University of Victoria Department of Political Science / Department of History Fall Term, 2017-18 POLI 371 A01 Chinese Politics (CRN: 12732) / HSTR 365 A01 Topics in East Asian History: Chinese Politics (CRN: 11967) Class schedule: Monday and Thursday, 13:00-14:20 Classroom: Elliott Building (ELL) 162 Instructor: Guoguang Wu Office Hours: Thursday 14:30-16:30; or by appointment Office Location: DTB A335 Email: wug@uvic.ca Phone: 250-721-7497 1
Course Description This course provides an introductory overall investigation of the domestic politics of the People s Republic of China. Covering the historical continuity and change of Chinese politics from 1949 to the resent, the course is organized into two parts, one on Mao Zedong s reign with liberation and the proletarian dictatorship (1949-1976), another on the post-mao eras with reform and refreshed repression. Emphases of discussion will be given to: 1) contending theoretical perspectives to understanding contemporary Chinese politics; 2) fundamental political institutions of governing the revolutionary and then the transitional China; 3) the dynamics of revolution, reform, and repression embedded in state-society relations. It also tries to seize every possible opportunity to consider China as a country case in comparative political perspectives, including comparisons with other communist states, transitional polities in East Asia, authoritarian politics in general, and, in terms of political economy of development, the Global South. The course, accordingly, attempts to investigate Chinese politics in lens of comparative politics and comparative political economy, dealing with significant issues and emerging phenomena such as revolution, mass mobilization, social control, legitimacy, liberalization and marketization, democratic transition, globalization, inequality, ethnicity, and social media, while the central concern is on how contemporary Chinese politics is grounded, operated, evolved, challenged, and transformed in the face of those issues and phenomena. Requirements and Assessments A registered student for credits of this course is required to accomplish the following tasks: 1) to attend all lecture meetings and classroom documentary shows; 2) to complete the reading assignments BEFORE each corresponding week s meetings; 3) to submit two paper outlines by the stipulated deadlines (see details below in Writing Assignments ); 4) to submit two short research papers by the stipulated deadlines (see details below in Writing Assignments ). The scheme for the final grade evaluation is as that follows: Attendance: 10% Two paper outlines: 10% X 2 = 20% Two short papers: 35% X 2 = 70% Grading Scale Will follow the University s official grading system. See: http://web.uvic.ca/calendar2012/facs/unin/uare/grad.html. Academic Integrity Please see the University s academic integrity policy: http://web.uvic.ca/calendar2017-09/undergrad/info/regulations/academic-integrity.html Writing Assignments Each student is required to write two short research papers, as the first must deal with a topic relevant to the Mao era and the second, the post-mao eras. The student is obligated to choose his/her own specific topic of the papers within the above restrictions while consultation with the instructor is encouraged. The length of each paper will be approximately 3,000 words, notes included. Footnotes or endnotes may be used as long as they are consistent, either with bibliography or not. 2
Each student will be also required to submit a paper outline before each of the above-mentioned research papers are written up. The outline must present the following elements: the topic of the paper, and why this topic; the research question of the paper; possible sources of research data; the possible structure of the paper; a brief bibliography. Each outline must be within one page. The first paper outline is due on October 2 (Monday) by 3:00 pm; then the first research paper is due on October 19 (Thursday) by 3:00 pm. The second paper outline is due on November 9 (Thursday) by 3:00 pm; then the second research paper is due on December 1 (Friday) by 3:00 pm. Each assignment must be submitted to the instructor electronically via email (to: wug@uvic.ca) in the following way: 1) make your assignment a WORD document, as non-word documents will not be marked; 2) name the electronic document of your outline as Poli 371 [or Hstr 465] O1 [or O2] Your Last Name] (for example, Poli 371 O1 Robertson, or Hstr 465 O2 Woodside); 3) name the electronic document of your paper as Poli 371 [or Hstr 465] P1 [or P2] Your Last Name] (for example, Poli 371 P1 Robertson, or Hstr 465 P2 Woodside); 4) email your assignment as the attached document. Penalty of Late Submission A late submission will be penalized by the deduction of one grade for each day of delay, weekend included -- It means that a late submission will get the grade B if the submission deserves B+ according to its academic quality but it is submitted one day after the deadline. Its grade will be B- if it is submitted two days after the deadline, and so calculated with more days of delay. The submission with the delay of one week will not be marked. Course Experience Survey (CES) I value your feedback on this