CHNT170 PO - Imagining China from the Borders: Crossing the Racial Ethnic and Cultural Borderlines in Asia

When Offered: Offered alternate years; last offered fall 2023.
Instructor(s): Y. Zhang
Credit: 1

This course helps students approach China, one of the world’s most vibrant multiethnic societies, and encourages students to investigate questions of race and ethnicity in the context of intercultural exchanges in China and Asia. This course examines how “borderlands” and “foreign cultures” have shaped the concept of China and fostered intercultural connections in Inner Asia (such as Mongolia and Tibet). This interdisciplinary seminar introduces students to both literary works (poetry and fiction) and anthropological ethnography, as well as film and paintings. Students examine the fluid spaces of interethnic and intercultural exchanges in Asia and the shifting “boundaries” within Asia in order to understand the patterns of cultural contact and the motifs of cultural assimilation and conflict.

Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 1