Seoul National University	Fall Semester

Graduate School of International Studies	2024

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Current Issues in Chinese Society

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Lecturer:	Professor Jong-Ho Jeong

GSIS, Seoul National University

Tel: (02) 880-5813; Email: jeongjh@snu.ac.kr

Time:         Wednesday 14:30-17:20

Venue:	Building 140-2, Room #201

Evaluation: class participation (20%), presentation (20%), weekly paper (20%)

term paper (40%)

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Course Schedule

Week 1 (September 4) Course Overview: Revolution and Reform in China

Week 2 (September 11) State and Local Cultures in Traditional China: Lineage Organization, Literati Culture, Marketing System, and the Structure of the Gentry-Dominated Social Formation

Freedman, Maurice. 1958. Lineage Organization in Southeastern China. London: Athlone Press. Chs. 1, 2, 9, 11, 14.

Faure, David. 1989. “The Lineage as a Cultural Invention.” Modern China 15: 4-37.

Fei, H. 1946. “Peasantry and Gentry.” American Journal of Sociology (July): 1-17

M. Blecher, China Against the Tides: Restructuring through revolution, radicalism and reform. Pinter, 1997. pp. 9-16.

Skinner, G, W. 1964, 1965. “Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China.” Journal of Asian Studies 24(1): 3-43.

Skinner, G, W. 1985. “Presidential Address: The Structure of Chinese History.” Journal of Asian Studies 104(2): 271-292.

(Recommended readings)

Ho Ping-ti. The Ladder of Success in Imperial China. Chs 1 and 2

Elman, Benjamin. "Political, Social, and Cultural Reproduction via Civil Service

Examinations in Late Imperial China" in Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (1) pp. 7-28.

Skinner, G, W. 1964, 1965. "Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China." Journal of Asian Studies 24(2): 195-228, 24(3): 363-399.

Skinner, G, W. 1971. "Chinese Peasants and the Closed Community: An Open and Shut Case." Comparative Studies In Society and History 13(3): 270-281.

Skinner, G, W. 1978. "Cities and the Hierarchy of Local Systems." Pp. 1-77 in A. Wolf. ed. Studies in Chinese Society. Stanford University Press

Siu, Helen F. 1989. Agents and Victims in South China. New Haven: Yale University Press. Ch.4.

Week 3 (September 18) Independent Study on Maoist Order

Week 4 (September 25) Reach of the State under the Maoist Order

Meisner, Maurice. 1999. Mao’s China and After: A History of the People's Republic. pp. 55-241.

Shambaugh, David. 2021. China's Leaders: From Mao to Now. Polity. pp. 27-92.

Saich, Tony. 2021. From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party. The Belknep Press of Harvard University Press. pp. 177-244.

(Recommended readings)

Meisner, Maurice. Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic.

Potter, Jack M. and Sulamith H. Potter. 1990. China's Peasants: The Anthropology of a Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chs. 3-7

Oi, Jean. 1989. State and Peasant in Contemporary China: The Political Economy of Village Government. Berkeley: University of California Press. Chs. 1, 7, 9 and 10

Chan, Anita, Richard Madsen, and Jonathan Unger. 1992[1984]. Chen Village: Under Mao and Deng. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

Huang, Shu-Min. 1989. The Spiral Road. Westview. Chs. 3-5

Andrew G. Walder, Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1986).

Shue. The Reach of the State. pp. 75-121

Siu, Helen F. 1989. Agents and Victims in South China. New Haven: Yale University Press. Chs. 7, 8, and 9 (pp. 143-211)

Week 5 (October 2) Economic Reforms and China’s Models for Rural Industrialization

Shambaugh, David. 2021. China's Leaders: From Mao to Now. Polity. pp. 95-157.

Saich, Tony. 2021. From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party. The Belknep Press of Harvard University Press. pp. 289-324.

Pei, Minxin, From Reform To Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1994), pp. 11-42.

Tsai, 2007, Capitalism without Democracy, pp. 150-166.

(Recommended readings)

Mary E. Gallagher, ""Reform and Openness": Why China's Economic Reforms Have Delayed Democracy." World Politics, Vol. 54 No. 3 (Apr 2002), pp. 338-372

Naughton, Barry. 1996, Growing Out of the Plan. pp. 3-25.

Naughton, Barry, The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), chapter 4

David Zweig, “China’s Political Economy” in William A. Joseph (ed.), Politics in China: An Introduction (2nd Edition), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 254-290

Parris, Kristen, “Local Initiative and National Reform: The Wenzhou Model of Development," The China Quarterly, 134: 1993, 242-263.

张应强, 「苏南模式、温州模式发展现状比较」，『甘肃社会科学』，第6期, 2002, 129-130

정종호, 2013. 중국 지역발전모델의 회고와 전망: 삼대모델(三大模式)을 중심으로, 『중국학연구』, 제63집, 2013. 3월, pp. 239-266.

Perry, Elizabeth. 1994. "Trends in the Study of Chinese Politics: State-Society Relations." In China Quarterly. No. 139. Pp. 704-713.

