Social and Cultural Changes in Globalizing China

Social and Cultural Changes in Globalizing China
China - Kunming (with 4-day trip to Lijiang)
July 2 - July 30, 2008

Course Information

This Program carries a total of 8 units. Enrolled students must take both courses listed. Auditing is not an option.

Anthropology 148A (4 units)
Culture and Political Economy in Contemporary China
Prerequisite: course 2 or consent of instructor. Examination of contemporary Chinese culture and political economy through reading ethnographic studies on recent transformations in rural and urban Chinese society. Special attention to state power, popular culture, spatial mobility, city space, and gender. GE credit: SocSci, Div, Wrt.--III
Anthropology 198 (4 units)
Directed Group Study
P/NP Grading
GE credit: None

Required Texts

Ordering / Bookstore Information
You can purchase your books from the UC Davis MU Bookstore or another bookseller online. If you are mail-ordering your books, make sure to order them from the bookstore by May 25, ensuring you get them before you depart. You cannot get books sent to your address abroad. Instructions on how to order books from the bookstore are located at https://bookstore.ucdavis.edu/textbooks/.

Course Reader
The course will use a course reader. The cost is included in the program cost. All participants will receive their course readers with their orientation materials.

Textbooks

Yan, Yunxiang. The Flow of Gifts. Stanford University Press. 1996. 0-8047-2695-7
Davis, Deborah. The Consumer Revolution in Urban China. University of California Press. 1999. 0-520-21640-7
Zhang, Li. Strangers in the City: Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks within China’s Floating Population. Stanford University Press. 2001. 0-8047-4030-5
Li Zhang & Aihwa Ong, eds. Privatizing China, Socialism from Afar. Cornell Univ. Press. 2008

Travel Guide
Summer Abroad is supplying a copy of a Lonely Planet travel guide for Southwest China. Participants will get their guidebooks at the May 17th orientation. If you are unable to attend the orientation (non-Davis students), we will mail your guidebook with the orientation materials.

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