Preliminary reading list
Below is a preliminary reading list, which you might like to look at in the coming months, perhaps by borrowing them from your local library.
For students who have a limited background in China studies, it may be useful to read some of the following. Please note, however, that you are not obliged to do any reading before the course begins.
Deng, Kent G. 'Development and its deadlock in imperial China’, Economic Development and Cultural Change 51:2, 2003, pp 479-522
Xiaotong, Fei. From the Soil, the Foundations of Chinese Society: A Translation of Fei Xiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguo, with an Introduction and Epilogue, transl. Gary Hamilton and Wang Zheng. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992 [1948])
Goody, Jack. The Theft of History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Harrison, Henrietta. China (Inventing the Nation). (London: Arnold, 2001)
Kaviraj, Sudipta and Khilnani, Sunil (eds). Civil Society: History and Possibilities. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Stockman, Norman. Understanding Chinese Society. (Cambridge: Polity, 2000)
Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China. (New York: Norton, 1990)
van de Veer, Peter and Lehmann, H (eds), Nation and Religion: Perspectives on Europe and Asia. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999)
Weber, Max. The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism, transl. Hans H. Gerth. (New York: The Free Press, 1951)
Yunxiang, Yan. Private Life under Socialism; Love, Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village 1949-1999. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003)
Zarrow, Peter. China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949. (London: Routledge, 2005)
Lists of course-specific readings may be found by consulting the course guide pages. Please note that all pages relevant to 2016/17 studies are still being updated.
Course availability
The table below contains a listing of all our intended Anthropology courses for 2015/16, but please note that these may be subject to change due to circumstances beyond our control. We have also included a listing of courses which have been run recently, but which are not available this year, for your information.
Courses marked with an (H) are half units.
The online registration facility for choosing courses is usually released onto LSE for You in September, and you will have until midday on 10 October to make your selections.
Some courses are capped to a certain maximum size. Caps are set, or not, by the Department owning each course. Details of which courses are to be capped are not yet available. Please be aware that Departments may give preference to students registered on their own programmes when offering places on capped courses.
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Course number and title (H = half unit)
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1
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AN447 China in Comparative Perspective
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2
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Either
AN404 Anthropology: Theory and Ethnography
or
EH482 Pre-Modern Paths of Growth: East and West Compared, 1000-1800
(Students who do not wish to advance their first degree in anthropology or economic history may take a full unit course from paper 3)
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3
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Courses to the value of one unit from the following:
AN402 The Anthropology of Religion
AN405 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender
AN436 The Anthropology of Development (H)
AN451 Anthropology of Politics (H)
AN456 Anthropology of Economy (1): Production and Exchange (H)
AN457 Anthropology of Economy (2): Transformation and Globalisation (H)
AN473 Anthropological Approaches to Value (H)
DV411 Population and Development: An Analytical Approach (H)
DV413 Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (H)
DV415 Global Environmental Governance (H)
DV432 China in Developmental Perspective (H)
EH446 Economic Development in East and Southeast Asia
EU443 European Models of Capitalism (H)
GV4H1 Chinese Political Thought
GV467 Introduction to Comparative Politics (H)
GY438 Cities and Social Change in East Asia (H)
GY480 Remaking China: Geographical aspects of Development and Disparity (H)
HY461 East Asia in the Age of Imperialism, 1839-1945*
HY472 China and the External World, 1711-1839
A full-unit from MSc International Relations (papers 2 & 3), subject to availability and the approval of the relevant course convenor. The following courses would be particularly appropriate:
IR411 Foreign Policy Analysis III
IR464 The Politics of International Law (H)
A full-unit in Social Policy chosen from the following, subject to availability and the approval of the relevant course convenor:
SA488 Social Policy: Goals and Issues (H)
SA4C9 Social Policy - Organisation and Innovation (H)
SA4D2 Health and Population in Developing and Transitional Societies (H)
SA4H9 NGOs, Social Policy and Development (H)*
SA4L1 The Governance of Welfare: the Nation State and the European Union (H)
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4
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AN498 Dissertation- MSc China in Comparative Perspective
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Notes
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Some courses can have an upper limit on the number of students that will be accepted.
* means subject to space.
The following courses will not be offered in 2016/17
AN439 Anthropology and Human Rights (H)
AN459 Anthropology and Media (H)
IR418 International Politics: Asia and the Pacific
IR462 Introduction to International Political Theory (H)
IR463 The International Political Theory of Humanitarian Intervention (H)
SA4C8 Globalization and Social Policy (H)
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Provisional Timetable
The provisional timetable for 2016/7 is not yet available. Larger Anthropology courses, such as AN404 will have multiple seminars each week. You will be put into a group at the beginning of term and will only need to attend one seminar per week in addition to the weekly lecture.
Welcome Week
In the week before the start of teaching in the Michaelmas term we will be having departmental orientation sessions for all new students. These are in addition to the LSE's Welcome Week events, and they will provide you with important information about the department and your programme of study, as well as giving you the opportunity to meet your new peers and getting to know the academic and administrative staff, who will be able to answer your questions.