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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Political Science

166-215/315 Chinese Politics and Society

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Michael Dutton and others

Prerequisite/s:

Normally 25 points of first-year Politics; students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the 2nd/3rd-year coordinator.

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial a week

Content:

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.

Assessment:

Essay work or equivalent totalling 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

  • M Meisner, Maos China and After
  • B Brugger and S Regler, Politics, Economy and Society in Contemporary China
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