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Shi-chi Lan, Associate Professor, History Department, NCCU

PhD, University of Chicago

 

Taiwan’s Development Strategies

Week 1 (Feb 20, 2024)    

Introduction (Prof. Hsiaopong Liu/Professor Theo Clement/Prof. Shi-chi Lan)

Taiwan and Asia as Legacy of Empires

Readings:

50. Tonio Andrade, How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century (Columbia University Press, 2009)
50. Robert Eskildsen, Transforming Empire in Japan and East Asia: The Taiwan Expedition and the Birth of Japanese Imperialism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
50. Evan Dawley, Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s-1950s (Harvard University Asia Center, 2019)

 

Week 2 (Feb 27, 2024)    

Taiwan and Asia as History of Migration

Readings:

50. Kuo, Huei-Ying, Networks beyond empires: Chinese business and nationalism in the Hong Kong–Singapore corridor,1914–1941 (Brill, 2014)
50. Eiichiro Azuma, In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2019)
50. Seiji Shirane, Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945 (Cornell Univ. Press, 2022)

 

Week 3 (March 5, 2024)   

Taiwan and Asia as Historical Memories

Readings:

50. Rana Mitter, China's Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020)
50. Dominic Meng-hsuan YANG, The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
50. Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (Harvard University Press, 2016)

Tse-kang Leng, Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica

Ph.D, University of Virginia

The Evolution of the PRC’s Development

Week 4 (March 12, 2024) China (I)

Readings:

50. Ling Chen & Barry Naughton, “A Dynamic China Model: The Co-Evolution of Economics and Politics in China.” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 26, No. 103(January 2017), pp. 18-34
50. Yingyi Qian, “How Reform Worked in China.” Dept. of Economics, UC Berkeley, 2001.

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/39858/wp473.pdf?sequence=3
 

Week 5 (March 19, 2024) China (II)

Readings:

*. Meg Rithmire, Hao Chen, “The Emergence of Mafia-like Business Systems in China”, The China Quarterly, Volume 248 , Issue 1 , December 2021 , pp. 1037 – 1058.

*. Jennifer Pan, “Controlling China’s Digital Ecosystem: Observations on Chinese Social Media”, China leadership monitor, June, 2022.

https://www.prcleader.org/pan

 

Week 6 (March 26, 2024) China (III)

Readings:

*. Gørild M. Heggelund, “China’s Climate and Energy Policy: At a Turning Point? “ International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Vol. 21, No. 2/3 (2021), pp. 9-23.

*. Tse-Kang Leng and Rung-yi Chen, “The Red Culture and Political Economy of Museums in Shanghai”, China Review, , Volume 21, Number 3, August 2021, pp. 247-270.

 

Chao-Chi Lin, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, NCCU

PhD, Stanford University

 

Japan’s Development Experiences

Week 7 (April 2, 2024) Japan (I)  

Lipscy, Phillip. 2022. “Japan: the Harbinger State.” Japanese Journal of Political Science.1–18. doi:10.1017/S1468109922000329

 

Rosenbluth, Frances and Michael F. Thies 2010. Japan Transformed: Political Change andEconomic Restructuring. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. Chapter 8 : Japan’s Place in the World, pp:155-173

 

McElwain, Kenneth Mori. 2022. “Constitutional Politics in the Post-Abe Era: Institutional and Political Hurdles.” https://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/d00847/

 

Week 8 (April 9, 2024) Japan (II)

Rosenbluth, Frances and Michael F. Thies. 2010. Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic Restructuring. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. Chapter 5: Postwar Political Economy & Chapter 7: Japan’s New Political Economy, pp. 72-94, 123-154.

 

Ulrike Schaede. 2012. “From developmental state to the ‘New Japan’: the strategic inflection point in Japanese business.” Asia Pacific Business Review 18 (2): 167-185.

 

Toyama, Kzuhiko. 2015. “The Curse of ‘Japan Inc.’ and Japan’s Microeconomic competitiveness.” In Yoichi Funabashi and Barack Kushner eds. Examining Japan’s Lost Decades. London, New York: Routledge. 56-76.

 

Week 9 (April 16, 2024) Japan (III)

Seike, Atsushi. 2015. “Japan’s Demographic Challenges.” In Funabashi, Yoishi and Barack Kushner, Examining Japan’s Lost Decades. London New York, Routledge. pp. 1-16.

 

Schoppa, Leonard. 2020. "The Policy Response to Declining Fertility Rates in Japan" Social Science Japan Journal 23(1): 3–21

 

Kalicki, Konard. 2021. “ Toward Liberal Immigration Control: The Case of Japan” Asian Survey 61(5): 854-882. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2021.1421466

 

 

Théo Clement, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Pyongyang University of Science & Technology

Double Ph.D, Université Lyon / University of Vienna

 

Looking South:

 DPRK's achievement in the past 70 years and perspectives of Seoul's development

 

Semester suggested readings:

-FORD, Glyn, 2018, Talking to North Korea, Pluto Press.

