University of Victoria
Department of History / Department of Political Science
Spring 2017
HSTR 365C A01
CHINA and the WORLD
[CRN: 21874]
/
POLI 319 A01
ISSUES in COMPARATIVE POLITICS:
CHINA and the WORLD
[CRN: 22610]
Meeting Time: Monday & Thursday 13:00 - 14:20
Meeting Place: CUN 146
Instructor: Dr. Guoguang Wu
Office Hours: Thursday 14:30 – 16:30; or by
appointment
Office Location: DTB A335
Office Phone: (250) 721-7497
Email: [email protected]
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course examines the contemporary history of
China’s relations with the world, aiming at: (1)
familiarizing the students with the developments of
foreign relations of the People's Republic of China
(PRC) from a communist isolationist country to a
rising power in the world; and (2) introducing the
students into the wide policy arena where China
perceives, manages, and develops its relations with
various powers, groups of countries, geopolitical
regions, and international organizations. As a whole
the course tries to help the students to build up their
own capabilities to comprehend the historical development and current agenda of China’s relations with the
world, to interpret changes and continuities in China’s foreign relations with the references of China's
various bilateral and multilateral international conducts, and to analyze the evolution of China’s role in the
contemporary world.
The required textbook is available for purchase at the University Bookstore:
Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001).
REQUIREMENTS and ASSESSMENTS
The registered students for credit of this course are required to accomplish the following tasks:
1) to attend all class meetings;
2) to complete the relevant reading assignments before each class meeting;
3) to write two book reviews by the deadlines (see the detailed requirement below); and
4) to write a brief outline for a final paper and then the final paper by the deadline (see the
detailed requirement below).
The instructor will (at the class meeting on Jan 16) elaborate on the academic quality and formats required
for all the written assignments, but below is the basic requirements for them:
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Book Reviews
Each student is required to write two book reviews, as a book under review will be chosen by the student
from the reading list in the relevant weeks: The first review may review any book (or books, except the
textbook; not articles or chapters) among the reading lists (required and recommended) for the weeks up to
and including the week on “The Sino-Soviet Split”; for the second, a student may choose any book (or
books, except the textbook; not articles or chapters) among the lists for the weeks after “The Sino-Soviet
Split” (excluded).
The length of each review essay should not exceed two pages in double space with fond 12, notes
included.
The first book review is due on January 30 (Monday) by 3:00 pm; the second, on February 27
(Monday), the same time.
Final Paper and Outline
Each student is required to write a final research paper on a topic of his/her own choice in consultation with
the instructor within the general content and scope of the course. The length of the paper should be between
2,500 and 3,000 words of text. The paper is due on April 3 (Monday) by 3:00 pm.
By Mar 9 (Thursday, 3:00 pm), each student is required to hand in a final paper outline of one page,
which should describe the topic, the research question, and the possible structure of the final paper, as well
as annotated but short bibliography indicating available research sources.
Reference Format
Footnotes or endnotes may be used as long as they are consistent, either with bibliography or not.
Submission and Grading
All assignments must be submitted to the instructor electronically via email (to: [email protected]) as the
assignment is attached as a WORD document. Non-WORD documents will not be marked.
The electronic document of the first book review must be named as: Hstr 365c [or Poli 319 as it applies]
BR1 Your last name; for the second book review, use the same document name but change “BR1” to
“BR2”; for the final paper and its outline, also the same but change “BR1” to “Paper” and “Outline,”
respectively.
The scheme for the final grade evaluation is as that follows:
Attendance:
10%
Book reviews:
20% x 2 = 40%
One-paragraph outline of final paper: 10%
Final paper
40%
Grading Scale: Will follow the University’s official grading system. See:
http://web.uvic.ca/calendar2012/FACS/UnIn/UARe/Grad.html.
Academic Integrity
Please read The University’s Policy on Academic Integrity (revised May 1, 2013), and closely observe it, at:
http://web.uvic.ca/calendar2013/FACS/UnIn/UARe/PoAcI.html. Or, see the attached document.
