教學大綱 Syllabus

每周課程進度與作業要求 Course Schedule & Requirements

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
16+2週16+2 weeks	第 17 週 Week 17	自主總整學習Capstone self-learning
	第 18 週 Week 18	完成指定課後作業或作品Completion of designated after-course assignment or work

 

課前準備

修讀本課程應該具備基本的中共黨政基礎。有意願修讀卻欠缺背景知識的同學，本人建議可以自行閱讀以下著作：

 

景躍進等（編），當代中國政府與政治，台北：五南出版社，2018年。

Kenneth Lieberthal（李侃如），胡國成 趙梅（譯），治理中國︰從革命到改革，北京：中國社會科學出版社，2010年。

趙建民，當代中共政治分析，台北：五南出版社，1997年。

稻垣清，張萍（譯），中南海：你所不知的中國政治樞紐，台北：五南出版社，2018年。

Richard McGregor（馬利德），樂為良（譯），中國共產黨不可說的秘密，台北：聯經出版社，2011年。

 

第1週  課程簡介（19/2）

介紹課程大綱以及上課方式，並處理每週閱讀的工作分配

 

第2週  理論的視野：韌性威權與制度化的爭論（26/2）

David L. Shambaugh（沈大偉），呂增奎等（譯），中國共產黨：收縮與調適，北京：中國編譯出版社，2011年。

Minxin Pei, “Is CCP Rule Fragile or Resilient?” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 23, No. 1 (January 2012), pp. 27-41.

Wen-Hsuan Tsai and Wang Zhou, “Centralizing Rules: How Party Regulations Are Reinforcing Cadre Loyalty in Today’s China,” China Journal, no. 92 (July 2024), pp. 27-45.

Joseph Fewsmith, “Balances, Norms and Institutions: Why Elite Politics in the CCP Have Not Institutionalized,” The China Quarterly, Vol. 248 (November 2021), pp. 265-282.

Wen-Hsuan Tsai, “Introduction: Institutional Centralization: Concept, Categorization, and Operation,” Institutional Centralization: Leadership and Policy Implementation in Xi Jinping’s China, Australian National University (ANU) Press, about 87,000 words, forthcoming (February 2026).

Patricia M. Thornton, “Party All the Time: The CPC in Comparative and Historical Perspective,” The China Quarterly, Vol. 248(2021), pp. 1-15.

 

第3週  黨務制度：組織與人事工作（5/3）

Chien-Wen Kou and Wen-Hsuan Tsai, “‘Sprinting with Small Steps’ towards Promotion: Solutions for the Age Dilemma in the CCP Cadre Appointment System,” The China Journal, No.71 (January 2014), pp.155-175. (有中文版)

Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard, “Institutional Reform and the Bianzhi System in China,” The China Quarterly, Vol. 170 (June 2002), pp 361-386.

Wen-Hsuan Tsai and Chien-wen Kou, “The Party’s Disciples: CCP Reserve Cadres and the Perpetuation of a Resilient Authoritarian Regime” The China Quarterly, Vol. 221 (March 2015), pp. 1-20. (有中文版)

John P. Burns, “The Chinese Communist Party’s Nomenklatura System as a Leadership Selection Mechanism: An Evaluation” in Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard and Zheng Yongnian eds., The Chinese Communist Party in Reform, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2006, pp. 33-58. (有中文版)

Wen-Hsuan Tsai and Gang Tiang, “The Recruitment Process for Grassroots Cadres in a Chinese County: The CCP Organization Department and Its Alarm Function,” Modern China, Vol. 49, No. 1 (January 2023), pp. 63-92.

 

第4週  黨務制度：宣傳與思想工作（12/3）

Anne-Marie Brady，推銷中共─中宣部運作：讓黨繼續掌權，香港：明鏡出版社，2015年。  

Haifeng Huang, “Propaganda as Signaling” Comparative Politics, Vol. 47, No. 4 (July 2015), pp. 419-444.

Han Li, “From Red to ‘Pink’: Propaganda Rap, New Media, and China’s Soft Power Pursuit,” American Journal of Chinese Studies, Vol. 25, No. 2 ((October 2018), pp. 89-105.

Daniel C. Mattingly and Elaine Yao. “How Soft Propaganda Persuades,” Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 55, No. 9 (February 2022), pp. 1569-1594.

Wen-Hsuan Tsai, “Enabling China’s Voice to Be Heard by the World: Ideas and Operations of the Chinese Communist Party’s External Propaganda System” Problems of Post-Communism, Vol. 64, No. 3-4 (2017), pp. 203-213

 

第5週  黨務制度：政法與維穩工作（19/3）

鍾金燕，政法委制度研究，北京：中央編譯出版社，2016年。

Yuhua Wang and Carl Minzner, “The Rise of the Chinese Security State” The China Quarterly, Vol. 222 (June 2015), pp. 339-359.   

