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| 0687-2463-01 | Across the Straits: Urban Development and National Identity in China and Taiwan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| FACULTY OF HUMANITIES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
Urban space has been an important arena for economic and cultural development and the construction of identities in Taiwan and China since 1949. Used as a key tool to develop national identity, enhance changing political and economic agendas, and address social problems and needs, the development of urban space in both Taiwan and China has many similarities, even as it developed within such different political and economic environments. The course will address the multi-variant phenomenon of urban change in Taiwan and China and examine the similarities as well as the differences between the two trajectories. The course will investigate the ongoing spatial reconstruction of Taiwan and China’s urban spaces and culture, situating this development within the context of local and global political and economic changes and the dynamics of cross-straits economic, political, and cultural relationship.