Understanding the Chinese Society - Thomas B. Gold

Understanding the Chinese Society - Thomas B. Gold
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UNDERSTANDING CHINESE SOCIETY
by Thomas B. Gold
Footnotes - The Newsletter of FPRI's Wachman Center
Vol. 16, No. 1 - April 2011

Thomas B. Gold is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2000, he has also served as Executive Director of the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies (IUP), a consortium of 14 American universities and the British Inter-University China Centre which administers an advanced Chinese language program at Tsinghua University in Beijing He presented this address at FPRI's History Institute for Teachers on "China and India: Ancient Civilizations, Rising Powers, Giant Societies, and Contrasting Models of Development," held in March 2011 at the University of Pennsylvania. The program was cosponsored by three centers at Penn - the Center for East Asian Studies, the South Asia Center, and Penn Lauder CIBER (Center for International Business Education and Research) - and was supported by a grant from the Cotswold Foundation.
Video files of the lectures and corresponding powerpoints can be accessed here:
http://www.fpri.org/education/1103china_india/
Available on the web and in pdf format at:
http://www.fpri.org/footnotes/1601.201104.gold.chinesesociety.html

UNDERSTANDING CHINESE SOCIETY
by Thomas B. Gold

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