Naughton, Barry. 1999. “China’s Transition in Economic Perspective,” in Goldman, Merle, and R. MacFarquhar. 1999 The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms., pp. 30-44.

So, Alvin Y. 2003. “Rethinking the Chinese Developmental Miracle,” ed. By Alvin Y. So, China’s Developmental Miracle: Origins, Transformations, and Challenges. Armonk, NY.: M.E. Sharpe. Pp: 3-26.

John McMillan and Barry Naughton, "How to Reform a Planned Economy: Lessons from China," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1992)

Ash, Robert. 1988. "The Evolution of Agricultural Policy," China Quarterly, No. 116, pp. 529-555

Ash, Robert. 2001. "China's Agricultural Reform" in Bruce J. Dickson and Chien-min Chao (eds.), Remaking the Chinese State: Strategies, Society, and Security. pp. 76-100.

Zhou, Kate. 1996. How the Farmers Changed China. Chapter 1.

Zweig, David. 1977. "Rural People, the Politicians, and Power," China Journal, No. 38, pp. 153-168

Huang, Yiping, 1998. Agricultural Reform, Cambridge University.

Liu, Yia-Ling, “Reform From Below: The Private Economy and Local Politics in the Rural Industrialization of Wenzhou," The China Quarterly, 130: 1992, 293-316.

Liu, Alan P. L., “The “Wenzhou Model" of Development and China's Modernization," Asian Survey, 32(8): 1992, 696-711.

Fureng Dong, “The Wenzhou Model for Developing the Rural Commodity Economy,” in Peter Nolan and Fureng Dong, eds. 1989. Market forces in China: Competition and Small Business – The Wenzhou Debate, London: Zed Books, pp. 81-86

費孝通, 「溫州行」,『瞭望』, 第20期, 1986, 21-22, 第21期, 1986, 24-25, 第22期, 1986,   28-29.

王小云, 「论“新温州模式”—赴温州考察报告」, 『吕梁高等专科学校学报』,  第18卷 第3期,            2002, 3-6.

周德文, 「诠释“新温州模式”及其发展趋势」, 『當代经济』, 第2期, 2003, 24-25.

新望, 『蘇南模式的終結』, 三聯書店, 2005.

宋学寶, 「“苏南模式”和“温州模式”的比较研究」，『改革』，第3期, 2001, 61-65.

Anita Chan, "Chinese Enterprise Reform: Convergence with the Japanese Model?" in Barrett L. McCormick and Jonathan Unger (eds.), China after Socialism: In the Footsteps of Eastern Europe or East Asia? (Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1996), pp. 181-202

Teh-chang Lin, "The reform of state-owned enterprises in mainland China," in Bruce J. Dickson and Chien-min Chao (eds.), Remaking the Chinese State: Strategies, Society, and Security. pp. 157-168.

Young, Susan. 1995, Private Business and Economic Reform in China, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. pp. 3-12, 93-120.

You Ji, China's Enterprise Reform. Chapter 2. pp. 12-28

Edward S. Steinfeld, Forging Reform in China: The Fate of State-Owned Industry (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 27-77

Fewsmith, Joseph. 1994. Dilemmas of Reform in China. Chapter 2.

Nolan, P. 1996, “Large firms and industrial reform in former planned economies: the case of China”, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 20(1), pp. 1-29.

Naughton, Barry. 1992, “Implications of the state monopoly over industry and its relaxation”,　Modern China, 18(1), pp. 14-41.

David Parker and Weihwa Pan, "Reform of the State-Owned Enterprises in China," Communist Economies and Economic Transformation, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1996), pp. 109-127

Kenneth Lieberthal and Michel Oksenberg, Policy Making in China: Leaders, Structures, and Processes (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988), pp. 135-168

Y. Dali, "Rationalizing the Chinese State," in Bruce J. Dickson and Chien-min Chao (eds.), Remaking the Chinese State: Strategies, Society, and Security. pp. 19-45.

Oksenberg, Michel, "China's Political System: Challenges of the Twenty-first Century," The China Journal, No. 45 (January 2001), pp. 21-35

Lee, Hong Yung, From Revolutionary Cadres to Party Technocrats in Socialist China (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1991), pp. 387-428.

Cheng Li, China's Leaders: The New Generation (Lanham, Boulder, New York and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001), pp. 25-50.

John P. Burns, "Strengthening Central CCP Control of Leadership Selection: The 1990 Nomenklatura," China Quarterly, No. 138, pp. 458-491.

Burns, John. 1987. "China's Nomenklatura System," Problems of Communism, Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 36-51

Week 6 (October 9) Independent Study on China’s Leaders

Shambaugh, David. 2021. China's Leaders: From Mao to Now. Polity. pp. 161-339.

Week 7 (October 16) Independent Study on From Rebel to Ruler

Saich, Tony. 2021. From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party. The Belknep Press of Harvard University Press. pp. 289-466.

Week 8 (October 23) Post-Reform Migrants and Hukou Reforms

Solinger, Dorothy. 2006. “The creation of a new underclass in China and its implications.” Environment and Urbanization, Vol 18(1): 2006, pp. 177-193.

