China

This course is the first part of “History of Classical Chinese Literature”, one of the basic courses in Chinese Department. The course introduces the core themes, the basic characteristics and the learning goals of the Chinese literary history, as well as main literature progressing in Pre-Qin and Han dynasty. Topics to be discussed: Myths and Ancient Folk Songs, The Book of Songs”, essays in Chunqiu and Zhanguo, historical essays, Chu Ci, rhymes and essays in Han Dynasty, Han Yuefu, the scholars’ poems in the late Han dynasty. The course introduces core themes in Pre-Qin and Han dynasty, with historical and anthropological focus.

What is the Chinese poetry? Why is it called “shige (literally, song-word)”? How does it imagine a lyrical way to express the individual feelings or the collective narrations about the body, life, nature and the universe of the Chinese people? Through a cross-cultural perspective, this course is intended to help foreign students understand, appreciate and experience the beauty of classical Chinese poetry, especially its unique tradition of musicality. This is a taught course over 16 weeks through the spring term. Class time will consist of lectures, poetry readings, seminars, discussions, with a workshop and a poetry recital where appropriate. Students are asked to join all the activities.

The course will lead you to explore Shijing (The Book of Songs) & The Lyrics of Chuci (The Lyrics of Chu) in pre-Qin peroid, Yuefu (Music Bureau Poems) in the Han Dynasty, “Nineteen Old Poems”, Shi Poetry in the Tang Dynasty, Ci Poetry in the Song Dynasty, and Qu Poetry in the Yuan Dynasty.

The course creatively combines poetic criticism with poetry performance by integrating the theoretical methods of Chinese poetics, musicology and vocal performance. The course aims to help students enjoyably and engagingly overcome language and cultural barriers, to experience the charm and the profundity of the Chinese language and culture by reciting and chanting the classical Chinese poems.

This course covers the fundamental scope, theory, and methodologies of management; improves the abilities of defining, analyzing, and solving problems. The content includes management need in globalization; managers, management activities, and management goal; mission, directions, and functions of institutions; design of organizational structure and staffing; problems, routine, and non-routine decisions; goal and planning; team behavior, negotiation, and motivation in operations; standardization, process control, and information system; cost/benefit of management and performance evaluation; environmental challenges and organizational change; the science and art sides of managerial mechanism; managerial thoughts of leaders and their development. 

The swordsman novel of Jin Yong is a representative of Chinese popular literature in the 20th Century. The course will start with the “strange” reading phenomenon discussed by Yan Jiayan, and then introduce Jin Yong’s special life experience and the content of his fifteen novels. Based on the junction of Chinese traditional culture and contemporary culture, it aims to explore the potential great aesthetic values and cultural integrating functions of Jin Yong’s novels.

The course designs the composition and content of lectures based on the actual situation of top experts in relevant fields. Leaders, experts and scholars from Chinese government departments, international organizations, institutions and embassies in China, non-governmental organizations and well-known schools home and abroad will be eligible to be invited to give lectures this course. Students have the opportunity to engage with lecturers in an in-depth discussion of practices and challenges in the field of sustainable development. This course is mainly based on classroom lectures. The Office of International Exchange and Cooperation and the Teaching Office of Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management will jointly organize and identify relevant lectures. Students are required to attend no less than 16 hours of lectures after selecting the course, and submit course papers to complete the course study.

Teaching objectives of this course:

To guide students to appreciate Chinese bronzes, and understand the thoughts, technology, aesthetic intention, cultural beliefs contained in the bronzes, and understand the cultural status of Chinese bronzes in the material history of the world.

Expected learning gains of this course:

(1) By training students' observation and cognitive ability of bronze ware, students can basically understand the emergence, use and development of bronze ware and their historical and cultural background, and master the knowledge system of bronze ware.

(2) Students have a general understanding of the type characteristics, technical connotation and artistic characteristics of Chinese bronzes, have some thoughts about the culture carried by ancient Chinese bronzes, some experience and inheritance of traditional culture, and some understanding of the expression of beauty.
(3) Taking ancientbronze ware as an example, students are guided to deepen their understanding of the status of Chinese material culture and civilization in the history of world civilization.

The course will be conducted in the form of seminar. We will interpret and discuss one of the most important classic texts of moral philosophy resp. philosophical ethics, Critique ofPractical Reason

by Immanuel Kant, in which he rejects all hitherto representative moral principles, such as the desire for happiness (eudaimonia), the will of God (theonomy) and the moral sense. They are replaced by the radically new principle, autonomy, namely the self-legislating of the will. In this way the key

concept of the modern time, the freedom, receives a philosophical foundation.

These sessions will follow the order of the actual sequence of the original text. There will be 13 sessions in total.

This course is mainly designed for graduate students, while it is also open to advanced undergraduate students. Students and docents from other universities are also welcomed. We are looking forward to having students and docents who already have some preliminary knowledge of Kant’s philosophy and are eager to broaden and deepen their comprehension.

It is advisable to read through the entire Critique of Practical Reason, at least cursorily, before the beginning of the course.

International trade as a field of economics has changed a lot in the past two decades. Previously, we employ some toy models to understand the principles of international trade. These principles are insightful, but they cannot provide us tools to understand the issues in practice. The recent decades development in international trade has shifted the focus from the earlier intensely discussed principles to more practical, sophisticate observations in international trade. We employ recently available data at firm level or transaction level to understand trade intermediary, finance, R&D, resource allocation, firm dynamics, offshoring, etc. These recent developments in international research is important for us to fully understand how a world with open economies works and how some most important movements of factors, goods and services affect our welfare. The objective of this course is to guide undergraduate students from understanding some basic international economics principles to try to investigate and understand how exactly international trade in practice is conducted and shape the world.