ANTH 287

Spring 2026

Part of Term 1
Jan 20-May 6
Contemporary East Asia
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Credit: 3 hours.

Same as EALC 288. See EALC 288.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
62021
Lecture-Discussion
A
2:00PM -3:20PM
TR
140 Burrill Hall
Pu, Y
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/20/26-05/06/26
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.
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