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| | I. Origins | | | | | | | | 1 | | | | China's Quest For Modernity | | | | Dwight, Perkins. "History, Politics, and the Sources of Economic Growth: China and the East Asian Way of Growth." In China in the Twenty-First Century: Politics, Economics, and Society. Edited by Fumio Itoh. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1997, pp. 25-41. Xun, Lu. "Preface" and "The True Story of Ah Q." In Selected Stories of Lu Hsun. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1978, pp.1-6, 65-112. Recommended for additional historical background:
Fairbank, John K. The United States and China. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1982, Chap. 1-3, 7-8. | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | | | | The Communist Revolution | | | | Edgar, Snow. Red Star Over China. New York: Grove, (1938): pp. 35-85. Esherick, Joseph W. "Ten Theses on the Chinese Revolution." Modern China 21.1 (Jan. 1995): 45-76. Lieberthal, Kenneth. Governing China. New York: WW Norton, 1995, pp. 27-56. | | | | | | | | II. China Under Mao | | | | | | | | 3 | | | | Planners And Dreamers | | | | MacFarquhar, Roderick, ed. The Politics of China. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993, Chap. 1-2, pp. 5-116, skim pp. 117-147. Optional: Becker, Jasper. "Mao's Secret Famine." In Hungry Ghosts. New York: Henry Holt, 1996, pp. 58-149. | | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | | | | The Cultural Revolution | | | | MacFarquhar, Roderick. Ch. 3 and first half of Ch. 4, pp. 148-305. | | | | | | | | III. The Post-Mao Transition | | | | | | | | 5 | | | | Reform: Unleashing The Winds Of Change | | | | Kornai, Janos. "What the Change of System from Socialism to Capitalism Does and Does Not Mean." Journal of Economic Perspectives 14, 1 (Winter 2000): 27-42.
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/kornai/files/wtcosf.pdf Perkins, Dwight. "Completing China's Move to the Market." Journal of Economic Perspectives 8, 2 (Spring 1994): 21-46. Oi, Jean. "Fiscal Reform and the Economic Foundations of Local State Corporatism." World Politics 45, 1 (October 1992): 99-126. | | | | | | | | | | | | 6 | | | | Social Upheaval And Political Change | | | | Calhoun, Craig. Neither Gods nor Emperors. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1997, skim entire book. Metzger, Thomas A. "Sources of Resistance." Journal of Democracy 9, 1 (1998): pp. 18-26.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/ | | | | | | | | | | | | 7 | | | | Mid-term Exam | | | | | | | | | | | | IV. China in the 1990s | | | | | | | | 8 | | | | State And Market In Contemporary China | | | | International Finance Corporation. China's Emerging Private Enterprises. Washington: IFC, 2000. (available online at www.ifc.org/publications/ use "search" function to find). Tenev, Stoyan, and Chunlin Zhang. Corporate Governance and Enterprise Reform in China: Building the Institutions of Modern Markets. Washington: World Bank/IFC, 2002, Chap. 2. (available online at www.ifc.org) Steinfeld, Edward S. "China: The People's Republic at 50." The Far Eastern Economic Review 7 (Oct. 1999). (available online through Dow Jones Interactive database) | | | | | | | | | | | | 9 | | | | State and Society | | | | Tang, Wenfang. "Political and Social Trends in the Post-Deng Urban China: Crisis or Stability?" The China Quarterly, 168 (Dec. 2001). Blecher, Marc J. "Hegemony and Workers' Politics in China." The China Quarterly, 170 (June 2002): 283-303. Cai, Yongshun. "The Resistance of Chinese Laid-off Workers in the Reform Period." The China Quarterly, no. 170 (June 2002): 327-344.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/login Kaufman, Joan, and Anthony Saich. "Financial Reform, Poverty, and the Impact on Reproductive Health Provision: Evidence from Three Rural Townships." Paper presented to the conference on Financial Sector Reform in China (Sept. 2001).
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/m-rcbg/Conferences/financial_sector/FinRfrmPovertyandImpactonReprodHlth.pdf | | | | | | | | | | | | 10 | | | | Law and Party | | | | Alford, William. "The More Law, the More . . .? Measuring Legal Reform in the People's Republic of China, Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform." Stanford University, Working Paper, no. 59, August 2000.
http://scid.stanford.edu/publications/abstracts.html#59 Ding, X. L. "The Quasi-Criminalization of a Business Sector in China." Crime, Law & Social Change 35, 3 (April 2001): 177-202.
http://www.kluweronline.com/journals/cris Peerenboom, Randall. "Seek Truth From Facts: An Empirical Study of Enforcement of Arbitral Awards in the PRC." 2001.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=344900 | | | | | | | | | | | | 11 | | | | Nationalism and The Taiwan Issue | | | | Campbell, Kurt M., and Derek J. Mitchell. "Crisis in the Taiwan Strait?" Foreign Affairs 14 (July 2001). (available online through Dow Jones Interactive) Gries, Peter Hays. "Tears of Rage: Chinese Nationalism and the Belgrade Embassy Bombing." The China Journal, 45 (July 2001): 25-43. Chu, Yun-han, and Jih-wen Lin. "Political Development in 20th-Century Taiwan: State-Building, Regime Transformation and the Construction of National Identity." The China Quarterly 165 (Mar. 2001). | | | | | | | | | | | | 12 | | | | Elite Politics And Succession | | | | Fewsmith, Joseph. "Is Political Reform Ahead." China Leadership Monitor (Winter 2002): Issue One.
http://www.chinaleadershipmonitor.org/20011/20011JF.html Miller, H. Lyman. "The Road to the Sixteenth Party Congress." China Leadership Monitor (Winter 2002): Issue One.
http://www.chinaleadershipmonitor.org/20011/20011LM.html
MacFarquhar, Roderick. "Demolition Man." New York Review of Books (27 March 1997). -------. "Passing the Baton in Beijing." New York Review of Books (18 Feb 1988). | | | | | | | | | | | | 13 | | | | Wither China? | | | | Yizi, Chen. "The Road from Socialism." Journal of Democracy 9, no. 1 (1998): 6-10.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/v009/9.1chen.html
Lardy, Nicholas R. "The Economic Future of China." Speech to the Asia Society (29 April 2002).
http://www.asiasociety.org/speeches/lardy.html Minxin, Pei. "China's Governance Crisis." Foreign Affairs (Sept/Oct. 2002).
(available online from Dow Jones Interactive.) Xiaoying, Wang "The Post-Communist Personality." The China Journal (Jan. 2002): 1-18. | | | | | |
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