Penalties of Late Submission
-- All written assignments (book reviews and the final paper) should be submitted in to strictly meet the
explicitly stated deadlines;
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-- Late submission will be penalized by downgrading of one grade for each day of delay, weekend
included. It means that a late submission will get, for example, the grade ‘B’ if the submission deserves
‘B+’ according to its academic quality but it is submitted one day after the deadline;
-- The submission seven days later than the due day will not be graded, which means the author will receive
zero credit on that assignment.
COURSE EVALUATION
I value your feedback on this course. Towards the end of term you will have the opportunity to complete a
confidential course experience survey (CES) regarding your learning experience. 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. When it is time for you to complete the survey, you will
receive an email inviting you to do so. If you do not receive an email invitation, you can go directly to
http://ces.uvic.ca. You will need to use your UVic NetLink ID to access the survey, which can be done on
your laptop, tablet or mobile device. I will remind you nearer the time, but please be thinking about this
important activity, especially the following three questions, during the course. 1. What strengths did your
instructor demonstrate that helped you learn in this course?
2. Please provide specific suggestions as to
how the instructor could have helped you learn more effectively.
3. Please provide specific suggestions as
to how this course could be improved.
WEEKLY SCHEDULE
(Below * indicates a required reading assignment, others are recommended;
All are available at the University Library reservation desk)
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.
Jan 5 (Th): Introduction
* No required reading.
William C. Kirby, ‘Traditions of Centrality, Authority, and Management in Modern China’s Foreign
Relations,’ in Thomas W. Robinson and David Shambaugh eds., Chinese Foreign Policy: Theory and
Practice (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), pp.13-29.
Michael H. Hunt, The Genesis of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy (New York: Columbia University
Press, 1996).
John K. Fairbank ed., Chinese World Order: Traditional China’s Foreign Relations (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1968).
Jan 9 & 12 (M & Th): The Shaping of the Sino-Soviet Alliance
It investigates how the Chinese Communist Party conducted its foreign policy when taking national
power, particularly how and why it adopted ‘leaning to one side’ policy in the Cold War world politics.
* Chen Jian, Chapters 1 & 2.
Thomas W. Robinson, ‘Chinese Foreign Policy from the 1940s to the 1990s,’ in Robinson and Shambaugh,
Chinese Foreign Policy, pp.555-602.
James Reardon-Anderson, Yenan and the Great Powers: The Origins of Chinese Communist Foreign
Policy, 1944-1946 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980).
Rana Mitter, Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937-1945 (Boston: Mariner Books, 2014).
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Michael M. Sheng, Battling Western Imperialism: Mao, Stalin, and the United States (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1997).
Jan 16 (M): About Your Book Review and Final Paper
No reading assignments.
Jan 19 & 23 (Th & M): The Korean War and the Sino-US Confrontation
It examines China’s involvement in the Korean War, and the impacts of this on China’s international
relations.
* Chen Jian, pp.49-64, and Chapter 4.
Allen Whiting, China Crosses the Yalu: The Decision to Enter the Korean War (Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1960).
Sergei N. Goncharov, John W. Lewis, and Xue Litai, Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993).
John G. Stoessinger, Nations in Darkness: China, Russia, and America (New York: Random House, 1986),
4th edition.
Avery Goldstein, ‘Across the Yalu: China’s Interests and the Korean Peninsula in a Changing World,’ in
Alastair Iain Johnston and Robert S. Ross eds., New Directions in the Study of China’s Foreign Policy
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), pp.131-161.
The first book review is DUE on Jan 30 (M) by 3:00 pm
Jan 26 & 30 (Th & M): The Taiwan Strait Crises and the Bandung Conference
It reviews China’s foreign conducts in the 1950s after the Korean War, with the emphases on the
emergence of the Taiwan issue and China’s early attempts to woo the developing countries.
* Chen Jian, Chapter 7.
