China

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. 

This course is intended to give a panoramic view of contemporary China. The topics are restricted to different aspects of the status-quo of China, including people and nationalities, food and cuisines, languages and dialects, festivals and traditions, marriage and family, leisure and entertainment, arts and sports, traffic and transport, travel and world heritage, natural resources and environment protection, mass media and publication, education and research, politics and government, religions and beliefs, information technology and internet, cities and countryside. Each topic is framed into 10 to 15 questions and presented in an easily accessible way with statistic figures, stories, pictures and video clips from different sources in order to ensure objectivity. The aim of the course is to offer a panoramic view of contemporary China in the selected aspects and help understand the variety and diversity of contemporary Chinese society.

ADVANCED INTENSIVE CHINESE I

INTERMEDIATE INTENSIVE CHINESE I