course. Towards the end of term, as in all other courses at UVic, you will have the opportunity to complete an anonymous survey regarding your learning experience (CES). The survey is vital to providing feedback to me regarding the course and my teaching, as well as to help the department improve the overall program for students in the future. The survey is accessed via MyPage and can be done on your laptop, tablet, or mobile device. I will remind you and provide you with more detailed information nearer the time but please be thinking about this important activity during the course. No required textbook. Textbook CLASS SCHEDULE (Below * indicates a required reading assignment; others are recommended) NOTE: Under exceptional circumstances, there may be some changes to the schedule. Students will be informed in advance as a schedule change is expected to emerge. Sep 7 (Th): Introduction No required reading. 3
PART I The Mao Era: Liberation and Dictatorship Sep 11 & 14 (M & Th): Ideology and Organization: The Maoist State in the Perspective of Totalitarianism * Frederick C. Teiwes, The Chinese State during the Maoist Era, in David Shambaugh ed., The Modern Chinese State, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 105-60. * Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickowicz, and Mark Selden, Chinese Village, Socialist State, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991, pp. 80-110. Juan Linz, Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2000. Franz Schurmann, Ideology and Organization in Communist China, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968. Fei-Ling Wang, Organizing Through Division and Exclusion: China s Hukou System (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005). Frank Dikötter, The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957, New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013. Harry Harding, Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1981. Sep 18 & 21 (M & Th): Danwei (Working Unit) and Qunzhong (Masses): The Maoist State in the Perspective of Neo-Traditionalism * Andrew G. Walder, Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986, pp. 1-27. * Jeremy Brown, City Versus Countryside in Mao s China: Negotiating the Divide, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 29-52 Tianjian Shi, Political Participation in Beijing, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. Richard Madsen, Morality and Power in a Chinese Village, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. Lucian W. Pye, The Spirit of Chinese Politics, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. Roderick MacFarquhar ed., The Politics of China: The Eras of Mao and Deng, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997, chapters 1-3. Sep 25 (M): The classroom show of the documentary The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Princeton, NJ: Films for Humanities & Sciences, 2006). The first outline is DUE on Oct 2 (Monday) by 3:00 pm Sep 28 & Oct 2 (Th & M): Political Campaign, Class Struggles, Mass Mobilization, and Social Control * Franz Schurmann, Ideology and Organization in Communist China, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968, pp. 1-38. Lynn T. White III, Policies of Chaos: The Organizational Causes of Violence in China s Cultural Revolution (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989). Yang Su, Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 4
Oct 5 & 12 (Th & Th): Legitimacy, Personal Worship, and Power Succession * Guoguang Wu, China s Party Congress: Power, Legitimacy, and Institutional Manipulation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 24-53. * Daniel Leese, Mao the Man and Mao the Icon, in Timothy Cheek ed., A Critical Introduction to Mao, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 219-39. 2012. 2015. 2002. Alexander V. Pantsov with Steven I. Levine, Mao: The Real Story, New York: Simon & Schuster, Andrew G. Walder, China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, Jonathan Unger ed., The Nature of Chinese Politics: From Mao to Jiang, Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, [Oct. 9, Monday: Thanksgiving, NO CLASS] The first paper is DUE on Oct 19 (Thursday) by 3:00 pm PART II Post-Mao Changes: Marketization and Repression Oct 16 & 19 (M & Th): The Origins of Post-Mao Rural Reform and the Politics of Rural Governance * Kevin O Brien and Lianjiang Li, Rightful Resistance in Rural China, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 1-24, 116-129. Roderick MacFarquhar ed., The Politics of China: The Eras of Mao and Deng, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997, chapters 4-6. Jean C. Oi, State and Peasant in Contemporary China: The Political Economy of Village Governance, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. Thomas P. Bernstein and Xiaobo Lu, Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Oct 23 & 26 (M & Th): Urban Marketization, Open-Door Policy, and the Politics of Economic Transition * Barry Naughton, Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1993, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 1-25, 173-199. Nicholas R. Lardy, Integrating China into the Global Economy, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2002. John Child, Management in China during the Age of Reform, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Yasheng Huang, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Kellee S. Tsai, Capitalism without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. 5
