Class, Gender and Sexuality in China

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Pre-req: Completion of the Core Curriculum Research & Professional Writing requirement. Course uses the categories of class and gender to explore three aspects of Chinese history: the cultural construction of gender and sexuality, the issue of modernity, nationalism and revolution, and the problem of building and partially dismantling a socialist state. It will draw upon poetry, memoirs, anthropological works, and products of popular culture as well as standard historical sources.