Fei-Ling Wang, Organizing through Division and Exclusion: China’s Hukou System (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005), pp. 32-60.

Solinger, "China's Urban Transients in the Tradition From Socialism and the Collapse of the Communist 'Urban Public Goods Regime'," Comparative Politics, (January, 1995), pp. 127-146.

Chan, Kam Wing and Will Buckingham, 2008, “Is China Abolishing the Hukou System?” The China Quarterly 195(September 2008): pp. 582-606.

Elaine Sio-ieng Hui, “The Labour Law System, Capitalist Hegemony and Class Politics in China” The China Quarterly, Vol. 226 (June 2016), pp. 431–455.

Tao Liu and Qiujie Shi, “Acquiring a Beijing hukou: Who Is Eligible and Who Is Successful?” The China Quarterly, Vol. 243 (September 2020), pp. 855–868.

(Recommended readings)

Solinger, Solinger. 1999. "China's Floating Population," in Merle Goldman and Roderick Daming Zhou and Xiaoyun Sun, 2010, “Group Differences Among Nongmingong: A Follow-up Ethnographic Case Study,” International Journal of Business Anthropology Vol. 1(1):  2010, 79-94.

Pun Ngai and Lu Huilin, 2010, “Unfinished Proletarianization: Self, Anger, and Class Action among the Second Generation of Peasant-Workers in Present-Day China,” Modern China, 36(5) 493-519.

Chan, Kam Wing and Will Buckingham, 2008, “Is China Abolishing the Hukou System?” The China Quarterly 195(September 2008): pp. 582-606.

MacFarquhar (eds.), The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), pp. 220-240

Kam Wing Chan, Cities with Invisible Walls: Reinterpreting Urbanization in Post-1949 China (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1994)

Tiejun Cheng and Mark Selden, “The Origins and Social Consequences of China’s Hukou System”, The China Quarterly, No. 139 (September 1994), pp. 644-68

Flemming Christiansen, “Social Division and Peasant Mobility in Mainland China: The Implications of the Hu-k’ou System”, Issues and Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4 (1990), pp. 23-42

Dorothy J. Solinger, Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State and the Logic of the Market (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).

Fei-Ling Wang, “Reformed migration control and new targeted people: China’s hukou system in the 2000s”, The China Quarterly, No. 177 (March 2004), pp. 115–132

Tang, Wenfang Tang and Qing Yang, 2008, “The Chinese Urban Caste System in Transition,” The China Quarterly 196(December 2008): pp. 759-779.

Chris King-Chi Chan and Pun Ngai, 2009, “The Making of a New Working Class? A Study of Collective Actions of Migrant Workers in South China,” The China Quarterly, Volume 198, June 2009, pp 287-303

李培林, 『農民工』(北京: 社會科學文獻出版社, 2003).

溫鐵軍(2003), “戶籍制度改革的歷史, 現狀與未來”, 汝信 ․ 陸學藝 ․ 李培林 主编 (2003), <<社會藍皮書 2003年: 中國社會形勢分析與豫測>>, 北京: 社會科學文獻出版社, pp. 199-206.

정종호, 2019. “중국 농민공 문제의 변화와 지속” 『개혁중국: 변화와 지속』 (서울대학교 중국연구소. 서울: 한울 아카데미), pp. 250-280.

정종호, 2002, "국가와 유동인구(流動人口): 이농(離農)의 정치경제,"『중국 개혁-개방의 정치경제 1980-2000』(정재호 편, 서울: 까치) pp. 243-312.

Week 9 (October 30) Migrant Enclaves and the Emergence of Urban Villages

Jeong, Jong-Ho, “Transplanted Wenzhou Model and Transnational Ethnic Economy,” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 23, No. 86, March 2014.

Ma, Laurence J.C. and Xiang, Biao. 1998. "Native Place, Migration, and the Emergence of Peasant Enclave in Beijing." China Quarterly 155: 547-581.

Jeong, Jong-Ho, 2011, “From Illegal Migrant Settlements to Central Business and Residential Districts: Restructuring of Urban Space in Beijing’s Migrant Enclaves.” Habitat International, 35:3 (July 2011), pp. 508-513.

Will Buckingham and Kam Wing Chan, ‘One City, Two Systems: Chengzhongcun in China’s Urban System’, Journal of Contemporary China 27(112), (2018), pp. 584-595.

Tian, Li, 2008, “The Chengzhongcun Land Market in China: Boon or Bane? – A Perspective on Property Rights,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 32(2) June 2008. pp. 282-304.

Feng Xu, “Gated Communities and Migrant Enclaves: the conundrum for building ‘harmonious community/shequ’”, Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 17, No. 57 (November 2008), pp. 633-651.

(Recommended readings)

Hsing, You-tien, 2006, “Land and Territorial Politics in Urban China,” The China Quarterly, 2006, pp. 575-591.

Zhang, Li, Strangers in the City: Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks Within China's Floating Population (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001)

Zhang, Li. 2006. “Contesting Spatial Modernity in Late-Socialist China,” Current Anthropology, 47(3): 461-484.

