China

The aim of Spoken Chinese is to enhance the proficiency of oral communication by learning common vocabularies and sentences.

Basic Class: Mainly for students with zero Chinese ability, or at the stage of learning Pinyin, common Chinese characters and simple Chinese words and sentences.
 

This course examines exhibition planning, the transformation of exhibition planning and design, the significance of exhibition content planning, the conditions and basis of exhibition content planning, the operation process, exhibition planning methods and skills, and exhibition planning case analysis.

The course provides an introduction to international financial markets. It includes a study of the rules and functions of international banks and financial markets in the world economy. It examines the relationships and risks of multinational firms, decisions financial managers face in a global volatile environment, and international finance activities of countries around the world. Topics include balance of payments, exchange rate regimes, foreign exchange market, exchange rate parity conditions, derivatives, hedging strategies, and managing transaction and economic exposure. 

The course is divided into three parts: the first part addresses the Chinese political economy in the time of reform and opening out. Topics include some of the momentous shifts in China's socio-economic order from Maoism to the present day, with a particular focus on the rising and declining social groups and the distribution of power resources across society; the key stages and (re)orientations of Reform and Opening; economic policies with an eye to the social and political tendencies and tensions that it encapsulates; Chinese socio-economic landscape of today in a critical discussion of notions such as state capitalism and China model; and the diversity of Chinese development through a focus on the contrasts between several competing regional models. The second part addresses Chinese culture and religion. Topics include cultural foundations of ancestor worship and its contemporary practice; the meaning of guanxi (relationship) and its application and transition in Chinese society; the Five Relationships, the core of Confucian ethics; the culture of Shanghai, including themes such as nostalgia and consumerism, as well as the value system and lifestyle of Shanghainese; and an introduction to Chinese policy of religious freedom, to the historical background and contemporary situation of Chinese folk religion, and to the phenomenon of mass conversion to Christianity in China. The third part focuses on Shanghai studies as a means to offer a distinct localized illustration of the Chinese experience.

This course covers industrial economics with industry as its research object. The course studies the relationship between competition and cooperation among enterprise. The main content includes industrial organization, industrial structure, industrial policy, antitrust and government regulation.

This course further covers the principles of economics to understand the decision of consumers and producers, market structure and general equilibrium; to use the mathematics tools and make the economic analysis qualitatively and quantitatively. The contents of the course include five parts mainly: introduction, consumer decision, producer decision, market structure, and general equilibrium and welfare. The course focuses on both the introduction of microeconomic theory and the application to the current situation in China.