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This is an intensive reading and writing seminar for guiding research postgraduate students in critiquing and evaluating scholarship and key issues and problems of this scholarship in areas of Chinese studies. It contributes to methodological and theoretical training as students develop their own research focus and knowledge of related fields and subfields. The course involves seminar discussion and reports on assigned readings, the writing of several essays of scholarly criticism, the preparation of a substantial annotated bibliography, the completion of a major essay setting out a research direction and including a specific research plan for the research paper to be completed in CHES6020 China Seminar II.   

First essay   15%

Second essay   15%

Third essay   15%

Fourth essay   15%

Annotated bibliography   10%

Final paper   20%

Participation/attendance   10%

Attention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work, and to the disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and regulations. Details may be found at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/. With each assignment, students will be required to submit a signed VeriGuide declaration that they are aware of the policies, regulations and procedures.