Jeong, Jong-Ho, “Shifting Central-Local Relations in Post-Reform China," Development and Society, Vol. 31, No. 1, June 2002.

John R. Logan (ed.), The New Chinese City: Globalization and Market Reform (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002)

Laurence J. C. Ma and Fulong Wu (eds.), Restructuring the Chinese City: Changing Society, Economy and Space (London and New York: Routledge, 2005)

Li, “Jubian: cunluo de zhongjie” [Great transformation: End of villages], in Peilin Li (ed.), Nongmingong: Zhongguo jincheng nongmingong de jingji shehui fenxi [Peasant Migrant Workers: An Economic and Social Analysis of Peasant Migrant Workers in China] (Beijing: Shehui Kexue Wenxian Chubanshe, 2003), pp. 54–70

Zhang, L., Simon X.B. Zhao and J.P. Tian. 2003. “Self-help in Housing and Chengzhongcun in China’s Urbanization,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 27(4): 912-937.

Yongshun Cai, “Collective Ownership or Cadres’ Ownership? The Non-agricultural Use of Farmland in China”, The China Quarterly, No. 175 (September 2003), pp. 662-680

Guo, Xiaolin. 2001. “Land Expropriation and Rural Conflicts in China,” China Quarterly 166: 422-439.

Ho, Peter, 2001, “Who owns China’s land? Policies, property rights and deliberate institutional ambiguity,” The China Quarterly, No. 166, pp. 394-421.

Ho, Samuel P.S., and George C.S. Lin, 2003. “Emerging Land Markets in Rural and Urban China: Policies and Practices,” China Quarterly 175: 681-707.

Ho, Samuel P.S., and George C.S. Lin, 2004. “Non-Agricultural Land Use in Post-Reform China,” China Quarterly 179: 758-781.

Siu, Helen F. 2007. “Grounding displacement: Uncivil urban spaces in postreform South China,” American Ethnologist, 34(2): 329-350.

Yeh, Anthony Gar-On. 2005. “Dual Land Market and Internal Spatial Structure of Chinese Cities,” in Ma, Laurence J. C. and Fulong Wu. eds., Restructuring the Chinese City: Changing Society, Economy and Space, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 59-79.

Tao, Ran and Zhigang Xu, 2007, “Urbanization, Rural Land System and Social Security for Migrants in China,” Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 43, No. 7, 1301–1320, October 2007

謝志巋. 2005. 村落向城市社區的轉型, 北京: 中國社會科學院出版社.

唐燦․馮小雙. 2000. “‘河南村’流動農民的分化,” 社會學硏究, 第4期: 72-85.

周大鳴. 2001. “城鄕結合部社區的硏究: 廣州南景村50年的變遷,” 社會學硏究, 第4期.

柯蘭君․李漢林(編), 『都市里的村民-中國大城市的流動人口』(北京: 中國編譯出版社: 2001).

項  飇, 『跨越邊界的社區: 北京浙江村的生活史』(北京: 三聯書店, 2000).

Week 10 (November 6) Work Unit Reform, Labor Market Reform, and the Emergence of Laid-Off Workers

Lee, Ching Kwan. 2007. “The Unmaking of the Chinese Working Class in the Northeastern Rustbelt.” In Ching Kwan Lee (ed.), Workings in China: ethnographies of labor and workplace transformation. London: Routledge. 15-37.

Lee, Hong Yung. 2000. “Xiagang, the Chinese Style of Laying Off Workers,” Asian Survey 40: 914-937.

Solinger, Dorothy J. "Labour Market Reform and the Plight of the Laid-Off Proletariat," The China Quarterly 170, June 2002, pp. 304-326.

Hui, E.S. (2016) ‘The Labour Law System, Capitalist Hegemony and Class Politics in China’, The China Quarterly 226 (June 2016), pp. 431–455.

Ross Garnaut, Ligang Song and Yang Yao, “Impact and Significance of State-Owned Enterprise Restructuring in China,” The China Journal, No. 55 (January 2006), pp. 35-63

Li-Wen Lin, “Reforming China’s State-owned Enterprises: From Structure to People,” The China Quarterly, Vol. 229 (March 2017), pp. 107–129

Recommended Reading:

Xiao Lu and Elizabeth J. Perry (eds.), Danwei: The Changing Chinese Workplace in Historical and Comparative Perspective (Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1997). pp. 3-17, pp. 169-194.

Lee, Ching Kwan. 2002. “From the Specter of Mao to the Spirit of the Law: labor insurgency in China.” Theory and Society, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Apr. 2002), p. 189-228.

Chak Kwan Chan and Zhaiwen Peng, “From Iron Rice Bowl to the World’s Biggest Sweatshop: Globalization, Institutional Constraints, and the Rights of Chinese Workers,” Social Service Review, Vol. 85, No. 3 (September 2011), pp. 421-445

Garnaut, Song, and Yao. 2006. “Impact and Significance of State-Owned Enterprise Restructuring in China,” The China Journal, No. 55, January 2006, pp. 35-63.

Teh-chang Lin, "The reform of state-owned enterprises in mainland China," in Bruce J. Dickson and Chien-min Chao (eds.), Remaking the Chinese State: Strategies, Society, and Security. pp. 157-168.

