Understanding China, 1700-2000: A Data Analytic Approach, Part 2
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Understanding China, 1700-2000: A Data Analytic Approach, Part 2
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Informações sobre o curso
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The purpose of this course is to summarize new directions in Chinese history and social science produced by the creation and analysis of big historical datasets based on newly opened Chinese archival holdings, and to organize this knowledge in a framework that encourages learning about China in comparative perspective.
Our course demonstrates how a new scholarship of discovery is redefining what is singular about modern China and modern Chinese history. Current understandings of human history and social theory are based largely on Western experience or on non-Western experience seen through a Western lens. This course offers alternative perspectives derived from Chinese experience over the last three centuries. We present specific case studies of this new scholarship of discovery divided into two stand-alone parts, which means that students can take any part without prior or subsequent attendance of the other part.
Part 1 (https://www.coursera.org/learn/understanding-china-history-part-1) focuses on comparative inequality and opportunity and addresses two related questions ‘Who rises to the top?’ and ‘Who gets what?’.
Part 2 (this course) turns to an arguably even more important question ‘Who are we?’ as seen through the framework of comparative population behavior - mortality, marriage, and reproduction – and their interaction with economic conditions and human values. We do so because mortality and reproduction are fundamental and universal, because they differ historically just as radically between China and the West as patterns of inequality and opportunity, and because these differences demonstrate the mutability of human behavior and values.
Course Overview video: https://youtu.be/dzUPRyJ4ETk
Programa - O que você aprenderá com este curso
1
Seção
Orientation and Module 1: Who Are We and Who Survives
Before you start with the content for Module 1, please review the Assignments and Grading page and introduce yourself to other learners who will be studying this course with you.
7 vídeos (Total de 47 min), 2 leituras, 1 teste
7 videos
1.2: Big Data and the Scholarship of Discovery10min
1.3: Big Data, New Facts and Classic Social Theory7min
1.4: New Data and Eurasian Comparisons6min
2.1: Who Survives: Life Under Pressure8min
2.2: Mortality: Geographic and Socioeconomic Comparisons5min
2.3: Mortality and Who We Are4min
2 leituras
Assignments and Grading10min
Module 1 Suggested Reading10min
1 exercício prático
Quiz 120min
2
Seção
Module 2: Who Reproduces and Who Marries
8 vídeos (Total de 49 min), 1 leitura, 1 teste
8 videos
3.2: Reproduction and Conscious Choice4min
3.3: Reproduction and Adoption6min
3.4: Reproduction: Geographic and Socioeconomic Comparisons6min
4.1: Who Marries: Similarity in Difference4min
4.2: Universal Female and Restricted Male Marriage5min
4.3: Alternative Marriage Forms9min
4.4: Marriage and Socioeconomic Comparisons4min
1 leituras
Module 2 Suggested Reading10min
1 exercício prático
Quiz 220min
3
Seção
Module 3: Who Cares and Course Conclusion
In this module, James and his post-graduate student Hao DONG will co-deliver the lectures.
5 vídeos (Total de 35 min), 1 leitura, 1 teste
5 videos
5.2: Effects of Living with Kin (by Hao DONG)4min
5.3: Family System in Comparative Perspective (by Hao DONG)9min
5.4: Kin Influence Across East Asian Family Systems (by Hao DONG)6min
6.1: Conclusion: The Salient Legacy of China’s Past7min
1 leituras
Module 3 Suggested Reading10min
1 exercício prático
Quiz 310min
4
Seção
Final Exam and Farewell
Now is time to test your understanding on the entire course. Take the final exam and complete the post-course survey. Your valuable feedback will certainly help us improve future iterations of the course.
2 leituras, 2 testes
2 leituras
A Farewell Message from Professor James Lee10min
Rate this course10min
2 exercícios práticos
Final Exam40min
Post-course Survey36min
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Melhores avaliações
por JB•May 23rd 2018
Brilliant course. High quality information, comprehensive bibliography and interesting tests. Visionary, complex and controversial. Not to be missed if you are interested in China.
por JQ•Nov 19th 2017
NICE COURSE WITH SOME INTERESTING INFORMATION. THANKS FOR ORGANIZING THIS COURSE.
Instrutores
James Z. Lee
Dean and Chair Professor of the School of Humanities and Social SciencesSobre The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
HKUST - A dynamic, international research university, in relentless pursuit of excellence, leading the advance of science and technology, and educating the new generation of front-runners for Asia and the world.
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