POLS1290 THE RISE OF

Spring 2015

Professor Edward S. Steinfeld Department of Political Science Brown University

Description

This course examines the causes and consequences of China's societal transformation and emergence as a global power. Employing perspectives from comparative politics, international relations, and economics, the course explores the connections between China's domestic transformation and its integration with the global system. Lectures and readings cover the historical antecedents of China's rise, the contemporary relationship between state and citizen, the nature of China’s global competitiveness, and likely future avenues for socio-political change.

Requirements a. Students will be expected to have completed each session’s reading assignments prior to the lecture, and will also be expected to participate in in-class discussions. b. Students will be required to complete a midterm take-home essay of 8-10 pages. Topics will be distributed in class on March 3, and will be due at the start of class on March 12. c. Students will be required to complete a final take-home essay of 13-15 pages. Topics will be distributed in class on April 21, and will be due on May 5.

Grades will be determined as follows: take-home midterm essay (30 percent), final take- home essay (60 percent), class participation (10 percent).

MEETINGS

22 January Introduction: Searching for the “China Dream” and the “Great Chinese Revival”

PART I. HISTORICAL CONTEXT

27 January China’s Quest for Modernity and the Spirit of May 4

Lu Xun, “Preface” and “The True Story of Ah Q,” in Selected Stories of Lu Hsun (: Foreign Languages Press, 1978), pp. 1-6, 65-112.

[Optional: for background historical information, skim: Jonathan Spence, The Search for Modern China (New York: WW Norton, 2001), Chapters 7 and 8]

29 January Revolution as Liberation

Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China (New York: Grove, 1938), pp. 35-85.

Kenneth Lieberthal, Governing China (New York: WW Norton, 1995), pp. 27-56.

3 February Planners, Leaners, and Dreamers

Jonathan Spence, The Search for Modern China (New York: WW Norton, 2001), Chapter 20, pp. 541-573, and Chapter 21, Chapter 21 up to the “Sino-Soviet Rift”

5 February The

Spence, remainder of Chapter 21 (from “Sino-Soviet Rift” onward)

Edward S. Steinfeld, “Cultural Chaos,” Harvard Magazine, Jan. 2007. Available on-line at: http://harvardmagazine.com/2007/01/cultural-chaos.html

10 February Reform: Unleashing the Winds of Change

Dwight Perkins, “Completing China’s Move to the Market,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 8, no. 2 (Spring 1994), pp. 21-46.

Robert F. Ash, “The Evolution of Agricultural Policy,” The China Quarterly (116), Dec. 1988, pp. 529-555.

12 February The Upheaval of 1989: Collapse of the Old Social Contract

Craig Calhoun, “The Beijing Spring, 1989,” Dissent, Fall 1989.

PART II. CHINA’S CONTEMPORARY INSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM

17 February Holiday

19 February Modernity as Capitalism, Legitimacy as Growth

Yingyi Qian and Jinglian Wu, "China’s Transition to a Market: How Far Across the River?” in Nicholas C. Hope, Dennis Tao Yang, and Mu Yang Li, editors, How Far Across the River: Chinese Policy Reform at the Millennium, Stanford University Press, 2003, pp. 31-63.

Edward Steinfeld, “The Capitalist Embrace: China Ten Years After the Asian Financial Crisis,” in Andrew MacIntyre, T.J. Pempel, and John Ravenhill, eds., Crisis as Catalyst (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 2008), pp. 183-205.

24 February Modernity as the Modern Institutionalized State

Kenneth Lieberthall, Governing China, Chapter 6 (The Organization of Political Power and Its Consequences: The View from Outside), pp. 157-182; Chapter 7 (The Organization of Political Power and Its Consequences: The View from Inside), pp. 183- 218.

26 February Modernity as Rule of Law

Briefly skim first few paragraphs of Part III of ’s Work Report to the 18th Party Congress, November 2012. Available at: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/special/18cpcnc/2012-11/17/c_131981259_4.htm

Carl Minzer, “How China’s Leaders Will Rule on the Law,” ChinaFile, Oct. 15, 2014

“Rule of Law – Why Now? A ChinaFile Conversation,” ChinaFile, Oct. 17, 2014 http://www.chinafile.com/conversation/rule-law-why-now

3 March The Communist Party

David Shambaugh, “The Party-State Studies Abroad,” Current History, September 2008.

Particia M. Thornton, “The New Life of the Party: Party-Building and Social Engineering in Greater Shanghai,” The China Journal 68 (July 2012): 58-78,272.