Walder, Andrew G. 1986. Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry. Berkeley, CA.: University of California Press.

Chan, Anita; Unger, Jonathan, 2009, “A Chinese State Enterprise under the REFORMS: WHAT MODEL OF CAPITALISM?”, China Journal, Jul2009, Issue 62, p1-26.

Anita Chan, "Chinese Enterprise Reform: Convergence with the Japanese Model?" in Barrett L. Edward S. Steinfeld, Forging Reform in China: The Fate of State-Owned Industry (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 27-77

Nolan, P. 1996, “Large firms and industrial reform in former planned economies: the case of China”, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 20(1), pp. 1-29.

David Parker and Weihwa Pan, "Reform of the State-Owned Enterprises in China," Communist Economies and Economic Transformation, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1996), pp. 109-127

Chen, Feng, “Individual Rights and Collective Rights: Labor’s Predicament in China,” Communist and Post-communist Studies 40(2007), pp. 59-79.

Week 11 (November 13) The Emergence of Private Entrepreneurs and the Response of Post-Mao State

Chen, Jie and Bruce J. Dickson. 2008. “Allies of the State: Democratic Support and Regime Support among China’s Private Entrepreneurs”, The China Quarterly, December 2008, 196. Pp. 780-804.

Chen, Jie. 2010 “Attitude toward Democracy and the Political Behavior of China’s Middle Class,” in Cheng Li (ed.), China’s Emerging Middle Class: Beyond Economic Transformation (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2010), pp. 334-358

Dickson, Bruce J. 2007. “Integrating Wealth and Power in China: The Communist Party’s Embrace of the Private Sector”, The China Quarterly, December 2007, 192. Pp. 827-854.

Dickson, Bruce J. 2010. “China’s Cooperative Capitalists: The Business End of the Middle Class, in Cheng Li (ed.), China’s Emerging Middle Class: Beyond Economic Transformation (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2010), pp. 291-309

Tsai, Kellee S., “Capitalists without a Class: Political Diversity among Private Entrepreneurs in China,” Comparative Political Studies 38:9 (November 2005), pp. 1130-1158.

Teresa Wright, Accepting Authoritarianism: State-Society Relations in China’s Reform Era (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), pp. 37-57

David S.G. Goodman (2016) Locating China’s Middle Classes: social intermediaries and the Party-state, Journal of Contemporary China, 25:97, 1-13

Wang, Y. (2016) ‘Beyond Local Protectionism: China’s State–Business Relations in the Last Two Decades’, The China Quarterly, 226 (June 2016), pp. 319–341.

Yi-min Lin, Dancing with the Devil: The Political Economy of Privatization in China (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 28-59.

Thomas Heberer and Gunter Schubert, “Weapons of the Rich: Strategic Behavior and Collective Action of Private Entrepreneurs in China” Modern China, Vol. 45 No. 5 (2019), pp. 471–503.

Recommended reading:

Margaret M. Pearson, China's New Business Elite: The Political Consequences of Economic Reform (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1997).

Cheng Li, "Diversification of Chinese Entrepreneurs and Cultural Pluralism in the Reform Era," in Shiping Hua (ed.), Chinese Political Culture: 1989-2000 (Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2001), pp. 219-245.

Goodman, David. 1999. “The New Middle Class.” in Merle Goldman and Roderick MacFarquhar (eds.), The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), pp. 241-261.

Parris, Kristen. 1999. "The Rise of Private Business Interests," in Merle Goldman and Roderick MacFarquhar (eds.), The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), pp. 262-282.

Thomas B. Gold, "Urban Private Business and China's Reforms," in Richard Baum (ed.), Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao China: The Road to Tiananmen (London and New York: Routledge, 1991), pp. 84-103.

Dorothy J. Solinger, "Urban Entrepreneurs and the State: The Merger of State and Society," in Arthur Lewis Rosenbaum (ed.), State and Society in China: The Consequences of Reform.

Goodman, David. 1996. "The People's Republic of China: The Party-State, Capitalist Revolution and New Entrepreneurs," in Richard Robison and David S. G. Goodman (eds.), The New Rich in Asia: Mobile Phones, McDonalds and Middle-Class Revolution (London: Routledge, 1996), pp. 225-242.

Tomba, Luigi, 2004, "Creating an Urban Middle Class," The China Journal, No. 51, January 2004, pp.1-26.

Jie Chen and Bruce J. Dickson, Allies of the State: China’s Private Entrepreneurs and Democratic Change (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010).

Kellee S. Tsai, Capitalism without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007).

