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From Mao to Xi : Charting the Future of China

Code Cours
2324-FGES-POLS-EN-2003
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Establishment
Faculté de Gestion, Economie & Sciences Licences
Language of instruction
French, English
This course occurs in the following program(s)
Bachelor in Economics and Finance - Crédits ECTS:
Licence Eco-Finance ou Gestion + Prepa Commerce - Crédits ECTS:
Training officer(s)
Paul Scott
Period
S4

Présentation

Prerequisite

None

Goal

Mao is the iconic founder, Deng Xiaoping made the country rich and now Xi Jinping is attempting to shape China. This course will explore the critical moves made by the PRC since its foundation.

Presentation

Week 1

The Chinese World Order or Traditional China Collapse of the Chinese World Order

Week 2
1911-1949
The Rise of Mao or Essential Maoism
Mao was not born a Maoist but became an independent Marxist theoretician.

Week 3
Maoist China
Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution
The interruption of growth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJyoX_vrlns

Week 4
Deng Xiaoping - The Rise of a Competitive China

Week 5
Push/pull: The Dengist Gamble

Week 6
Video Born Under the Red Flag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkfpZh5RRbw&t=40s

Tiananmen - The Fall of Zhao Ziyang and the rise of Zhang Zemin

Week 7 Authoritarian China
The rise of Xi Jingping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuvyjFYArlc

Week 8 and 9

Oral Presentations

Possible topics for presentations:

  1. One belt, one road

  2. Chinese investment in Africa

  3. PRC-Taiwan Relations

  4. ICT in China: The Great Firewall

  5. China’s housing and banking crisis
  6. Hong Kong and the democracy movement
  7. The Great Firewall of China

Modalités

Forms of instruction

    Evaluation
    Contrôle continu : coeff. 1

    Ressources

    Bibliography

    See above