Course Catalog - 2011-2012

     

HIST 472 - NETWORKS IN CHINESE SOCIETY

Long Title: CLUBS, ASSOCIATIONS AND GUANXI NETWORKS IN CHINESE SOCIETY
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: The use of network analysis is a new and effective way to study history. Seminar will look at poetry clubs, secret societies, political parties and other social formations, and plot graphs of the linkage between their members, in an effort to understand China from the imperial times to the most recent decade.