Week One (9/12)

Course Introduction 

Week Two (9/19)

China’s Grand Strategy (1) 

Avery Goldstein, “Stimuli for a New Strategy,” in Rising to the Challenge: China’s Grand Strategy and International Security.

Shiping Hua, “The Chinese One World View and Foreign Policy,” in Dancing with the Dragon.

Feng Zhang, “Rethinking China’s Grand Strategy: Beijing’s Evolving National Interests and Strategic Ideas in the Reform Era,” International Politics, 49: 3 (2012), 318-345.

Kevin G. Cai, “The One Belt One Road and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Beijing’s New Strategy of Geoeconomics and Geopolitics,” Journal of Contemporary China, 27:114 (2018), 831-847

Yizheng Zou & Lee Jones, “China’s Response to Threats to Its Overseas Economic Interests: Softening Non-Interference and Cultivating Hegemony,” Journal of Contemporary China, 29:121 (2019), 92-108. 

Week Three (9/26)

China’s Grand Strategy (2)

Feng Liu, “The recalibration of Chinese assertiveness: China’s responses to the Indo-Pacific challenge,’ International Affairs, 96:1 (2020)

Kei Koga, “Japan’s ‘Indo-Pacific’ question: countering China or shaping a new regional order?’ International Affairs, 96:1 (2020)

Rajesh Rajagopalan, “India’s unviable Indo-Pacific strategy,” International Affairs, 96:1 (2020)

Brendan Taylor, “Is Australia’s Indo-Pacific strategy an illusion?” International Affairs, 96:1 (2020)

See Seng Tan, “Consigned to hedge: south-east Asia and America’s ‘free and open Indo-Pacific strategy,” International Affairs, 96:1 (2020)

Week Four (10/3)

China’s Security Environment: Taiwan

Su Chi, “Conciliation in cross-strait relations,” & “Conclusion: six variables,” in Taiwan’s Relations with Mainland China   

Shelley Rigger, “An Opportunity Full of Threats: Cross-Strait Economic Interaction,” in Why Taiwan Matters

Scott W. Harold, Lyle J. Morris, Logan Ma, Countering China’s Efforts to Isolate Taiwan Diplomatically in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Role of Development Assistance and Disaster Relief. Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation, 2019.

Week Five (10/10) National Holiday

Week Six (10/17)

Nationalism & China’s Foreign Relations (1)   

Suisheng Zhao, “Chinese Nationalism and Pragmatic Foreign Policy Behavior,” in Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior, edited by Suisheng Zhao.

Peter H. Gries, “Nationalism and Chinese Foreign Policy,” in China Rising.

Week Seven (10/24)

Nationalism & China’s Foreign Relations (2)

Alastair Iain Johnston, “Is Chinese Nationalism Rising? Evidence from Beijing” International Security, Vol.41 No.3 (Winter, 2016/2017): 7-43.

Duan Xiaolin, “Unanswered Questions: Why We may be Wrong about Chinese Nationalism and its Foreign Policy Implications, Journal of Contemporary China, 26:108(2017), 886-900.

Haifeng Huang, “From ‘the Moon Is Rounder Abroad’ to ‘Bravo, My Country’: How China Misperceives the World,” Studies in Comparative International Development (2021) 56:112-130.

 Week Eight (10/31)

China’s Material Power 

Susan L. Shirk, Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise, Chapters 1, 5&6.

Kastner, Scott, War and Peace in the Taiwan Strait, Chapters 5&7.

 Week Nine (11/7)

China’s Soft Power 

Pu, Xiaoyu, “China on the World Stage: Multiple Audiences, Competing Expectations,” in Rebranding China

Nathan & Scobell, “Soft Power and Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Policy,” in China’s Search for Security

Jih-Un Kim, “When Soft Power Meets Nationalism” in Dancing with the Dragon 

Hongying Wang & Yeh-Chung Lu, “The Conception of Soft Power and its Policy Implications: a comparative study of China and Taiwan,” Journal of Contemporary China, 17:56 (2008), 425-447,

Notify professor of your choice of the article for review essay.

Week Ten (11/14)

China in International Society 

Suisheng Zhao, “Beijing’s Perception of the International System and Foreign Policy Adjustment after Tiananmen Incident,” in Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior, edited by Suisheng Zhao.

Allen Carlson, “Constructing the Dragon’s Scales: China’s Approach to Territorial Sovereignty and Border Relations,” in Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior, edited by Suisheng Zhao.

Thomas G. Moore & Dixia Yang, “Empowered and Restrained: Chinese Foreign Policy in the Age of Economic Interdependence,” in The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy, Edited by David M. Lampton.

Week Eleven (11/21)

China and Major Powers (1): U.S.  

Peter H. Gries, “Chinese Nationalism and U.S. China Relations,” in China’s New Nationalism

Nathan & Scobell, “Deciphering the U.S. Threat,” in China’s Search for Security

Kai He, “Explaining United States–China relations: neoclassical realism and the nexus of threat–interest perceptions,” The Pacific Review, 30:2 (2017), 133-151

Yichen Guan and others. “Chinese views of the United States: evidence from Weibo,” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, 20:1(2020), 1-30.

