SemesterFall Semester, 2018
DepartmentInternational Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, First Year
Course NameThe Cross Strait Relations between Mainland China and Taiwan
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Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
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次 Week 課程主題 Course Theme 課程內容與指定閱讀 Content and Reading Assignment 教學活動與作業 Activity and Homework 學習投入時數 Estimated time devoted to coursework per week
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Introduction













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Theories and Approaches (I): General Perspectives





1- Amitav Acharya, International Relations Theory and Cross-Strait Relations, Taiwan Security Research http://www.taiwansecurity.org/IS/Acharya-International-Relations-Theory-and-Cross-Strait-Relations.htm
2- Yu-Shan Wu, “Theorizing on Relations across the Taiwan Strait: Nine Contending Approaches,” Journal of Contemporary China 9:25 (November 2000), pp. 407-428.
3- Alexander L. George, Bridging the Gap: Theory and Practice in Foreign Policy (Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1993), chapter. 1.
4- Scott L. Kastner, “IR Theory and the Relationship across the Taiwan Strait,” in Jean-Mare F. Blanchard and Dennis V. Hickey, eds., New Thinking about the Taiwan Issue: Theoretical Insights into its Origins, Dynamics and Prospects (London and New York: Routledge, 2012), pp. 189-201.





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Theories and Approaches (II): International, Interaction and Domestic Dimensions





5- Stephen M. Walt, The Origins of Alliances (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1974), chapter 5.
6- Robert Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1977, 1989, 2002), chapter 1.
7- Alexander Wendt, Social Theory of International Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), chapter 6.
8- Rawi Abdelal et al., “Identity as a Variable,” Perspectives on Politics 4: 4 (December 2006), pp. 695-711.
9- Shiping Zheng, “Making Sense of the Conflict between Mainland China and Taiwan,” in Vendulka Kubalkova, ed., Foreign Policy in a Constructed World (Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2001), chapter 8.






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Roots of Ideological Struggle





10- Barrington Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (New York: Penguin Books, 1966).
11- Samuel P. Huntington, The Clashes of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996), chapters 7, 9.






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Divided Nations Model and Separated States Model





12- List of Divided Nations - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List-of-divided-nations-http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=List_of_divided_nations_%28deleted_04_Mar_2008_at_22:50%29
13- Yung Wei, “From Multi-System Nations to Linkage Communities: A New Conceptual Scheme for the Integration of Divided Nations,” Issues & Studies, 33:10 (October 1997), pp. 1-19.
14- Gregory Henderson, Richard Ned Lebow and John G. Stoessinger, eds., Divided Nations in a Divided World (New York: David Mc Kay, 1974).
15- John J. Metzler, Divided Dynamism: the Diplomacy of Separated Nations, 2nd edition (New York: University Press of America, 2014), chapters 7,8.
16- Lowell Dittmer, “East Asia’s Divided Nations: A Comparative Analysis,” EAI Working Paper No. 162 (2014), http://www.eai.nus.edu.sg/publications/files/EWP162.pdf.
17- Ya-chung Chang, Cross Strait Integration and Peaceful Development (Taipei: Far Eastern Group, 2011), https://www.amazon.com/Integration-Peaceful-Development.../B01KN..
18- Ya-chung Chang, “A Modest Proposal for a Basic Agreement on Peaceful Cross-Strait Development“, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Vol.39, No.1, (2011), http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/203





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International Law and International Status: Past and Present





19- Stephen D. Krasner, Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999), chapter 1.
20- Jacques deLisle, “Taiwan: Sovereignty and Participation in International Organizations,” (July 2011), Foreign Policy Research Institute E-Notes
http://www.fpri.org/enotes/2011/201107.delisle.taiwan.html
21- Bruce Jacobs, “One China, diplomatic isolation and a separate Taiwan,’ in Edward Friedman ed., China Rise, Taiwan’s Dilemmas and International Peace (New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. 85-109.
22- Nancy B. Tucker,” John Foster Dulles and the Taiwan Roots of the Two China Policy,” in Richard H. Immerman, ed., John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990), pp. 235-262.
23- I Yuan, “Norm-centered Constructivism and Cross-Strait Relations,” Issues and Studies, (September 2012), Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 75-104.
24- Stephen D. Krasner, ed., Problematic Sovereignty: Contested Rules and Political Possibilities (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001), chapters 1 and 6.
25-Tozun Balcheli et al., De Facto States: the Quest for Sovereignty (London and New York: Routledge, 2004), chapter 1.





