Fudan University

The course aims to introduce Chinese traditional culture to students through Chinese Kungfu training experience, improve their blood circulation and physical fitness, have basic self-defense method, and have experience of Jing ( Spirit ), Qi ( Air ), Shen ( Concentration of Mind ) in Chinese Kungfu.

Chinese Kungfu, (also known as Wushu or martial arts) is one of the most well-known physical arts of traditional Chinese culture which is also probably one of the earliest and longest-lasting sports using both brawn and brain. Based upon classical Chinese philosophy, Kungfu has developed as a unique combination of exercise, practical self-defense, self-discipline and art over its long history. It could be divided into two types: "external Kungfu" and "internal Kungfu". In external Kungfu, you exercise your tendons, bones, and skin. In internal kungfu, you train your spirit, Qi, and mind.

This course discusses why some countries are rich but others are poor from the perspective of institutional economics. It follows Douglass North and asks why, under certain institutions, the private return of economic activities is lower than the social return. This question is addressed by studying recent development economics literature with a focus on property rights, contract institutions, taxation, and corruption. In addition, it introduces a variety of methodological approaches to address a number of empirical questions, such as what is the value of political connection in Indonesia, does third-party reporting reduces pollution in India, and why some countries have more complicated government hierarchy whereas others do not. The course builds critical-thinking skill through reading the most recent empirical development economics literature and participating in class discussion. 

This course will provide a high-level introduction to Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism by focusing on the doctrines of four pivotal philosophers in that era, namely, the Cheng brothers (Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi), Zhu Xi, and Wang Yangming. Apart from discourses on their theories of metaphysics, moral cultivation, and human nature, their viewpoints will also be constantly put into comparative perspective in order to further examine the uniqueness of their philosophical reasoning.

This course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of computer algorithms. It presents many algorithms and covers them in considerable depth. Each chapter presents an algorithm, a design technique, an application area or a related topic. Since we emphasize efficiency as a design criterion, we include careful analyses of the running time of all our algorithms. In addition to the introduction of “design of algorithms”, we also play the emphasis on the “complexity analysis of algorithms” to help students understand the detailed differences between various algorithms for a certain problem mainly in terms of time. The carefully chosen English material is intended to provide the students an enjoyable taste for the international class on algorithms. The textbook we chose is also used by many other universities for undergraduate algorithm course. The course targets the enhancement of the following skills: 1)understanding and mastering the fundamental algorithm design by a series representative algorithms such as: graph algorithms, sorting algorithms etc.; 2) training the capability of algorithms analysis as well the proof of the correctness of algorithms in terms of time complexity and asymptotic efficiency, improving the logic reasoning and understanding the development of algorithm theory; 3) encouraging students to have a depth understanding of studied algorithm by applying them to practical applications as well as problems, training them to relate what they have learned in the class to the real-world problems.4) improving the capability of solving real-world problems.

What is the Chinese poetry? Why is it called “shige (literally, song-word)”? How does it imagine a lyrical way to express the individual feelings or the collective narrations about the body, life, nature and the universe of the Chinese people? Through a cross-cultural perspective, this course is intended to help foreign students understand, appreciate and experience the beauty of classical Chinese poetry, especially its unique tradition of musicality. This is a taught course over 16 weeks through the spring term. Class time will consist of lectures, poetry readings, seminars, discussions, with a workshop and a poetry recital where appropriate. Students are asked to join all the activities.

The course will lead you to explore Shijing (The Book of Songs) & The Lyrics of Chuci (The Lyrics of Chu) in pre-Qin peroid, Yuefu (Music Bureau Poems) in the Han Dynasty, “Nineteen Old Poems”, Shi Poetry in the Tang Dynasty, Ci Poetry in the Song Dynasty, and Qu Poetry in the Yuan Dynasty.

The course creatively combines poetic criticism with poetry performance by integrating the theoretical methods of Chinese poetics, musicology and vocal performance. The course aims to help students enjoyably and engagingly overcome language and cultural barriers, to experience the charm and the profundity of the Chinese language and culture by reciting and chanting the classical Chinese poems.

Teaching objectives of this course:

To guide students to appreciate Chinese bronzes, and understand the thoughts, technology, aesthetic intention, cultural beliefs contained in the bronzes, and understand the cultural status of Chinese bronzes in the material history of the world.

Expected learning gains of this course:

(1) By training students' observation and cognitive ability of bronze ware, students can basically understand the emergence, use and development of bronze ware and their historical and cultural background, and master the knowledge system of bronze ware.

(2) Students have a general understanding of the type characteristics, technical connotation and artistic characteristics of Chinese bronzes, have some thoughts about the culture carried by ancient Chinese bronzes, some experience and inheritance of traditional culture, and some understanding of the expression of beauty.
(3) Taking ancientbronze ware as an example, students are guided to deepen their understanding of the status of Chinese material culture and civilization in the history of world civilization.

International trade as a field of economics has changed a lot in the past two decades. Previously, we employ some toy models to understand the principles of international trade. These principles are insightful, but they cannot provide us tools to understand the issues in practice. The recent decades development in international trade has shifted the focus from the earlier intensely discussed principles to more practical, sophisticate observations in international trade. We employ recently available data at firm level or transaction level to understand trade intermediary, finance, R&D, resource allocation, firm dynamics, offshoring, etc. These recent developments in international research is important for us to fully understand how a world with open economies works and how some most important movements of factors, goods and services affect our welfare. The objective of this course is to guide undergraduate students from understanding some basic international economics principles to try to investigate and understand how exactly international trade in practice is conducted and shape the world.