Professor Susan Whiting 45 Gowen Hall

University of Washington Department of Political Science/Jackson School of International Studies Autumn 2013 Government and Politics of China POL S 442/SISEA 408 TTh 1:30am-3:20pm 75 Johnson Hall Professor Susan Whiting 45 Gowen Hall 543-9163 swhiting@u.washington.edu Course Description China is now the second largest economy in the world and a growing global power; at the same time, it faces considerable governance challenges. This upper-division course provides an in-depth analysis of the political history, institutions, and governance issues facing China. It highlights several major themes from the twentieth century to the present: the role of nationalism, the changing place of markets and private property, and the shifting penetration of the state from the center to the grassroots. The first part of the course on political history provides a necessary foundation for subsequent topics. It addresses the collapse of imperial China in social and ideological terms, the formation of political parties, revolutionary change, state-building, the planned economy, and the re-introduction of markets. The second part of the course focuses on the political institutions that govern China today, including the organization of the party-state, how the state controls its own agents, how it uses elections, and how it attempts to control civil society and the media. The final part of the course uses the foundations of political history and political institutions to analyze crucial issues facing China today, including labor and environmental conditions, inequality and social welfare, minority rights, contemporary nationalism, and relations with Taiwan. Course Requirements The first requirement of the course is attendance in class and participation in study groups and in-class activities. Successful participation is based on completion of all readings and class assignments, including an inclass debate to be held on Thursday, November 19th. The organization and responsibilities of study groups will be introduced in class. Second, students will take an in-class midterm exam (20%) on Tuesday, October 22 nd and a take-home final exam (30%). The final exam will be administered electronically during exam week and will allow a maximum of two hours for completion. Third, a term paper not to exceed 10 double-spaced pages is required (25%). A list of term paper topics will be handed out in class on Thursday, October 31 st. (Happy Halloween!) A preliminary bibliography is due before the start of class on Tuesday, November 12th. The term paper itself is due by electronic submission on Friday, December 6th. Late papers will be marked down 0.1 point per day. Graduate students enrolled in the course are required to produce research papers on topics determined in consultation with the professor. Graduate student papers should not to exceed 15 pages in length. Course Materials Journal articles available in the UW Library Electronic collection are marked full text online. Additional readings are available through E-Reserves. Office Hours Tuesday/Thursday 9:30-10:30am in 45 Gowen Hall. Course Website http://faculty.washington.edu/swhiting/pols442

Schedule of Classes 2 Part I: Political and Institutional History WEEK ONE Thursday, September 26, 2013 1. Introduction Marc Blecher, China Against the Tides: Restructuring through Revolution, Radicalism, and Reform (London: Pinter, 1997), Chp. 1, pp. 9-42. E-Reserves. WEEK TWO Tuesday, October 1, 2013 2. Ideology and Ideological Change Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, China in the 21st Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), Chp.1, pp.1-16. E-Reserves. Tianjian Shi and Jie Lu, The Shadow of Confucianism, Journal of Democracy Vol. 21, No. 4 (October 2010), pp. 123-130. Full text online. Thursday, October 3, 2013 3. Revolution: Social Change, Ideology, and Political Parties Elizabeth J. Perry, Introduction and Predators and Protectors: Strategies of Peasant Survival, Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002), pp. ix-xv (top), and 3-39. E-Reserves. Lucien Bianco, Nationalism and Revolution, Origins of the Chinese Revolution (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1967), pp.140-166. E-Reserves. WEEK THREE Tuesday, October 8, 2013 4. State-led Development: The Planned Economy and the Great Leap Forward Barry Naughton, The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007), pp. 56-62. E- Reserves. Barry Naughton, Danwei: The Economic Foundations of a Unique Institution, in Xiaobo Lü and Elizabeth J. Perry, eds., Danwei: The Changing Chinese Workplace in Historical and Comparative Perspective (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997), pp. 169-182 only. E-Reserves. Thursday, October 10, 2013 5. State-led Development (Continued); Elite and Mass Political Conflict in the Cultural Revolution Anita Chan, Richard Madsen, and Jonathan Unger, Chen Village under Mao and Deng (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), pp. 13-40 and 74-97 (top). E-Reserves. Elizabeth J. Perry, Working at Cross-Purposes: Shanghai Labor in the Cultural Revolution, Challenging the Mandate of Heaven (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002), pp. 238-246 par.1, 252 par.2-269. E-Reserves. WEEK FOUR Tuesday, October 15, 2013 6. Political Economy of Reform: Agriculture and the Reform Impulse Zhu Keliang, et al., The Rural Land Question in China, NYU Journal of International Law & Policy Vol. 38 (2005), pp. 768-800 (Sections II-III only). Full text online. Xueguang Zhou, The Autumn Harvest: Peasants and Markets in Post-Collective Rural China, China Quarterly No. 208 (December 2011), pp. 913-931. Full text online. Loren Brandt, Jikun Huang, Guo LI, and Scott Rozelle, Land Rights in Rural China: Facts, Fictions, and Issues, The China Journal No. 47 (January 2002), pp. 67-97.

