Postgraduate Course: Anthropology of East Asia (PGSP11592)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | East Asia, particularly China has undergone some of the most dramatic social cultural transformations over the past decades. This course explores how anthropological studies on East Asia may enhance our understanding of these transformations and their global implications.
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| Course description |
This course offers an overview of anthropological studies on East Asia, with a particular focus on China and its ever-growing significance in global politics. To this end, the course explores a wide range of thematic topics to critically assess the social and cultural transformations of East Asia.
The main objective of the course is to help students develop critical evaluation skills for analysing East Asia transformation in a global and transnational context. While this course is grounded in anthropology, it will also incorporate perspectives from sociology, history, geography, and political science. Students will engage with a range of textual and visual media in order to develop a deeper understanding of East Asia, through which they will be encouraged to reflect critically on their own impressions of, and/or encounters with the region.
Each week students will attend one lecture and one small group tutorial. Through lectures, students will be introduced the core topics through a combination of lecture, discussion, and class debate. Core topics will be further explored in relation to set readings via the small-group tutorials.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2021/22, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 15 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 10,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Coursework: short essay: 30% (1200 words)
Coursework: long essay: 70% (3200 words)
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| Feedback |
Feedback on short essays and long essays will be returned within 15 working days of submission. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- show advanced understanding and awareness of the key concepts, issues, and debates in the anthropology of East Asia
- critically evaluate, from an anthropologically-informed perspective, East Asia's social-cultural transformations in a global and transnational context
- critically assess constraints and merit of different analytical and methodological approaches in the field.
- interpret and critique textual and visual materials on East Asia covering a diverse range of styles and lengths
- conduct independent research and analysis on contemporary issues relating to East Asia.
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Reading List
Fei, Xiaotong. 1992. From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society. A translation of Fei Xiaotong¿s Xiangtu Zhongguo with an introduction and epilogue by Gary G. Hamilton and Wang Zheng. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Chu, Julie Y. 2010. Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China. Durham: Duke University Press.
Anne, Allison. 2013. Precarious Japan. Durham: Duke University Press.
Stafford, Charles (ed). 2010. Ordinary Ethics in China. London: Bloomsbury.
Song, Jesook. 2009. South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society. Durham: Duke University Press.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
This course will support students develop their communication skills, independent research skills, personal and intellectual autonomy, as well as tools to engage local and global issues. |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Jiazhi Fengjiang
Tel:
Email: Jiazhi.Fengjiang@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Teri Beveridge
Tel: (0131 6)51 3244
Email: tbeveri2@ed.ac.uk |
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