China

This course is an introduction to Chinese Classics.
The core content of this course is texts of Zhuang Zi inner 7 chapters.
Through analyzing the texts of the Classic, let students understand the texts of Zhuang Zi and his system of philosophy.

This course is a practical course for Peking University undergraduates to carry out social science research based on social survey. It emphasizes theoretical insights, cutting-edge methods and practices. Through an integrated and panoramic perspective, Peking University students are trained to engage in high level social science research. The course consists of three parts: survey methods, social topics and practice. The survey method section takes two national social survey projects, CFPS and CHARLS, as examples, so that students can master professional knowledge such as questionnaire design, sampling, and survey implementation, and improve their research feelings and comprehensive analysis ability on Chinese social issues. The social topic section includes six major research fields of economy, population, family, retirement, religion and health. Each field selects several classic studies published in top international journals based on CFPS and CHARLS data, combined with relevant empirical research methods, through explanation and demonstration, guide and improve students' research ability to analyze social issues with scientific methods and paths. The practical part allows students to learn and experience the way of thinking and basic methods of social research in real social situations by leading students to experience the real process of social survey.

Recent decades have witnessed China’s rapid growth and its massive infrastructure finance in the developing world. This brought a new round of discussion on what development is. How should we understand development policy in the context of a changing world order? This course provides students with the historical, political, economic, and institutional context to understand international development policy. The course aims to give students exposure to on- going policy debates on international development as well as the conceptual and theoretical framework to understand development issues. The course allows students to discuss and explore China’s changing role in international development and its impact on regional and international orders. Topics to be covered include (but not limited to): history of development, industrialization, poverty reduction, aid and development finance, energy and environment, international development institutions, South-South cooperation, and China and global development order.

The theroies and practical tests in pscyhological assessment will be introduced and discussed in this course.

ADVANCED SPOKEN CHINESE I

This course will invite famous novelists and new writers at home and abroad to give lectures or a series of lectures, which will be open to all students in the form of elective courses. Three to seven writers will be invited for the course. The invited writers are expected not only to be highly established, original and representative, but also to have deep theoretical thinking in fiction. Through this course, novelists share their creative experience with students, introduce their creative theories and experiences, stimulate their creative enthusiasm, and encourage and guide their writing and communication. At the same time, it can also cultivate students' sentiment and achieve the good purpose of aesthetic education.

The "Selected Readings of Ancient Chinese" course is a preliminary course for international undergraduate students studying ancient Chinese in the Chinese Department. Its purpose is to allow international students to develop a certain ability to read ancient books by studying a certain number of ancient classic works, and lay a solid foundation for the study of ancient Chinese courses in the future.