Week 1 (9/21): The Study of Chinese Foreign Policy: A Retrospective (I)

Robert Jervis, Perception and Misperception in International Politics (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976), pp. 13-31 (Ch. 1: “Perception and the Level of Analysis Problem”).

Michael Ng-Quinn, “The Analytic Study of Chinese Foreign Policy,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 2 (June 1983), pp. 203-224.

Week 2 (9/28): China, Now

Documentary: The Tank Man.

[ASSIGNMENT: Afterthoughts of The Tank Man: What would you do if you were in Deng’s shoes? Why? Any impact of the Tiananmen Incident on Chinese foreign policy? (Please limit your paper to 300 words)]

Week 3 (10/5): The Study of Chinese Foreign Policy: A Retrospective (II)

Joseph W. Esherick, “China and the World: From Tribute to Popular Nationalism,” in Brantly Womack, ed., China’s Rise in Historical Perspective (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010), pp. 19-38.

Qingmin Zhang, “Towards an Integrated Theory of Chinese Foreign Policy: Bringing Leadership Personality Back in,” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 23, No. 89 (2014), pp. 902-922.

Alastair Iain Johnston, “International Structures and Chinese Foreign Policy,” in Samuel S. Kim, ed., China and the World: Chinese Foreign Policy Faces the New Millennium, 4th edition (Boulder: Westview, 1998), pp. 55-90.

Thomas Kane, “China’s Foundations: Guiding Principles of Chinese Foreign Policy,” in Guoli Liu ed., Chinese Foreign Policy in Transition (NY: Walter de Gruyter, Inc., 2004), pp. 101-115.

Week 4 (10/12): The Sino-Soviet Alliance until the 1960s

Thomas J. Christensen, Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino-American Conflict, 1947-1958 (Princeton: Princeton University Press), pp. 147-176 (Ch.5: “The Real Lost Chance in China”).

Yang Kuisong, “The Sino-Soviet Border Clash of 1969: From Zhenbao Island to Sino-American Rapprochement,” Cold War History, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2000), pp. 21-52.

Wang Zhongchun, “The Soviet Factor in Sino-American Normalization, 1969-1979,” in William Kirby, Robert Ross, and Gong Li, eds., Normalization of U.S.-China Relations (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005), pp. 147-174.

* David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War (NY: Hachette Books, 2008).

Week 5 (10/19): Reorientation of China’s Foreign Policy in the 1970s and Sino-US Rapprochement

James Mann, About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship with China (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1998), pp. 13-114.

Gong Li, “The Difficult Path to Diplomatic Relations: China’s U.S. Policy, 1972-1978,” in William Kirby, Robert Ross, and Gong Li, eds., Normalization of U.S.-China Relations (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005), pp. 116-146.

Week 6 (10/26): Independent Foreign Policy in the 1980s

Li Jie, “China’s Domestic Politics and the Normalization of Sino-U.S. Relations, 1969-1979,” in William Kirby, Robert Ross, and Gong Li, eds., Normalization of U.S.-China Relations (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005), pp. 56-89.

Li Danhui, “Vietnam and Chinese Policy toward the United States,” in William Kirby, Robert Ross, and Gong Li, eds., Normalization of U.S.-China Relations (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005), pp. 175-208.

Carol Lee Hamrin, “China Reassess the Superpowers,” Pacific Affairs, Vol. 56, No. 2 (Summer 1983), pp. 209-231.

* Kenneth Lieberthal, “Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy,” in Harry Harding, ed., Chinese Foreign Relations in the 1980s (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986), pp. 43-70.

Week 7 (11/ 2): Globalization and Its Impact on Chinese Foreign Policy (I)

Samuel Kim, “Chinese Foreign Policy Faces Globalization Challenges,” 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. 276-306.

The State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China, “China and the World Trade Organization,” June 2018, http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-06/28/c_137286993.htm.

Elizabeth Economy and Zha Daojiong, “Global Development and Investment,” in Nina Hachigian, ed., Debating China: The US-China Relationship in Ten Conversations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 131-151.

Week 8 (11/9): Globalization and Its Impact on Chinese Foreign Policy (II)

Avery Goldstein, “An Emerging China’s Emerging Grand Strategy: A Neo-Bismarckian Turn?” in G. John Ikenberry and Michael Mastanduno, eds., International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), pp. 57-106.

Elizabeth Economy and Michael Levi, By All Means Necessary: How China’s Resource Quest Is Changing the World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 1-20, 165-204.

Thomas J. Duesterberg, Chinese Economic and Trade Challenges to the West: Prospects and Consequences from a U.S.-German Perspective (Washington DC: Hudson Institute, 2018).