3 Scott Rozelle and Jikun Huang, The Marketization of Rural China: Gain or Pain for China s Two Hundred Million Farm Families? in Jean C. Oi, Scott Rozelle, and Xueguang Zhou, eds., Growing Pains: Tensions and Opportunity in China s Transformation (Stanford: Shorenstein Center, 2010), pp. 57-86. You-tien Hsing, The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land and Property in China (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), Chp. 7, pp. 181-210. Thursday, October 17, 2013 7. The Political Economy of Reform: Growing Out of the Plan Susan H. Whiting, Power and Wealth in Rural China: The Political Economy of Institutional Change (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), Chp. 4, pp. 121-175. E-Reserves. Yasheng Huang, Rethinking the Beijing Consensus, Asia Policy, No. 11 (January 2011), pp. 1-26. Full text online. WEEK FIVE Tuesday, October 22, 2013 8. MIDTERM EXAM PART II: Institutions Thursday, October 24, 2013 9. Institutions: Party-State Apparatus Kenneth Lieberthal, Governing China: From Revolution through Reform (New York: Norton, 1995), pp.155-218. E-Reserves. WEEK SIX Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10. Institutions: State Capacity and Central-Local Fiscal Relations Minxin Pei, China s Governance Crisis, Foreign Affairs Vol. 81 (September-October 2002), pp. 96-109. Full text online. Dali Yang, State Capacity on the Rebound, Journal of Democracy, 14, no. 1 (January 2003), 43-50. Full text online. Thursday, October 31, 2013 11. TERM PAPER TOPICS DISTRIBUTED Institutions: Central Elites Andrew Nathan, Authoritarian Resilience, Journal of Democracy Vol. 14, No. 1 (January 2003), pp. 6-17. Full text online. Li Cheng, The Battle for China s Top Nine Leadership Posts, Washington Quarterly 2012. Full text online. WEEK SEVEN Tuesday, November 5, 2013 12. Institutions: Local Elections Kevin J. O Brien and Rongbin Han, Path to Democracy? Assessing Village Elections in China, Journal of Contemporary China Vol. 18, No. 60 (June 2009), pp. 359-378. Full text online. Jie Chen and Yang Zhong, Why do People Vote in Semicompetitive Elections in China? The Journal of Politics Vol. 64, No. 1 (February 2002), pp. 178-197. Full text online. Thursday, November 7, 2013 13. Institutions: Governing Civil Society Shui-Yan Tang and Xueyong Zhan, Civic Environmental NGOs, Civil Society, and Democratisation in China, Journal of Development Studies Vol. 44, No. 3 (March 2008), pp. 425-448. Full text online. Florian Butollo and Tobias ten Brink, Challenging the Atomization of Discontent, Critical Asian Studies Vol. 44, No. 3 (2012), pp. 419-440. Full text online.

Timothy Hildebrandt, The Political Economy of Social Organization Registration in China, China Quarterly No. 208 (December 2011), pp. 970-989. 4 WEEK EIGHT Tuesday, November 12, 2013 14. PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR TERM PAPER DUE Institutions: Media Xiao Qiang, The Rise of Online Public Opinion and Its Political Impact, in Susan Shirk, ed., Changing Media Changing China (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 202-224. E-Reserves. Jeremy Goldkorn, Behind the Great Firewall, in Geremie R. Barmé, ed., Red Rising Red Eclipse (Canberra: Australian Centre for China in the World, 2012) http://www.thechinastory.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/chinastory2012_ch07.pdf Full text online. He Qinglian, Media Control in China, China Human Rights Forum, No. 4 (2004), pp. 11-28. http://www.hrichina.org/public/pdfs/crf.1.2004/a1_mediacontrol1.2004.pdf PART III: Governance Issues Thursday, November 14, 2013 15. Labor Conditions Eli Friedman and Ching Kwan Lee, British Journal of Industrial Relations Vol. 48, No. 3 (September 2010), pp. 507-533. Full text online. Pun Ngai, Global Production, Company codes of Conduct, and Labor Conditions in China: A Case Study of Two Factories, The China Journal No. 54 (July 2005), pp. 101-113. Full text online. WEEK NINE Tuesday, November 19, 2013 16. IN-CLASS DEBATE Environmental Conditions Elizabeth Economy, The River Runs Black: The Evironmental Challenge to China s Futrure (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004), Chp. 3: The Economic Explosion and Its Environmental Cost, pp. 59-90. E- Reserves. Arthur P. J. Mol and Neil T. Carter, China s Environmental Governance in Transition, Environmental Politics Vol. 15, No. 2 (April 2006), pp. 149-170. Full text online. Thursday, November 21, 2013 17. Inequality and Social Welfare Martin King Whyte, Myth of the Social Volcano: Perceptions of Inequality and Distributive Injustice in Contemporary China (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), Chp. 3: What Do Chinese Citizens See as Fair and Unfair About Current Inequalities? pp. 43-67. E-Reserves. Huisheng Shou, Globalization and Transformation of China s Welfare Regime, in Baogang Guo and He Li, eds., The Chinese Labyrinth: Exploring China s Model of Development (Lexington Books, 2011), pp. E- Reserves. WEEK TEN Tuesday, November 26, 2013 18. Religious and Ethnic Minorities Ashild Kolas and Monika P. Thowsen, On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005), pp. 3-16, 27-43. E-Reserves. Richard Madsen, The Upsurge of Religion in China, Journal of Democracy Vol. 21, No. 4 (October 2010), pp. 58-70. Full text online. Zhaohui Hong, Protecting and Striving for the Rights to Religious Freedom: Case Studies on the Protestant House Churches in China, Journal of Third World Studies Vol. XXIX, No. 1 (2012), pp. 249-258.

