150123 PS Bachelor proseminar: Crisis (Literature and Culture), group 1 (2009S)
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Taking Chinese medicine as a case in point, the participants examine how cultural crises in modern China happen on the national scale and on the level of Chinese medicine practitioners' life-stories who are aged about sixty to eighty years today.
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Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Generally speaking, ¿Chinese¿ medicine is linked to a modern crisis of cultural identification. Nevertheless, in this course it is not understood simply as a cultural monolith that resisted modernity. Based on historical events from the Republican period and on further steps of institutionalization in the late 1950s and early 1960s we will trace the process how TCM has come to be understood as non-modern and then again as national heritage. Finally, the experiences of TCM practitioners shall demonstrate when the very cultural discourse becomes relevant as part of their life-stories at all.
Examination topics
internet platform fronter. the exposé outlining the presentations of groups of students as well as the term paper are to be submitted through this system, further homework concerning the reading list is to be found there, too.
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Association in the course directory
LK 210, LK 310
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