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ROC’s Mainland China Policy





26- Yu-Shan Wu, “Taiwan’s Domestic Politics and Cross-Strait Relations,“ The China Journal 53 (January 2005), pp. 35-60.
27- Lijun Sheng, China and Taiwan: Cross-Strait Relations under Chen Shui-bian (London: Zed Books, 2002).
28- I Yuan, “Cooperation under Anarchy? Paradoxes of the Intra-Chinese Rapprochement,” Issues & Studies, 31:2 (February 1995), pp. 54-66.
29- Chi Su, Taiwan’s Relations with Mainland China: A Tail Wagging Two Dogs (London and New York: Routledge, 2009), chapters 3, 7 and conclusion.
30- Inaugural address of President Tsai Ing-wen, http://english.president.gov.tw/Default.aspx?tabid=1574
31- I Yuan, “Analysis on Ma Ying-jeou’s Inaugural Address: Challenges and Prospects,” China International Strategic Review, (2012), pp. 174-183.
32- Steven M. Goldstein, Taiwan: Asia’s Orphan? NBR Special Report N.62 (2016), http://nbr.org/publications/specialreport/pdf/Free/02102017b/SR62_Taiwan_AsiasOrphan_December2016.pdf





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PRC’s Taiwan Policy





33- Yun-han Chu, “The Evolution of Beijing’s Taiwan Policy during the Reform,” in Yong Deng and Feiling Wang, eds., China Rising: Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004).
34- Quansheng Zhao and Guoli Liu, “Beijing’s Shifting Positions in the New Era of Cross-Taiwan Strait Relations,” in Wei-Chin Lee, ed., Taiwan’s Politics in the 21th Century (New Jersey: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2010), chapter 8.
35- Ji You, “Rapprochement amidst Continued State of War: the Nexus of Politics and Threat of Force in Beijing’s Taiwan Policy.” paper presented at the 2011 Asia-Pacific Security Forum, Institute for National Policy Research (Taiwan), August 26, 2011.
36- Jacques deLisle, “Strait Ahead? China’s Fifth Generation Leaders and Beijing’s Taiwan Policy,” (July 2011), Foreign Policy Research Institute, E-Note http://www.fpri.org/enotes/2011/201107.delisle.chinatransition.pdf
37- Deng Xiaoping, Fundamental Issues in Present Day China (Beijing: Foreign Language Press, 1987), pp. 19-21, 48-52, 93-96.
38- Chi-hung Wei, “China-Taiwan Relations and the 1992 Consensus, 2000-2008,” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, (June), 2015.
39-Alan D. Romberg, “Cross-Straits: Marking Time,” China Leadership Monitor, No. 53, (Spring, 2017), https://www.stimson.org/content/cross-strait-relations-marking-time.





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Economic Integration





40- Shelley Rigger and Toy Reid, “Taiwanese Investors in Mainland China: Creating a Context for Peace?” in I Yuan, ed., Cross-Strait at the Turing Point: Institution, Identity and Democracy (Taipei: Institute of International Relations, 2008), chapter 5.
41- Murray Scott Tanner, Chinese Economic Coercion against Taiwan (Santa Monica, CA.: RAND, 2007). http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG507.html
42- Yun-han Chu, “The Political Economy of Taiwan’s Mainland Policy,” in Suisheng Zhao, ed., Across the Taiwan Strait: Mainland China, Taiwan, and the 1995-1996 Crisis (New York: Routledge, 1999).
43- Kenneth S. Lin, “Cross-Strait Economic Integration and Its Impacts on Taiwan’s Society,” in I Yuan, ed., Is There a Greater China Identity? (Taipei: Institute of International Relations, 2007), pp. 273-300.
44- Ching-chang Chen, “Useful Adversaries: How to Understand the Political Economy of Cross-Strait Security?” in Jean-Mare F. Blanchard and Dennis V. Hickey, eds., New Thinking about the Taiwan Issue: Theoretical Insights into its Origins, Dynamics and Prospects (London and New York: Routledge, 2012), chapter 3.
45- Scott L. Kastner, Political Conflict and Economic Interdependence across the Taiwan Strait and Beyond (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009), chapter 6.





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Offense/Defense Postures






46- Christopher J. McCarthy, China’s Anti-Access/Area Denial: The Evolution of Modern Warfare, http://www.usnwc.edu/Lucent/OpenPdf.aspx?id=95&title.
47- Alan M. Wachman, Why Taiwan? Geostrategic Rationales for China’s Territorial Integrity (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007), chapter 7.
48- John Wilson Lewis and Litai Xue, Imagined Enemies: China Prepares for Uncertain War (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006).
49- Phillip C. Saunders, “The Rebalance to Asia: U.S.-China Relations and Regional Security,” Strategic Forum, No. 281, (August 2013,) http://ndu.edu/inss.
50- I Yuan, “Cooperation and Conflict: The Offense-Defense Balance in Cross-Strait Relations,” Issues & Studies, 33:2 (February 1997), pp. 1-20.
51- U.S. Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments involving the PRC 2016, (Washington, D.C.: Office of Secretary of Defense, 2016) http://www.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/2016%20China%20Military%20Power%20Report.pdf.
52- Scott L. Kastner, “Is the Taiwan Strait Still a Flash Point?”, International Security, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Winter 2015/2016), pp. 54-92.
53- Michael D. Swaine, Creating a Stable Asia: an Agenda for a U.S.-China Balance of Power (Washington, D.C.: CEIP, 2016), chapters 1, 2.






