Syllabus for SOC 453 Globalisation and Transformation in a Comparative Perspective, 61-80

Chinese Culture and Society in the Era of Globalisation and Transformation -----from an East-West Perspective Course Description About a fifth of all the people in the world live in China. At the same time as China has the longest continuous culture surviving from ancient times, globalisation widely affects Chinese culture and society. Chinese culture and society is undergoing dramatic changes in the era of globalisation and transformation. The course provides the student with an introduction on Chinese Culture and Society in the Era of Globalisation and Transformation from an East-West Perspective.

Course Requirements This course offers one semester teaching. Each week, references and readers will be suggested according to the topic and subject of the lecture and seminar. However, it is recommended for students to read the material provided by professors. They are mentioned through out the whole series of lectures. Course requirements will include (1) Assignments (35%); (2) short response papers and class participation (25%); (3) a final paper (40%). There will be no final examination for this course. Class discussion will be counted as students’ performance.

Introduction to Chinese Culture and Society As China had been closed to the outside world until recently, studies of Chinese culture and Chinese society for the students from other countries will be a good way to understand China. This part of course aims at an understanding of Chinese culture as practiced in the tradition and contemporary social context. In this regard, this part of the course tries to understand, from a social anthropological perspective, the lived experiences of social and cultural changes through the traditional society on the one hand, and to develop new perspectives and methods of Chinese studies on the other. Topics covered will include different aspects of Chinese culture and society with a view to understanding contemporary Chinese society:

 Chinese society;  Chinese culture

1  Chinese rural social structure  Religion in Chinese society  Confucianism

Shanghai and Globalization

This part of the course is to examine the place and development strategy as well as social issues of Shanghai under the influence of globalization, and how they are interrelated and related to the development in greater scale in China, and how a sociological approach helps us understand both the roots of these development "problems" and the consequences for individuals, communities and societies. Students will learn the local experiences, theoretical explanations and solutions proposed concerning Shanghai's development problems. The ability to critically assess current and future development mechanism in comparative perspective is essential in our increasingly interdependent, global world.

Globalisation and Culture

The aim of this sub-course is to focus on globalisation and culture. "Globalisation lies at the heart of modern culture; cultural practices lie at the heart of globalisation" as John Tomlinson formulates it in one of the textbooks in this part. In focus for this part is an analysis of the relationship between globalisation processes and contemporary cultural changes from an east- west perspective – differences and similarities. During the course, special attention will be given to different forms of identity constructions related to the globalisation process, where new technology, media and comsumption play an important role. Concepts as de-territorialisation, time and space, hybridisation versus homogenisation and cocacolonisation will be in focus in this part. Another important discussion in this part is the relationship between global and local culture, and how a global culture is transformed in a local context. In relation to this we will discuss Ronald Robinson’s concept “Glocalisation” – a combination between global and local cultural expression.

2 Globalisation, tradition and architecture

This part of the course looks at the interactions between globalising forces and local traditions with focus on how they are expressed in architecture and housing and the way local people create and use the built environment in the changing cities of Asia. It seeks to analyse, from an east- west perspective, different forms and mixtures of the global and the local in contemporary architectural and urban projects and whether and how they reflect globalising influences in relation to local architectural and urban traditions. Different efforts to combine or integrate global interests and globalising aspirations with local interests and local traditions will be highlighted and analysed.

An important discussion to be taken is about the role of tradition (especially that of architectural and housing tradition) in globalising processes. Concepts such as tradition, modernity, hybridisation or homogenisation are in focus.

Globalisation and Social Policy

The aim is to analyse and discuss social policy and different social policy systems in a context of globalisation and social transformation. In the first part we will introduce some basic concepts and typologies that have been used to characterise different systems of social policy. These models are used as a starting point for analysing labour market and welfare systems in Western and East Asian countries. The historical background to the development of specific models of social policy - the economic, social and political context within which they have emerged - will also be discussed. Another important aspect of comparison is the relation between different models and gender equality/inequality. The second part focuses on the impact of economic globalisation on social policy. In this context the challenges of globalisation for different models of welfare together with future prospects for social policy is discussed,.

