China

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.

This course is designed to help students gain insights into Chinese institutions that can facilitate investment decisions in Chinese capital markets. Understanding the institutional environment in China is important because it exhibits significant differences from shareholder-driven Western economies. The course begins by introducing a stakeholder approach to understanding Chinese markets and highlighting the major differences relative to the capital markets in developed countries. Subsequent classes are devoted to understanding the behaviors and incentives of each important stakeholders and market participants in more depth such as the government, managers, investors, analysts, and China’s position in the world. The course materials are largely based on the field research conducted in China involving case studies and surveys. Topics include insider trading, financial market transparency, frauds, ESG, Investment in AI, joint-venture and cross-listing firms. While the course focuses on China and its institutions, the theories and insights covered in the course are applicable to understanding international, especially other emerging, markets. A broader objective of this course is to raise awareness for a thorough understanding of the relevant institutions when engaging in international investment decisions.

Through the teaching of this course, students can master the basic concepts, basic theories and methods of social administration. It covers social service plan formulation, service organization organization design, personnel motivation and leadership, service coordination and supervision, project evaluation, and institutional development. 

As a core professional course for undergraduates majoring in journalism, New Media Creation and Operation aims to enable students to have a deep understanding of the theoretical and practical issues in the field of new media and master certain basic methods of new media operation through systematic teaching of new media development related theories and organizing students to participate in new media creation and operation practice. At the same time, new media platform operation principals of well-known mainstream media and We Media will be invited to the class to share the operation characteristics of different types of new media platforms with students through case analysis and discussion, so as to have a more intuitive and vivid understanding of the development trend of new media.