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ANTH 2041: Contemporary Chinese Culture (3 cr.)

This course provides an overview of China's

contemporary social landscape in relation to the

impact of globalization and modernization. It

draws upon critical and historical

anthropological frameworks to explore emerging

trends in contemporary Chinese culture and

society. The course will focus on post-Mao reform

era (1978-present), but will ground an

examination of contemporary developments in the

pre-socialist past and be particularly concerned

with the persistent shaping force of the Maoist

era (1949-1978). Topics we will examine include

China's economic development, environment,

family, kinship, marriage, sex, religion,

ethnicity, gender politics, labor migration,

popular culture, youth identity, international

Chinese students, and collective actions. We will

also examine the transnational and globalizing

forces that help shape cross-cultural imaginaries

of China. The class's aim is to encompass

critically within common frames of analysis

issues of continuity and change, material

practices and mass-mediated cultural forms, the

local and the global, and the anthropological

approach to cultural diversity.

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