週次

Week

課程主題

Topic

課程內容與指定閱讀

Content and Reading Assignment

教學活動與作業

Teaching Activities and Homework

學習投入時間

Student workload expectation

課堂講授

In-class Hours

課程前後

Outside-of-class Hours

1

Course Intorduction

Course Introduction

Introduction and Discussions

3

2

2

China’s Historical and Geographical Legacies/Identity on Foreign Policy Making

• Nathan, Andrew J. and Andrew Scobell. 2012. China's Search for Security. Columbia University Press, Introduction chapter, and chapter 1.


• Zhang, Tiejun. 2002. "Chinese Strategic Culture: Traditional and Present Features." Comparative Strategy 21: 73-90.


• See distributed syllabus in class.

Seminar Discussions

3

8~10

3

China’s Domestic Institutions and Foreign Policy

• Nathan, Andrew J. and Andrew Scobell. 2012. China's Search for Security. Columbia University Press, Chapter 2.


• Lai, Hongyi, and Su-Jeong Kang. "Domestic bureaucratic politics and Chinese foreign policy." Journal of Contemporary China 23.86 (2014): 294-313.


• See distributed syllabus in class.

Seminar Discussions

3

8~10

4

China’s Leadership and Foreign Policy

• Cheng, Joseph Yu-shek. “ China’s Foreign Policy: Coping with the Challenge of Power” in China’s Foreign Policy: Challenges and Prospects, pp. 1-40


• Smith, Joseph, “The 19th Party Congress: Ringing in Xi Jinping’s New Age”(2019):https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/clm55-jf-final.pdf


• See distributed syllabus in class.

Seminar Discussions

3

8~10

5

Socioeconomic Factors and China’s Foreign Policy Making

• Deng, Guosheng, and Scott Kennedy. "Big business and industry association lobbying in China: The paradox of contrasting styles." The China Journal 63 (2010): 101-125.


• Liou, Chih-shian. "Rent-seeking at home, capturing market share abroad: the domestic determinants of the transnationalization of china state construction engineering corporation." World Development 54 (2014): 220-231.

Seminar Discussions

3

8~10

6

China’s Relations with the US

• Nathan, Andrew J. and Andrew Scobell. 2012. China's Search for Security. New York: Columbia University Press, chapter 4.


• Harry Harding (2015), “Has the US China Policy Failed?” The Washington Quarterly, 38:3 pp. 95–122


• Allison, Graham. "The thucydides trap." The next great war(2015): 73-80.


• See distributed syllabus in class.

Seminar Discussions

3

8~10

7

The US-China Trade Disputes

• Weiss, Jessica Chen, and Amber Wichowsky. "External influence on exchange rates: An empirical investigation of US pressure and the Chinese RMB." Review of International Political Economy 25, no. 5 (2018): 596-623.


• Layne, Christopher. "The US–Chinese power shift and the end of the Pax Americana." International Affairs 94.1 (2018): 89-111.


• See distributed syllabus in class.

Seminar Discussions

3

8~10

8

China’s Economic Influence in Its Neighborhood: China’s Policy Towards Japan and the Two Koreas

• Nathan, Andrew J. and Andrew Scobell. 2012. China's Search for Security (Columbia University Press), Chapter 5


• Pu, Xiaoyu, “Interdependent Rivals: China’s Economic Statecraft towards Japan” in Li, Mingjiang ed. China's Economic Statecraft: Co-optation, Cooperation And Coercion (World Scientific, 2017).


• See distributed syllabus in class.

Seminar Discussions

3

8~10

9

Midterm-week

Short review/research topic submission

Assignment Submissions

3

12

10

China’s Economic Influence in Its Neighborhood: China’s Policy towards Southeast Asia and Other Neighboring Countries

• Jones, Lee, and Jinghan Zeng. "Understanding China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’: beyond ‘grand strategy’ to a state transformation analysis." Third World Quarterly (2019): 1-28.


• Kuik, Cheng-Chwee. "How do weaker states hedge? Unpacking ASEAN states’ alignment behavior towards China." Journal of Contemporary China 25, no. 100 (2016): 500-514.


• See distributed syllabus in class.

Seminar Discussions

3

8~10

11

China’s Role in the East Asian Trade-production Network

• Athukorala, Prema-chandra. "Production networks and trade patterns in East Asia: Regionalization or globalization?." Asian Economic Papers 10, no. 1 (2011): 65-95.

• Ian Tsung-yen Chen. 2014. “Balance of Payments and Power: Assessing China’s Global and Regional Interdependence Relationship.” International Relations of Asia-Pacific 14(2): 271-111


• See distributed syllabus in class.

Seminar Discussions

3

8~10

12

China and Global Economic Governance: on the International Trade

• Nathan, Andrew J. and Andrew Scobell. 2012. China's Search for Security (Columbia University Press), Chapter 10.


• Kristen Hopewell (2019) US-China conflict in global trade governance: the new politics of agricultural subsidies at the WTO, Review of International Political Economy. 


• See distributed syllabus in class.

Seminar Discussions

3

8~10

13

China and Global Economic Governance: on Global Financial Structure

• Chan, Gerald, “China’s Economic Power and the Global Financial Structure,” in Li, Mingjiang ed. China's Economic Statecraft: Co-optation, Cooperation And Coercion (World Scientific, 2017).


• Xu, Jiajun, China’s rise as development financer, Implications for international development cooperation, in Li, Mingjiang ed. China's Economic Statecraft: Co-optation, Cooperation And Coercion (World Scientific, 2017)


• See distributed syllabus in class.

Seminar Discussions

3

8~10

14

China’s Role in International Environmental and Climate Policy

• Hale, Thomas and Charles Roger, Domestic politics and Chinese participation in transnational climate governance, in Kennedy, Scott ed. Global Governance and China (Routledge 2017)


• Qi, Ye, Li Ma, Huanbo Zhang, and Huimin Li. "Translating a global issue into local priority: China's local government response to climate change." The Journal of Environment & Development 17, no. 4 (2008): 379-400.


• See distributed syllabus in class.

Seminar Discussions

3

8~10

15

China’s Search For Energy and Food Security

• Cheng, Joseph Yu-shek, “A Chinese View of China’s Energy Security,” in China’s Foreign Policy: Challenges and Prospects.


• Zhang, Hongzhou, and Li Mingjiang, “Hunting for Food: A New Driver in Chinese Foreign Policy,” in Li, Mingjiang ed. China's Economic Statecraft: Co-optation, Cooperation And Coercion (World Scientific, 2017).


• See distributed syllabus in class.

Seminar Discussions

3

8~10

16

China in the World Economy and International Institutions

• Nathan, Andrew J. and Andrew Scobell. 2012. China's Search for Security (Columbia University Press), Chapter 11 & 13.


• Chan, Lai-Ha, Pak K. Lee, and Gerald Chan. "Rethinking global governance: a China model in the making?." Contemporary Politics 14, no. 1 (2008): 3-19.


• See distributed syllabus in class.

Seminar Dicussions

3

8~10

17

Presentations

Oral Class Presentations

Presentations and Discussions

3

24~

18

Presentations

Presentations and Papers Submission

Presentations and Dicussions

3

24~