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MINORITY PEOPLES OF CHINA
WINTER QUARTER 2009
Communications 226
Tuesday and Thursday 9:30-11:20
Instructor: Stevan Harrell
Office: Denny 239 (But I'm hardly ever there)
Office hours: Make an appointment; I'm flexible.
Phone: 543-9608 (But I'm hardly ever there)
e-mail: stevehar@u.washington.edu
This course is designed to acquaint you with the
peoples around the periphery of China, particularly but not exclusively those that are included today within
the borders of the People's Republic of China. The primary theme is boundaries and the way people draw, sharpen, blur, or cross them at different times and in different places. We will consider regional five cases: the Muslim cultures of the Northwest and Elsewhere, the Mongols and
other peoples of the steppes to the North, the Tibetans of the plateau to the West, the ethnically
mixed areas of the Southwest, and the multilayered identities of Taiwan.
In every case, the life of peripheral peoples will be examined as part
of the Sinocentric world; at the same time, we will attempt to hear not
just the voices of the Chinese observers and overlords, but the voices of
the local people as well. Lectures will be supplemented with slide presentations, guest lectures, etc.
There will be five essay assignments, one for
each of the five case study units, each posted on the first day of the unit
and due at the time stated on the assignment page. You are required to hand
in essays on three of these five assignments. If you want to hand in four
or five, you may drop the lowest grade of your four or the lowest two grades
of your five. There will be no exams; your entire class grade will be based
on your essays. All essays will be "handed" in and "handed" back by email.
Books and Other Readings:
There are six required books for this class:
Familiar Strangers, by Jonathan N. Lipman
Between Mecca and Beijing, by Maris Boyd Gillette
A Tibetan Revolutionary,by Melvyn C. Goldstein
The Violence of Liberation, by Charlene Makley
Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China,, by Stevan Harrell
The Age of Wild Ghosts, by Erik A. Mueggler
Most other readings are accessible as .pdf files or as UW library resources from links on this website.
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