SOCIOL 181A

Main Course

Sociology of Global China

Description

Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Designed for juniors/seniors. Analyses of how domestic developments create impetus for China's global expansion, and assessment of global China's variegated and uneven consequences. Concrete case studies include Belt and Road Initiative, soft power and cultural diplomacy, internal colonization of Hong Kong and Xinjiang, China in Africa, U.S.-China trade war, and New Cold War. P/NP or letter grading.