Summer 2016 PIIRS Global Seminar to Be Held in Beijing

Oct. 28, 2015

The Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China is pleased to announce that it will be co-sponsoring a PIIRS Global Seminar entitled "Contemporary Chinese Society".  The course is six weeks long and will be taught in Beijing with two weekend excursions to western and southern China.  

The seminar offers an introduction to some of the most prominent features of Chinese society, including work organizations, the education system, the urban/rural divide, migration, social inequality, marriage and family, ethnicity and religion. The emphasis is on understanding social phenomena in China within its historical, cultural, political and economic context.

Full details can be found here.  If you wish to be notified of the opening of the application period, please sign up on our mailing list.