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The Rise of China PLSC 357/EAST 310/GLBL 309 Fall 2018: Mondays/Wednesdays 1:30-2:20 Daniel Mattingly Assistant Professor of Political Science Office: 405 Rosenkranz Hall Email: [email protected] Office Hours: Tuesdays 2 to 4. Please sign up on calendly.com/mattingly. Teaching Fellows: Christina Seyfried ([email protected]) James Sundquist ([email protected]) Yingqi (Ariel) Tang ([email protected]) Jiahua Yue ([email protected]) China’s rise on the world stage is arguably the most important geopolitical event of this century. How did a relatively poor nation become a prosperous and stable one? What implications does China’s increasing power have for the rest of the world? This course seeks to answer these questions, and serves as a broad introduction to Chinese politics. To understand the course of China’s economic and political rise, we begin with a chronological overview of China from the late Imperial era until the present day. Next, we consider the puzzle of how the country’s authoritarian system has remained resilient, at least so far. Finally, we will examine the consequences of China’s rise for the rest of the world. No knowledge of China or Chinese is assumed. Required Texts We will make use of the following texts. The books are available on Amazon and the Yale Bookstore (and have been placed on 2 hour hold in Bass). The estimated price to buy all of them new is $104. However, electronic copies of the Yuan and Weiss books are available for free through the Yale Library and the Joseph book is available for rent for about $12 on Amazon. • Joseph, William A., ed. Politics in China: An Introduction (2nd Edition). Oxford University Press, 2014. ($43 on Amazon or $12 to rent) • Weiss, Jessica Chen. Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China's Foreign Relations. Oxford University Press, 2014. Available online through the Yale Library. ($34 or free online via the Yale Library) • Yuan, Gao. Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution. Stanford University Press, 1987. ($27 or free online via the Yale Library) Technology The use of laptops and tablets in lecture is discouraged. Studies, including randomized control trials, have shown that students who use laptops in class perform worse than students who take notes by hand. Worse yet, laptop use has a negative effect on the academic performance of people sitting next to laptop users. With this in mind, those who elect to use laptops are encouraged to sit in the last three rows. Section leaders will set their own policies. Course Requirements The course will include a map quiz, two response papers, a midterm, and a take- home final. • 5% - Map Quiz (September 17) • 20% - In-Class Midterm (on China’s history, October 3) • 15% - 1st Response Paper (on China’s domestic politics) • 15% - 2nd Response Paper (on China’s international relations) • 30% - Take-Home Final (due by December 19) • 15% - Participation Short Response Papers Students will write 2 short response papers (3 to 4 pages double-spaced) that provide a critical analysis of 1 (or more) of the academic research papers assigned for the week the assignment is due. The teaching fellow will coordinate sign-ups for specific weeks. Response papers that are handed in late will be penalized a full letter grade per day, starting at the beginning of the section they are due. Exams The midterm exam will be an in-class 50-minute test that will cover material in Parts I and II. The final will be an open-book, take-home exam. It will be available between December 13 and December 19. You will have a set amount of time to complete the exam after you download it (likely to be 5 hours). You’ll also be given an extra half hour to check your work and read over the exam as the University’s academic regulations suggest. You’ll lose 1 point off your exam for every 10 minutes late you turn it in. Grading Please bring arithmetic errors in grading to our attention immediately. Otherwise, grades are final. The midterm, final, and response papers will not be regraded. Late Assignments Dean’s excuses are required for any response paper extension and for a missed midterm or final. Please see above for specific penalties. Academic Honesty Academic dishonesty of any kind is a serious offense. Students who plagiarize will automatically be reported to the Yale College Executive Committee and will receive a grade of zero for the assignment. A second offense will also be reported to the Executive Committee and will automatically result in a grade of F for the course. Please take note of the following from the Yale Center for Teaching and Learning: “You must document all of your source material. If you take any text from somebody else, you must make it clear the text is being quoted and where the t comes from. You must also cite any sources from which you obtain numbers, ideas, or other material. If you have any questions about what does or does not constitute plagiarism, ask! Plagiarism is a serious offense and will not be treated lightly. Fortunately, it is also easy to avoid and if you are the least bit careful about giving credit where credit is due you should not run into any problems.” Visit: http://ctl.yale.edu/writing/using-sources for more details. Course Readings Required readings are marked with a symbol. Optional readings, which are not required in any way, are marked with a ◦ symbol. I. Introduction August 29: Introduction to the Rise of China • Politics in China, pp. 1-18. • Svolik, Milan W. 2013. The Politics of Authoritarian Rule. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1, pp. 1-18. August 31: NO LECTURE II. Historical Overview: How Did China Go from Poor to Prosperous? September 5: The Last Golden Age (China Until 1839) • Confucius, The Analects, Books 1, 12-13. Translation by Robert Eno. You may wish to consult other translations as well. • Daniel Bell, “The Chinese Confucian Party?” Toronto Globe and Mail. February 19, 2010. • Shang Yang, The Book of Lord Shang, Chapter 8. • David K. Schneider, “China's Legalist Revival.” The National Interest. April 20, 2016. o Optional: Osnos, Evan. 2014. “Confucius Comes Home.” The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/13/140113fa_fact_osnos September 10: The Fall of the Qing (1839-1911) • Politics in China, Chapter 2, p. 41-53. • Wang, Zheng. Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations. Columbia University Press, 2014. “Chapter 2: Chosen Glory, Chosen Trauma.” September 12: The Republican Era (1911-1949) • Politics in China, Chapter 2, p. 53-69. • Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto. Chapter 1. • Zhao Suisheng. A Nation-State By Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism. “Chapter 3: Building a Chinese Nation-State.” o Optional: Spence, Jonathan D. The search for modern China. WW Norton & Company, 1990, Parts III & IV. September 17: The Mao Era I (1949-1966) MAP QUIZ • Politics in China, Chapter 3, p. 72-116. • Mao Zedong. “On the People's Democratic Dictatorship.” 30 June 1949. o Optional: Yang Jisheng. Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958- 1962. Macmillan, 2012. “Introduction: An Everlasting Tombstone” o Optional: Mao Zedong. “On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People.” September 19: The Mao Era II (1966-1978) • Gao Yuan, Born Red: A Chronicle of the Cultural Revolution. Suitable for response paper. o Optional: MacFarquhar, Roderick, and Michael Schoenhals. Mao's Last Revolution. Harvard University Press, 2009. September 24: Reform and Opening Begins (1978-1989) • Politics in China, Chapter 4, p. 119-129. • Ang, Yuen Yuen. 2016. How China Escaped the Poverty Trap. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Introduction, Chapter 1. Suitable for response paper. o Optional: Deng Xiaoping. 16 September 1978. “Hold High the Banner of Mao Zedong Thought and Adhere to the Principle of Seeking Truth From Facts." September 26: The 1989 Prodemocracy Movement • Politics in China, Chapter 4, p. 129-138. • Zhao, Dingxin. "Ecologies of Social Movements: Student Mobilization during the 1989 Prodemocracy Movement in Beijing." American Journal of Sociology 103.6 (1998): 1493-1529. Suitable for response paper. o Optional: Documentary: Gate of Heavenly Peace. o Optional: Nathan, Andrew J. 2001. “The Tiananmen Papers." Foreign Affairs 80(1): p. 2-48. o Optional: Louisa Lim, The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited, Chapter 1. October 1: The Path to Xi Jinping (1989-Present) • Politics in China, Chapter 4, p. 138-144. • Evan Osnos. “Born Red.” The New Yorker. April 6, 2015. o Optional: Andrew Nathan. “China: The Struggle At the Top” New York Review of Books. February 9, 2017. http://www.chinafile.com/library/nyrb-china-archive/china-struggle-top October 3: In-Class Midterm Exam III. Domestic Politics: What Explains the Resilience of the CCP? October 8: Political Ideology • Politics in China, Chapter 5; p. 149-62 and 177-188. • Perry, Elizabeth J. “The populist dream of Chinese democracy.” The Journal of Asian Studies 74.4 (2015): 903-915. Suitable for response paper. • Taisu Zhang. “What It Means to Be ‘Liberal’ or ‘Conservative’ in China.” Foreign Policy. April 24, 2015. o Optional: Xu Zhangrun, “Imminent Fears, Immediate Hopes.” Circulated online. Translated by Geremie R. Barmé. o Optional: Jiang Shigong: “Philosophy and History: Interpreting the ‘Xi Jinping Era’ through Xi’s Report to the Nineteenth National Congress of the CCP” Open Times (开放时代). January 2018. Translation by David Ownby. o Optional: “Charter 08.” Available at http://www.cecc.gov/resources/legal- provisions/charter-08-chinese-and-english-text October 10: Political Institutions • Politics in China, Chapter 6, p.
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