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EAASGU4226
GENDER, CLASS AND REAL ESTATE IN CHINA
Fall 2024
Wednesday 2:10-4pm, 569 Alfred Lerner Hall
Instructor: Dr. Leta Hong Fincher (lh2793@columbia.edu, office hours by appointment
via Zoom)
Course Description:
This seminar for advanced undergraduates and graduate students explores the
socioeconomic consequences of China’s development of a booming, residential
real-estate market since the privatization of housing at the end of the 1990s. We will use
the intersecting lenses of gender, class and race/ethnicity to analyze the dramatic new
inequalities created in arguably the largest and fastest accumulation of residential
real-estate wealth in history. We examine how skyrocketing home prices and state-led
urbanization have created winners and losers as China has transformed from a
predominantly rural population to one that is majority urban. We look at how growing
inequalities have led to new kinds of rights activism. We explore the vastly divergent
effects of urbanization on citizens, from the most marginalized communities in Xinjiang
and Tibet to hyper-wealthy investors in Beijing and Hong Kong. Although this course
has no formal prerequisites, it assumes some basic knowledge of Chinese history. If you
have never taken a course on China before, please ask me for guidance on whether or
not this class is suitable for you. The syllabus is preliminary and subject to change
based on breaking news events and the needs of the class.
Topics
INTRODUCTION
CHINA’S REVOLUTIONS AND THE PURGING OF LANDLORDS
STATE-SUBSIDIZED URBAN LIVING IN THE POST-MAO ERA
THE PRIVATIZATION OF URBAN HOUSING
MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND THE GENDERING OF PROPERTY (1)
THE MIDDLE-CLASS REAL-ESTATE DREAM
MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND THE GENDERING OF PROPERTY (2)
MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND THE GENDERING OF PROPERTY (3)
WEALTH AND CLASS INEQUALITIES
URBAN LIVING, GENDER AND ACTIVISM
RACE/ETHNICITY AND RESETTLEMENT IN CHINA
REAL ESTATE AND URBAN-RURAL INEQUALITY
CONCLUSION
Learning Objectives:
Our goal is to learn about inequalities in gender, class, and race/ethnicity in
contemporary Chinese society by focusing on urbanization, residential real-estate
development and accompanying social problems. Students are likely to hold a wide
range of different views on some controversial topics covered in the course and we
should all speak and listen in a respectful manner. If anyone feels uncomfortable about
the tone of our discussions, please approach me confidentially to express your
concerns.
I will sometimes assign recent news reports in addition to the syllabus readings so that
we can discuss current events related to our course.
I hope that students will be able to accomplish the following by the end of the course:
● Develop critical reading and writing skills, and apply these to the analysis of
key socioeconomic developments in China’s market-reform era;
● Draw connections between personal experiences and scholarship;
● Think critically about the relationship between individuals and governments;
● Challenge your own assumptions about your role in society and think broadly
about how social inequalities are created and perpetuated;
● Examine a given situation from another person’s point of view and engage in
reasoned debates with people from diverse backgrounds, who hold different
opinions from your own;
● For graduate students: develop a research project on your area of interest in
contemporary China.
Course Requirements:
This is a participative seminar. Students are expected to attend class having completed
the assigned readings, fully prepared to participate in the discussions. You should ask
thoughtful questions, make respectful observations, and be prepared to re-evaluate and
change your views in response to new information and arguments. Attendance and
class participation for the entire semester count for 10% of your final grade.
Each student is required to give one 10-minute presentation about the assigned
readings, worth 15% of your final grade. The presentation should be a summary plus
analysis of the content and you may sign up early in the semester. Please create a
power point or slideshow to submit to me as part of your presentation.
We will have a midterm exam in class on October 23, which is worth 25% of your final
grade.
Final presentations related to one of the course themes will take place December 4 and
account for 15% of your grade. Presentations will be in groups or pairs and may be as
creative and multimedia as you like. The presentation will be graded on the quality of
your ideas and the clarity of your presentation. The length of final presentations will
depend on the total number of students.
You will write a final paper related to one of the course themes, which is DUE
DECEMBER 15. Undergraduates write an 8-10-page paper, while graduate students
write a 15-20-page paper. The paper is worth 35% of your final grade. The papers must
be 12-point, double-spaced, Times New Roman. You may choose one of the paper
topics I will suggest towards the end of the semester or choose your own topic related
to our course themes, as long as I approve of the topic. The final paper should be
emailed to me in a simple Word or PDF document.