PART III. EVOLVING STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS

5 March The Great Transformation: Massive Urbanization

David Barboza, “In China, Projects to Make Great Wall Feel Small,” The New York Times, January 12, 2015.

Ian Johnson, “China’s Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million into Cities,” The New York Times, June 15, 2013.

Yougang Chen, Stefan Matzinger, Jonathan Woetzel, “Chinese Infrastructure: The Big Picture,” The McKinsey Quarterly, June 2013.

10 March Rightful Resistance

Kevin O’Brien and Lianjiang Li, Rightful Resistance in Rural China (Cambridge, 2006), pp. 1-24.

Eli Friedman, “China in Revolt,” Jacobin, August 2012. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2012/08/china-in-revolt/

12 March The Rising Middle Class: Force for Change or Stasis?

Cheng Li, “The Rise of the Middle Class in the Middle Kingdom,” in Cheng Li, ed., China’s Emerging Middle Class (Washington: Brookings, 2010), pp. 3-31.

Jie Chen, “Attitudes Toward Democracy and the Political Behavior of China’s Middle Class,” in Cheng Li, ed., China’s Emerging Middle Class (Washington: Brookings, 2010), pp. 334-358.

Edward Wong, “On Scale of 0 to 500, Beijing’s Air Quality Tops ‘Crazy Bad’ at 755,” The New York Times, January 12, 2013.

[Optional: Jonathan Hassid, “Four Models of the Fourth Estate: A Typology of Contemporary Chinese Journalists,” The China Quarterly 208 (December 2011): 813- 832.]

17 March Occupy Central – Protests in Hong Kong

Readings TBA

19 March Inequality and Those Left Behind

Martin King Whyte, “The Paradoxes of Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China,” in Martin King Whyte, ed. One Country, Two Societies: Rural-Urban Inequality in Contemporary China (Harvard, 2010), pp. 1-21.

Keith J. Hand, “Using Law for a Righteous Purpose: The Sun Zhigang Incident and Evolving Forms of Citizen Action in the People’s Republic of China,” Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 45, no. 1, 2006.

March 21-29 Spring Break

31 March Corruption, Connections, and the Ambiguous Public-Private Divide

Bloomberg News, “ Millionaire Relations Reveal Fortunes of Elite,” June 29, 2012.

“Zhou Yongkang kicked out of ,” The Morning Post, Dec. 6, 2014.

“Zhou Family Ties (chart),” The New York Times, April 19, 2014.

Chris Buckley, “China’s Antigraft Campaign Expands to a Coal-Rich Northern Province,” The New York Times, Aug. 29, 2014.

“Gripping Conclusion Nears for Pension Fund Scandal,” Caijing, Aug. 13, 2007.

PART IV. CHINA AND GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS

2 April China’s Integration into the Global Economy

Barry Naughton, The Chinese Economy (MIT Press, 2007), pp. 377-424.

7 April China and Globalized Production

Edward S. Steinfeld, Playing Our Game: Why China’s Rise Doesn’t Threaten the West (Oxford, 2010), Chapter 4.

Charles Duhigg and Keith Bradsher, “How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work,” The New York Times, January 21, 2012.

Optional reading for the topics on both April 8 and April 10:

Gordon Orr and Erik Roth, “A CEO’s Guide to Innovation in China,” McKinsey Quarterly, February 2012.

Kevin Wale, et al., “Automotive Innovation in China,” McKinsey Quarterly, February 2012.

9 April Techno-Nationalism and Piracy

James McGregor, “China’s Drive for ‘Indigenous Innovation:’ A Web of Industrial Policies,” U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 2009.

Mandiant Corp., “APT1: Exposing One of China’s Cyber Espionage Units,” February 2013.

Matthew M. Aid, “Inside the NSA’s Ultra-Secret China Hacking Group,” Foreign Policy, June 10, 2013.

PART V. CHINA’S EXPANDING GLOBAL REACH

14 April Military Modernization

Office of the Secretary of Defense, Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China, 2013, United States Department of Defense, 2013.

16 April China and Regional Conflict: The Diaoyudao/Senkaku Dispute

Reading TBA

21 April Soft Power and “Going Out”

Thilo Hanemann and Daniel H. Rosen, “China Invests in Europe: Patterns, Impacts, and Policy Implications,” The Rhodium Group, June 2012.

Howard W. French, “The Next Empire,” The Atlantic, April 13, 2010. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/05/the-next-empire/308018/

Elizabeth Redden, “Confucius Says . . . ,” Inside Higher Ed, January 4, 2012. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/01/04/debate-over-chinese-funded-institutes- american-universities

23 April Conclusion: Paths to the Future