KSCB702 History of Chinese Communist Party

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Bc. Denisa Hilbertová, M.A. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Dušan Vávra, Ph.D. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Bc. Denisa Hilbertová, M.A.
Department of Chinese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Jana Vávrová Mašková, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Chinese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
TYP_STUDIA(MN)
Course Dějiny Číny II
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The thoughts of Chinese political leaders are a part of Communist Party of China ideology today. It is biggest political party in the word and since its foundations in 1921 it undergone many dramatical changes and challenges. This course will focus on the history of the Communist Party of China as well as contemporary situation. The course will mainly focus: - Ideological basement of Communist Party of China in the past as well as today - Its main leaders and thinkers -International position of the Communist Party of China
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course the student will be able to: - Describe Party's ideological development on the background of Chinese history - Interpret historical development in wider sociological and cultural context - Analyse CCP's growth and expansion and its contemporary direction
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction 2. Marxism in China and the Establishement of CCP 3. First years and United Front 1922/1927 4. Chinese Societ Republic 1927/1937 5. Second United Front and Japanese aggression 1937/1945 6. Chiense Civil War 1945/1949 7. The Ruling Party 1949/1978 8. The Period of Modernisation 1978/1989 9. The Third Generation 1992-2003 10. The Fourth Generation 2002-2012 11. The Fifth Generation since 2012 12. Challenges of the Fifth Generation
Literature
    required literature
  • Ishikawa Yoshihiro. The formation of the Chinese Communist Party, New York : Columbia University Press, c2013.
  • Routledge handbook of the Chinese communist party. Edited by Willy Wo-Lap Lam. First published. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018, xx, 421. ISBN 9781138684430. info
    recommended literature
  • The Chinese Communist Party and the cultural revolutionthe case of the sixty-one renegades. Edited by Pamela Lubell. New York: Palgrave, 2002, xi, 263 p. ISBN 0333919556. info
Teaching methods
Seminars Reading and discussion Student Presentations
Assessment methods
Students' class activity Student's Presentation
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is taught every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2015.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2025, recent)
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