Part I.
Korean Economic and Political Development
Joo-Youn Jung, Dept. of Political Science & International Relations, Korea University
Ph.D. Stanford University (jooyoun@korea.ac.kr)
*Google Classroom link (for course materials and announcements)
https://classroom.google.com/c/NzE2MDIwOTA5MDEw?cjc=g7y6z3w
Ming Lee, Former Dean and Adjunct Professor, College of International Affair, NCCU
Ph.D, University of Virginia
Session 1 (February 18, 2025) Introduction
Lecturers: Professor Ming Lee, Professor Joo-Youn Jung, and IMAS Director Philip Hsiaopong Liu
Derek McDougall, “Asia Pacific in World Politics”
Session 2 (February 25, 2025) Questions & Hypotheses [Prof. Jung, in person]
- "Asia Rising," (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqVbhwcw0pE)
- World Bank. 1993. The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-26
Session 3 (February 26, 2025) Theoretical Explanations of East Asia’s Success [Prof. Jung, in person]
6:00–9:00 PM (Dinner will be provided)
- Chung-In Moon and Rashmi Prasad. 1994. “Beyond the Developmental State: Institution, Networks, and Politics.” Governance: International Journal of Policy and Administration, pp. 360-386
Session 4 (March 4, 2025) Korean Economic Development & Changes [Prof. Jung, online]
- Stephen Haggard and Chung-In Moon. 1993. “The State, Politics, and Economic Development in Postwar South Korea.” In Hagen Koo (ed.) State and Society in Contemporary Korea. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, Chapter 2 (focus on pp. 51-80)
- Chung-In Moon. 1994. “Changing Patterns of Business-Government Relations in South Korea.” In Andrew MacIntyre (ed.) Business and Government in Industrializing Asia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, Chapter 5
Session 5 (March 11, 2025) Korea’s Democratization & New Challenges [Prof. Jung, online]
Watch: "The Dynamic Development of Korean Democracy" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUbuykLagps)
- Jang-Sup Shin and Ha-Joon Chang. 2003. Restructuring ‘Korea Inc.’: Financial Crisis, Corporate Reform, and Institutional Transition, London: Routledge, Chapter 3 (pp. 65-81)
- Heon Joo Jung. 2021. “Korean economic policies.” In Moon and Moon eds., Routledge Handbook of Korean Politics and Public Administration, Routledge, Chapter 24
Session 6 (March 18, 2025) In-Class Exam
Session 7 (March 25, 2025)
North Korea: The “Hermit Kingdom” Threatening the World
1. Chapter 13: “North Korea: Friend, Foe, or Foreigner?” Daniel Tudor, op. cit., pp. 146-154.
2. “North Korea,” Korea Annual 2023. Seoul: Yonhap News Agency, 2023. pp. 432-474.
Session 8 (April 1, 2025)
1. Sokeel Park, “Old Truth, New Tools: Bringing Slow Change to North Korea,” Global Asia, vol. 18, no. 2, 2023.
2. Jungsup Kim, Chung-in Moon, “Coming to Terms with North Korea’s Nuclear Strength,” Global Asia, Vol. 18, no. 1, March 2023.
3. David Von Hippel and Eva Lisowski, “The Human Horror of A Nuclear Conflict in Northeast Asia,” Global Asia, Vol. 18, no. 1, March 2023.
Part II.
The Experiences of the PRC, Japan, and Taiwan
Tse-kang Leng, Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica
Ph.D, University of Virginia
The Evolution of the PRC’s Development
Session 9 (April 8, 2025) China (I)
- Ling Chen & Barry Naughton, “A Dynamic China Model: The Co-Evolution of Economics and Politics in China.” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 26, No. 103(January 2017), pp. 18-34
- Yingyi Qian, “How Reform Worked in China.” Dept. of Economics, UC Berkeley, 2001.