Bruce Dickson, Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Bruce J. Dickson, Wealth into Power: The Communist Party’s Embrace of China’s Private Sector (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Week 12 (November 20) Post-Reform Resistance and the Restructuring State-Society Relations

•Mary E. Gallagher, “China: The Limits of Civil Society in a Late Leninist State,” in Muthiah Alagappa (ed.), Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004), pp. 419-452

•Shawn Shieh and Guosheng Deng, "An Emerging Civil Society: The Impact of the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake on Grass-Roots Associations in China," The China Journal, No. 65 (January 2011), pp. 181-194

•Jude Howell, “‘Shall We Dance? Welfarist Incorporation and the Politics of State–Labour NGO Relations,” The China Quarterly, Vol. 223 (September 2015), pp. 702–723

•Anthony J. Spires, “Contingent Symbiosis and Civil Society in an Authoritarian State: Understanding the Survival of China’s Grassroots NGOs,” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 117 No. 1 (July 2011), pp. 1-45

•Jingyun Dai and Anthony J. Spires, “Advocacy in an Authoritarian State: How Grassroots Environmental NGOs Influence Local Governments in China,” The China Journal, Vol 79 (January 2018), pp. 62-83

<Post-Reform Resistance >

O’Brien, Kevin J. 1996. “Rightful Resistance.” World Politics 49(1): 31-55.

Lianjiang Li, “Rights Consciousness and Rules Consciousness in Contemporary China,” China Journal 64, (July 2010), pp. 47–68.

Elizabeth J. Perry, “Popular Protest: Playing by the Rules,” in Joseph Fewsmith (ed.), China Today, China Tomorrow: Domestic Politics, Economy, and Society (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010), pp. 11-28.

Cai Yongshun, “Local Governments and the Suppression of Popular Resistance in China, China Quarterly Vol. 193 (March 2008), pp. 24-42.

Lianjiang Li and Kevin J. O’Brien, “Protest Leadership in Rural China,” China Quarterly Vol. 193 (March 2008), pp. 1-23

Hongyi Lai, “Uneven Opening of China’s Society, Economy, and Politics: Pro-growth Authoritarian Governance and Protests in China, Journal of Contemporary China Vol. 19, No. 67 (November 2010), pp. 819-835Ching Kwan Lee and Yonghong Zhang, “The Power of Instability: Unraveling the Microfoundations of Bargained Authoritarianism in China,” American Journal of Sociology Vol. 118 No. 6 (May 2013), pp. 1475-1508

Ho, Peter. 2003. “Contesting Rural Spaces: Land disputes, customary tenure and the state.” In Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden (eds.), Chinese Society: Change, conflict and resistance. London: Routledge. p. 96-116.

Feng Chen & Yi Kang (2016) Disorganized Popular Contention and Local Institutional Building in China: a case study in Guangdong, Journal of Contemporary China, 25:100, 596-612

Recommended Reading:

Jae Ho Chung, Hongyi Lai and Ming Xia, ”Mounting Challenges to Governance in China: Surveying Collective Protestors, Religious Sects and Criminal Organizations,” China Journal, No. 56 (July 2006), pp. 1-31

Jenny Chan and Ngai Pun, 2010 “Suicide as Protest for the New Generation of Chinese Migrant Workers: Foxconn, Global Capital, and the State.” The Asia-Pacific Journal, 37-2-10.

Ching Kwan Lee, Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007)

Merle Goldman, “Citizen’s Struggle in China’s Post-Mao Era,” International Journal of China Studies Vol.3, No.3 (December 2012), pp. 271-283

Ethan Michelson, “Justice from Above or Below? Popular Strategies for Solving Grievances in Rural China,” China Quarterly Vol. 193 (March 2008), pp. 43-64

Yongnian Zheng, Contemporary China: A History Since 1978 (Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), pp. 101-119

Guobin Yang, The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009)

Martin King Whyte, Myth of the Social Volcano: Perceptions of Inequality and Distributive Injustice in Contemporary China (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010)

Elizabeth J. Perry and Mark Selden (eds.), Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance (Third Edition) (London: Routledge, 2010)

Yongshun Cai, Collective Resistance in China: Why Popular Protests Succeed or Fail (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010)

Xi Chen, Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)

Kevin J. O’Brien (ed.), Popular Protest in China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008)

Jenny Chan and Ngai Pun, 2010 “Suicide as Protest for the New Generation of Chinese Migrant Workers: Foxconn, Global Capital, and the State.” The Asia-Pacific Journal, 37-2-10.

Ching Kwan Lee, Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007)

<Restructuring State-Society Relations>

Jessica C. Teets, “Let Many Civil Societies Bloom: The Rise of Consultative Authoritarianism in China,” China Quarterly 213 (March 2013), pp. 19-38

Shawn Shieh and Guosheng Deng, "An Emerging Civil Society: The Impact of the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake on Grass-Roots Associations in China," The China Journal, No. 65 (January 2011), pp. 181-194.

Howell, J. (2015) ‘Shall We Dance? Welfarist Incorporation and the Politics of State–Labour NGO Relations’, The China Quarterly, 223(September 2015), pp. 702–723.

Anthony J. Spires, “Contingent Symbiosis and Civil Society in an Authoritarian State: Understanding the Survival of China’s Grassroots NGOs,” American Journal of Sociology Vol. 117 No. 1 (July 2011), pp. 1-45

Guobin Yang, "Civil Society in China: A Dynamic Field of Study." China Review International Vol.9, No.1 (Spring 2002), pp. 1-16

Teresa Wright, Accepting Authoritarianism: State-Society Relations in China’s Reform Era (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), pp. 1-36.