All assignments will be evaluated on the quality and originality of your ideas, how well
you demonstrate concepts learned in class to support your arguments, the correct and
thorough use of references to support your arguments, and the clarity of your writing.
You may choose your own reference style, but I recommend the Chicago Manual of
Style Citation Guide.
Your final grade is based on the following:
Overall class participation: 10%
10-minute presentation about the readings: 15%
Midterm exam October 23 25%
Final group presentations DECEMBER 4: 15%
Final paper DUE DECEMBER 15 35%
Undergraduate paper 8-10 pages, not including references
Graduate paper 15-20 pages, not including references
Total: 100%
Academic Dishonesty:
Academic dishonesty (plagiarism or otherwise submitting work under false pretenses)
will not be tolerated. Any student found to be engaging in academic dishonesty will be
reported to the university administration for disciplinary action.
Disability Allowances:
If you are a student with a disability and have an DS-certified ‘Accommodation Letter’
please email me about your accommodation needs. If you believe that you might have a
disability that requires accommodation, you should contact Disability Services at
212-854-2388 and disability@columbia.edu
Links to an external site.
.
Religious Allowances:
If your religious practices might affect your ability to complete a course requirement,
please inform me early in the semester and I will provide reasonable accommodations
for you.
Optional pronoun registration:
You may register your pronouns here if you like:
I will link to or upload most of our reading in "Files" - resources, or refer to books
on reserve. The following books are available for purchase at Book Culture and
on reserve at the Starr East Asian Library.
Leta Hong Fincher. 2023. Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in
China. London: Bloomsbury.
Tania Branigan. 2023. Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution. 2023.
New York: Norton.
Ke Li. 2022. Marriage Unbound: State, Law, Power and Inequality in Contemporary
China. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Leta Hong Fincher. 2021. Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China.
London: Verso.
Additional books on library reserve:
Deborah S. Davis and Sara L. Friedman (eds). 2014. Wives, Husbands and Lovers:
Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Urban China. Stanford: Stanford
University Press.
Deborah Davis and Stevan Harrell (eds.). 1993. Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
Marjorie Garber. 2000. Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses. New York:
Pantheon Books.
Rebecca E. Karl. 2010. Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth Century World: A
Concise History. Durham: Duke University Press.
Patricia Kennett and Chan Kam Wah (eds.) 2011. Women and Housing: An
International Analysis. London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
Martin King Whyte and William L. Parish. 1984. Urban Life in Contemporary China.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Yunxiang Yan. 2003. Private Life Under Socialism. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Schedule:
I have occasionally listed recommended readings in the syllabus (marked with an
asterisk *) for students who wish to do more than the required reading.
Week 1: INTRODUCTION
September 4
Daisuke Wakabayashi. 2024. New York Times. Guess who's angry at China's real
estate bailout: Homeowners.
Links to an external site.
Joy Dong. 2023. New York Times. For single women in China, owning a home is a new
form of resistance.
Links to an external site.
Week 2: CHINA’S REVOLUTIONS AND THE PURGING OF LANDLORDS
September 11
Tania Branigan. Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution. 2023. New
York: Norton. Prologue through Chapter 5, pp. 1-149.
Recommended:
*Rebecca E. Karl. 2010. Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth Century World. Ch 6:
Stabilizing Society and the Transition to Socialism 1949-1957, pp. 73-98. Ch 7: Great
Leap and Restoration: 1958-1965, pp. 99-116.
Week 3: STATE-SUBSIDIZED URBAN LIVING IN THE POST-MAO ERA
September 18
Deborah Davis. 1993. Urban Households: Supplicants to a Socialist State, pp. 50-76. In
Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era (eds Deborah Davis and Stevan Harrell).
Martin King Whyte and William L. Parish. 1984. Urban Life in Contemporary China. Ch
4: Social Services and Supplies, pp. 57-106.
Week 4: THE PRIVATIZATION OF URBAN HOUSING
September 25
Youqin Huang
Links to an external site.
, Shenjing He
Links to an external site.
, and Li Gan
Links to an external site.
. Cities, 2021. Homeownership and housing divide in China
Links to an external site.
.
Barry Naughton. 2010. The Turning Point in Housing. China Leadership Monitor 33:
1-10.
