March 8: The Structure of Power & Political Reform in the PRC (I): Governance & Policy-Making

Suggested background reading (if you didn't read it for POL2 208):

William A. Joseph, "China," in Introduction to Comparative Politics, 4th ed., Section 3 ("Governance and Policy-Making"). ("Other Readings")

Required for all:

Blecher, chs. 4.

Chapters by Shue, Dickson, Gries, in Gries and Rosen, State and Society in 21st Century China.

Bruce Gilley, "The 'End of Politics' in Beijing,'" The China Journal, No. 51, Jan. 2004. (ER)

Read two or three of the following depending on length and complexity

• "Forum: The Nature of Chinese Politics Today," The China Journal, No. 45, January 2001.(This Forum consists of 12 relatively short articles). JSTOR
• "China's Changing of the Guard," Journal of Democracy, Volume 14, Number 1, January 2003. Articles by the following authors: Nathan, Gilley, Dickson, Wang, Yang, Xiao, or Pei. PROJECT MUSE [Select the issue 14.1]
• Andrew J. Nathan and Bruce Gilley, " China's New Rulers: The Path to Power," The New York Review of Books, Volume 49, Number 14 · September 26, 2002. LINK TBA
• Joseph Fewsmith, "The Sixteenth National Party Congress: The Succession that Didn't Happen," The China Quarterly, Volume 173  - March 2003, pp 1-16. LINK
• Richard Daniel Ewing, "Hu Jintao: The Making of a Chinese General Secretary," The China Quarterly Volume 173  - March 2003, pp. 17-34. LINK
• Lowell Dittmer, "Leadership Change and Chinese Political Development," The China Quarterly, Volume 176  - December 2003, pp 903-925. LINK
• Yu Xingzhong, "Citizenship, Ideology, and the PRC Constitution," in Goldman and Perry, eds., Changing Meanings of Citizenship in Modern China. JQ1515.A2 C53 2002
• The following articles for recent issues of China Leadership Monitor (counts as one since these are very short):
  • James Mulvenon, The King Is Dead! Long Live the King! The CMC Leadership Transition from Jiang to Hu" (Issue 13, Winter 2005) LINK
  • Joseph Fewsmith, "China under Hu Jintao" (Issue 14, Spring 2005) LINK
  • H. Lyman Miller, "Hu Jintao and the Central Party Apparatus" (Issue 15, Summer 2005) LINK
  • H. Lyman Miller, "Hu's in Charge?" (Issue 16, Fall 2005) LINK

Recommended:

Constitution of the People's Republic of China (Skim the Preamble, start reading from Article 1)

Constitution of the Communist Party of China (Alternate link)

Teresa Wright, "The China Democracy Party and the Politics of Protest in the 1980s and 1990s," The China Quarterly, Volume 172  - December 2002, pp 906-926. LINK

Bruce J. Dickson, "Cooptation and corporatism in China: the logic of party adaptation," Political Science Quarterly v. 115 no. 4 (Winter 2000/2001) p. 517-40. WilsonWeb

Bruce J. Dickson, Red Capitalists in China : The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change, esp. chs. 1, 2. ebrary

Dali Yang, Remaking the Chinese Leviathan, HC427.95. Y36 2004.

Kenneth G. Lieberthal, Introduction: The "Fragmented Authoritarianism" Model and Its Limitations, in Lieberthal, Kenneth G., and David M. Lampton, editors, Bureaucracy, Politics, and Decision Making in Post-Mao China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. eScholarshipEdition

Sujian Guo, "Post-Mao China: Regime Change or Political Change?" in Guoli Liu and Weixing Chen, eds., New Directions in Chinese Politics (New York: The Edward Mellen Press, 2002)

Sujian Guo, "Totalitarianism: An Outdated Paradigm for Post-Mao China?" Journalof Northeast Asian Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, Summer 1995, pp. 62-90

Dali Yang, “Economic Transformation and State Rebuilding in China.” In Barry Naughton and Dali L. Yang, eds., Holding China Together, Cambridge University Press, 2004. DS779.26 .H65 2004