Lynette H. Ong, “Thugs and Outsourcing of State Repression in China” The China Journal, Vol. 80 (July 2018), pp. 94-110.

Tsai, Wen-Hsuan, Xingmiu Liao and Chien-Min Chen, “Intermediate Agents in the Resistance Process: Petition Brokers and Social Governance in Contemporary China” China: An International Journal, Vol. 17, No. 4 (November 2019), pp. 155- 167.

Wen-Hsuan Tsai and Gang Tiang, “Social Brokers in Grassroots Governance: The New Rural Gentry in China,” China Information, vol. 38, no, 3 (2024), pp. 331-348.

Jieren Hu, and Tong Wu, “Emotional Mobilization of Chinese Veterans: Collective Activism, Flexible Governance and Dispute Resolution,” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 30, No. 129 (2021), pp. 451-464.

 

第6週  黨務制度：政協與統戰工作（26/3）

Gerry Groot, Managing Transitions: the Chinese Communist Party, United Front Work, Corporatism, and Hegemony, New York: Routledge, 2004. 前言、結論。

Yan Xiaojun, “Regime Inclusion and the Resilience of Authoritarianism: the Local People’s Political Consultative Conference in Post-Mao Chinese Politics”, The China Journal, No. 66 (July 2011), pp. 53-75. (有中文版)

Ray Wang and Gerry Groot, “Who Represents? Xi Jinping’s Grand United Front Work, Legitimation, Participation and Consultative Democracy” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 27, No. 112 (2018), pp. 569-583. 

Xingmiu Liao and Wen-Hsuan Tsai, “Clientelistic State Corporatism: The United Front Model of “Pairing-up” in the Xi Jinping Era” The China Review, Vol. 19, No. 1 (February 2019), pp. 31-56.

Daniel Koss, “Party Building as Institutional Bricolage: Asserting Authority at the Business Frontier,” The China Quarterly, Vol. 248 (November 2021), pp. 222-243.

 

第7週  黨務制度：紀檢、反貪腐與運動式治理（9/4）

Xuezhi Guo, “Controlling Corruption in the Party: China’s Central Discipline Inspection Commission” The China Quarterly, Vol. 219 (September 2014), pp. 599-617. 

Ling Li, “Politics of Anticorruption in China: Paradigm Change of the Party’s Disciplinary Regime 2012–2017,” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 28, No. 115 (2019), pp. 47-63.

Xingmiu Liao and Wen-Hsuan Tsai, “Strengthening China’s Powerful Commission for Discipline Inspection under Xi Jinping, with a Case Study at County Level,” The China Journal, vol. 84 (July 2020), pp. 29-50.

Li Li and Peng Wang, “From Institutional Interaction to Institutional Integration: The National Supervisory Commission and China’s New Anti-corruption Model,” The China Quarterly, Vol. 240 (December 2019), pp. 967-989

Flora Sapio, “The National Supervision Commission: A ‘Subaltern History,’” Modern China, Vol. 48, No. 4 (July 2022), pp. 754-784.

 

第8週  期中考試週：學生繳交期末報告題目 （16/4）

 

第9週  高層決策與科技途徑的菁英研究 （23/4）

寇健文，中共菁英政治的演變；制度化與權力轉移1979-2010（台北：五南出版    

    社，2014年）。

Ewan Smith, “The Rule of Law Doctrine of the Politburo” The China Journal, Vol. 79 (January 2018), pp. 40-61.

Xu Yi-chong, Patrick Weller, “The Challenges of Governing: The State Council in China” The China Journal, Vol. 76 (July 2016), pp. 1-23.

趙建民，中國決策：領導人、結構、機制、過程，台北：五南出版社，2014年，頁33-131。

Wen-Hsuan Tsai, Chien-wen Kou, and Chin-Yuan Kuo, “Assessing the Emotions of Leadership Using Artificial Intelligence: Does Xi Jinping’s Mood Affect Trade Imports in Authoritarian China?” (Under review)

Wen-Hsuan Tsai, Chin-Yuan Kuo, and Chien-wen Kou, “The Two Bodies of a Dictator: Political and Physical Factors,” (Under review)

 

第10週 後勤工作與政治儀式（30/4）

Wen-Hsuan Tsai and Xingmiu Liao, “Concentrating Power to Accomplish Big Things: The CCP’s Pishi System and Operation in Contemporary China” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 26, No. 104 (March 2017), pp. 297-310.

Wen-Hsuan Tsai and Nicola Dean, “Lifting the Veil of the CCP’s Mishu System: Unrestricted Informal Politics within an Authoritarian Regime,” The China Journal, No. 73 (January 2015), pp. 158-185.

Wen-Hsuan Tsai, “Medical Politics and the CCP’s Healthcare System for State Leaders” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 27, No. 114 (December 2018), pp. 942-955.

Wen-Hsuan Tsai, “Delicacies for a Privileged Class in a Risk Society: The Chinese Communist Party’s Special Supplies Food System” Issues & Studies, Vol. 52, No. 2 (June 2016), pp. 1-29.