Guo Hui-min. 2011. A Gender Study on Housing Rights of Women in Urban China. In
Women and Housing: An International Analysis (eds.) Patricia Kennett and Chan Kam
Wah, pp. 171-186.
Rampell, Catherine. 2013. New York Times. A Place That Makes New York Real Estate
Look Cheap - Think it’s Expensive to Buy a Home in New York? Try Moving to China
Links to an external site.
.
Ya Ping Wang and Alan Murie. 1996. The process of commercialization of urban
housing in China. Urban Studies 33(6): 971–989.
Week 5: MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND THE GENDERING OF PROPERTY (1)
October 2
Leta Hong Fincher. 2023. Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in
China (10th anniversary edition). Preface to tenth anniversary edition, pp. xii-xx).
Introduction, pp. 1-15. Ch. 1 China’s ‘Leftover’ Women, pp. 16-54. Ch. 2 How Chinese
women were shut out of the biggest accumulation of real-estate wealth in history, pp.
55-87. Ch. 3 China’s giant gender wealth gap, pp. 88-123.
Week 6:
THE MIDDLE-CLASS REAL-ESTATE DREAM
October 9
Wu Peiyue. 2022. Sixth Tone. "We Own It": The Chinese Homeowners Squatting in
Unfinished Buildings
Links to an external site.
.Terry Sicular. 2022. Is China Catching Up with the West? Or, Why Should We Care
about China's Middle Class? In The China Questions 2: Critical Insights into US-China
Relations, edited by Maria Adele Carrai, Jennifer Rudolph, and Michael Szonyi, pp.
274-282.
Rocca, Jean-Louis. 2013. Homeowners’ Movements: Narratives on the Political
Behaviours of the Middle Class. In Minglu Chen and David S.G. Goodman (eds), Middle
Class China: Identity and Behaviour, pp. 110-134.
Marjorie Garber. 2000. Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses. New York:
Pantheon Books. Ch. 1 The House as Beloved, pp. 25-47. Ch. 4 The Dream House, pp.
100-119.
Week 7: MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND THE GENDERING OF PROPERTY (2)
October 16
Ke Li. 2022. Marriage Unbound: State, Law, Power and Inequality in Contemporary
China. Ch. 2 Marriage on the Move, pp. 51-75. Ch. 5: Judging Divorce in the People's
Courts, pp. 152-188. Ch. 6: Onstage and Offstage, pp. 189-226. Ch. 7: Issues and
Nonissues, pp. 227-257.
Wen Jing Deng, Joris S. C. M. Hoekstra, Marja G. Elsinga. 2019. Why women own less
housing assets in China? The role of intergenerational transfers. In Journal of Housing
and the Built Environment (2019) 34:1–22.
Week 8: MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND THE GENDERING OF PROPERTY (3)
October 23
MIDTERM EXAM
Michelson, Ethan. Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China’s Divorce Courts. Cambridge
University Press; 2022. Ch. 1: Sisyphus goes to divorce court, pp. 1-34. Ch. 2: The right
to decouple, pp. 35-64. Ch. 7: How judges gaslight domestic violence victims in divorce
trials, pp. 237-269.
Recommended:
*Yunxiang Yan. 2003. Private Life Under Socialism. Ch 6: The Politics of Family
Property, pp. 140-161. Ch 7: Elderly Support and the Crisis of Filial Piety, pp. 162-189.
Week 9: URBAN LIVING, GENDER AND ACTIVISM
October 30
Shen Lu and Liyan Qi. 2023. Wall Street Journal. "In China, Young Women Become
Accidental Symbols of Defiance."
Leta Hong Fincher. 2018. Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China. Ch
1: China’s Feminist Five, pp. 15-32. Ch 2: The Internet and Feminist Awakening, pp.
33-58. Ch 7: China’s Patriarchal Authoritarianism, pp. 159-186.
Stephanie Yingyi Wang. 2019, Feminist Studies. "When Tongzhi Marry: Experiments of
Cooperative Marriage Between Lalas and Gay Men in Urban China."
Week 10: RACE/ETHNICITY AND RESETTLEMENT IN CHINA
November 6
Tim Gross. 2020. The Xinjiang Data Project. Transforming Uyghur domestic space:
China’s "Three News" housing campaign in Xinjiang.
Links to an external site.
