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CHNS 2360 A Look into Modern China

New Core Course! T,Th 2:30-4:00 Spring 2007. CHNS 2360 A Look into Modern China. Counts for the Chinese Minor. Reading materials include novels, essays, journal reports, and films published in the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century.

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CHNS 2360 A Look into Modern China

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  1. New Core Course! T,Th 2:30-4:00 Spring 2007 CHNS 2360A Look into Modern China Counts for the Chinese Minor. Reading materials include novels, essays, journal reports, and films published in the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century. Focusing on today’s China where economic reform has brought drastic changes to people’s daily life. China is a country of timeless interest, but in the last twenty years it seems to have been in the news on a daily basis. This course will take up some of the issues that we hear about today and some that are in part responsible for the current questions and concerns. Some possible topics we will consider include: The Cultural Revolution, Search for modernity and desire for globalization, Corruption, Commercialization, Gender Studies, Adaptation, Social development and social problems, and Urban Women. Presenting the social transformation, and changes of people’s understanding of Chinese modernity and economic globalization. They reveal conflicts between conventional Chinese values and the modern legal system, fast economic development and traditional ways of living, the prosperity of cities and the poverty of the country, materialism and a good sense of values. Taught in English. All the readings are in English. All the films are English subtitled.

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