University of Toronto Departments of Political Science and East Asian Studies

JMC 301Y Summer, 2013 State and Society in 20th Century China Mr. Falkenheim

Office Hours: M: 1:00-2:00 PM, & by appointment (SS 3029) Tel: 416-978-3859; e-mail: [email protected]

Course Content and Format

This course will examine China’s efforts to reconstitute its political institutions following the collapse of the imperial system in 1911. Particular attention will be paid to the clash between competing conceptions of political development and the rival political movements and forces that espoused them. The search for an effective and stable political order in the face of external pressures and internal fragmentation will receive extended discussion. The failed effort to create legitimate and popularly grounded political institutions will be a major focus of the course. A secondary focus will explore the impact of rapid economic, social and cultural change on the political system. The course will be organized in a lecture format, though class discussion will be encouraged.

Grades will be based on two term-tests @ 25% each and two papers @25% each.

The readings will be drawn from the following required texts, available for purchase at the Bookstore. Asterisked items will be posted on Blackboard.

Required Texts: (Bookstore)

1. Lucien Bianco, Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949. Stanford, Paper. 2. Maurice Meisner, Mao’s China and After, Free Press, paper. 3. William Joseph, Politics in China: An Introduction, Oxford, Paper. 2010.

Topics and Readings:

May 13 The Rise of China: Historical Perspectives/Course Overview

1. Maurice Meisner, Mao’s China, Chapter 1. 2. William Joseph, Politics in China, Chapter 1. (“Studying Chinese Politics”)

May 15 China’s Traditional Order and the Problem of Change

1. Kenneth Lieberthal, Governing China, Chapter 1, pp.3-26..* 2. Video: Pacific Century Part I.

May 20 No Class: Victoria Day

May 22 Revolution and Reform

1. Maurice Meisner, Mao’s China, Chapter 2. 2. Bianco, Origins of the Chinese Revolution, pp. 1-26. 3. William Joseph, Politics in China, Chapter 2. (Schoppa “From Empire..

May 27 Alternative Visions: The Republic and the May 4th Movement

1. Bianco, Origins of the Chinese Revolution, pp.27-52. 2. Chen Duxiu, “Call to Youth.”* 3. Video (“China in Revolution”)

May 29 The CCP’s Route to Power: 1921-1935

1. Bianco, Origins of the Chinese Revolution, Chap. 3 (53-81.) 2. Meisner, Mao’s China, Chapter 3. 3. , “Analysis of Classes in Chinese Society” (1926)*

June 3 The Guomindang in Power: 1928-1937

1. Bianco, Origins of the Chinese Revolution, pp.108-139.

June 5 The CCP: From Yanan to ‘Liberation’: A Peasant Revolution?

1. Bianco, Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 140-208. 2. Meisner, Mao’s China, Chapter 4. 2. Video (“China in Revolution: II)

June 10 The CCP in Power: The Early Years

1. William Joseph, Politics in China, Chapter 3. (Teiwes, “Mao Zedong in Power (1949-1976)”) 2. Maurice Meisner, Mao’s China and After, Chapter 5-7, pp. 55-102. 3. Mao Zedong, “On People’s Democratic Dictatorship.” (1949)* 4. Video (“The Mao Years:I)

June 12 The First Five Year Plan and the “Hundred Flowers” Campaign

1. Maurice Meisner, Mao’s China and After, Chapter 8-9, pp. 103-150. 2. Mao, “Ten Great Relationships.” (1956)* 3. Video (“The Mao Years”)

June 17 The Great Leap Forward: 1958-1961

1. Maurice Meisner, Mao’s China and After, Chapters 10-13, pp. 191-241. 2. Video (“The Mao Years”)

June 19 The and the End of the Mao Era

1. Maurice Meisner, Mao’s China and After, 291-311; 352-375, 413-425. 2. Video (“The Mao Years”)

June 24/26 No Class: Term Break

July 1 No Class: Canada Day

July 3 Term Test #1

July 8 The Deng Era Takes Shape (Guest Lecturer) . 1. Maurice Meisner, Mao’s China and After, pp. 427-447. 2. William Joseph, Politics in China, Chapter 4 (Gilley, “Deng Xiaoping and his Successors, 1976-present”) 3. Video (‘Born Under the Red Flag’-I)

July 10 The Market Authoritarian State Takes Shape (Guest Lecturer)

1. Maurice Meisner, Mao’s China and After, pp. 449-513. 2. Video (‘Born Under the Red Flag’ cont.)

July 15 The Chinese Communist Party-State in Transition

1. William Joseph, Politics in China, Chapter 6. (Cheng Li, “China’s Communist Party State”) 2. Richard Daniel Ewing, “Hu Jintao: The Making of a Chinese General Secretary,” The China Quarterly, March 2003.*

July 17 Ideology and Value Change in Contemporary China

1. William Joseph, Politics in China, Chapter 5 (“Ideology and Chinese Politics”) 2. Daniel Bell, “From Marx to Confucius: Changing Discourses on China’s Political Future,” Dissent, 2007.*

July 22 State, Economy, and Society in Flux

1. William Joseph, Politics in China, Chapter 7 (Zweig, “China’s Political Economy”); Chapter 9 )Hurst, “Urban China: Change and Contention”) 2. Ian Johnson, “The Death and Life of China’s Civil Society,” 2003.* 3. Video (“China in the Red”)

July 24 Experiments in Grassroots Democracy: Critical Perspectives

1. William Joseph, Politics in China, Chapter 8 (Kennedy, “Rural Reform: Reform and Resistance.”) 2. Gilboy and Read, “Political and Social Reform in China,” 2008*

July 29 China as a Multi-Ethnic State

1. William Joseph, Politics in China, Chapters 14 & 15 (Tibet and Xianjiang)

July 31 Greater China

1. William Joseph, Politics in China, Chapters 16-17 ( and )

August 5 No Class: Public Holiday

August 8 Whither China?

Aug. 12 Term Test # 2