Gardner Bovingdon. 2010. The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land. Ch 2:
Heteronomy and its Discontents, pp. 40-79.
https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14197173?counter=1
Tsering Woeser. 2014. Voices from Tibet. I: Old Lhasa Politicized, pp. 1-18. IV:
Wrecking Nature, pp. 49-60.
Megha Rajagopolan, Alison Killing and Christo Buschek. 2020. Buzzfeed. China Built a
Vast New Infrastructure to Imprison Muslims.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-new-internment-camps-xinjiang-u
ighurs-muslims?bfsource=relatedmanual
Links to an external site.
Week 11: WEALTH AND CLASS INEQUALITIES
November 13
Zhexun Mo. World Inequality Lab Issue Brief, 2022. "Is East Asia Becoming Plutocratic?
Income & Wealth Inequalities in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (1981-2021)."
Kangni Chai and Changchun Feng. Housing Studies, 2021. "Sons, daughters, and
differentiated tenure choice of multiple homes: evidence from urban China."
Martin K. Whyte. 2014. Soaring Income Gaps: China in Comparative Perspective.
Daedalus. 143(2): 39-52.
Dan Mattingly. 2019. The art of political control in China. Cambridge University Press.
Ch. 3: The Communist Party's Governance Challenge, pp. 56-86.
Week 12: REAL ESTATE AND URBAN-RURAL INEQUALITY
November 20
Yourong Wang , Yuyao Li , Youqin Huang , Chengdong Yi, Jianyu Ren. Cities, 2020.
Housing wealth inequality in China: An urban-rural comparison
Links to an external site.
.
Alexandra Stevenson and Michael Forsythe. 2020. New York Times. Luxury Homes Tie
Chinese Communist Elite to Hong Kong's Fate.
Julia Chuang. 2014. China's rural land politics. The China Quarterly, 219, September
2014, pp. 649–669.
https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/stable/24740632?seq=1#metadata_info
_tab_contents
Lynette Ong. 2022. Outsourcing Repression. Oxford University Press. Ch. 1: Bulldozers,
violent thugs and nonviolent brokers.
THANKSGIVING BREAK
Week 13: FINAL PRESENTATIONS & CONCLUSION
GENDER, CLASS AND REAL ESTATE IN CHINA
Fall 2024
Wednesday 2:10-4pm, 569 Alfred Lerner Hall
Instructor: Dr. Leta Hong Fincher (lh2793@columbia.edu, office hours by appointment
via Zoom)
Course Description:
This seminar for advanced undergraduates and graduate students explores the
socioeconomic consequences of China’s development of a booming, residential
real-estate market since the privatization of housing at the end of the 1990s. We will use
the intersecting lenses of gender, class and race/ethnicity to analyze the dramatic new
inequalities created in arguably the largest and fastest accumulation of residential
real-estate wealth in history. We examine how skyrocketing home prices and state-led
urbanization have created winners and losers as China has transformed from a
predominantly rural population to one that is majority urban. We look at how growing
inequalities have led to new kinds of rights activism. We explore the vastly divergent
effects of urbanization on citizens, from the most marginalized communities in Xinjiang
and Tibet to hyper-wealthy investors in Beijing and Hong Kong. Although this course
has no formal prerequisites, it assumes some basic knowledge of Chinese history. If you
have never taken a course on China before, please ask me for guidance on whether or
not this class is suitable for you. The syllabus is preliminary and subject to change
based on breaking news events and the needs of the class.
Topics
INTRODUCTION
CHINA’S REVOLUTIONS AND THE PURGING OF LANDLORDS
STATE-SUBSIDIZED URBAN LIVING IN THE POST-MAO ERA
THE PRIVATIZATION OF URBAN HOUSING
MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND THE GENDERING OF PROPERTY (1)
THE MIDDLE-CLASS REAL-ESTATE DREAM
MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND THE GENDERING OF PROPERTY (2)
MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND THE GENDERING OF PROPERTY (3)
WEALTH AND CLASS INEQUALITIES
URBAN LIVING, GENDER AND ACTIVISM
RACE/ETHNICITY AND RESETTLEMENT IN CHINA
REAL ESTATE AND URBAN-RURAL INEQUALITY
CONCLUSION
Learning Objectives:
Our goal is to learn about inequalities in gender, class, and race/ethnicity in
contemporary Chinese society by focusing on urbanization, residential real-estate
development and accompanying social problems. Students are likely to hold a wide
range of different views on some controversial topics covered in the course and we
should all speak and listen in a respectful manner. If anyone feels uncomfortable about
the tone of our discussions, please approach me confidentially to express your
concerns.
