Please note that the guest lecture by Sergey Kurbanov on Monday April 8 will take place from 16:15-18:00 in teaching room 1 in Georg Sverdrup's building (the big library).
Before the next class (Jan 28), please read the article "Understanding China's political system" and the Chinese constitution (http://english.gov.cn/2005-08/05/content_20813.htm). Please be prepared to answer the following questions:
(1) How are China's political institutions arranged?
(2) Who wrote the constitution? For what purposes? With what outcomes? What are recorded? What are omitted?