* Peter Van Ness, ‘China and the Third World: Patterns of Engagement and Indifference,’ in Samuel S. Kim
ed., China and the World: Chinese Foreign Policy Faces the New Millennium (Boulder: Westview Press,
1998), 4th ed., pp.151-68.
Mineo Nakajima, ‘Foreign Relations: From the Korean War to the Bandung Line,’ in Roderick
MacFarquhar and John K. Fairbank eds., The Cambridge History of China (Vol.14): The People’s Republic,
Part I: The Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1949-1965 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987),
pp.259-89.
Thomas J. Christensen, Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino-American
Conflict, 1947-1958 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996).
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker ed., Dangerous Strait: The U.S.-Taiwan-China Crisis (New York: Columbia
University Press, 2008).
Robert S. Ross, ‘Comparative Deterrence: The Taiwan Strait and the Korean Peninsula,’ in Johnston and
Ross, New Directions in the Study of China’s Foreign Policy, pp.13-49.
Feb 2 & 6 (Th & M): The Sino-Soviet Split
Why the Sino-Soviet alliance collapsed in the early 1960s? This is one of the most fascinating questions
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perplexing students of Chinese foreign policy.
* Chen Jian, pp.64-84.
Allen S. Whiting, ‘The Sino-Soviet Split,’ in Roderick MacFarquhar and John K. Fairbank eds., The
Cambridge History of China (Vol.14): The People’s Republic, Part I: The Emergence of Revolutionary
China, 1949-1965 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp.478-538.
Lowell Dittmer, Sino-Soviet Normalization and Its International Implications, 1945-1990 (Seattle:
University of Washington Press, 1992).
Steven M. Goldstein, ‘Nationalism and Internationalism: Sino-Soviet Relations,’ in Robinson and
Shambaugh, Chinese Foreign Policy, pp.224-65.
Feb 9 (Th) [See below]
Feb 13 & 16 (M & Th): NO CLASS during the Reading Break
Feb 9 & 20 (Th & M): From Revolutionary Isolationism to Sino-U.S. Rapprochement
It reviews the rise of isolationism during the Cultural Revolution, then turns to the analysis of the
dramatic change of China’s foreign policy to welcome Nixon’s visit of the country, and examines the
impacts of it on world politics.
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* Chen Jian, Chapters 8 and 9.
Barbara Barnouin and Yu Changgen, Chinese Foreign Policy during the Cultural Revolution (London:
Kegan Paul International, 1998).
Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), Chapter 28.
Margaret MacMillan, Nixon in China: The Week That Changed the World (Toronto: Viking Canada, 2006).
Robert S. Ross ed., China, the United States, and the Soviet Union: Tripolarity and Policy Making in the
Cold War (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1993), pp.11-37.
The second book review is DUE on Feb 27 (M) by 3:00 pm
Feb 23 & 27 (Th & M): Joining the United Nations and the ‘Three-Worlds’ Theory
It focuses on the 1970s, as the PRC replaced the ROC in the United Nations, while China struggled to
pursue independent foreign policy its strategic cooperation with the West against the Soviet Union.
* Samuel S. Kim, ‘China’s International Organizational Behaviour,’ in Robinson and Shambaugh, Chinese
Foreign Policy, pp.401-34.
* Donald W. Klein, ‘Japan and Europe in Chinese Foreign Relations,’ in Kim, China and the World,
pp.133-50.
Samuel S. Kim, China, the United Nations, and World Order (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979).
Peter Van Ness, ‘China as a Third World State: Foreign Policy and Official National Identity,’ in Lowell
Dittmer and Samuel S. Kim eds., China’s Quest for National Identity (Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
1993), pp.194-214.
Mar 2 & 6 (Th & M): Opening, Tiananmen, and the Collapse of World Communism
China’s foreign relations during the 1980s were featured with economic reform and open-door policy,
which ended in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown and5with the worldwide collapse of communism.
* Warren I. Cohen, America’s Responses to China: A History of Sino-American Relations (New York:
Columbia University Press, 2000), 4th edition, pp.211-42.
* Andrew Nathan and Robert Ross, The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China’s Search for Security
(New York: W.W. Norton, 1997), Chapter 10.
