这门课的特色在它的研究资料有许多广泛注释的参考书目。

This course features an extensive annotated bibliography in the study materials section.

这门课的主题在检视中国的平民老百姓如何经历十九和二十世纪的喧嚣变化。我们将会藉由教科书及个人记叙、第一手资料和影片等，思考个人和家庭的生活如何与一个逐渐转变成为现代中国的大环境相结合。透过文献和讨论，你们应该将重点放在重大的政治事件如何影响人们的日常生活，以及他们所做的决定如何地导致了大规模的社会转变。

This subject examines the experiences of ordinary Chinese people as they lived through the tumultuous changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We look at personal narratives, primary sources, films alongside a textbook to think about how individual and family lives connect with the broader processes of change in modern China. In the readings and discussions, you should focus on how major political events have an impact on the characters' daily lives, and how the decisions they make cause large-scale social transformation.