Type of Credit: Elective
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The class is designed to help students understand basic political developments in China, including brief history to the rise to power of the Chinese Communist Party, its leadership and ideology, the power structure and decision-making process, succession and factionalism, major events in the past 70 years of ruling, social discontents, political reforms, and future prospects for democratization.
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| 教學週次Course Week | 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week | 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type |
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Week 1: Introduction: layouts for the class.
Week 2: Overall Review
*Dreyer, Chap. 1.
Week 3: The Chinese Tradition
*Dreyer, Chap. 2.
Week 4: The CCP’s Rise to Power
What was the reasons behind Mao Zedong’s victory? What does it mean for China and rest of the world?
*Dreyer, Chap. 3 & 4.
Lieberthal, chapter 2.
Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (London: Flamingo, 1991).
Week 5: Leadership and Ideology
Questions: What’s communism? What does it mean for the Chinese? What’s Maoism? Is ideology still relevant? Who are the five generations of leadership in China?
* Wang, “The Erosion of Chinese Communist Ideology,” chapter 3, pp. 37-68.
David Shambaugh, “Rebuilding the Party: The Ideological Dimension,” in China’s Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation (Wash. D.C.; Woodraw Wilson Center Press, 2008), pp. 103-127.
Fox Butterfield, “Mao Tse-Tung: Father of Chinese Revolution,”
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1226.html
Week 6: Film 1: Morning Sun (the Cultural Revolution)
Week 7: Political Economy under Mao
Who is Chair Mao and what is his legacy?
*Dreyer, chapter 5.
Lieberthal, “The Maoist Era,” chapter 4, pp. 85-121.
1st short paper due
Week 8: Political Economy in the Post-Mao Era
What are the reforms undertaken by Deng Xiaoping? Repercussions?
* Dreyer, chapter 6.
Wang, chapter, 11, “Politics of Modernization.”
Week 9: Succession and Factionalism
Very intricate issues worthy of your attention.
*Dreyer, Chap. 9.
*Alice L. Miller, “The New Party Politburo Leadership,” China Leadership Monitor, No. 40,
pp. 1-15.
Cheng Li, “China’s Fifth Generation: Is Diversity a Source of Strength or Weakness?” Asia Policy, No. 6 (July 2008), pp. 53-93.
Wang, “Elites and the Cadre System: Leadership Style, Factionalism, Succession, and Recruitment,” chapter 5, pp. 105-138
@Tang Tsou, “Chinese Politics at the Top: Factionalism or Informal Politics? Balance-of-Power Politics or a Game to Win All?” The China Journal, No. 34 (July 1995), pp. 95-156.
Week 10: Power Structure and Decision-making
Find out the structure and functions of the CCP power apparatus; and the meaning of the Leninist party-state system.
*Dreyer, Chap. 9.
* Wang, “Political Institutions of the Party-State,” chapter 4, pp. 69-103.
Cheng Li, “From Selection to Election? Experiments in the Recruitment of Chinese Political Elites,” China Leadership Monitor, No. 26 (2008).
Juan J. Linz, “Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regime,” in Handbook of Political Science, Vol.3, edited by Fred I. Greenstein and B.W. Polsby (Menlo Park, Cal.: Addison-Wesley, 1975), pp.175-412.
Week 11: Political System
*Dreyer, Chap. 10.
Lieberthal, ““The Organization of Political Power and its Consequences: The View from the Outside,” “The Organization of Political Power and its Consequences: The View from the Inside,” chapter 6 and 7, pp. 157-218.
*Pierre F. Landry, Decentralized Authoritarianism in China (Cambridge University Press, 2008), chap. 1, pp. 1-27.
The 2nd short paper due
Week 12: Film 2: 1989 Tiananmen Incident
Transitions and Adaptation
Dreyer, chapter 7.
@Victor Nee, “The Emergence of a Market Society: Changing Mechanisms of Stratification in China,” American Journal of Sociology, 101 (1996).
Bruce J. Dickson, “Cooptation and Corporatism in China: The Logic of Party Adaptation,” Political
Science Quarterly, 115:4 (2001), pp. 517-540.
*Minxin Pei, “Why Transitions Get Trapped: A Theoretical Framework,” China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy (Harvard University Press, 2006), pp. 17-44.
*David Shambaugh, “Rebuilding the Party: The Organizational Dimension,” “Can the Chinese Communist Party Survive?” in China’s Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation, pp. 128-160.
Week 13: The Chinese Model
Is there a Chinese model? Why is it so unique?
“China as an Economic Superpower,” in Martin Jacques, When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World (London: Allen Lane, 2009), pp. 151-193.
Week 14: Internet Politics, Protests, Demonstrations
How widespread is Chinese protesting? What are the possible causes? Find out the ways Chinese authorities have resorted to clamp down on the internet and how the Chinese have resisted.
*Roderick MacFarquar, “China: The Superpower of Mr. Xi,” ChinaFile (August 13, 2015).
*Guobin Yang, “Online Activism in an Age of Contention,” in The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (NY: Columbia University Press, 2009), pp. 25-43.
Week 15: Corruption and Vulnerabilities
Find out why China has become one of the most corrupt countries in the world in such a short time? What are the causes? Who are the new Gang of Four.
*Dreyer, Chap. 8.
*Susan L. Shirk, China: Fragile Superpower (Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 1-12.
Melanie Manion, Corruption by Design: Building Clean Government in Mainland China and HK (Harvard University Press, 2004), Cha. 3.
The third short paper due
Week 16: Emergence of Civil Society
*Dreyer, Chap. 14, “Foreign Policy”.
Linda Jakobson, “Local Governance: Village and Township Direct Elections,” in Jude Howell, ed., Governance in China (NY: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers, 2004), 97-120.
Lianjiang Li & Kevin O’Brien, “Accommodating ‘Democracy’ in a One-Party State: Introducing Village Elections in China,” The China Quarterly (July 2000), pp. 465-489.
Robert A. Pastor and Tan Qingshan, “The Meaning of China’s Village Elections,” China Quarterly 162 (June 2000), pp.490~511.
Yang Zhong, Jie Chen, “To Vote or Not to Vote: An Analysis of Peasants’ Participation in Chinese Village Elections,” Comparative Political Studies, 35:6 (August 2002), pp. 686-712.
Week 17: Future Prospects: Is Democracy an Option?
Would democracy reach China? Is it necessary? Is it possible to have “democracy with Chinese characteristics”?
*Dreyer, Chap. 15, Conclusion.
*@ Andrew J. Nathan, “Authoritarian Resilience,” Journal of Democracy, 14:1 (January 2003), pp. 6-17.
*@ Henry S. Rowen, “When Will the Chinese People Be Free?” Journal of Democracy, 18:3 (July 2007), pp. 38-52.
Wang, “Democracy, Dissent, and the Tiananmen Mass Movement,” chapter 10, pp.269-300.
@Minxin Pei, “How Will China Democratize?” Journal of Democracy, 18:3 (July 2007), pp. 53-57.
Suzanne Ogden, Inklings of Democracy in China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002).
Stephen Manning, “Social and Culture Prerequisites of Democratization: Generalizing from China” in Edward Friedman ed., Generalizing East Asian Experiences (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994).
Andrew J. Nathan, Chinese Democracy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985).
Week 18: Group discussion
Students are required to read the assignments with the * sign in front. 2-3 short reflection papers (2-3 pages each) are required, as is a term paper (with a length of 5,000-7,000 words) and an oral presentation. Group discussion and class participation are encouraged.
See section每週課程進度與作業要求
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