Peking University, Beijing

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.

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.

This course is directed advanced Bachelor students as a way of learning about the role of the state economic policies (especially fiscal policies) in the economy in a manner that combines theoretical and empirical learning with practical experiences, case studies, debates and most of all much student engagement. It conveys a sound economic and policy understanding regarding the role of the state and public expenditure, including at the multilateral level. This includes theoretical and empirical concepts and extensive applications and policy discussion on the history of public spending, government “performance” and reform, fiscal sustainability and fiscal risks, financing constraints for government, and the role of fiscal rules from a comparative international perspective. It would also include three sessions on international public goods, their financing and the role of multilateral development banks (MDBs).

This course is about methods of script-writing. The purposes of the course includes enhance the students’ understanding of playwriting and screenwriting both in theory and in practice; improve students’ comprehensive and aesthetic abilities on film narratology; master the basic skills and methods of script-writing; grasp the fundamental skills of dramaturgy; comprehend the classical interpretation of representative scripts; master the writing methods of typical genres; be familiar with cinematic narrative techniques.

Calligraphy is the representative of Chinese art. To understand Chinese art, calligraphy is a convenient way to enter. The purpose of offering calligraphy aesthetics and practice, a general elective course across colleges and departments, is to enable students who are not majoring in calligraphy to have a preliminary perception of the aesthetics of Chinese calligraphy, a general cognition of the history of Chinese calligraphy, and a basic experience of the basic techniques of Chinese calligraphy. Therefore, this course is integrated with aesthetics, history and practice. In this course, students not only listen to the history and theory of calligraphy taught by teachers and famous teachers, but also practice calligraphy in person under the inspiration of the teachers' unique teaching methods: seal script, official script, regular script, running script, cursive script, meaning and ancient meeting, elegant in hand. Students will be improved aesthetically, cultivated in their humanistic and artistic temperament, improved in the practice of writing, and finally have a new understanding of Chinese calligraphy and Chinese artistic spirit.

Developmental psychology is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes, emotional changes, and perception changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span.