#  Anthro 1844 - Anthropology of Chinese Culture and Society 

 





 Semester:   Fall 

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 Year offered:  2024 

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 Link: [Course Website](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-224511/2024/fall/18971) 

 

 

 

 Dr. Elisa Tamburo

 M 3-5:45pm

 This course will enable students to acquire a knowledge and understanding of the recent history and contemporary society, culture, and politics of China through ethnographic writings. We will read contemporary ethnographies on China and reflect on how anthropologists have engaged with aspects of its longstanding history, culture, and society. China has been in transition from the long rule of Mao Zedong since 1978, and its politics and society have transformed radically during that period. The course revolves around themes central to the study of contemporary China, through which the reform era under Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, the Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao administration, and most recently Li and Xi’s will be analyzed. Central themes of the course include the transformation of work, privatization, and the rise of the middle class, growing rural-urban divide, urbanization, the transformation of gender roles, ethnic minorities and the politics of race and identity, health and the body, environmental challenges, tourism and heritage-making, as well as the role of China on the global arena, which will be discussed largely from an anthropological and ethnographic perspective.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Undergraduate ](/course-area/departmental-courses-primarily-undergraduate-students)
- [ Social Anthropology ](/course-area/social-anthropology)
- [ 2024 ](/course-year/2024)
- [ Fall ](/season/fall)