Part One: Understanding China’s Economic Development
The presentation starts with introducing the ongoing evolutionary process from the so-called Chinese centrally planned economy to the market economy. Additionally, we will then further explore in a general perspective how that economic development has fundamental and comprehensive effects on areas beyond the economic dimension, such as urban planning, energy use and environmental protection, migration, marriage and family, poverty and inequality, public health, and education. In conjunction with this topic, students will visit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (Shanghai) to learn more detailed about the importance in the international trade between China and the U. S. and visit a state- run enterprise Company to learn about the impact of the recent industrial readjustments in China.
Readings: Wu, J.L.

Part Two: Different Workplaces and Different Characteristics
This session will focus first on introducing the newly emerging characteristics of State-Owned Enterprises (SOE). Once simply treated as the historical legacies of the inefficient, Mao-era command economy, and then abandoned with Deng’s reforms in the 1990’s, SOEs have been reinvented as new and, to some extent, highly competitive economic players. To contrast the SOEs, we will investigate the significant contributions that the Foreign-Owned Enterprises (FIE), the Joint Ventures (JVs) and private companies have made for China’s economic development. We will also begin to look at the rise of the civil society and Non-Governmental Organizations in China.
Readings: Dong, X.Y. & Putterman, L Hongying Wang

Part Three: The Cultural Fabric of the Chinese Workplace
This seminar will help students make sense of the deeply embedded and uniquely Chinese cultural aspects of their work places. Several unique Chinese perspectives, such as “Mianzi” (face) and “Guanxi” (connections) will be intensively discussed and clarified. This seminar will explore the concepts, the importance and manifestation of those issues, as well as how those issues affect individual behavior, organizational culture, decision-making and the cultural clashes between Chinese and westerners.
Readings: Boye Lafayette De Mente Jia, W.

Part Four: Foreigners in the city of Shanghai
We will review the history and the contemporary issues related to the integration of foreigners in the city of Shanghai. Economic opportunities and related issues for Westerns especially in the job market. Topics will include strategies for westerners to be competitive in the Shanghai job market.
Readings: Daniel H. Rosen Hu, W.Z. & Grove. C.

Part Five: Immigration matters
Since 1990, Shanghai has launched a strong and sustainable economic increase founded on the economic reform policies initiated by Deng Xiaoping. Even by the standards of the rapid economic development witnessed by the so-called Asian Four Tigers, Shanghai’s achievement is very impressive.
We will look into this Shanghai Miracle and examine the role of immigration. Namely, during these years
of rapid growth, a great deal of capital, labor and technology has “MIGRATED” into Shanghai. Shanghai now is not simply its original, historical local community; more precisely, Shanghai is a national city of China, a regional city of Asia and even a very global city. Most important, during this rapid process of growth and modernization, Shanghai has managed to keep improving its institutions and growth engines. That is to say, the city has kept pace with the planning needed to handle and sustain the influx or so-called “MIGRATING Resources” of young, able, professional people from Asia and Western countries working in Shanghai. Shanghai has fully & clearly realized that managing immigration crucially influences the sustainability of Shanghai’s future economic development.
Readings: Hussain, A. Peng, X.Z.

Part Six: Changes in family structure in the city of Shanghai: one-child policy, aging and marriage market squeeze
Demographic research shows that in China, at least in urban areas, younger generations intend to delay their marriage, young couples tend to delay their child-bearing or even forego having a child, divorce
rates are rising, the number of single-parent households has increased, and the sex ratio has become unbalanced. These massive and rapid social changes have a significant impact on a variety of socio-
economic factors. This seminar in particular will help students explore the ways in which these factors and social pressures manifest themselves in the workplace. And for students placed in social service
organizations, this seminar will serve to encapsulate many of the issues being actively addressed by the
NGOs where they work.
Readings: Peng, X.Z and Guo, Z.

Part Seven: Introduction of China’s health security system reform: problems and challenges
The problems and consequences of the Chinese health system have aroused attention from the society, as the country has transitioned from a command economy that included state-provided health care to more of a market economy with some privatization of health care. This seminar will help students understand the ever-changing nature of the health care system in China.
Readings: Gu, X.Y and Tang, S.L.

Part Eight: Governmental education policy and professional training provided by the workplace
This week looks at human resources strategies and in particular the various strategies and approaches to work force development – both through official government and educational channels and through company-specific channels.
Readings: Peng, X.Z and Guo, Z. Handout

Part Nine through Fourteen: Student presentations and Guest speakers
Internship Placements:
Students will be placed across a variety of segments of the economy, including foreign companies, Chinese companies, educational and non-governmental organizations. Placements will emphasize work on a specific project with discreet deliverables to ones supervisor. Chinese language competence will play a significant role in placements, and may limit the ability to place a student in his or her desired industry. The success of a student’s internship placement requires regular communication with and feedback between the student and the internship supervisor. Learning and skills stressed in the internship include deepening ones understanding of contemporary China and the ways in which political, social and economic changes underway in the country manifest themselves in the workplace.