HISTORY 324 - Turning Chinese Farmers into Peasants

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Reed College

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Description:

Full course for one semester. This course examines the complexities of Chinese rural society and culture during the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on the interactions between farm households and the state-relationships that were mediated by rural elites, market forces, political brokers, and Maoist activists, among others. Major topics include: dissemination and domestication of popular deities; commercialized agriculture before its time; antimodern/anti-Christian rural protests; intellectual apprehensions of rural communities; the gendering of rural industrialization; central state penetration and rural defenses; and farmer narratives of bygone eras. This course assumes some familiarity with at least one of the following subjects: Chinese history, popular culture, village society, or peasant studies. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.reed.edu

Phone Number:

(503) 771-1112

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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