GOG 160/EAC 160 (Spring, 2008)

 

CHINA: PEOPLE AND PLACE

 

 

Professor:  Youqin Huang

 

 

 

 The Skyline of Pudong, Shanghai

        The Tian’anmen Square. Beijing

 

 

Class Number

8069 (GOG 160), 8070 (EAC 160)

Class Location & Hours

ES 241, TTh 10:15 –11:35 AM

Contact & Office hours

Youqin Huang: yhuang@albany.edu

Office hours: TTh 2:40 – 3:40pm (AS 215)

 

 

Syllabus

 

Supplementary Readings, available on ERes:

 

1.      Knapp, Ronald (1982) "China perceived, perceiving China: American myths and realities of the People's Republic," in East Asia: Geographical and Historical Approaches to Foreign Area Studies, edited by Clifton W. Pannell, pp. 157-167. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt.

 

2.      How China beat India in race for success," Los Angeles Times August 10, 1997, pp. A1, A27-A29.

 

3.      Davin, Delia (1999) Internal Migration in Contemporary China, London: MacMillan Press. Chapter 1-2.

 

4.      Chan, Kam Wing, 2004.  Internal Migration, in Changing China: A Geographic Appraisal, ed. By Chiao-min Hsieh and Max Lu. Boulder, CO: Westview. pp. 229-242.

 

5.      Johnson, K. 1998.  “Infant Abandonment and Adoption in China” Population and Development Review, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 469-510.

            See: http://www.jstor.org/view/00987921/dm994001/99p0237t/0

 

6.      Smith, Christopher J., 2000.  Chapter 9:  The World’s Most Rapidly Urbanizing Nation, in China in the Post-Utopian Age, Oxford: Westview Press. 

 

7.      Gaubatz, Piper Rae, 1995.  “Urban Transformation in Post-Mao China:  Impacts of the Reform Era on China’s Urban Form”, in Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China, Edited by Deborah S. Davis et al., Cambridge: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press.

 

8.      Wang, Yaping and Murie, Alan, 1999.  Commercial Housing Development in Urban China, Urban Studies, 36 (9): 1475-1497.

 

9.      Hyde, S.T. 1998. “The Chinese State and Everyday AIDS Practices in the Borderlands”, Bad Subjects, Issue # 39.

 

10.  Chan, J. 2001. “HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Rural China” World Socialist Website, August 6th, see: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/aug2001/aids-a06.shtml

 

11.   Thompson, Drew, 2004.  “China’s Growing AIDS Epidemic Increasingly Affects Women”, http://www.prb.org/Template.cfm?Section=PRB&template=/Content/ContentGroups/04_Articles/Chinas_Growing_AIDS_Epidemic_Increasingly_Affects_Women.htm

 

12.  Solinger, Dorothy J., 1995. “The Floating Population in the Cities: Chances for Assimilation?”, in Urban Spaces in Contemporary China:  The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China, Edited by Deborah S. Davis, Richard Kraus, Barry Naughton and Elizabeth J. Perry, Cambridge: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press.

 

 

  

For Your Reference:

Map of China

Boundary Map of China