I will sometimes assign recent news reports in addition to the syllabus readings so that
we can discuss current events related to our course.
I hope that students will be able to accomplish the following by the end of the course:
● Develop critical reading and writing skills, and apply these to the analysis of
key socioeconomic developments in China’s market-reform era;
● Draw connections between personal experiences and scholarship;
● Think critically about the relationship between individuals and governments;
● Challenge your own assumptions about your role in society and think broadly
about how social inequalities are created and perpetuated;
● Examine a given situation from another person’s point of view and engage in
reasoned debates with people from diverse backgrounds, who hold different
opinions from your own;
● For graduate students: develop a research project on your area of interest in
contemporary China.
Course Requirements:
This is a participative seminar. Students are expected to attend class having completed
the assigned readings, fully prepared to participate in the discussions. You should ask
thoughtful questions, make respectful observations, and be prepared to re-evaluate and
change your views in response to new information and arguments. Attendance and
class participation for the entire semester count for 10% of your final grade.
Each student is required to give one 10-minute presentation about the assigned
readings, worth 15% of your final grade. The presentation should be a summary plus
analysis of the content and you may sign up early in the semester. Please create a
power point or slideshow to submit to me as part of your presentation.
We will have a midterm exam in class on October 23, which is worth 25% of your final
grade.
Final presentations related to one of the course themes will take place December 4 and
account for 15% of your grade. Presentations will be in groups or pairs and may be as
creative and multimedia as you like. The presentation will be graded on the quality of
your ideas and the clarity of your presentation. The length of final presentations will
depend on the total number of students.
You will write a final paper related to one of the course themes, which is DUE
DECEMBER 15. Undergraduates write an 8-10-page paper, while graduate students
write a 15-20-page paper. The paper is worth 35% of your final grade. The papers must
be 12-point, double-spaced, Times New Roman. You may choose one of the paper
topics I will suggest towards the end of the semester or choose your own topic related
to our course themes, as long as I approve of the topic. The final paper should be
emailed to me in a simple Word or PDF document.
All assignments will be evaluated on the quality and originality of your ideas, how well
you demonstrate concepts learned in class to support your arguments, the correct and
thorough use of references to support your arguments, and the clarity of your writing.
You may choose your own reference style, but I recommend the Chicago Manual of
Style Citation Guide.
Your final grade is based on the following:
Overall class participation: 10%
10-minute presentation about the readings: 15%
Midterm exam October 23 25%
Final group presentations DECEMBER 4: 15%
Final paper DUE DECEMBER 15 35%
Undergraduate paper 8-10 pages, not including references
Graduate paper 15-20 pages, not including references
Total: 100%
Academic Dishonesty:
Academic dishonesty (plagiarism or otherwise submitting work under false pretenses)
will not be tolerated. Any student found to be engaging in academic dishonesty will be
reported to the university administration for disciplinary action.
Disability Allowances:
If you are a student with a disability and have an DS-certified ‘Accommodation Letter’
please email me about your accommodation needs. If you believe that you might have a
disability that requires accommodation, you should contact Disability Services at
212-854-2388 and disability@columbia.edu
Links to an external site.
.
Religious Allowances:
If your religious practices might affect your ability to complete a course requirement,
please inform me early in the semester and I will provide reasonable accommodations
for you.
Optional pronoun registration:
You may register your pronouns here if you like:
I will link to or upload most of our reading in "Files" - resources, or refer to books
on reserve. The following books are available for purchase at Book Culture and
on reserve at the Starr East Asian Library.
Leta Hong Fincher. 2023. Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in
China. London: Bloomsbury.
Tania Branigan. 2023. Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution. 2023.
New York: Norton.
Ke Li. 2022. Marriage Unbound: State, Law, Power and Inequality in Contemporary
China. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Leta Hong Fincher. 2021. Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China.
London: Verso.
Additional books on library reserve:
Deborah S. Davis and Sara L. Friedman (eds). 2014. Wives, Husbands and Lovers:
Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Urban China. Stanford: Stanford
University Press.
