University of Hong Kong

This course aims at enhancing students’ communicative competence, specifically targeting at speaking, reading and writing.  Students will be exposed to Chinese society and culture through a greater variety of topical discussions and different audiovisual media include films (movies), television, and Vlog.

This course examines how China has achieved rapid economic growth in the past four decades in the absence of Western-style legal and democratic systems, both of which are conventionally viewed to be essential to economic development. It covers how China’s economic reform can be understood in the historical and comparative context, specifically the relevance of the East Asian developmental states model; what role China’s legal system as well as the relationship between law and politics has played in the country’s economic development; whether China’s experience can be called “growth without rule of law,” and whether it presents viable alternative that may inform other developing economies in their pursuit of prosperity. Topics include: legitimacy building, decentralization as a constitutional system, courts, governance of state-owned enterprises, formal and informal financing, property rights protection, environmental protection, labor regulation, China’s global economic engagements, and cyber governance.

This course examines current development and issues in the asset management and private banking industry. The issues identified may be related to new business opportunities, new risk areas, and new development affecting the AMPB market/industry.