Week 9 (11/16): 【Mid-term Exam】

Week 10 (11/23): Sino-US Relations

Aaron Friedberg, “The Future of US-China Relations: Is Conflict Inevitable?” International Security, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Fall 2005), pp. 7-45.

Wang Jisi, “China’s Search for Stability with America,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 84, No. 5 (September /October 2005), pp. 39-48.

Andrew Nathan and Andrew Scobell, “How China Sees America,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 91, No. 5 (September/October 2012), pp. 32-47.

Week 11 (11/30): China and Neighboring Countries

Bonnie S. Glaser, “China’s Policy in the Wake of the Second DPRK Nuclear Test,” China Security, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2009), pp. 1-11.

David Shambaugh, “U.S.-China Rivalry in Southeast Asia: Power Shift or Competitive Coexistence?” International Security, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Spring 2018), pp. 85-127.

Shin Kawashima, “The Risks of One Belt, One Road for China’s Neighbors,” The Diplomat, April 23, 2018.

Jennifer Lind, “Life in China’s Asia: What Regional Hegemon Would Look Like,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 97, No. 2 (March/April 2018), pp. 71-82.

* Ka Zeng, “Multilateral versus Bilateral and Regional Trade Liberalization: Explaining China's Pursuit of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs),” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 19, No. 66 (2010), pp. 635-652.

Week 12 (12/7): China and Emerging International Issues and Norms (I)

Alastair Iain Johnston, “Is China a Status Quo Power?” International Security, vol. 27, no. 4 (Spring 2003), pp. 5-56.

Zheng Bijian, “China’s ‘Peaceful Rise’ to Great-Power Status,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 84, No. 5 (September/October 2005), pp. 18-24.

Suisheng Zhao, “A Revisionist Stakeholder: China and the Post World War II World Order,” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 27, Issue 113 (September 2018), pp. 643-658.

M. Taylor Fravel, “Power Shifts and Escalation: Explaining China’s Use of Force in Territorial Disputes,” International Security, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Winter 2007/2008), pp. 44-83.

Week 13 (12/14): China and Emerging International Issues and Norms (II)

Michael D. Swaine, “Perceptions of an Assertive China,” China Leadership Monitor, No. 32 (2010).

Feng Zhang, “Rethinking China’s Grand Strategy: Beijing’s Evolving National Interests and Strategic Ideas in the Reform Era, International Politics, Vol. 49, No. 3 (May 2012), pp. 318-345.

Allen Carlson, “More Than Just Saying No: China’s Evolving Approach to Sovereignty and Intervention since Tiananmen,” 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. 217-241.

Week 14 (12/21): China and Emerging International Issues and Norms (III)

Ely Ratner, “The Emergent Security Threats Reshaping China’s Rise,” The Washington Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Winter 2011), 29-44.

Joanna I. Lewis, “Climate Change and Security: Examining China’s Challenges in a Warming World,” International Affairs, Vol. 85, No. 6 (2009), pp. 1195-1213.

* National Endowment for Democracy, Sharp Power: Rising Authoritarian Influence, November 2017.

* Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, China Human Rights Report 2017, August 2018.

Week 15 (12/28): Looking Ahead: New Actors/Factors

David Lampton, “How China Is Ruled,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 93, Issue 1 (January/February 2014), pp. 74-84.

Hongyi Lai and Su-Jeong Kang, “Domestic Bureaucratic Politics and Chinese Foreign Policy,” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 23, No. 86 (2014), pp. 294-313.

You Ji, “The PLA and Diplomacy,” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 23, No. 86 (2014), pp. 236-254.

Suisheng Zhao, “Foreign Policy Implications of Chinese Nationalism Revisited: the Strident Turn,” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 22, No. 82 (2013), pp. 535-553.

Jianwei Wang and Xiaojie Wang, “Media and Chinese Foreign Policy,” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 23, No. 86 (2014), pp. 216-235.

Week 16 (1/4): How Unique is Chinese Foreign Policy?

Kai Quek and Alastair Iain Johnston, “Can China Back Down? Crisis De-escalation in the Shadow of Popular Opposition,” International Security, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Winter 2017/18), pp. 7-36.

Kurt M. Campbell and Ely Ratner, “The China Reckoning: How Beijing Defied American Expectations,” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 97, No. 2 (March/April 2018), pp. 60-70.

Week 17 (1/11): 【Final Exam】

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Mid-term Examination: 35%

Final Examination: 35%

Class Assignments: 15%

Attendance and Participation: 15%

Students are expected to attend and actively participate in the session.

Outlined in weekly sessions.