Structuring Values in Modern China: Cultural Transformation

This module explains how science, the market, and the nation became the new structuring values of the intellectual elite in the 20th century.

This module introduces how the traditional Chinese vision of the role of government militated against the development of market-based economics.

This module examines the distinction between science and scientism, how scientism was used to justify the rejection of traditional religions.

This module explores the role of gender bias among the intellectual elite in the 20th century and how various religious traditions promoted women's empowerment against the public patriarchy.

This module presents how lay religious movements, especially spirit writing groups, responded to the crisis of Chinese society in the 19th and 20th centuries; how groups like the Yiguandao evolved from political repression to acceptance.

This module examines the power of attraction of charismatic Protestantism today, especially for women, its primarily indigenous origins and its similarities with other forms of popular religion.

This module explores differences between Chinese and Western dualism, their writing systems' impact, the meaning of patriarchal and humanistic in Chinese culture, and the gap between elite and popular culture.