MOONSHOT ACADEMY

MOONSHOT ACADEMY

Liza Du

Chinese Politics Teacher, Head of Shangshan House

Liza graduated from China University of Petroleum (Beijing) with a major in English and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree. She also received a third-class scholarship, Outstanding Student Leader, and Advanced Individual in Social Practice. In 2016, she represented young students and accompanied the then Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Zhang Dejiang, on a visit to Vietnam. She participated in the 3rd China-Vietnam Youth Festival and was interviewed by the Vietnamese national television. In 2017, she served as a volunteer interpreter to support the second Asia-Africa Youth Festival and was responsible for receiving young representatives from countries such as Kenya and the Philippines. In 2018, she served as a volunteer to support the China-Namibia Economic and Trade Investment Forum. She graduated from the China and Global Governance program at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore with a Master of Social Sciences degree. During her undergraduate studies, she participated in a summer academic research program at the University of Cambridge in the UK and received a scholarship and the Best Performance award from the program.

She currently teaches Citizenship for the social sciences group; she also serves as the Executive Dean of Shangshan House and takes responsibility for planning and coordinating activities between houses, organizing learners to participate in frisbee competitions, drama festivals, and other events. Prior to this, she taught intermediate elective courses in social sciences at Government, Public, and Online Civil Unrest and The Difficult Path to Peace.

Research areas include: social security for urban migrants, CCP's governance, labor market in industrial countries along the Belt and Road, etc. Wrote the second chapter of the book Labor Relations in Countries along the Belt and Road on Singapore, which was published by the China Workers Press in May 2020; published three English academic papers as the first author, mainly on cross-cultural exchange between China and the West, feminism, etc.

Curriculums1

CIVI2001: Citizenship

What is politics? What essential factors make a country? How are we supposed to describe the government? What should we do as a citizen? What are we talking about when we talk about democracy and rights? Why did Marx's claim that capitalism would eventually come to an end not happen in today's world? Why is the People's Congress System the most appropriate political system for China? What has the CCP experienced in the past hundred years? What achievements has the CCP made in the past century?

Perhaps you are curious about some of these terms or confused about the issues mentioned above. In this session, we will explore China's political and economic system with you over the course of a semester; in the process, we hope to make you realize that politics is not just about high-level decisions but also about life and real actions.

Projects1

Construction of decision-making mechanism based on Houses

Disciplines/Subjects: Political science Key Themes: Chinese politics, democratic centralism, and parliamentary system The report of the 20th CPC National Congress has determined the development of full-process people's democracy as an important content of China's modernization, making comprehensive deployment and putting forward clear requirements for "developing full-process people's democracy and ensuring people's mastery of the country". In the first unit, we discussed what democracy is, explored the diverse views of democracy in the world today, and examined the specific embodiment of democratic centralism. As citizens of the People's Republic of China, we have diverse rights and duties, as well as equal political power, regardless of our roles in society. Reasonably, using the power we have to participate in social affairs is a duty that every citizen should fulfill. The house is one of the basic units in the lunar exploration community where learners can participate in the management of school affairs through a reasonable decision-making mechanism. Learners are divided into four academies without regard to grade or gender, and each academy has its unique personality. When learners participate in the decision-making process of community affairs through the basic unit of the academy, a clear and reasonable decision-making mechanism can make the decision more efficient and transparent. In the world today, different countries will choose different decision-making mechanisms based on their national conditions, political systems, and systems of government. For example, China's People's congress system and the two-party system in the United States can provide suitable decision-making processes for their respective countries. We will take these two decision-making mechanisms as references and try to design a decision-making mechanism for the lunar exploration community based on the academy as the basic unit. Learner Task: Write a report of at least 800 words; at the same time, learners need to form groups and complete the interview task.

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