ASIAN STUDIES 250c - d-IP.Consumer and Commercial Culture in Contemporary China

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Bowdoin College

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Spring 2008. SHUQIN CUI. Examines how the emerging commercial and consumer culture in China is reshaping sociopolitical and economic structures once governed by socialist egalitarianism, and how the socialist political system is able to work with global capitalism in consumer production and consumption. Topics central to the investigation include McDonald's in Beijing-thelocalization of Americana, urban transition and global architecture, commercialization of writing and sexualization of the body, China chic-dress codes and global trends.

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3.00

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Lecture

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www.bowdoin.edu/

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(207) 725-3000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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