Chinese Studies

Courses Ulrich Theobald

(selected courses)

Language courses

  • Translation of academic Chinese texts
  • Business Chinese
  • Classical Chinese

College courses

  • "Chinese studies"

Undergraduate courses

  • Introductory seminars to History of Modern China, History of Chinese Literature, Chinese Cinema, Chinese Economy
  • Thematic seminars

Graduate courses

  • Seminars on paradigms, theories and approaches in modern East Asian Studies
    • Economic policy and socialism in the USSR and China
    • Economic development in China
  • Thematic seminars
    • "Concepts and Practice of Foreign Aid: China, Taiwan and 'the West'"
    • "Chinese Cyber Sovereignty, Computational Propaganda and Espionage"
    • "Banking and Finance in China: From the Shansi Banks to Digital Currencies"
    • "Propaganda, Agitation, and Campaigns from Chiang Kai-shek to Xi Jinping"
    • "China and the Opium/Drug Question (1800-today)"
    • "Comparative Military History"
    • "China and Japan, 1850-Today"
  • Graduate colloquia
  • Training courses in scholarly methods and research tools in Chinese Studies