SemesterFall Semester, 2020
DepartmentIMBA Program, First Year IMBA Program, Second Year
Course NameChinese Business in Global Perspective
InstructorLENG TSE-KANG
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule

  1.  Introduction and Organization

  2. Global changes and the impact of Virus Crisis on China

    Carmen Reinhart and Vincent Reinhart, “The Pandemic Depression: the Global Economy will Never be the Same”, Foreign Affairs, September/October, 2020.

     

    World Bank, Global Economic Prospects, June, 2020, Chapter 3

     

    Yanzhong Huang , “China’s Public Health Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak Yanzhong Huang”,  June , 2020. https://www.prcleader.org/huang

     

     

  3. An Overview of Economic and Business Environment in China

    Yingyi Qian, “How Reform Worked in China”, Dept. of Economics, UC Berkeley, 2001.

    http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/39858/wp473.pdf?sequence=3

     

    Ling Chen & Barry Naughton, A Dynamic China Model: The Co-Evolution of Economics and Politics in China. Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 26, No. 103(January 2017), pp. 18-34



Thomas Heberer, Gunter Schubert, “ Weapons of the Rich: Strategic Behavior and Collective Action of Private Entrepreneurs in China,” Modern China, Vol. 45, No. 5 (Sep 2019), pp. 471-503.



 




  1. Historical Legacies of Pre-Reform Era

    A brief historical and background introduction to China in the pre-reform era

    DVD: The Morning Sun.  

     

  2. State Business Relationship and Chinese Business Culture

    Chapters in The China Question (2018): Ch 26, Does Law Matter in China; Ch 28 Who is Confucius in Today’s China? Ch 35, What is the Future of China’s Past?

    Chen, MingJer & Danny Miller, “The Relational Perspective as a Business Mindset: Managerial Implications for East and West,” Academy of Management Perspectives, Vol. 25, No. 3(August 2011), pp. 6-18.



Yanjie Bian, “The Prevalence and the Increasing Significance of Guanxi,” The China Quarterly, Vol. 235 (Sep 2018), pp. 597-621.



 




  1. Regional Business Opportunities and China’s Belt and Road Initiatives



Fulong Wu, “Planning Centrality, Market Instruments: Governing Chinese Urban  Transformation under State Entrepreneurialism,” Urban Studies, Vol. 55, No. 7(May 2018), pp. 1383-1399.



“What the west is investment along China’s new silk road”, 2019



https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/fileadmin/files/BSt/Publikationen/GrauePublikationen/Seidenstr_en_2019_final.pdf



 



Xue Gong, “The Belt & Road Initiative and China’s influence in Southeast Asia,”  The Pacific Review, Vol. 32, No. 4 (2019), pp. 635-665.



 




  1. Cases and Presentations: Doing Business in the Regional context and BRI

    Choose specific cities, such as Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Chongqing , Xian,  or more detailed study on BRI/AIIB . etc.

     

  2. China’s high tech development and “Made in China 2025” Plan



Jon Schmid & Fei-Ling Wang, “Beyond National Innovation Systems: Incentives and China’s Innovation Performance,” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 26, No. 104(March 2017), pp. 280-296.



IMF report, China’s Digital Economy, 2019.



file:///D:/userdata/Downloads/wp1916.pdf



 



Fintech in China: What lies ahead, 2019



https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/fintech-china-lies-ahead/



 



 




  1. Cases and Presentations: High tech, e commerce, big data, and the Chinese version of industries 4.0

    IT, AI, Telecom, bio-tech, electronics, software, e-commerce, internet finance, new energy car , etc.

     

  2. Environmental protection  and new energy business in China



Xu, G., Xu, W., & Gui, B., “Administrative Reform and Environmental  Protection: The Case of China,” Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Mar 2019), pp. 39-59.



 



Jeffery Bal, Grow Green China Inc, The Brookings Report, 2019



https://www.brookings.edu/research/grow-green-china-inc/



Nimrod Baranovitch, “The Impact of Environmental Pollution on Ethnic Unrest in Xinjiang: A Uyghur Perspective,” Modern China, Vol. 45, No. 5 (Sep 2019), pp. 504-536.



 




  1. Cases and Presentations: Business of Energy and Environmental Protection in China



Choose specific issues, such as new energy development, climate change, air and water pollution, or specific regions, such as Pearl River Delta Area, Yangtze River Delta, or Pan Bo-Hai Sea area.



 




  1. Culture and Creative Sectors in China

    Michael Keane, Handbook of China’s Culture and Creative Industries in China, 2016. Chapter 8, 15.



 



Jian Zhang, “Artwork securitisation: a Chinese style of artwork investment,” International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2019), pp. 171-187.



Jong-Eun Chung, “The neo-developmental cultural industries policy of Korea: rationales and implications of an eclectic policy,” International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol. 25, No. 1 (2019), pp. 63-74.



 



 




  1. Case studies: Culture and Creative Sectors in China

    Outbound and inbound tourism, Chinese film/TV/mass media industry, preservation of Chinese cultural heritages, China’s “cultural and creative” industries, and other cities for cultural industries like Hangzhou, Beijing, etc.

     

     

  2. The Chinese Model revisited

     



Kai Yang, Stephan Ortmann, “From Sweden to Singapore: The Relevance of Foreign Models for China's Rise,” The China Quarterly, Vol. 236 (Dec 2018), pp. 946-967.



 



Course Correction : A UCSD report, 2019



http://china.ucsd.edu/_files/2019-CourseCorrection.pdf



 




  1. Guest Speaker (tentative)

     

  2. Conclusion


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant
Requirement/Grading

Class participation and presentations:                     60%



Term paper (3000-4000 words):            40%



 No mid-term and final exams.              



 Term paper due date :     to be announced


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