Recommended Reading:

Mary E. Gallagher, “China: The Limits of Civil Society in a Late Leninist State,” in Muthiah Alagappa (ed.), Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004), pp. 419-452

Health B. Chamberlain, “Civil Society with Chinese Characteristics?” China Journal, No. 39 (January 1998), pp. 69-81

Jonathan Unger and Anita Chan. “China, corporatism, and the East Asian model,” Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, No. 33 (1995), pp. 29-53

Timothy Hildebrandt, Social Organizations and the Authoritarian State in China (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013)

Jessica C. Teets, Civil Society under Authoritarianism: The China Model (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014)

Qiusha Ma, Non-Governmental Organizations in Contemporary China: Paving the Way to Civil Society? (London: Routledge, 2006)

Yu, Keping, “Civil Society in China: Concepts, Classification and Institutional Environment,” in Deng Zhenglai (ed.), State and Civil Society: The Chinese Perspective (Singapore: World Scientific, 2011), pp. 63-96

Kang, Xiaoguang and Han Heng, “Graduated Control: Research on State-Society Relationship in Contemporary China,” in Deng Zhenglai (ed.), State and Civil Society: The Chinese Perspective (Singapore: World Scientific, 2011), pp. 97-120

Mun Young Cho, The Spector of “The People” (New York: Cornell University Press, 2013)

Jonathan Unger (ed.), Associations and the Chinese State (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2008)

Bryan Tilt, The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China: Environmental Values and Civil Society (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)

Teresa Wright, Accepting Authoritarianism: State-Society Relations in China’s Reform Era (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010)

Week 13 (November 27) Post-Mao Gift Economy

Yang, Mayfair Meihui.  1994. Gifts, Favors, and Banquets. Cornell University Press. pp. 177-208.

Gold, Guthrie, and Wank. 2002. "An Introduction to the study of guanxi.“ in Social Connections in China. pp. 3-20.

Wank, David. 2002. "Business-State Clientelism in China: Decline or Evolution?" in Social Connections in China. pp. 97-115.

Guo, Xuezhi, "Dimensions of Guanxi in Chinese Elite Politics," The China Journal, No. 46 (July 2001), pp. 69-90.

Guthrie, D. (1998), "The Declining Significance of Guanxi in China's Economic Transition," China Quarterly 154: 254-282.

Yang, 2002, “The Resilience of Guanxi and its New Deployments: A Critique of Some New Guanxi Scholarship,” The China Quarterly, pp. 459-476.

Ling Li, 2011. Performing Bribery in China: guanxi practice, corruption with a human face, Journal of Contemporary China, 20(68), 1-20.

(Recommended readings)

Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui. 1989. "The Gift Economy and State Power in China." Comparative Studies in Society and History 31: 25-54.

Yang, M. M. 2000. Putting global capitalism in its place. Current Anthropology 41:477-95.

Wank, David L. Commodifying Communism: Business, Trust, and Politics in a Chinese City (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)

Yan, Yunxiang. 1996. The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village. Stanford University Press.

Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui. 1988. "The Modernity of Power in the Chinese Socialist Order." Cultural Anthropology 3: 408-27.

Kipnis, Andrew. 2002. "Practices of guanxi production and practices of ganqing Avoidance." in Social Connections in China. pp. 21-34.

Week 14 (December 4) The Advance of the Party

(Term Paper Outline Presentation)

Akio Takahara and Robert Benewick, ‘Party Work in the Urban Communities’, in Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard and Yongnian Zheng, eds., The Chinese Communist Party in Reform (London and New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. 157-172.

Yan, Xiaojun, ‘“To Get Rich Is Not Only Glorious”: Economic Reform and the New Entrepreneurial Party Secretaries’, The China Quarterly 210, (2012), pp. 335-354.

Patricia M. Thornton, ‘The Advance of the Party: Transformation or Takeover of Urban Grassroots Society?’ The China Quarterly 213 (2013), pp. 1-18

Patricia M. Thornton, ‘The New Life of the Party: Party-building and Social Engineering in Greater Shanghai’, The China Journal 68 (2012), pp. 58-78

Zhang Han, ‘Party Building in Urban Business Districts: organizational adaptation of the Chinese Communist Party’, Journal of Contemporary China 24(94), (2015), pp. 644-664.

Jinfa Liu, ‘From social management to social governance: social conflict mediation in China’, Journal of Public Affairs 14(2), (2014), pp. 93-104.

Jeong, Jong-Ho, and Yoon, Taehee.  2020, “From Gray to Red: Party Building and the Transformation of Beijing’s Zhejiangcun,” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 29, No.126, November 2020.

Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard, “Politics and Business Group Formation in China: The Party in Control?” The China Quarterly, Vol. 211 (2012), pp. 624–648

Recommended Reading:

Seymour M. Lipset and Stein Rokkan, eds., Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-national perspectives (New York: Free Press, 1967)

Cedric de Leon, Manali Desai, and Cihan Tugal, eds., Building Blocs: How Parties Organize Society (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015).