吳國光，權力的劇場：中共黨代會的制度運作，香港：中文大學出版社，2018年。

Wen-Hsuan Tsai, “Framing the Funeral: Death Rituals of the Chinese Communist Party’s Leaders” The China Journal, No. 77 (January 2017), pp. 51-71.

 

第11週 頂層設計與領導小組（7/5）

Gunter Schubert and Björn Alpermann, “Studying the Chinese Policy Process in the Era of ‘Top-Level Design’: the Contribution of ‘Political Steering’ Theory,” Journal of Chinese Political Science (2019) No. 24, pp. 199-224.

周望，中國「小組機制」研究，天津：天津人民出版社，2010年。

邵宗海，「中共中央工作領導小組的組織定位」，中國大陸研究，第48卷第3期 （2005年9月），頁1-23。

陳玲，「中國高層領導小組的運作機制及其演化」，收錄於俞可平等（編），中共的治理與適應（北京：中央編譯出版社，2015年），頁20-47.

Wen-Hsuan Tsai and Wang Zhou, “Integrated Fragmentation and the Role of

Leading Groups in Chinese Politics” The China Journal, No. 82 (July 2019), pp. 1-22.

Wang Zhou and Wen-Hsuan Tsai, “China’s Riverine Macroregions and Intergroup Politics under Xi Jinping,” The China Quarterly, forthcoming,

 

第12週 科技監管與社會控制（14/5）

鄭永年，技術賦權：中國的互聯網、國家與社會（北京：東方出版社，2014

    年）。

韓榮斌，中共掌控下的網路世界（台北：中華民國國防部，2021年）。

Wen-Hsuan Tsai, Hsin-Hsien Wang, and Ruihua Lin, “Hobbling Big Brother: Top-level Design and Local Discretion in China’s Social Credit System,” The China Journal, No. 86 (July 2021), pp. 1-20.

Ruihua Lin, Hsin-Hsien Wang, and Wen-Hsuan Tsai, “China’s Cloud Governance: The Big Data Bureau and COVID-19 Crisis Management,” China Review, Vol. 22, No. 1 (February 2022), pp. 135-158.

Jean Christopher Mittelstaedt, “The Grid Management System in Contemporary China: Grass-roots Governance in Social Surveillance and Service Provision,” China Information, Vol. 36, No. 1 (March 2022), pp. 3-22.

Wen-Hsuan Tsai, “Chapter 5: Maintaining Social Stability through Grid-Style Management: Big Brother for Twenty-First-Century China,” A Tight Grip: State Power and Control in Modern China, University of British Columbia (UBC) Press, ISBN: 9780774872027, about 70,000 words, forthcoming (August 2025).

 

第13週 諮詢型威權主義與智庫運作（21/5）

朱旭峰，改革開放與當代中國智庫（北京：中國人民大學出版社，2018年）。

Wen-Hsuan Tsai and Ruihua Lin, “How Policies are Adapted: The Roles of Local Think Tanks in China’s New Era,” China Review, Vol. 21, No. 2 (May 2021), pp. 153-176. 

王紹光、樊鵬，中國式共識型決策：「開門」與「磨合」（北京：中國人民大學出版社，2013年）。

Wen-Hsuan Tsai and Gang Tiang, “The Role of Chinese County-level Research Offices in Policy Adaptation,” Journal of Chinese Political Science, Vol. 27, No. 4 (December 2022), pp. 661-679.

Wen-Hsuan Tsai, Gan Li, and Weiqing Song, “Agent Politics of Chinese Think Tanks and Cultural Industry Governance in China’s ‘New Era’,” Critical Asian Studies, vol. 55, no. 1 (2023), pp. 20-39.

 

第14週 地方的政策創新與執行（28/5）

Kevin J. O’Brien and Lianjiang Li, “Selective Policy Implementation in Rural China” Comparative Politics, Vol. 31, No. 2 (January 1999), pp. 167-186. (有中文版)

Anna L. Ahlers and Gunter Schubert, “Effective Policy Implementation in China’s Local State” Modern China, Vol. 41, No. 4 (2015), pp. 372-405. (有中文版)

Gang Tian, and Wen-Hsuan Tsai, “Beautiful Countryside Construction, Policy Inspection Teams, and Grassroots Political Participation in China,” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 32, No. 144 (2023), pp. 951-962.

Sebastian Heilmann（韓博天），石磊（譯），紅天鵝：中國非常規決策過程，香港：中文大學，2018年。

王紹光、鄢一龍，中國民主決策模式：以五年規劃制定為例（北京：中國人民大學出版社，2015年）。

Ruihua Lin and Wen-Hsuan Tsai, “A Supplement to Heilmann’s ‘Experimentation under Hierarchy’: The Politics of Chinese Industrial Innovation in the Xi Era,” China Perspective, No. 130 (September 2022), pp. 43-52.