Chinese University of Hong Kong

This course examines the “Rise of China” by both theoretically and practically examining the increasingly important role of China in the international system. It covers the main features of Chinese foreign policy and reviews various factors that drive China’s foreign policy behavior, including its national and international priorities, foreign policy-making process, national security, and strategic culture. The course then looks at China’s relations with other major actors in the world including both developed and developing states. It also studies China’s “maritime” rise by analyzing its expanding maritime ambitions and capabilities as well as its role in global and regional governance. The course concludes by looking at the future prospects for Chinese foreign policy.

This course examines the impact of China’s opening and internationalization on the Chinese economy, and proceeds to examine the challenges of the rise of China to the global economic order. Topics include the impact of China on world trade and investment, the internationalization of Renminbi and its prospect as a global reserve currency, China’s bilateral and regional trade agreements, China and global energy and environmental issues, China’s impact on international bodies of economic coordination and governance (such as the Group of Twenty, the World Trade Organization, and the International Monetary Fund), and the analysis and assessment of the challenges of China to global economic, monetary, and financial governance.

This course examines the allocation, production and distribution theories in microeconomics. Topics include utility and preference, consumer demand, production and cost, market structure, general equilibrium and welfare economics. 

This course examines traditional and contemporary jazz literature in a variety of idioms and styles. Students prepare for an end-of-semester concert in weekly rehearsals that enable them to develop their technical proficiency, stylistic accuracy, improvisation skills, and creative expression.

This course examines the economic problems of developing countries by utilizing economic theories and their applications. It covers both macroeconomic and microeconomic approaches to development economics; an overview of growth theories and their potential in explaining income differences across countries; various facets of human development, including poverty, nutrition, health, education, institutions, culture, and history.

This course examines contemporary anthropological theory including post-modernism, post-structuralism, practice theory, political economy, globalization, feminist anthropology and the material turn. It introduces major figures in contemporary theoretical debates and key ongoing controversies in the discipline. 

This course examines the historical processes and features of China’s consumer culture development in the 20th century, especially after the 1970s.

This course examines selected topics on Hong Kong History.