150064 SE Specialist Seminar PR (Politics and Law) (M3) (2016W)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Th 15.09.2016 10:00 to Th 29.09.2016 10:00
- Deregistration possible until Su 23.10.2016 20:00
Details
max. 25 participants
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Please note that on the following days we will not have class:
October 20, 2016;
Thursday
06.10.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Thursday
13.10.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Thursday
27.10.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Thursday
03.11.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Thursday
10.11.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Thursday
17.11.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Thursday
24.11.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Thursday
01.12.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Thursday
15.12.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Thursday
12.01.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Thursday
19.01.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Thursday
26.01.
14:15 - 15:45
Seminarraum Sinologie 2 UniCampus Hof 2 2F-O1-18
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
We expect that all participants of this seminar attend the seminar regularly; and that they participate in one of the three groups chosing their own document, discussing possibile interpretations and presenting the results of their discussions. As your term paper, we expect you to chose a CCP document and present your own reading of it according to the skills learned during the seminar.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Participants should be able to read CCP documents in Chinese with the help of a dictionary. This implies that everyone who graduated from or Bachelor's program should be able to fulfill the language requirements.
In addition. participants should be able to understand discussions on the topic and articulate their ideas on th topic both during class discussions as well as in written form in English.
Participation in class stands for 25% of your final grading;
Presentation of group discussions stands for 25% of your final grading;
Term paper stands for 50% of your final grading.
In addition. participants should be able to understand discussions on the topic and articulate their ideas on th topic both during class discussions as well as in written form in English.
Participation in class stands for 25% of your final grading;
Presentation of group discussions stands for 25% of your final grading;
Term paper stands for 50% of your final grading.
Examination topics
The term paper should be based on a CCP document of your own choice. It should show that you can use the skills taught during the course to present a reading of a CCP document. In terms of length, the paper should not exceed 8000 words.
Reading list
Schoenhals, Michael: Doing Things with Words in Chinese Politics: Five Studies, Berkeley 1982.
Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Susanne: Coping with the Cultural Revolution. Contesting Interpretations. In: Schick-Chen, Agnes and Astrid Lipinsky (eds.): Justice Restored? Between Rehabilitation and Reconciliation in China and Taiwan. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2012, p.25-72.
Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Susanne: In Search of a Master Narrative for 20th Century Chinese History. In: The China Quarterly, Vol. 188, Dec 2006, p .1070-1091. Crossposting in: The History of the PRC (1949-1976), edited by Julia Strauss, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2007, p. 216-237.
Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Susanne: The Distance between State and Rural Society in the PRC. Reading Document No 1 (February 2004). In: Journal of Environmental Management, No. 87, 2008, p. 216-225.
Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Susanne: Coping with the Cultural Revolution. Contesting Interpretations. In: Schick-Chen, Agnes and Astrid Lipinsky (eds.): Justice Restored? Between Rehabilitation and Reconciliation in China and Taiwan. Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2012, p.25-72.
Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Susanne: In Search of a Master Narrative for 20th Century Chinese History. In: The China Quarterly, Vol. 188, Dec 2006, p .1070-1091. Crossposting in: The History of the PRC (1949-1976), edited by Julia Strauss, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2007, p. 216-237.
Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Susanne: The Distance between State and Rural Society in the PRC. Reading Document No 1 (February 2004). In: Journal of Environmental Management, No. 87, 2008, p. 216-225.
Association in the course directory
PR 421/422
Last modified: Mo 07.09.2020 15:35
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik and Li Ling
The title of this seminar is taken from a book by Michael Schoenhals who presented the special art of writing and reading CCP documents during the last phase of the Cultural Revolution when the language of the CCP leadership was so esoteric that only people who had learned how to read them were able to decipher them. Although the situation might not be as difficult today as it was between 1972 and 1976, the art of reading CCP documents has recently become more and more important after it had been nearly forgotten for quite some time. This seminar is dedicated to developing the skills necessary to read CCP documents, analyse them and interpret them. The two lecturers each have their own way of reading CCP documents, not only because Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik acquired these skills during the early 1970s and Li Ling was born and raised in the PRC. Thus the perspectives of outside and inside readers, as well as of reading experiences from the 1970’s and from more recent times will be introduced to the students.
In the first phase pf the seminar, students will be introduced to reading CCP documents by the lecturers. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik will use the 1981 party resolution “On Some Questions Regarding the History of the Party since the Founding of the PRC” which has recently been debated quite strongly in the PRC to show how the interpretation of this document in the context of the discourse on the Cultural Revolution has changed over the years and how the understanding of this changing interpretation helps to gain a better understanding of why the document was designed to cater to the special needs of the Party back in 1981. Li Ling will then introduce her reading of documents from the 18th Party Congress focusing on questions related to the rule of law as a more or less important source of legitimacy for the CCP.
Discussion is an important part of reading, analyzing and interpreting CCP documents. Therefore, three groups of students will be organized to jointly prepare the presentations of CCP documents of their own choice by preparative discussions during the month of October and early November. Starting from mid-November students will suggest their readings of CCP documents.