Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POC3133: Chinese Politics and Society

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Please note that this module is only delivered on the Penryn Campus.

How this Module is Assessed

In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.

Formative Assessment

A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.

Form of assessment	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
Essay plan - due in week 6	1 page	1-7	Oral

Summative Assessment

A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.

Coursework	Written exams	Practical exams
100	0	0

...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.

Form of assessment	% of credit	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
Essay	60	2500 words	1-7	Written
Policy briefing	40	2500 words	1-7	Written

Re-assessment

Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.

Original form of assessment	Form of re-assessment	ILOs re-assessed	Timescale for re-assessment
Essay	Essay (2500 words) (60%)	1-7	August/September Reassessment Period
Policy briefing	Policy briefing (2500 words) (40%)	1-7	August/September Reassessment Period

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Bell, Daniel, The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015).

Bell, Daniel, China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008).

Bovingdon, Gardner, The Uyghurs: Strangers in their Own Land (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010).

Breslin, Shaun, “China and the Global Order: Signaling Threat or Friendship?” International Affairs, Vol. 89, No. 3 (2013).

Brown, Kerry, CEO China: The Rise of Xi Jinping (London: I.B. Taurus, 2016).

Chan, Wing Chan and Li Zhang, “The Hukou System and Rural-Urban Migration in China: Processes and Change”, The China Quarterly, 1999.

Chin, Gregory and Ramesh Thakur, “Will China Change the Rules of the Global Order? The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 4 (October 2010).

Fei Xiaotong, From the Soil: The Foundations of Chinese Society, (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 1992).

Lanteigne, Marc, Chinese Foreign Policy: An Introduction, 3^rd Edition, (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016).

Ong, Lynette, “State-Led Urbanization in China: Skyscrapers, Land Revenue and ‘Concentrated Villages’”, The China Quarterly, Vol. 217 (March 2014).

Saich, Tony, Governance and Politics of China, 4^th Edition, (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015).

Spence, Jonathan, The Search for Modern China (London: W W Norton and Co, 1991).

Spence, Jonathan, Mao Zedong: A Life (New York: Penguin, 1999).

Tang, Wenfang, Populist Authoritarianism: Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).

Yeh, Emily, Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013).