Students are asked to buy the following monograph for use in the course (available in paperback from online booksellers):
Fei Xiaotong (Fei Hsiao-t’ong) : From the soil: the foundations of Chinese society : a translation of Fei Xiaotong's Xiangtu Zhongguo, 1992. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. With an introduction and epilogue / by Gary G. Hamilton and Wang Zheng.
More information on course content and curriculum in Chinese and English will be provided in the first lecture on August 18.