Course Description

This course will provide an overview of China’s political, economic and social transformation since 1978. The course traces and articulates a narrative of reform and opening up that contextualizes students’understanding of China in the past, present and in the foreseeable future. Lectures and reading first review the institutional background and configuration before 1978’s, elucidate structural reforms initiated by Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s as a turning point in China’s trajectory, and then further explore and evaluate the ongoing evolution and its consequences in political, economic and social realm.

课程简介

本课程概述了中国从 1978 年以来在政治、经济和社会等方面的体制转型和社会变迁。课程通过追溯并解释中国转型和改革的历程，为学生理解过去、现在和未来中国的发展提供认知框架和背景知识。本课程从回顾 1978 年之前的制度背景入手，考察邓小平发起的一系列结构性变革及其后续演进，以及由此产生的在政治、经济和社会等领域的深远影响。