, Culture. Sage.

GEORGE, C. (2012) Freedom from the Press. NUS Press.

IWABUCHI, K. (2002) Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. Duke University Press.

KIM, K. H., CHOE, Y. (2014) The Korean Popular Culture Reader. Duke University Press.

LEE, C.C. ed. (1990) Voices of China: The Interplay of Politics and Journalism. The Guildford Press

SAID, E. (1978) Orientalism. Routledge & Kegan Paul.

SHIRK, S. L. ed. (2011) Changing Media, Changing China. Oxford University Press.

THUSSU, D. ed. (2007) Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-flow. Routledge.

ZHAO, Y. (1998) Media, Market, and Democracy in China: Between the Party Line and the Bottom Line. University of Illinois Press.

Last update: Miessler Jan, Mgr. (16.09.2025)

Teaching methods

Short introduction to the topic by the lecturer followed by student presentations and debates on key issues of the assigned texts.

Last update: Miessler Jan, Mgr. (16.09.2025)

Syllabus

WINTER 2025

1        Introduction: Asia as a method? (30.9.)
2        Political economy of East Asia (7.10.)
3        Japanese cultural industries (14.10.)
4        Japanese journalism (21.10.)
== no class 28.10. ==
5        Korean wave (4.11.)
6        Chinese Cultural Revolution (11.11.)
7        Chinese media in post-Mao era (18.11.)
8        Xi Jin-ping and digital dystopia (25.11.)
9        Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore (TBA)

Last update: Miessler Jan, Mgr. (16.09.2025)