CHI 322 - SELF AND SOCIETY IN CHINESE CULTURE

College of Arts and Sciences

Credit(s): 3

This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the concept of the self and its relationship to larger social categories such as family and society in Chinese culture. Critical approaches to topics such as self expression in art and literature over time and across genres, self- cultivation, gender, consciousness, modernity, and transnational identity. Course readings will include philosophical and religious texts as well as literature, historical writing, and material culture in its various forms.

Prereq: Junior status or consent of instructor.