COURSE LITERATURE Globalisation and Transformation from an East-West Perspective

3 Chinese Culture and Society From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society : A Translation of Fei Xiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguo. Ambrose Y. C. King, Kuan-his and Network Building: A Sociological Interpretation, The Living Tree: The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today, edt. By Tu Weiming, Stanford University Press . Myron L. Cohen, Being Chinese: the Peripheralization of Traditional Identity, The Living Tree: The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today, edt. By Tu Weiming, Stanford University Press Freedman, Maurice (1958) Lineage Organization in Southeast China. Freedman, M (1966) Chinese Lineage and Society. Ambrose Y. C. King, State Confucianism and its Transformation: The Restructuring of the State- Society Relation in Taiwan, Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity, edt. Tu Weiming, Harvard University Press, 1996. Yang, C. K. Religion in Chinese society; A Study of Contemporary Social Functions of Religion and Some of Their Historical Factors. Berkeley: University of California Press1961. Berger, Peter Secularity: West and East http://www.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/cimac/berger.html Overmyer, Daniel, Religion in China Today: Introduction, China Quarterly, No. 174, 2003, June.

Globalisation and Culture Castells, Manuel (1996): The Rise of the Network Society. Oxford: Blackwell. Chapter 5-7.(100 pages) Tomlinson, John (1999): Globalization and Culture, Oxford: Polity. (150 pages) Robertson, Ronald (xxx): Glocalisation Article???

Globalisation, Tradition and Trchitecture Anthony King (1990): “Architecture, Capital and the Globalization of Culture”. Theory, Culture & Society (Sage, London, Newbury Park and New Delhi), vol. 7 (1990), 397-411.

4 Sassen, Saskia (1999): “Hong Kong-Shanghai: networking as global cities”. In International Architecture Review, N. 10 1999/II, 106-111. Tran, Hoai Anh (1999): Another Modernism. Pp 42-50 and 69-81.Tran, Hoai Anh (2001): Shanghai Xintiandi: global influences and local reactions. 24 pages

Globalisation and Social Policy Deacon, Bob et al (1997): Global Social Policy: International Organizations and the Future of Welfare. London: Sage. Pp 28-53, 73-79. (33 pages) Deacon, Bob (2000): “Eastern European Welfare State: The Impact of the Politics of Globalization”. Journal of European Social Policy, vol. 10, no. 2 (May), pp. 146-161. (14 pages) Esping-Andersen, Gösta (1990): The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, 18-33. Cambridge: Polity Press. (15 pages) Guan, Xinping (2001): “Globalization, Inequality and Social Policy: China on the Threshold of Entry into the World Trade Organization”. Social Policy and Administration, vol. 35, no. 3, July 2001, 242-257. (14 pages)

Shanghai and Globalization Deborah S. Davis(edited) The consumer Revolution in Urban China, University of California Press (2000) pp.124-144

Huijiong Wang: Integrated Study of China’s Development and Reform, Foreign Languages Press, Beijing (2003), pp.40-78 Course schedule

Date Time Venue Lecture by Content/Literature

22/3 1:30-4:30 6108 Fan Lizhu Chinese society and Culture 5/4 1:30-4:30 6108 Jan Olof Nilsson Globalisation and Culture 7/4 Jan Olof Nilsson Globalisation and Culture 12/4 1:30-4:30 6108 Kjell Nilsson Globalisation and Social Policy

5 14/4 Kjell Nilsson Globalisation and Social Policy 19/4 1:30-4:30 6108 Hoai Anh Tran Globalisation, Tradition and Architecture 21/4 Hoai Anh Tran Globalisation, Tradition and Architecture 26/4 1:30-4:30 6108 Fan Lizhu Confucianism 10/5 1:30-4:30 6108 Fan Lizhu Chinese rural social structure 17/5 1:30-4:30 6108 Fan Lizhu Religion in Chinese society 24/5 1:30-4:30 6108 Fan Lizhu Relationship in China 31/5 1:30-4:30 6108 Fan Lizhu Chinese Culture and Globalization 7/6 1:30-4:30 6108 Hai Yu Shanghai and Globalization 14/6 1:30-4:30 6108 Hai Yu Shanghai and Globalization 21/6 1:30-4:30 6108 Hai Yu Shanghai and Globalization 28/6 1:30-4:30 6108 Oral Presentation