Michael B. Yahuda, Towards the End of Isolationism: China’s Foreign Policy after Mao (London:
Macmillan, 1983).
Rosemary Foot, Rights Beyond Borders: The Global Community and the Struggle over Human Rights in
China (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Sherman W. Garnett ed., Rapprochement or Rivalry? Russia-China Relations in a Changing Asia
(Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2000).
The one-paragraph paper outline is DUE on Mar 9 (Th) by 3:00 pm
Mar 9 & 13 (Th & M): Post-Cold War Security of China
It explores how China in the 1990s adapted to post-Cold War world politics, in which the United States
stood as the single super power with uncertain attitudes toward China’s sustained communism.
* Nathan and Ross, Chapters 4, 5, & 6.
Wu Xinbo, ‘China: Security Practice of a Modernizing and Ascending Power,’ in Muthiah Alagappa ed.,
Asian Security Practice: Material and Ideational Influences (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998),
pp.115-156.
Edward Friedman and Barrett L. McCormick eds., What If China Doesn’t Democratize? Implications for
War and Peace (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000).
John W. Garver, Face Off: China, the United States, and Taiwan’s Democratization (Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 1997).
Thomas J. Christensen, ‘China,’ in Richard J. Ellings and Aaron L. Friedberg with Michael Wills eds.,
Strategic Asia 2002-03: Asian Aftershocks (Seattle: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2002), pp.51-94.
Avery Goldstein, Deterrence and Security in the 21st Century: China, Britain, France, and the Enduring
Legacy of the Nuclear Revolution (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000).
Kastner, Scott L., Political Conflict and Economic Interdependence Across the Taiwan Strait and Beyond
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009).
Mar 16 & 20 (Th & M): China Embraces Globalization
It looks at how China’s resumed economic reform in the 1990s and the post-Cold War capitalist
globalization affected Chinese foreign policy and China’s relations with the world.
* Nicholas R. Lardy, Integrating China into the Global Economy (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution
Press, 2002), Chapters 1 & 4.
* Margaret M. Pearson, ‘China in Geneva: Lessons from China’s Early Years in the World Trade
Organization,’ in Johnston and Ross, New Directions in the Study of China’s Foreign Policy, pp.242-275.
* Nathan and Ross, Chapter 9.
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Elizabeth Economy and Michel Oksenberg eds., China Joins the World: Progress and Prospects (New
York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1999).
Allen Carlson, ‘More Than Just Saying No: China’s Evolving Approach to Sovereignty and Intervention,’
in Johnston and Ross, New Directions in the Study of China’s Foreign Policy, pp.217-241.
Thomas W. Robinson, ‘[In][ter]dependence in China’s Post-Cold War Foreign Relations,’ in Kim, China
and the World, pp.193-216.
Samuel S. Kim, ‘Chinese Foreign Policy Faces Globalization Challenges,’ in Johnston and Ross, New
Directions in the Study of China’s Foreign Policy, pp.276-306.
Mar 23 & 27 (Th & M): The Rise of China as a Global Superpower
China has become a rising power through its embracement of globalization and fast economic growth,
which presents complicated and often difficult challenges to international society in both traditional and
non-traditional issue-areas.
* Elizabeth C. Economy, ‘China’s Environmental Diplomacy,’ in Kim, China and the World, pp.264-83.
* Pak K. Lee, ‘China’s Quest for Oil Security: Oil (Wars) in the Pipeline?’ The Pacific Review, Vol.18,
No.2 (June 2005), pp.265-301.
Susan L. Shirk, China: Fragile Superpower (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).
David M. Lampton, The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2008).
David Shambaugh ed., Power Shift: China and Asia’s New Dynamics (Berkeley: Univeristy of California
Press, 2005).
Joshua Eisenman, Eric Heginbotham, and Derek Mitchell eds., China and the Developing World: Beijing’s
Strategy for Twenty-First Century (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2007).
