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Course Info for CHIN - 329 - 01, Fall 2025
Class number: 3401 Title: Chinese Business Culture Department: Language and Culture Studies
Career: Undergraduate Component: Seminar Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 14 Current enrollment: 6 Available seats: 8
Start date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 End date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM, HL - 123 Instructor(s): Shen, Yipeng
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Social Sciences and Global Requirements
Course Description:
This course teaches the Chinese culture of innovation and entrepreneurship using cases studies of China’s high-tech industries such as solar energy, EV, and drones, and the Chinese American restaurant business in Connecticut. In addition to reading book chapters from The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism (Keyu Jin, 2023) and Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy (Kishore Mahbubani, 2022), this course analyzes media and mass construction of new discourses of innovation and entrepreneurship as part of the Chinese national characters, and conducts industry visits and experiential colloquia in Connecticut.