16.7 2nd and 3rd years Michael Dutton and others. Normally 25 points of first-year Politics; students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the 2nd/3rd-year coordinator. Second semester Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial a week. On completion of this subject, students will have:

• an understanding of the forces at play in contemporary Chinese social and political life;
• an understanding of the necessity of taking theory seriously and develop an understanding of a critique of dominant realist approaches to the area studied;
• developed the critical faculties so that they are more attuned to the political nuances of various standard texts on Chinese politics.

What were the factors behind the massacre of June 4th 1989? Is the Chinese Communist Party still very much in control? Is the Maoist era just a distant memory or are the scars and recollections of that period still formative in the contemporary life of China? How important is Marxism now? An inter-disciplinary introductory subject to contemporary Chinese politics, history and social life. The subject examines the various isms which have come to influence the Chinese Communist Party. It examines themes which run from Mao to modernisation, and history which runs from Mao to now. Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words. M Meisner, Maos China and After H Harding, Chinas Second Revolution. 16.7 Michael Dutton. Second semester. Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial each week. On completion of this subject, students will have:

• an understanding of the forces at play in contemporary Chinese social and political life;
• an understanding of the necessity of taking theory seriously and develop an understanding of a critique of dominant realist approaches to the area studied;
• developed their critical faculties so that they are more attuned to the political nuances of various standard texts on Chinese politics.

What were the factors behind the massacre of June 4th 1989? Is the Chinese Communist Party still very much in control? Is the Maoist era just a distant memory or are the scars and recollections of that period still formative in the contemporary life of China? How important is Marxism now? An inter- disciplinary introductory subject to contemporary Chinese politics, history and social life. The subject examines the various isms which have come to influence the Chinese Communist Party. It examines themes which run from Mao to modernisation, and history which runs from Mao to now.

Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words. M Meisner Maos China and After. H Harding Chinas Second Revolution.