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US-China-Taiwan Triangle Relations





54- Scott L. Kastner, “Mostly Bark, Little Bite? Modeling U.S. Arms Sales to Taiwan and the Chinese Responses,” Issues and Studies, September 2013. http://iiro.nccu.edu.tw/index.php?include=article&id=2922
55- Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Bonnie Glaser, “Should the US Abandon Taiwan?” Washington Quarterly, Fall 2011, pp. 23-37.
56- Shirley A. Kan and Wayne M. Morrison, “U.S.-Taiwan Relationship: Overview of Policy Issues,” CRS Report for Congress, (April 22, 2014). http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41952.pdf
57- Dennis V. Hickey, “Rapprochement between Taiwan and the Chinese Mainland: Implications for American Foreign Policy,” Journal of Contemporary China (March, 2011), 20(69), pp. 231-247.
58- Mark Stokes and Sabrina Tsai, “The United States and Future Policy Options in the Taiwan Strait,” (February 2016), Project 2049 Institute, http://www.project2049.net/documents/Future_US%20Policy%20Options%20in%20the%20Taiwan%20Strait_Project%202049.pdf.
59- Ian Easton, “Strategic Standoff: the US-China Rivalry and Taiwan,” (March 2016), Project 2049 Institute, http://www.project2049.net/documents/Strategic%20Standoff_US_China_Rivalry_Taiwan.pdf/.
60- John J. Mearsheimer, “Say Goodbye to Taiwan,” The National Interest, (March-April 2014), http://nationalinterest.org/article/say-goodbye-taiwan-9931.
61- Richard C. Bush, A One-China Policy Primer (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2017).
62- Richard C. Bush, “Taiwan’s January 2016 Election and Their Implications for Relations with China and the United States,” Asia Working Group Paper 1, (December 2015), https://www.brookings.edu/research/taiwans-january-2016-elections-and-their-implications-for-relations-with-china-and-the-united-states/





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An Alternative View on Political History: the Impact of Culture, and Power on Changing Identities





63- Douglas Mendel, The Politics of Formosan Nationalism (Berkeley and Los Angles: University of California Press, 1970).
64- George H. Gerr, Formosa Betrayed (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1966),
http://www.pinyin.info/books/formosabetrayed/index.html.
65- Melissa J. Brown, Is Taiwan Chinese? (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), chapter 6.
66- Chengxin Pan, “Normative Convergences and cross-Strait Divergence,” in Jean-Mare F. Blanchard and Dennis V. Hickey, eds., New Thinking about the Taiwan Issue: Theoretical Insights into its Origins, Dynamics and Prospects (London and New York: Routledge, 2012), chapter 2.
67- Hui-Ching Chang and Richard Holt, Languages, Politics and Identity in Taiwan (London & New York: Routledge, 2015),





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Whither Cross-Strait Relations






68- Shelley Rigger, “Strawberry Jam: National Identity, Cross-Strait Relations and Taiwan Youth,” in I Yuan, ed., Is There a Greater China Identity? (Taipei: Institute of International Relations, 2007), pp. 115-136.
69- Bruce Gilley, “Policy Succession and the Next Cross-Strait Crisis,” Asia Policy, No. 16, (July 2013), pp. 139-159.
70- Phillip C. Saunders and Scott L. Kastner, “Bridge over Troubled Water? Envisioning a China-Taiwan Peace Agreement,” International Security, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Spring 2009), pp. 87-114.
71- Robert Sutter, Taiwan’s Future: Narrowing Strait (May 2011), National Bureau of Research Analysis, http://www.nbr.
72- Shelley Rigger, Why Taiwan Matters (Lanham, MD.: Rowan and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011).
73- Richard C. Bush, Uncharted Strait: The Future of China-Taiwan Relations (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2013), conclusion.
74- Yun-han Chu, “Taiwan’s National Identity Politics and the Prospect of Cross-Strait Relations,” Asian Survey, Vol. 44, Issue 4, (2004), pp. 484-512.
75- Chi-Hao Huang and Patrick James,” Blue, Green or Aquamarine? Taiwan and the Status Quo Preference in Cross-Strait Relations,” The China Quarterly (Sep. 2014), pp.670-692.
76- Yana Zuo, Evolving Identity Politics and Cross-Strait Relations: Bridging Theories of International Relations and Nationalism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
77- T. J. Cheng and Wei-chin Lee, eds., National Security, Public Opinion and Regime Asymmetry (New Jersey: World Scientific, 2017), chapter 2.
78- Graham Allison, Destined for War (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017).





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Requirement/Grading

Students will be assigned as lead discussants on selective weekly reading materials. Students will be evaluated in three categories. Mid-term exam constitutes 30% of the final grades will be held on the 10th week and questions will be distributed in advance. Students are required to submit final research papers constitute 40% of the final grades on topic of instructor’s prior consent. Class participation and discussion are essential to 30% of students’ final grades respectively.


Textbook & Reference

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Attachment

I_Yuan_Cross_Strait_Class_Syllabus_Summer_2018_Draft_3.pdf