CHI131
Chinese Popular Culture
Subject code
CHI
Course Number
131
Department(s)
Course Long Title
Chinese Popular Culture
Cross Listed Courses
Description
This course explores the varied cultural landscapes of the Chinese-speaking world through the lens of popular culture. Students are introduced to key approaches in cultural studies, while learning to critically interpret literary, musical, and visual texts in the Chinese-speaking world in social and historical context. Topics include modernity and tradition, technology and culture, media and society, and the local and the global. Students emerge from the course with a new set of tools in thinking about "culture," both familiar and unfamiliar. No previous knowledge of Asia is required.
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