WEEK 9 (NOVEMBER 3) Asian Utopias Past and Present

ALL WATCH Lek Sinofuturism 1849-2046 https://www.lawrencelek.com/works/sinofuturism and

Tao Yanming 421 CE) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:The_Peach_Blossom_Spring

Choose 1-2 of the following:

Hunt, James (1998) "Gandhian Experiments in Communal Living --The Phoenix Community and the Tolstoy Farm in South Africa"

Peace Research  30:1 (February 1998): 83-95.

            Fitting, Peter (2002) Urban Planning/Urban Dreaming: Le Corbusier's Chandigarh Today" Utopian Studies 13 (1): 69-93.

           Zhou, Jianjia (2024) "New Villages: Sewing the Seed of Utopia" https://www.leapleapleap.com/2024/03/new-villages-sowing-the-seed-of-utopia

Zhou, Y., Zhou, Y., & Fan, X. (2025). Toward a sustainable commodity frontier: From eco-utopian practice of shanghai dongtan to chongming ecological island

Lin, Zhongjie, 'Epilogue: New Towns after the End of New Towns', Constructing Utopias: China's New Town Movement in the 21st Century (New York, NY, 2025; online edn, Oxford Academic, 23 Apr. 2025)

Hong, G. (2022). Utopian and insular spaces in chinese literature: An island approach. Island Studies Journal, 17(2), 13-27. 

Yiu, Angela (2008) "Atarashikimura: The Intellectual and Literary Contexts of a Taishō Utopian Village Author(s): Angela Yiu Source: Japan Review" pp. 203-230

Ho, "Japanese in Search of Happiness"