Elizabeth C. Economy and Michael Levi, By All Means Necessary: How China’s Resource Quest Is
Challenging the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Guoguang Wu ed., China’s Challenges to Human Security: Foreign Relations and Global Implications
(London: Routledge, 2013).
The FINAL PAPER IS DUE on Apr 3 (Monday) by 3:00 pm
Mar 30 & Apr 3 (Th & M): China in Search for New International Roles
China constantly seeks a foreign policy that well serves its new identity shaped in the new century. What
are China’s new identities? What are the goals of China’s foreign conducts? What are the challenges
China are faced in international politics? How has China adjusted its foreign policy for all of these?
* Fei-ling Wang, ‘Beijing’s Incentive Structure: The Pursuit of Preservation, Prosperity, and Power,’ in
Yong Deng and Fei-ling Wang eds., China Rising: Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy
(Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), pp.19-49.
* Peter Hays Gries, ‘Nationalism and Chinese Foreign Policy,’ in Deng & Wang, China Rising, pp.103-20.
* Guoguang Wu, ‘Multiple Levels of Multilateralism: The Rising China in the Turbulent World,’ in
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Guoguang Wu and Lansdowne eds., China Turns to Multilateralism: Foreign Policy and Regional Security
(London: Routledge, 2008), pp.267-89.
David M. Lampton ed., The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform, 19782000 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001).
Robert G. Sutter, Chinese Foreign Relations: Power and Policy since the Cold War (Lanham: Rowman &
Littlefield, 2008).
Attachment: ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
The standards and reputation of any university are the shared responsibility of its faculty and students.
Therefore, subject to the obvious limits implicit in the difference between undergraduate work and
specialized research, students at the University of Victoria are expected to observe the same standards of
scholarly integrity as their academic and professional counterparts.
Please read the Policy on Academic Integrity in the University of Victoria Calendar - Page 31.
Offences
Misconduct under this heading that is subject to penalty includes, but is not limited to, the following:
1.
Plagiarism. Scholarship quite properly rests upon examining and referring to the thoughts and
writings of others. However, there is a difference between a person’s use of an acknowledged restatement
of another’s arguments, and the unacknowledged restatement of another’s arguments in the guise of original
work. Plagiarism, therefore, is a form of academic misconduct in which an individual submits or presents
the work of another person as his or her own. Plagiarism exists when an entire work is copied from an
author, or composed by another person, and presented as original work. Plagiarism exists when there is no,
or there is inadequate, recognition given to an author for phrases, sentences and arguments of the author
incorporated in one’s work; and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, it includes the failure to
indicate clearly through quotation marks or indentations of longer passages, that materials have been
incorporated verbatim into one’s written work. In short, when excerpts from the work of another person are
used in one’s work, the author must be acknowledged through footnotes or other accepted practices.
2.
Submitting the same essay, presentation, or assignment more than once (whether the earlier
submission was at this or at another institution) unless prior approval has been obtained.
3.
Cheating on an examination or falsifying materials subject to academic evaluation. In addition to
copying the answers or other work of another person, cheating includes, inter alia, having in an examination
any materials or equipment other than those authorized by the examiners; fraudulently manipulating
laboratory processes in order to achieve desired results; and using commercially prepared essays in place of
a student’s own work. Impersonating a candidate at an examination or availing oneself of the results of such
impersonation.
4.
Submitting false records, information or data, in writing or orally.
5.
Attempting to engage in or assisting others to engage in or attempt to engage in the conduct
described above.
Penalties and Enforcement
Academic departments and faculties have the authority to enforce proper standards of scholarly integrity by
whatever internal procedures seem most appropriate to their respective disciplines. Students in the
Department of History found to have cheated or to have committed acts of plagiarism face sanctions ranging
from mark reductions to failure on assignment to failure on the course. Under the University Act, only the
President has the authority to suspend a student for academic misconduct.
Appeals
Students may appeal decisions to the Department’s Student/Faculty Committee and then to the Dean of the
Faculty, and from the Dean of the Faculty to the Senate Committee on Appeals.
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