Research Seminar in Contemporary Chinese Issues (Fall 2007)

GSIS, Yonsei University

Sukhee Han Telephone: 02-2123-3962 Email: [email protected] Office: #607 New Millennium Hall Office Hour: By appointment

Course Description

Since the start of the new millennium, the rise of China has been a defining element in international relations. China’s growth of power in the economic, military, diplomatic and cultural settings has projected vast influence over the world as well as the neighboring states. With the advent of the globalization, China’s domestic affairs/problems are easily developed into the regional, or sometimes the global, issues and the global issues frequently permeate into Chinese internal society. Aware of China’s increasing importance in international community, a number of international pundits, scholars, journalists, and politicians keep eyes on China’s domestic and international issues/problems.

The major objective of this class is to identify and analyze the China’s domestic and international issues, and estimate the potential consequences over the East Asian region and the world. In particular, this course selects China’s 10 critical issues that provide the clues to evaluate the contemporary China. These issues reflect the strength and weakness of current Chinese government, society, and people.

Tentatively scheduled after the midterm examination period(end of October), there will be a non-compulsory and yet recommended occasion for students to pay an academic visit to Shanghai. The trip will be a three-night four-day visit to the Shanghai Institute for International Studies, where scholars will give lectures to the students.

This class is designed as a seminar course. All the students in this class should complete the assigned readings before each class starts. Active class participation is highly required.

1 Grades

Mid-term Exam: 30% Final Exam: 30% Presentation and Participation in the class discussion: 40%

Week 1 (September 5): Introduction

No Reading

Week 2 (September 12): Chinese Leadership Change (17th Party Congress)

Lyman Miller. 2005. “Hu Jintao and the Central Party Apparatus,” China Leadership Monitor 15 (summer) Yun-Han Chu, Chih-Cheng Lo and Ramon H. Myers, eds. 2004. The New Chinese Leadership: Challenges and Opportunities after the 16th Party Congress, The China Quarterly Special Issues New Series, No. 4 (New York: Cambridge University Press), pp. 1-88, 156-179 Lyman Miller. 2006. “The Road to the 17th Party Congress,” China Leadership Monitor 18 (spring) Joseph Fewsmith. 2005. “China Under Hu Jintao,” China Leadership Monitor 14 (spring)

Week 3 (September 19): Does Chinese Economy Continue to Develop?

Joshua Kurlantzick. 2002. “China: Economic Power, Political Enigma,” The Washington Quarterly, vol. 25, no. 3 (Summer), 59-67 Charles Wolf JR, Thomas G. Rawski, and Deborah S. Davis. 2003. “China’s Economy: Will the Bubble Burst?” The Woodrow Wilson Center’s Asia Program, No. 111, (June) Alejandro Reyes. 2001. “The Chinese Economy in a New Era: Reform and Innovation,” Chinese Business Summit, in cooperation with the China Enterprise Confederation

Week 4 (September 26): No Class (Chuseok)

Week 5 (October 3): No Class (Gaecheonjeol)

Week 6 (October 10): Chinese Environmental Crisis

Jennifer L. Turner. 2006. “China’s Environmental Crisis: Opening Up Opportunities for Internal Reform and International Cooperation,” Woodrow Wilson International Center (March)

2 He Qinglian. 2006. “Who is Responsible for China’s Environment?” China Rights Forum, No. 1, 37-39 Elizabeth Willmott. 2006. “Common Cause: China’s State-Society Response to Environmental Crisis,” China Rights Forum, No. 1, 15-21

Week 7 (October 17): Sino-American Relations

Wu Xinbo. 2004. “The Promise and Limitations of a Sino-U.S. Partnership,” The Washington Quarterly, vol. 27 no. 4 (Autumn), 115-126 Friedberg, Aaron L. 2005. “The Future of U.S.-China Relations,” International Security, vol. 30, no. 2 (Fall): 7-45. David Shambaugh. 2001. “China or America: Which is the Revisionist Power?” Survival, vol. 43, no. 3 (Autumn): 25-30. John J. Tkacik, Jr. 2003. “Time for Washington to Take a Realistic Look at China Policy,” Backgrounder (by The Heritage Foundation), no. 1717 (December) Robert Sutter. 2003/4. “Why does China Matter?” The Washington Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 1 (Winter), 75-89 Wu Xinbo. 2001. “To Be an Enlightened Superpower,” The Washington Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 3 (Summer), 63-71