Oct 30 & Nov 2 (M & Th): Administrative Rationalization, Political Liberalization, and Struggles for Democratization * David Shambaugh, The Chinese State in the Post-Mao Era, in David Shambuagh ed., The Modern Chinese State, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 161-87. * Joel Andreas, Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China s New Class, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009, pp. 233-59. Richard Baum, Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. Susan L. Shirk, The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Melanie Manion, Retirement of Revolutionaries in China: Public Policies, Social Norms, Private Interests, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Merle Goldman, Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China: Political Reform in the Deng Xiaoping Era, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. The second outline is DUE on Nov 9 (Thursday) by 3:00 pm Nov 6 & 9 (M & Th): The Coercive Machine of Post-Tiananmen Growth: Momentum and Cost, Capacity and Corruption * Minxin Pei, China s Cony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016, pp. 1-22. * Guoguang Wu, Repressive Capitalism as the Institutional Crystallization of China s Transition, in Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne eds., China s Transition from Communism -- New Perspectives, London: Routledge, 2016, pp. 188-210. Joseph Fewsmith, China since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Yuhua Wang, Tying the Autocrat's Hands: The Rise of The Rule of Law in China, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Mary Elizabeth Gallagher, Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pun Ngai, Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. [Nov 13, Monday: Reading Break, NO CLASS] Nov 16 (Th): The classroom show of the documentary Mardi Gras: Made in China (San Francisco, CA: Kanopy Streaming, 2017). Nov 20 (M): Governing Social Discontents: The Politics of Ethnicity, Inequality, Environmental Pollution, and Mass Protests * Xi Chen, Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China, Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 3-26. Enze Han, Contestation and Adaptation: The Politics of National Identity in China, Oxford University Press, 2013. Michael Buckley, Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia, New York: St. Martin s Press, 2014. 6
Delia Davin, Gendered Mao: Mao, Maoism, and Women, in Timothy Cheek ed., A Critical Introduction to Mao, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 196-218. Elizabeth C. Economy, The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China s Future, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. Guoguang Wu ed., China s Challenges to Human Security: Foreign Relations and Global Implications, London: Routledge, 2013. Ching Kwan Lee, Against the Law: Labor Protests in China s Rustbelt and Sunbelt, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Yongshun Cai, Collective Resistance in China: Why Popular Protests Succeed or Fail, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. Martin King Whyte, Myth of the Social Volcano: Perceptions of Inequality and Distributive Injustice in Contemporary China, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. Nov 23 & 27 (Th & M): Governing Social Changes: The Politics of New Sectors, NGOs, Religions, and the Internet * Bruce J. Dickson, Wealth into Power: The Communist Party s Embrace of China s Private Sector, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 1-31. * Gary King, Jennifer Pan, and Margeret E. Roberts, How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression, American Political Science Review 107:2 (May 2013), 326-343. Kellee S. Tsai, Capitalism without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. Timothy Hildebrandt, Social Organizations and the Authoritarian State in China, Cambridge University Press, 2013. Ian Johnson, The Souls of China: The Return of Religion after Mao, New York: Pantheon, 2017. Guobin Yang, The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online, New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Daniela Stockmann, Media Commercialization and Authoritarian Rule in China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. The second paper is DUE on Dec 1 (Friday) by 3:00 pm Nov 30 (Th): Rice without Rights? Political and Institutional Implications of China s Prosperity * Andrew J. Nathan, Authoritarian Resilience: China s Changing of the Guard, Journal of Democracy 14 (1) (2003): 6-17. Martin K. Dimitrov, Whither Communist Regime Resilience? in Martin K. Dimitrov ed., Why Communism Did Not Collapse: Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp. 303-312. Wenfang Tang, Populist Authoritarianism: Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability, New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Minxin Pei, China s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 7