CHES2104 Consumer Culture in Contemporary China
| Course | CHES2104 Consumer Culture in Contemporary China | ||
| Class Time | Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 14:30 – 17:15 | ||
| Teacher | Dr. Lin SUN | ||
| Course Description | This course offers an overview of China’s consumer culture. Since the policies of reform and opening up were initiated in 1978, China has been transformed from a command economy to a market-oriented system and achieved over three decades of rapid growth. China’s consumer culture has been transformed accordingly. This course will address both the historical processes of cultural changes and major consumer issuers in contemporary China. It aims to provide a roadmap for the students to have a critical view of China’s business culture. | ||
| Course Outline/Syllabus | Download | ||
| Prerequisite(s) | — | ||
| Remark(s) | — |
| Dr. Lin SUN (Lynn) is a cultural anthropologist. Her research interests lie in how various intimate experiences are articulated in close and complex interactions between humans and their environments, and how discourses can become affective and thus “move” people. Using the experience-near approach, she has explored this theme in her current research project on how “marital happiness”—a set of dominant warm and fuzzy logics—is constructed and experienced by married women living in urban China and Japan today. She is now working on turning this piece of research into a book manuscript.
Before teaching at CUHK, Dr. Sun was a visiting research fellow at Waseda University. She was also part of the U.S.- China Research Group on Culture and Common Good initiated by Georgetown University. Dr. Sun now teaches both undergraduate and MA courses on intimate relationships, gender, consumer culture, and popular culture. |
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