WEEKLY SCHEDULE :
- 1. Introduction and Organization
- 2. Coping with the new economic order in the post-pandemic world
World Economic Forum, “Chief Economists Outlook”, May, 2023.
https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Chief_Economists_Outlook_May2023.pdf?_gl=1*1pl5fc2*_up*MQ..&gclid=Cj0KCQjw756lBhDMARIsAEI0Agn7TPJlBsU6WlxuSRvan_7JEbK7wKicKpHY6qs4gtYToz4DhoGH0asaAsIiEALw_wcB
IMF, “Geo-economic fragmentation and foreign direct investment”, April, 2023
file:///Users/lengzegang/Downloads/ch4.pdf
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
- 3. Historical Legacies of Pre-Reform China
A brief historical and background introduction to China in the pre-reform era
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
Historical review video
- 4. State Business Relationship and Chinese Business Culture
Meg Rithmire, Hao Chen, “The Emergence of Mafia-like Business Systems in China”, The China Quarterly, Volume 248 , Issue 1 , December 2021 , pp. 1037 – 1058.
Yanjie Bian, “The Prevalence and the Increasing Significance of Guanxi.” The China Quarterly, Vol. 235 (Sep 2018), pp. 597-621.
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.
- 5. China’s Belt and Road Initiatives and regional development
“China’s massive belt and road initiatives”, 2023
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinas-massive-belt-and-road-initiative
“China’ Belt and Road Initiative: Sustainability in the new silk road”, University of Cambridge, 2022.
https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/files/chinas_belt_and_road_initiative090622_en.pdf
Zheng, Jane, 2022, “Rethinking the growth machine logic in cultural development: urban sculpture planning in Shanghai”, China information, 2022, 0920203X221081328.
- 6. 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.
- 7. China’s AI and high tech development
“How business and close China’s AI gap”, May, 2023
https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/how-businesses-can-close-chinas-ai-talent-gap#/
Jennifer Pan, “Controlling China’s Digital Ecosystem: Observations on Chinese Social Media”, China leadership monitor, June, 2022.
https://www.prcleader.org/pan
Yin Li and Kaidong Feng ,”China’s Innovative Enterprises at the Frontiers: Lessons from Indigenous Innovation in Telecom-Equipment and Semiconductor Industries”, China Review, Volume 22, Issue 1, February 2022, pp. 11-37.
“China’s Advanced AI Research Monitoring China's Paths to "General Artificial Intelligence”
CSET Report, July, 2022
https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/chinas-advanced-ai-research/
- 8. Cases and Presentations: AI, e commerce, big data, and the Chinese version of industries 4.0
IT, AI, big data,Telecom, bio-tech, electronics, e-commerce, fintech, new energy car , etc.
9. Electric Vehicles, new energy, and environmental industries in China
“How did China come to dominate the world of electric Cars”, May, 2023
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/21/1068880/how-did-china-dominate-electric-cars-policy/
Sirma Altun1 · Ceren Ergenc”The EU and China in the global climate regime: a dialectical collaboration-competition relationship”, Asia Europe Journal, May, 2023
Gørild M. Heggelund, “China’s Climate and Energy Policy: At a Turning Point? “ International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics , Vol. 21, No. 2/3 (2021), pp. 9-23.
Anna Holzmann and Nis Grünberg, “ “Greening” China: An analysis of Beijing’s sustainable development strategies.” The Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), Jan 07, 2021
https://merics.org/en/report/greening-china-analysis-beijings-sustainable-development-strategies
- 10. Cases and Presentations: Business of EV, Energy and Environmental Protection in China
Choose specific issues, such as Chinese automobile industries, 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.
- 11. Culture and Creative Sectors in China
Zi’ang Zhang , Zengxian Liang , Jigang Bao , “From theme park to cultural tourism town: Disneyization turning of tourism space in China” ,Regional Sustainability, 2 (2021), 156-163
Ho, Hang Kei, “Twenty-first Century Wine Consumption Trends in East Asia :History, Luxury and Transformation”, Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change , vol. 6 , no. 2 ,2021
Junhan Ye ,”The Application of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Digital Humanities: Applying to Dunhuang Culture Inheritance, Development, and Innovation”, Journal of Computer Science and Technology Studies , 2022
- 12. 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.
- 13. The Chinese Model revisited
Mark Leonard, “China is ready for a world disorder: America is not”, Foreign Affairs, July/August, 2023
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/china-ready-world-disorder
Jae Ho Chung, “Homework for Beijing: Five Hurdles on China’s Path to Becoming a ‘Responsible Great Power’ ” Asian Perspective, Vol. 45, No. 1 (2021).
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.
- 14. Guest Speaker (tentative)
- 15. Conclusion
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