SemesterFall Semester, 2018
DepartmentMA Program of Political Science, First Year MA Program of Political Science, Second Year
Course NameThe High Income Trap in East Asia
Instructor
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
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週次



 



Week

課程主題



 



Topic

課程內容與指定閱讀



 



Content and Reading Assignment

教學活動與作業



 



Teaching Activities and Homework

學習投入時間 Student workload expectation

課堂講授 In-class Hours

課程前後



Outside- of-class Hours

1

Introduction

topic-based



Lecture

3

6

2

Inequality

topic-based



Lecture

3

6

3

Demographic

topic-based



Lecture

3

6

4

Financialization

topic-based



Lecture

3

6

5

Solutions to the trap

topic-based



Lecture

3

6

6

How to wrote a research paper

topic-based



Class discussion

3

6

7

Japan (I)

topic-based



Lecture

3

6

8

Japan (II)

topic-based



Lecture

3

6

9

Korea

topic-based



Lecture

3

6

10

Taiwan (I)

topic-based



Lecture

3

6

11

Taiwan (II)

topic-based



Lecture

3

6

12

Hong Kong

topic-based



Lecture

3

6

13

Singapore

topic-based



Lecture

3

6

14

Emerging issues

topic-based



Lecture

3

6

15

Presentation

topic-based



Student presentation

3

6

16

Presentation

topic-based



Student presentation

3

6

17

Conclusion (I)

topic-based



Lecture

3

6

18

Conclusion (II)

topic-based



Final exam

3

6

Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant
Requirement/Grading

Attendance and Participation 10%



Research Paper 30%



Presentation 30%



Examination 30%


Textbook & Reference

Jeff Kingston, Contemporary Japan History, Politics, and Social Change since the 1980s (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)



Jiyeoun Song, Inequality in the Workplace: Labor Market Reform in Japan and Korea (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2014)



Syaru Shirley Lin, Taiwan’s China Dilemma: Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Economic Policy (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016)



Richard Wong, Fixing Inequality in Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2017)



Linda Y C Lim, (ed.), Singapore's Economic Development: Retrospection and Reflections (Singapore; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing, 2016).


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