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166-018 Chinese Politics and Society | |
Note | Formerly available as 166-215/315. Students who have completed 166-215/315 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Michael Dutton |
Prerequisites | Usually 25 points of First Year Politics. Students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the Second/Third year coordinator. |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | 30 contact hours per semester. Two 1-hour lectures per week for 10 weeks and a 1-hour tutorial per week for 10 weeks. The lecture and tutorial programs are staggered and cover the 12 weeks of semester |
Subject Description | This is an introductory subject to contemporary Chinese political history. The subject deals with questions such as: 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? On completion of this subject students should have an understanding of the historical forces at play in contemporary Chinese social and political life; a knowledge of the political history of the Communist Party and how that feeds in to contemporary political considerations; an appreciation of the key dilemmas that face China as it goes forward into the new millennium. |
Assessment | Written work totalling 4000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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