HOME	ANTH 469A/SISEA 490B, Spring 2006 Ethnograpies of Rural-Urban Encounter in China
	Class Schedule T  Mar 28  Introduction Th  Mar 30  WHAT IS RURAL? WHAT IS URBAN? The Editors of The Stranger, “The Urban Archipelago.” R Raymond Williams, excerpts from The Country and the City. R T  Apr 4  RURAL/URBAN IN CHINESE ANTHROPOLOGY AND POLITICS Fei Xiaotong, excerpts from China’s Gentry: Essays in Rural-Urban Relations and From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society. R Mao Zedong, “Talks at the Yan’an Forum on Art and Literature.” R DUE: INTERSECTIONS ASSIGNMENT Th  Apr 6  RURAL/URBAN MIGRATION UNDER MAO Delia Davin, “Migration in China after 1949.” R Anita Chan, Richard Madsen, and Jonathan Unger, “The Cultural Revolution.” R Naihua Zhang, “In a World Together Yet Apart: Urban and Rural Women Coming of Age in the Seventies.” R T  Apr 11    FILM: Yellow Earth. Th  Apr 13  PERIPHERY/CENTER MAPPINGS Eric Mueggler, The Age of Wild Ghosts. T  Apr 18    Eric Mueggler, The Age of Wild Ghosts. Class facilitator: Matt Hale Th  Apr 20 Sandra Teresa Hyde, “Sex Tourism Practices on the Periphery: Eroticizing Ethnicity and Pathologizing Sex on the Lancang.” R Louisa Schein, “Urbanity, Cosmopolitanism, Consumption.” R T  Apr 25  CITIES AND CITIZENSHIP Delia Davin, “An Overview of Migration in China since 1978” and “Reform Era Policies on Population Movement.” R James Holston and Arjun Appadurai, “Introduction: Cities and Citizenship.” R Saskia Sassen, “Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation of New Claims.” R Ashley Dawson and Brent Hayes Edwards, “Global Cities of the South.” R Class facilitator: Xia Zhang Th  Apr 27 FILM: The World. DUE: RESPONSE PAPER #1 RELATED EVENT: Apr 28-30 UW International Conference Cinema at the City’s Edge: Film and Urban Space in East Asia T  May 2    Li Zhang, Strangers in the City. Class facilitator: Sanna Choi Th  May 4    Li Zhang, Strangers in the City. Class facilitator: Jordann Ares T  May 9  BETWEEN COUNTRY AND CITY Lida Junghans, “Railway Workers between Plan and State.” R Tad Ballew, “Xiaxiang for the ‘90s: The Shanghai TV Rural Channel and Post Mao Urbanity amid Global Swirl.” R Class facilitator: Yuri Fronda-Rabena Th  May 11  THE SHADOWED COUNTRY Liu Xin, In One’s Own Shadow. Class facilitator: Ray Fang T  May 16    Liu Xin, In One’s Own Shadow. Class facilitator: Ray Slaybaugh Th  May 18  SPACE, PLACE, AND GENDER Doreen Massey, excerpts from Space, Place, and Gender. R Yan Hairong, “Spectralization of the Rural: Reinterpreting the Labor Mobility of Rural Young Women in Post-Mao China.” R Class facilitator: Katelyn Greene DUE:    RESPONSE PAPER #2 T  May 23    Tamara Jacka, Rural Women in Urban China. Class facilitator: Matt Conte Th  May 25    Tamara Jacka, Rural Women in Urban China. Class facilitator: Jaya Conser T  May 30  Masculinity research projects (Xia & Sasha) FILM: Dance with Farm Workers. Th  June 1  RURAL/URBAN QUESTIONS AND GLOBALIZATION Elizabeth C. Economy, “The Economic Explosion and Its Environmental Cost.” R Gillian Hart, “Taiwanese Networks in Newcastle” & “The China Connection.” R Class facilitator: Arion Potts T  June 6  FINAL PAPER DUE
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