Deborah Davis and Stevan Harrell (eds.). 1993. Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
Marjorie Garber. 2000. Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses. New York:
Pantheon Books.
Rebecca E. Karl. 2010. Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth Century World: A
Concise History. Durham: Duke University Press.
Patricia Kennett and Chan Kam Wah (eds.) 2011. Women and Housing: An
International Analysis. London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
Martin King Whyte and William L. Parish. 1984. Urban Life in Contemporary China.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Yunxiang Yan. 2003. Private Life Under Socialism. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Schedule:
I have occasionally listed recommended readings in the syllabus (marked with an
asterisk *) for students who wish to do more than the required reading.
Week 1: INTRODUCTION
September 4
Daisuke Wakabayashi. 2024. New York Times. Guess who's angry at China's real
estate bailout: Homeowners.
Links to an external site.
Joy Dong. 2023. New York Times. For single women in China, owning a home is a new
form of resistance.
Links to an external site.
Week 2: CHINA’S REVOLUTIONS AND THE PURGING OF LANDLORDS
September 11
Tania Branigan. Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution. 2023. New
York: Norton. Prologue through Chapter 5, pp. 1-149.
Recommended:
*Rebecca E. Karl. 2010. Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth Century World. Ch 6:
Stabilizing Society and the Transition to Socialism 1949-1957, pp. 73-98. Ch 7: Great
Leap and Restoration: 1958-1965, pp. 99-116.
Week 3: STATE-SUBSIDIZED URBAN LIVING IN THE POST-MAO ERA
September 18
Deborah Davis. 1993. Urban Households: Supplicants to a Socialist State, pp. 50-76. In
Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era (eds Deborah Davis and Stevan Harrell).
Martin King Whyte and William L. Parish. 1984. Urban Life in Contemporary China. Ch
4: Social Services and Supplies, pp. 57-106.
Week 4: THE PRIVATIZATION OF URBAN HOUSING
September 25
Youqin Huang
Links to an external site.
, Shenjing He
Links to an external site.
, and Li Gan
Links to an external site.
. Cities, 2021. Homeownership and housing divide in China
Links to an external site.
.
Barry Naughton. 2010. The Turning Point in Housing. China Leadership Monitor 33:
1-10.
Guo Hui-min. 2011. A Gender Study on Housing Rights of Women in Urban China. In
Women and Housing: An International Analysis (eds.) Patricia Kennett and Chan Kam
Wah, pp. 171-186.
Rampell, Catherine. 2013. New York Times. A Place That Makes New York Real Estate
Look Cheap - Think it’s Expensive to Buy a Home in New York? Try Moving to China
Links to an external site.
.
Ya Ping Wang and Alan Murie. 1996. The process of commercialization of urban
housing in China. Urban Studies 33(6): 971–989.
Week 5: MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND THE GENDERING OF PROPERTY (1)
October 2
Leta Hong Fincher. 2023. Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in
China (10th anniversary edition). Preface to tenth anniversary edition, pp. xii-xx).
Introduction, pp. 1-15. Ch. 1 China’s ‘Leftover’ Women, pp. 16-54. Ch. 2 How Chinese
women were shut out of the biggest accumulation of real-estate wealth in history, pp.
55-87. Ch. 3 China’s giant gender wealth gap, pp. 88-123.
Week 6:
THE MIDDLE-CLASS REAL-ESTATE DREAM
October 9
Wu Peiyue. 2022. Sixth Tone. "We Own It": The Chinese Homeowners Squatting in
Unfinished Buildings
Links to an external site.
.Terry Sicular. 2022. Is China Catching Up with the West? Or, Why Should We Care
about China's Middle Class? In The China Questions 2: Critical Insights into US-China
Relations, edited by Maria Adele Carrai, Jennifer Rudolph, and Michael Szonyi, pp.
274-282.
Rocca, Jean-Louis. 2013. Homeowners’ Movements: Narratives on the Political
Behaviours of the Middle Class. In Minglu Chen and David S.G. Goodman (eds), Middle
Class China: Identity and Behaviour, pp. 110-134.
Marjorie Garber. 2000. Sex and Real Estate: Why We Love Houses. New York:
Pantheon Books. Ch. 1 The House as Beloved, pp. 25-47. Ch. 4 The Dream House, pp.
100-119.