-CHA, Victor, 2018, The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future, Harper Collins.

-ABT, Felix, 2014, A Capitalist in North Korea: My Seven Years in the Hermit Kingdom, Tuttle Publishing.

-CHA, Victor, KANG, David, 2018, Nuclear North Korea, A Debate on Engagement Strategies, Columbia University Press.

-ARMSTRONG, Charles, 2013, Tyranny of the Weak, Cornell University Press.

-ABRAHAMIAN, Andray, 2019, Being in North Korea, Brookings Institution Press.

 

Week 10 (April 23, 2024) The Korean Peninsula at Crossroads

- General introduction             

- Historical context: the Japanese colonization of the Korean peninsula (1905-1945)

- Developmental State: from ashes to “Asian Dragon”

        -From “black hole” of American assistance…

        -… to the Park Chung-hee era

        -Asian Economic integration (Akamatsu’s flying geese paradigm)

        -From Dictatorship to Democracy (?) –Gwangju uprising

- South Korean current social and political dilemmas

        -Role of the Army/National Security Law

        -Progressive/conservatives

        -“Hell Choson”

Readings:

Pirie, Iain. ‘South Korea after the Developmental State’. In The Asian Developmental State: Reexaminations and New Departures, edited by Yin-wah Chu, 139–58. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137476128_7.

 

Week 11 (April 30, 2024) North Korea beyond clichés?

- North Korea during the Cold War

        -Post-war reconstruction: the Golden age of DPRK?

        -Diplomatic breakthroughs: an isolated North Korea?

        -Juche and the Kim Dynasty

- Post-famine economic recovery

        -The North Korean economy and the current reforms

        -Special Economic Zones and the Chinese model

        -North Korea’s foreign trade

Readings:

Armstrong, Charles K. ‘The Destruction and Reconstruction of North Korea, 1950 -’: https://apjjf.org/-Charles-K--Armstrong/3460/article.pdf

 

Week 12 (May 7, 2024) Reunification and interkorean relations

- The 1972 declaration and federations proposals

        -The Three Principles and the Lee Hu-Rak/Kim Meetings (1972)

        -Democratic Confederation of Koryo

        -The Ten-points program (1993)

- South Korea’s “Sunshine policy” and “Nordpolitik”

        -Conservatives/ Progressives views on Unification

        -Kim Dae-jung’s “sunshine policy” and the 2000-2007 summits (Kaesong)

        -Moon Jae-in’s 2.0 Sunshine policy?

Readings:

Snyder, Scott. ‘Economic Integration of the Korean Peninsula’, https://www.piie.com/publications/chapters_preview/26/4iie2555.pdf

 

Week 13 (May 14, 2024) Peace in the Korean peninsula

- History and context of North Korean military programs

-“Hawks”: military action against the DPRK

        -Risk and opportunities of military strikes, NK C2C

        -SK-US joint military exercises

        -“Bloody nose” strategy     

-“Boas”: economic sanctions, pressure and “strategic patience”

        -History and context of the sanction regime

        -does sanctions work? How do we measure it?

        -Obama’s strategic patience vs Trump’s maximal Pressure 

-“Doves”: engagement with North Korea

        -engagement or influence?

        -types of engagement with the DPRK

        -Humanitarian/human rights issues: what results?

        -Education: Pyongyang University of Science and Technology

Readings:

Han, Dong-ho. ‘The Future of the Two Koreas: How to Build Peace on the Korean Peninsula’. North Korean Review 7, no. 1 (2011): 49–63.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43908832

 

Philip Hsiaopong Liu, Professor, Graduate Institute of Development Studies, NCCU

PhD, University of Chicago

 

Singapore’s National Building

Week 14 (May 21, 2024) Singapore : National Building and External Relations I

 

Stephan Ortmann, “Singapore: The Politics of Inventing National Identity”

Jianli Huang and Lysa Hong, “Chinese Diasporic Culture and National Identity: The Taming of the Tiger Balm Gardens in Singapore”

 

Week 15  (May 28, 2023) Singapore : National Building and External Relations II

 

Eugene K. B. Tan, “Re-Engaging Chineseness: Political, Economic and Cultural Imperatives of Nation-Building in Singapore”

Daniel Wei Boon Chua, “Revisiting Lee Kuan Yew’s 1965-66 Anti-Americanism”

 

Week 16  (June 4, 2023) Singapore : Ethnic Politics I

 

Netina Tan, “Manipulating Electoral Laws in Singapore”

Lee Tong Soon, “Chinese Theatre, Confucianism, and Nationalism: Amateur Chinese Opera Tradition in Singapore”

 

Week 17  (June 11, 2024) Singapore (II) : Ethnic Politics II

 

Hussin Mutalib, “The Singapore Minority Dilemma”

Philip Hsiaopong Liu, “Love the Tree Love the Branch: Beijing’s Friendship with Lee Kuan Yew”

 

Week 18 (June 18, 2023) Final Quiz