POLS1290 THE RISE OF CHINA 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 (Beijing: 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 Cultural Revolution 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 Hu Jintao’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, “Xi Jinping Millionaire Relations Reveal Fortunes of Elite,” June 29, 2012. “Zhou Yongkang kicked out of Chinese Communist Party,” The South China 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 .