5 Thursday, November 28, 2013 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY WEEK TEN Tuesday, December 3, 2013 19. Nationalism and International Relations Yinan He, History, Chinese Nationalism, and the Emerging Sino-Japanese Conflict, Journal of Contemporary China Vol. 16, No. 50 (February 2007), pp. 1-24. Full text online. Jessica Chen Weiss, Autocratic Signaling, Mass Audiences, and National Protest in China, International Organization, 2013. E-Reserves. Thursday, December 5, 2013 20. Taiwan s Development Yun-han Chu and Jih-wen Lin, Political Development in 20th-Century Taiwan: State-Building, Regime Transformation and the Construction of National Identity, China Quarterly No. 165 (March 2001), pp. 102-129. Full text online. Cheng Tun-jen, Transforming Taiwan s Economic Structure in the 20th Century, China Quarterly No. 16 (March 2001), pp. 19-36. Full text online. Michael P. Todaro and Stephen C. Smith, Taiwan Inside the Miracle: A Development Success Story, Case Studies in Economic Development, Third Edition Xin Qiang, Beyond Power Politics: Institution Building and Mainland China s Taiwan Policy Transition, Journal of Contemporary China (June 2010) Vol. 19 No. 65, pp. 525-539. Full text online. Friday, December 6, 2013, 4:30pm TERM PAPER DUE Friday, December 13, 2013, 4:30pm TAKE-HOME FINAL EXAM DUE Additional Readings in Primary Sources (E-Reserves, unless otherwise noted) Mao Zedong, Report on the Peasant Movement in Hunan, (March 1927). Mao Zedong, On the People s Democratic Dictatorship, (June 30, 1949). Editorial: Hold High the Red Flag of People s Communes, People s Daily September 3, 1958. Peng Dehuai, Letter to Chairman Mao, July 14, 1959. Sixteen Point Decision, Eleventh Plenum of the Central Committee of the CCP, August 1966. Decision of the Central Committee of the CCP on Some Problems in Accelerating Agricultural Development. Editorial: Without Reform There Would Be No Way Out, People s Daily, April 25, 1992. Constitution of the People s Republic of China. Full text online: http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/constitution/constitution.html Preparatory Committee of Beijing University Students, Letter of Petition, April 21, 1989. Ren Wanding, Speech in Tiananmen Square, April 21, 1989. A Worker s Letter to the Students, April 28, 1989. Law Protects Rights of Elected Village Head, People s Daily, April 19, 2002. Farmer Campaigns to Win VC Election, People s Daily, January 29, 2003. Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, 中国农民调查 (The Life of China s Peasants: Will the Boat Sink the Water) transl. Zhu Hong (New York: Perseus Books, 2006). State Council Information Office White Paper Environmental Protection in China. http://www.china.org.cn/english/2006/jun/170355.htm#1. The Joint U.S.-China Shanghai Communique, February 27, 1972. http://www.china.org.cn/english/china-us/26012.htm or

http://www.taiwandocuments.org/communique01.htm Taiwan Relations Act of 1979 (first two sections). Full text online: http://www.usconsulate.org.hk/ustw/geninfo/tra1979.htm or http://www.taiwandocuments.org/tra01.htm Chinese Law & Government (journal of translations published by M.E. Sharpe) 6