Week 8 (October 24): Mid-Term Examination

Week 9 (October 31): Issues on Chinese Currency Exchange

Jian-Guang Shen. 2001. “China’s Exchange Rate System after WTO Accession: Some Considerations,” Institute for Economies in Transition, BOFIT, no. 17 Carsten Hefeker and Andreas Nabor. 2002. “Yen or Yuan? China’s Role in the Future of Asian Monetary Integration,” HWWA Hamburg Institute of International Economics,Discussion Paper 206 (http://www.hwwa.de) Wayne Morrison and Marc Labonte. 2005. “China’s Exchange Rate Peg: Economic Issues and Options for U.S. Trade Policy,” Congressional Research Service, CRS Report for Congress (May)

Week 10 (November 7): Chinese Oil Diplomacy

Flynt Leverett and Jeffret Bader. 2005-06. “Managing China-U.S. Energy Competition in the Middle East,” The Washington Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 1 (winter), 187-201. David Zweig and Bi Jianhai. 2005. “China’s Global Hunt for Energy,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 84, no. 5 (October)

Week 11 (November 14): Chinese Nationalism and its Concept on Sovereignty

3 Zhao, Suisheng. 2000. "Chinese Nationalism and Its International Orientation," Political Science Quarterly, vol. 115, no. 1: 1-33. Peter Hays Gries. 2004. China's New Nationalism: Pride, Politics, and Diplomacy. Berkeley, C.A.: University of California Press, chpts. 1, 8. Zhao, Suisheng. 2005/06. “China’s Pragmatic Nationalism: Is It Manageable?” The Washington Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 1 (Winter), pp. 131-144.

Optional

Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 14, no. 42 (February 2005) William A. Callahan, "The Limits of Chinese Nationalism (I)," 1-10. Jia Qingguo, "Disrespect and Distrust: the external origins of contemporary Chinese Nationalism," 11-22. Ian Seckington, "Nationalism, Ideology and China's 'Fourth Generation' Leadership," 23-34. Chen Zhimin, "Nationalism, Internationalism and Chinese Foreign Policy," 35-54.

Week 12 (November 21): Sino-North Korean Relations

Timothy Hildebrandt. 2003. “Uneasy Allies: Fifty Years of China-North Korea Relations,” Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, No. 115 (September) Andrew Scobell. 2004. "China and North Korea: From Comrades-in-arms to Allies at Arm's Length," SSI (Strategic Studies Institute) Monograph (March) (http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ssi/pdffiles/PUB373.pdf). ICG (International Crisis Group). 2006. “China and North Korea: Comrades Forever?” Asia Report. 112 (http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/0610.pdf). Sukhee Han, 2004. “Alliance Fatigue amid Asymmetrical Interdependence: Chinese- North Korean Relations in Flux,” The Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, vol. XVI, NO. 1 (Spring), 155-179 David Shambaugh. 2003. "China and the Korean Peninsula: Playing for the Long Term," The Washington Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 2 (Spring), 43-56.

Week 13 (November 28): Issues on “China’s Western Development Project”

Anja Lahtinen. 2005. “China’s Western Region Development Strategy and its impact on Qinghai Province,” MTI Financed Studies (July) Edward Leman. 2000. “Strategic Considerations for Development of China’s Western Region,” http://www.Chreod.com (September) Mehmet Ogutcu. 2002. “Foreign Direct Investment and Importance of the “Go West” Strategy in China’s Energy Sector,” OECD (March)

Week 14 (December 5): Issues on China’s Responsible Great Power

Rex Li. 2004. “Security Challenge of an Ascendant China: Great Power Emergence and

4 International Security,” in Suisheng Zhao, ed., Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior (Armonk, N.Y.: Sharpe, Inc.), 23-57. Alastair Iain Johnston. 2004. “Chinese Middle Class Attitudes Towards International Affairs: Nascent Liberalization?” The China Quarterly, no. 179 (September), 603- 628. Xia Liping. 2001. “China: a responsible great power,” Journal of Contemporary China, vol. 10, no. 26, 17-25. Hongying Wang. 2003 “National Image Building and Chinese Foreign Policy,” China: An International Journal, vol. 1, no. 1 (March), 46-72

Optional Youngjin Zhang and Greg Austin, ed. 2001 Power and Responsibility in Chinese Foreign Policy (Canberra: Asia Pacific Press), chpts. 1, 2, 3.

Week 15 (December 19): Final Examination

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