EALC 288

Spring 2015 All Classes

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Contemporary East Asia

Credit: 3 hours.

Introduction to aspects of daily life in East Asia in relation to local and extra-local political and economic structures and transformations.

Same as ANTH 287.

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EALC 288 class schedule data for spring 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	62020	Lecture-Discussion	A	1:00PM -1:50PM	MWF	1065 Lincoln Hall	Lee-Chung, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Section Info: Topic: Family and Youth in Transnational East Asia. This course will explore transnationalism in East Asian societies, focusing on South Korea and China. We will focus on family and youth as the analytical lenses through which to view the social, economic, and cultural dynamics of social change in the face of globalization. As is generally recognized, these countries share many cultural similarities. More recently, they share their compressed development and modernity, as well as their aggressive global desires born of rapidly increasing circulation of ideas, people, and objects across their national borders. With a comparative perspective that each society develops their own way to adapt to the changes based on their own history and tradition, this course will examine the workings of globalization and transnationalism in each society. It will look at how families and youth are making and fashioning new practices and meanings. We will also examine how cosmopolitan yearnings are intimately intertwined within the desires for global cultural capital and global mobility. Through diverse ethnographic and theoretical readings, we will explore how the challenges and risks posed by globalization transform people?s identities, ideas, yearnings, and ways of life both within and beyond the framework of ethnicity and nationalism.
	62582	Lecture-Discussion	B	2:00PM -2:50PM	MWF	G48 Foreign Languages Building	Xu, G Frank, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/15-05/06/15 Section Info: Topic: The Cultural History of Chinese Revolutions. This course offers an introduction to the cultural history of Chinese popular revolutions (loosely defined). We will focus on the 19th-21st centuries and cover a broad array of uprisings including the Taiping Rebellion, the Revolution of 1911, the New Culture and May Fourth Movements, the Cultural Revolution, the Tiananmen Square protests, and the Umbrella Movement. These topics will be discussed in cultural and personal contexts and related to earlier Chinese history as well as global revolutions. The goal of this course is to deepen understandings of such issues as class, gender, ethnicity and the nation-state by viewing them through the lens of historical revolutions.