Assignments for April 12:

Eleanor Bastian and Patty Chen:

• John W. Lewis, Xue Litai, "Social Change and Political Reform in China: Meeting the Challenge of Succes," The China Quarterly, Volume 176 - December 2003, pp 926-942. LINK

Cathleen Chuang and Melissa Edouard:

• Jean-Pierre Cabestan, "The Political and Practical Obstacles to the Reform of the Judiciary and the Establishment of a Rule of Law in China," Journal of Chinese Political Science, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2005, pp. 43 - 64. LINK

Heather Hausleden and Christine Ho:

• Lowell Dittmer, "Leadership Change and Chinese Political Development," The China Quarterly, Volume 176 - December 2003, pp 903-925. LINK

Courtney Ho and Verna Ho:

• Shaoguang Wang, "Regulating Death at Coalmines: changing mode of governance in China," Journal of Contemporary China, Volume 15, Number 46 /February 2006, pp. 1 - 30 LINK

Alex Kim and Jane Kim:

• Brantly Womack, "Democracy and the Governing Party: A Theoretical Perspective," Journal of Chinese Political Science, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2005, pp. 23 - 42. LINK

Kenneth Ma and Henrietta Wong:

• Kevin O'Brien, “Popular Contention and Its Impact in Rural China” (with Lianjiang Li), Comparative Political Studies, 38:3 (April 2005): 235-259. LINK

Sarah Zhang and Alyse Zhang:

• Dali Yang, "Economic Transformation and Its Political Discontents in China: Authoritarianism, Unequal Growth, and the Dilemmas of Political Development," Annual Review of Political Science, no. 9 (2006), pp. 143-164. LINK

Monique Abrishami:

• Zhiyue Bo, 'Hu Jintao and the CCP’s Ideology: A Historical Perspective," Journal of Chinese Political Science, Volume 9, Number 2, Fall 2004, pp. 27 - 46. LINK