Week Twelve (11/28)

China and Major Powers (2): Russia.

Lowell Dittmer, “Ghost of the Strategic Triangle: The Sino-Russian Partnership,” in Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior, edited by Suisheng Zhao

Nathan & Scobell, “Life on the Hinge: China’s Russia Policy During the Cold War and After,” in China’s Search for Security

Week Thirteen (12/5)

China and Major Powers (3): Japan   

Mike Mochizuki, “China-Japan Relations,” in Power Shift.

Michael Yahuda, “The Limits of Economic Interdependence,” New Directions in the Study of China’s Foreign Policy.

Mireya Solís, “China, Japan, and the art of economic statecraft,” Brookings Policy Report, February 2020, https://www.brookings.edu/research/china-japan-and-the-art-of-economic-statecraft/

Week Fourteen (12/12)

China and Peripheral Nations (1)

Derek Mitchell and Carola McGiffert., “Expanding the ‘Strategic Periphery’: a History of China’s Interaction with the Developing World,” in China and the Developing World, pp. 3-25. Edited by Joshua Eisenman & others. 

Zhu Zhiqun, “China and the Southeast Asia” in China’s New Diplomacy.

Chris Alden, “China’s New Engagement with Africa,” in China’s Expansion into the Western Hemisphere.

Zhu Zhiqun, “China and Africa” in China’s New Diplomacy.

Week Fifteen (12/19)

China and Peripheral Nations (2)

Chung-chian Teng, “Hegemony or Partnership,” in China and the Developing World, pp. 84-112. Edited by Joshua Eisenman & others.

Gonzalo Sebastian Paz. “China, United States and Hegemonic Challenge in Latin America,” China Quarterly, No. 209, March 2012, pp. 18-34.

Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, “The Politics of Latin America’s Investment and Other Links with China: Contextualizing the Region’s Cash Chasing while Racking Richer Research Rewards,” Journal of Chinese Political Science 24 (2019), 565-582.

Week Sixteen (12/26)

Final Review: China and Global Society: Economy and Trade   

 Week Seventeen (1/2)

Final Review: China and Global Society: Security

[Site Visit: Mainland Affairs Council]

Week Eighteen (1/9)

Final Examination

N/A

(1) Seminar attendance/participation (5%)

(2) In-class review report and presentation (20%): 2-3 pages summary and critique of assigned reading each week. 

(3) Take-home exam (35%): Details to follow in class.

(4) One Article Reviews (30%): 6-8 pages each, double-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman. Choose from any article, which is not listed in the reading list. Details to follow in class.

(5) Reflection on Site Visit (10%): Details to follow in class.

Deng, Yong (Ed.) . China Rising. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. (327.510090511 C.539)

Friedberg, Aaron L. A Contest for Supremacy. New York: W. W. Norton, 2011. (327.5105 F899)

Goldstein, Avery. Rising to the Challenge: China’s Grand Strategy and International Security. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. (355.033051 G624)

Gries, Peter Hays. China’s New Nationalism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. (320.540951 G848)

Halper, Stefan. The Beijing Consensus: How China’s Authoritarian Model Will Dominate the Twenty-First Century. New York: Basic Books, 2010. (327.51 H195)

Johnston, Alastair J. & Robert S. Ross (Eds.) New Directions in the Study of China’s Foreign Policy. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. (327.51 N532)

Kastner, Scott. Political Conflict and Economic Interdependence Across the Taiwan Strait and Beyond. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. (337.51051249 K19)

Kastner, Scott. War and Peace in the Taiwan Strait. NY: Columbia University Press, 2022.

Lampton, David M. The Three Faces of Chinese Power. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008. (327.51 L239)

Lampton, David M. (Ed.) The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001.  (327.51 M235) 

Lampton, David M. Following the Leader: Ruling China, from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping. Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 2014.

Moisi, Dominique. The Geopolitics of Emotion. New York: Anchor Books, 2010. (303.482 M714)

Nathan, Andrew J. & Andres Scobell. China’s Search for Security. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. ()

Rigger, Shelley. Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011. (951.24905 R569)

Pu, Xiaoyu. Rebranding China: Contested Status in the Changing Global Order. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019.

Roett, Riordan & Guadalupe Paz (Eds.) China’s Expansion into the Western Hemisphere. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2008. (337.5107 C539)

Shambaugh, David (Ed.) Where Great Powers Meet: America & China in Southeast Asia. NY: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Shirk, Susan L. Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Su, Chi. Taiwan’s Relations with Mainland China. New York: Routledge, 2009. (327.51249051 S938)

Tucker, Nancy B. (Ed.) Dangerous Strait: The U.S.-Taiwan-China Crisis. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. (327.7305109045 D182)

Zhao, Quansheng. Interpreting Chinese Foreign Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. (327.51 Z63)

Zhao, Suisheng. The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022.

Zhu, Zhiqun. China’s New Diplomacy: Rationale, Strategies and Significance, Second Edition. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013.