ANTH V2020 - Chinese strategies: cultures in practice

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Columbia University in the City of New York

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Description:

This course will examine major elements of Chinese culture historically and in the present-day. We will begin with a study of Chinese society in the late-imperial period (1368-1843), addressing key features of economic organization, kinship systems, popular religion and state administration. From this foundation, we will examine changes and (apparent) continuities in cultural practices over the course of China's Nationalist, Maoist and post-socialist revolutions, with particular attention to the present-day. Through the study of several recent ethnographies of conditions in rural and urban China, we will explore the ways in which the cultural conventions of the past have informed the strategies Chinese have devised in their negotiations with the global commercial economy and with an often predatory state. Global Core.

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.columbia.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 854-1754

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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