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- Mission: to understand the things that all humans share as well as the things that make us
different
- Subfields: cultural anthropology (ethnology, biggest field), biological anthropology
(evolution of human beings, includes primates), archaeology, linguistic anthropology
(study of human languages)
- Fixation on height, semi-militarization of sports
- WWII left a bad taste in the USs mouth; China hadnt been through that process
- Flood out of China everyone in China wanted to leave
o Theres a play there
- China entering the international society children and foreigners
- Shanghai Declaration
Ethnography (fieldwork)
- Cultural anthropology is the only academic discipline that involves talking to living
people face to face
- Conversations and interviews with everyday people, government officials, employees of
key institutions and organizations, academic experts, journalists
o Being around the stakeholders
o Secondary literature, conventional and new media, statistics, documents
Internet censorship is tight in China
- Dream is a big word in China these days
- New York to Beijing 6940 miles, Beijing is 12 hours ahead of us
o Sinosized is a word
- Republic of China/Taiwan/Chinese Taipei
o 22.9 million, founded on Mainland in 1912 by Nationalist Party, defeated by
Communist Party in 1949, nationalists fled to Taiwan
o Japanese colony 1895 1945
o Taipei is the capital
- Peoples Republic of China
o 1.3 billion
o 1949 present: founded by Chairman Mao when Communist Party won civil war
o 1958 60: Great Leap Forward (mass collectivization into Peoples Communes)
o 1966 1976: Cultural Revolution
- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
o 7 million, British colony reverted to PRC in 1997
- Macau
o 559,000, Portugese colony reverted in something or other
- Japan
o 127 million
o 1868 1912: Meiji Restoration, rapid industrialization
- Korea
o Was a colony of Japan from 1910 to 1945
o 1950 1953 Korean War, only war where US fought China
o Korean border the most militarized border in the world