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/39858/wp473.pdf?sequence=3
Session 10 (April 15, 2025) China (II)
- Meg Rithmire, Hao Chen, “The Emergence of Mafia-like Business Systems in China”, The China Quarterly, Volume 248 , Issue 1 , December 2021 , pp. 1037 – 1058.
- Jennifer Pan, “Controlling China’s Digital Ecosystem: Observations on Chinese Social Media”, China leadership monitor, June, 2022. https://www.prcleader.org/pan
Session 11 (April 22, 2025) China (III)
Readings:
- Gørild M. Heggelund, “China’s Climate and Energy Policy: At a Turning Point? “ International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Vol. 21, No. 2/3 (2021), pp. 9-23.
- Tse-Kang Leng and Rung-yi Chen, “The Red Culture and Political Economy of Museums in Shanghai”, China Review, , Volume 21, Number 3, August 2021, pp. 247-270.
Chao-Chi Lin, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, NCCU
PhD, Stanford University
Japan’s Development Experiences
Session 12 (April 29, 2025) Japan (I)
- Lipscy, Phillip. 2022. “Japan: the Harbinger State.” Japanese Journal of Political Science.1–18. doi:10.1017/S1468109922000329
- Rosenbluth, Frances and Michael F. Thies 2010. Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic Restructuring. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. Chapter 8 : Japan’s Place in the World, pp:155-173
- McElwain, Kenneth Mori. 2022. “Constitutional Politics in the Post-Abe Era: Institutional and Political Hurdles.” https://www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/d00847/
Session 13 (May 6, 2025) Japan (II)
- Rosenbluth, Frances and Michael F. Thies. 2010. Japan Transformed: Political Change and Economic Restructuring. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. Chapter 5: Postwar Political Economy & Chapter 7: Japan’s New Political Economy, pp. 72-94, 123-154.
- Ulrike Schaede. 2012. “From developmental state to the ‘New Japan’: the strategic inflection point in Japanese business.” Asia Pacific Business Review 18 (2): 167-185.
- Toyama, Kzuhiko. 2015. “The Curse of ‘Japan Inc.’ and Japan’s Microeconomic competitiveness.” In Yoichi Funabashi and Barack Kushner eds. Examining Japan’s Lost Decades. London, New York: Routledge. 56-76.
Session 14 (May 13, 2025) Japan (III)
- Seike, Atsushi. 2015. “Japan’s Demographic Challenges.” In Funabashi, Yoishi and Barack Kushner, Examining Japan’s Lost Decades. London New York, Routledge. pp. 1-16.
- Schoppa, Leonard. 2020. "The Policy Response to Declining Fertility Rates in Japan" Social Science Japan Journal 23(1): 3–21
- Kalicki, Konard. 2021. “ Toward Liberal Immigration Control: The Case of Japan” Asian Survey 61(5): 854-882. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2021.1421466
Shi-chi Lan, Associate Professor, History Department, NCCU
PhD, University of Chicago
Taiwan’s Development Experiences
Session 15 (May 20, 2025) Taiwan and Asia as Legacy of Empires
- Tonio Andrade, How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century (Columbia University Press, 2009)
- Robert Eskildsen, Transforming Empire in Japan and East Asia: The Taiwan Expedition and the Birth of Japanese Imperialism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
- Evan Dawley, Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s-1950s (Harvard University Asia Center, 2019)
Session 16 (May 27, 2024) Taiwan and Asia as History of Migration
- Kuo, Huei-Ying, Networks beyond empires: Chinese business and nationalism in the Hong Kong–Singapore corridor,1914–1941 (Brill, 2014)
- Eiichiro Azuma, In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2019)
- Seiji Shirane, Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945 (Cornell Univ. Press, 2022)
Session 17 (June 3, 2024) Taiwan and Asia as Historical Memories
- Rana Mitter, China's Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020)
- Dominic Meng-hsuan YANG, The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (Harvard University Press, 2016)
Session 18 (June 10, 2025) Final Quiz
|