| Bemerkung: |
The course will examine Chinese and non-Chinese approaches to developments of Chinese society during the last two centuries, covering issues of rural society in late Qing (1840-1911), the impact of foreign missions on the development of social structures in late Qing and Republican China (1840s-1949), the shifting roles of women from the 1840s to the 1950s, the structuring function of the work unit system on Chinese urban society from the 1950s to the 1990s, demographic determinants of social policy in China from the 1970s till today, and the evolution of civil society, social protest and advocacy in China 1980 till today.
The main course material consists of readings in English by renowned Chinese and non-Chinese social scientists. |