Yoon, Taehee, and Joeng, Jong-Ho. 2018, “Bedfellows with Different Dreams: The Relationship between the Party-State and Private Businessmen in the Party Member Recruitment Process in Beijing’s Zhejiangcun (浙江村 Zhejiang Village),” Journal of International and Area Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1, June 2018.

Week 15 (December 11) The Rise of China’s Soft Power

Nye, Joseph S. 2004. Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics. New York: Public Affairs. pp. 1-32.

Cho, Young Nam and Jeong, Jong-Ho. 2008. “China's Soft Power: Discussions, Resources, and Prospects," Asian Survey, 48:3 (May/June 2008), pp. 453-472.

Anja Lahtinen (2015) China's Soft Power: Challenges of Confucianism and Confucius Institutes, Journal of Comparative Asian Development, 14:2, 200-226

Ying Zhou & Sabrina Luk (2016) Establishing Confucius Institutes: a tool for promoting China’s soft power?, Journal of Contemporary China, 25:100, 628-642

Servaes, Jan. 2016 “The Chinese dreams shattered between hard and soft power?”. Media, Culture & Society. Vol 38(3) 437-449

Xin Li and Verner Worm (2011). Building China’s Soft Power for a Peaceful Rise. Journal of Chinese Political Science. pp. 69-89

Christopher Walker and Jessica Ludwig, “The Meaning of Sharp Power: How Authoritarian States Project Influence,” Foreign Affairs(November 16, 2017).

Christopher Walker, “What Is 'Sharp Power'?”, Journal of Democracy(2018) 29 (3): 9–23.

(Recommended readings)

Mingjiang, Li, 2008, “China Debates Soft Power,” Chinese Journal of International politics, Vol. 2, pp. 287-308.

Wuthnow, Joel, 2008, “The Concept of Soft Power in China’s Strategic Discourse,” Issues and Studies, 44(2), pp. 1-28.

Kurlantzick, Joshua. 2005. “The Decline of American Soft Power.” Current History. December. pp. 419～424.

Garrison, Jean A. 2005. “China's Prudent Cultivation of “Soft” Power and Implications for U.S. Policy in East Asia.” Asian Affairs: An American Review 32, 1. pp. 25～30.
Nye, Joseph S. 1990. Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power. New York: Basic Books.

. 2005. “The Rise of China's Soft Power.” Wall Street Journal Asia (29 December).

Ramo, Joshua Cooper. 2004. “The Beijing Consensus.” The Foreign Policy Centre.

龐中英. 1997. “國際關係中的軟力量及其他.”『戰略與管理』제2기. 49～51.

. 2005. “中國軟力量的內涵.”『瞭望新聞週刊』제45기(11월). 62.

. 2006. “發展中國軟力量.”『瞭望新聞週刊』제1기(1월). 63.

王雨辰. 2005. “略論北京共識對提升中國軟實力的啓迪.”『中南財政政法大學學報』제1기. pp. 3～8.

劉德斌. 2004. “軟實力說的由來與發展.”『吉林大學社會科學學報』제4기. pp. 55～62.

張劍荊. 2004. “北京共識與中國軟實力的提升.”『當代世界與社會主義』제5기. pp. 10～14.

田春生. 2005. “華盛頓共識與北京共識比較初探.”『經濟社會體制比較硏究』제2기. pp. 77～80.

黃平․崔之元 主編. 2005.『中國與全球化: 華盛頓共識還是北京共識』. 北京: 社會科學文獻出版社.

兪可平․黃平․ 謝曙光 ․高健 主編. 2006.『中國模式與北京共識: 超越”華盛頓共識還”』. 北京: 社會科學文獻出版社.

Week 16 (December 18) China Model

(*Class begins at 1:00PM)

Andrew Nathan, “Authoritarian Resilience,” Journal of Democracy 14.1 (2003) 6-17.

Joshua Cooper Ramo, The Beijing Consensus (London: Foreign Policy Centre, 2004).

Suisheng Zhao, “The China Model: Can It Replace the Western Model of Modernization?” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 19 No. 65, (June 2010), pp. 419–436

Daniel A. Bell, The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015), pp. 151-198

David Shambaugh, “China’s Future, 2016, pp. 1-20, 98-136

Joseph Fewsmith and Andrew Nathan, 2018, “Authoritarian Resilience Revisited,” Journal of Contemporary China, pp. 1–13

Xiaoyang Tang, “Co-evolutionary Pragmatism: Re-examine ‘China Model’ and Its Impact on Developing Countries,” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 29, No. 126 (2020), pp. 853-870.

Suisheng Zhao “Whither the China Model: revisiting the debate,” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 26 No. 103 (2017), pp. 1-17.

[Recommended Readings]

Barry Naughton, “China’s Distinctive System: can it be a model for others?” Journal of Contemporary China (2010), 19(65), June, 437–460.

Scott Kennedy, “The Myth of the Beijing Consensus,” Journal of Contemporary China (2010), 19(65), June, 461–477.

Minxin Pei, China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), pp. 17-44

David Shambaugh, “Contemplating China’s Future,” The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 3, 2016, pp. 121-130.

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