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This class deals with a series of topics of anthropological relevance: persons, genders and families, rural communities, migration and the city, class and consumption, state and society, nation and world. It traces the changes in each of these areas from a baseline somewhere in the late Qing dyansty through the tentative modernization of the early 20th century and the period of High Socialist revolution to the consumer society of today.
There are five assigned essay topics, of which students will be required to turn in three. Each topic will be posted on the first day of the unit to which it pertains, and due on the first day of the following unit.
All essays should be submitted to the instructor electronically by 5:00 p.m. on the day they are due. Class readings are from the required texts at the University Bookstore, and from some articles available directly on the internet.