Week 7: MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND THE GENDERING OF PROPERTY (2)
October 16
Ke Li. 2022. Marriage Unbound: State, Law, Power and Inequality in Contemporary
China. Ch. 2 Marriage on the Move, pp. 51-75. Ch. 5: Judging Divorce in the People's
Courts, pp. 152-188. Ch. 6: Onstage and Offstage, pp. 189-226. Ch. 7: Issues and
Nonissues, pp. 227-257.
Wen Jing Deng, Joris S. C. M. Hoekstra, Marja G. Elsinga. 2019. Why women own less
housing assets in China? The role of intergenerational transfers. In Journal of Housing
and the Built Environment (2019) 34:1–22.
Week 8: MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND THE GENDERING OF PROPERTY (3)
October 23
MIDTERM EXAM
Michelson, Ethan. Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China’s Divorce Courts. Cambridge
University Press; 2022. Ch. 1: Sisyphus goes to divorce court, pp. 1-34. Ch. 2: The right
to decouple, pp. 35-64. Ch. 7: How judges gaslight domestic violence victims in divorce
trials, pp. 237-269.
Recommended:
*Yunxiang Yan. 2003. Private Life Under Socialism. Ch 6: The Politics of Family
Property, pp. 140-161. Ch 7: Elderly Support and the Crisis of Filial Piety, pp. 162-189.
Week 9: URBAN LIVING, GENDER AND ACTIVISM
October 30
Shen Lu and Liyan Qi. 2023. Wall Street Journal. "In China, Young Women Become
Accidental Symbols of Defiance."
Leta Hong Fincher. 2018. Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China. Ch
1: China’s Feminist Five, pp. 15-32. Ch 2: The Internet and Feminist Awakening, pp.
33-58. Ch 7: China’s Patriarchal Authoritarianism, pp. 159-186.
Stephanie Yingyi Wang. 2019, Feminist Studies. "When Tongzhi Marry: Experiments of
Cooperative Marriage Between Lalas and Gay Men in Urban China."
Week 10: RACE/ETHNICITY AND RESETTLEMENT IN CHINA
November 6
Tim Gross. 2020. The Xinjiang Data Project. Transforming Uyghur domestic space:
China’s "Three News" housing campaign in Xinjiang.
Links to an external site.
Gardner Bovingdon. 2010. The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land. Ch 2:
Heteronomy and its Discontents, pp. 40-79.
https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/14197173?counter=1
Tsering Woeser. 2014. Voices from Tibet. I: Old Lhasa Politicized, pp. 1-18. IV:
Wrecking Nature, pp. 49-60.
Megha Rajagopolan, Alison Killing and Christo Buschek. 2020. Buzzfeed. China Built a
Vast New Infrastructure to Imprison Muslims.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-new-internment-camps-xinjiang-u
ighurs-muslims?bfsource=relatedmanual
Links to an external site.
Week 11: WEALTH AND CLASS INEQUALITIES
November 13
Zhexun Mo. World Inequality Lab Issue Brief, 2022. "Is East Asia Becoming Plutocratic?
Income & Wealth Inequalities in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (1981-2021)."
Kangni Chai and Changchun Feng. Housing Studies, 2021. "Sons, daughters, and
differentiated tenure choice of multiple homes: evidence from urban China."
Martin K. Whyte. 2014. Soaring Income Gaps: China in Comparative Perspective.
Daedalus. 143(2): 39-52.
Dan Mattingly. 2019. The art of political control in China. Cambridge University Press.
Ch. 3: The Communist Party's Governance Challenge, pp. 56-86.
Week 12: REAL ESTATE AND URBAN-RURAL INEQUALITY
November 20
Yourong Wang , Yuyao Li , Youqin Huang , Chengdong Yi, Jianyu Ren. Cities, 2020.
Housing wealth inequality in China: An urban-rural comparison
Links to an external site.
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Alexandra Stevenson and Michael Forsythe. 2020. New York Times. Luxury Homes Tie
Chinese Communist Elite to Hong Kong's Fate.
Julia Chuang. 2014. China's rural land politics. The China Quarterly, 219, September
2014, pp. 649–669.
https://www-jstor-org.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/stable/24740632?seq=1#metadata_info
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Lynette Ong. 2022. Outsourcing Repression. Oxford University Press. Ch. 1: Bulldozers,
violent thugs and nonviolent brokers.
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Week 13: FINAL PRESENTATIONS & CONCLUSION
