ANT 265: Contemporary Chinese Society and Culture
Spring Term, 2005: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 12:30 am - 1:20 pm, Chambers 1027
Course Readings
Farquhar, Judith 2002. Appetites: Food and Sex in Postsocialist China Durham: Duke University Press. (ISBN: 0822329212 )
Gladney, Dru 2004. Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities, and Other Subaltern Subjects. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (ISBN: 0226297756)
Hertz, Ellen 1998. The Trading Crowd : An Ethnography of the Shanghai Stock Market. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (ISBN: 0521564972)
Ruf, Gregory 1998. Cadres and Kin: Making a Socialist Village in West China, 1921-1991. Stanford: Stanford University Press. (ISBN: 0804741298)
Yan, Yunxiang 2003. Private Life Under Socialism: Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village. Stanford: Stanford University Press (ISBN: 0804744564)
Zhang, Li 2001. Strangers in the City: Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks Within China's Floating Population Stanford: Stanford University Press. (ISBN: 0804742065)
In addition to the above books, various articles will be required. Articles are available from the library electronic reserve, and are to be completed by the date assigned on the course schedule.