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How does art respond to and act in the world? How is its ability to act both constrained and made possible by who makes it, and who receives it? This course pursues these questions in the context of Chinese history, considering cultural "others" (frontier, indigenous, and/or ethnic minority peoples), their artistic practices, and representations of the aforesaid in mainstream Chinese culture. We will trace how this "other" art has been, and continues to be, a medium for debates over the nature of Chinese-ness and Chinese modernity - and how, at the same time, it represents long vernacular histories of care and stewardship. In doing so, the course offers an introduction to (a) issues of race, ethnicity, and Indigeneity in contemporary China, and (b) anthropological approaches to art and politics. No background knowledge in China or anthropology is expected. The course will meet for six weeks, and will terminate at the end of this summer quarter's Week 6 which ends August 4, 2023..

Independent studies under the direction of a faculty member for which academic credit may properly be allowed. For East Asian Studies M.A. students only.