Professor Emerson Niou
406 Perkins Library
660-4307
niou@duke.edu
office hours: Thursday 4-6
Fall 2000
PS154 Politics of East Asia
Course Description: This course is designed to familiarize students with domestic politics and regional rivalry in East Asia, with a heavier emphasis on China. The course will focus on the following two issue areas: (1) democratization and electoral politics; (2) security challenges and changing national interests in the post-cold war Pacific. The course will combine lectures with in-class presentations.
Grading: Short reports on guest lectures, 20%: You are required to attend occasional guest lectures (about 3 lectures) related to our course and write a 3-5 page double-spaced, typewritten summary and critique on each guest lecture. This will be worth 20% of your final course grade. Information about the guest lectures will be announced in class and through emails.
First term paper, 40%: Topics of the first term paper must be related to China. You are encouraged to meet with me to discuss the topic, scope, and outline of your paper. Due date for the midterm paper will be announced in class, most likely around the end of October.
Second term paper, 40%: Topics of the second term paper should be primarily on a topic related to Japan, North/South Korea, Taiwan, or Hong Kong. This paper is due December 16, 2000.
Readings: Given the broad scope of this course and the dynamic nature of the region, I will assign mostly journal articles instead of books as required readings. I will substitute or add new journal articles to the list of readings as they become available. Weekly reading materials will be handed out in class at least one week in advance. An experimental website has been created to enhance your access to information related to our course, http://www.duke.edu/web/cis/pass/course. We will work together to improve this website. So your inputs in the design and content of this website will be greatly appreciated.
1. Introduction to Chinese Politics
Hsu, Immanuel C. Y. The Rise of Modern China, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, paperback, 1999 ($35, Amazon).
2. Political Reform in China
Dittmer, Lowell and Yu-shan Wu, "The Modernization of Factionalism in Chinese Politics," World Politics, July 1995, pp. 467-494.
Nathan, Andrew J. and Kellee S. Tsai, "Factionalism: A New Institutionalist Restatement," The China Journal, July 1995, pp. 157-192.
Nathan, Andrew, "China's Constitutionalist Opinion," Journal of Democracy, vol.7, no.4 Oct. 1996, pp. 43-57.
Susan V. Lawrence, "False Dawn," Far Eastern Economic Review, October 1, 1998, pp.27-28.
3. Democratization in China
Kelliher, Daniel, "The Chinese Debate over Village Self-Government," The China Journal, Jan. 1997, pp. 67-85.
Pei, Minxin, "Is China Democratizing?" Foreign Affairs, vol. 77, no. 1, pp.68-82.
Zheng, Yongnian, "Development and Democracy: Are They Compatible in China?" Political Science Quarterly, vol. 109, no. 2, pp. 235-259.
Emerson Niou, "Implementing Village Elections in China: Voting Methods and Outcomes," Electoral Studies, forthcoming.
O'Brien, Kevin, Reform Without Liberalization: China's National People's Congress and the Politics of Institutional Change, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
4. Legal Reform in China
Baum, Richard, "Modernization and Legal Reform in Post-Mao China: the Rebirth of Socialist Legality," Studies in Comparative Communism, Summer 1986, pp.69-103.
Rowen, Henry S. "The Short March," The National Interest, Fall 1996, pp. 61-70.
Tanner, Murray Scot, "The Erosion of Comunist Party Control over Lawmaking in China," The China Quarterly, June 1994, pp.381-403.
Tanner, Murray Scot, "How a Bill Becomes a Law in China: Stages and Processes in Law-Making," The China Quarterly, March 1995, pp. 39-64.
Recommended
Dickson, Bruce, Democratization in China and Taiwan: The Adaptability of Leninist Parties, Clarendon Press, 1998.
Nathan, Andrew, China's Transition, Columbia University Press, 1999.
Goldman, Merle, Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China: Political Reform in the Deng Xiaoping Era, Harvard University Press, 1994.
Towsend and Womack, Politics in China, Little, Brown l986.
Susan L. Shirk, The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1993.
Potter, Pitman B., Democratic Law Reforms in Post-Mao China, M. E. Sharpe, 1994.
Jennings, Kent M. "Political Participation in the Chinese Countryside," American Political Science Review, June 1997, pp.361-372.
Manion, Melanie, "The Electoral Connection in the Chinese Countryside," American Political Science Review, December 1996, pp.736-748.
5. China's Security Agenda
"People's Republic of China," in National Security Planning Associates, Asia-Pacific: Issues and Development, November 1997, pp.29-58
Richard Bernstein & Ross H. Munro, "China I: The Coming Conflict with America," Foreign Affairs (March/April 1997), pp.18-32
Robert S. Ross, "China II: Beijing as a Conservative Power," Foreign Affairs (March/April 1997), pp.33-44
David Shambaugh, "China's Military: Real or Paper Tiger?," Washington Quarterly 19: 2(Spring 1996), pp.19-36
Thomas K. Christensen "Chinese Realpolitik," Foreign Affairs, 75:5 (September/October 1996) 37-52
Gideon Rachman, "Containing China," Washington Quarterly 19:1 (1996), pp.129-140
Recommended
Mann, James, About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship with China, from Nixon to Clinton, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
Andrew J. Nathan and Robert S. Ross, The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security, New York 1997.
Tyler, Patrick. A Great Wall, New York: Century Foundation, 1999.
John Fairbank, "A Preliminary Framework." in Fairbank, The Chinese World Order. 1-14.
Zheng, Yongnian, Discovering Chinese Nationalism in China: Modernizatin, Identity, and International Relations, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Alastair Iain Johnston "China's New 'Old Thinking': The Concept of Limited Deterrence," International Security, 20:3 (Winter 1995/6) 5-42
John Garver, "China's Push Through the South China Sea: The Interaction of Bureaucratic and National Interests," China Quarterly, 132 (December 1992)
Allen S. Whiting, "Chinese Nationalism and Foreign Policy After Deng," China Quarterly, No. 142 (June 1995)
6. Tension Across the Taiwan
Strait Brett Benson and Emerson Niou, "Dual Deterrance: US Strategic Ambiguity Policy Toward the Taiwan Security Issue," working paper.
Chong-pin Lin, "Beijing and Taipei: Dialectics in Post-Tiananmen Interactions" in David Shambaugh ed., Greater China 118-152
Emerson Niou, "A Strategic Analysis of the Taiwan Independence Issue," working paper.
7. Democratic Transition in Taiwan
Yun-han Chu, "Taiwan's Unique Challenges," Journal of Democracy, vol.7, no., 3, July 1996, pp.69-82.
Emerson Niou, "Implications of Chen Shui-bian's Victory in the 2000 Presidential Election," working paper.
Recommended
Cheng and Haggard, Political Change in Taiwan, Lynn Rienner, l992.
Tom Gold, State and Society in the Taiwan Miracle, M.E. Sharpe l984.
Tien, Hung-Mao and Steve Yue-sang Tsang ed., Democratization in Taiwan: Implications for China, St. Martin Press, 1999.
Gary Cox and Emerson Niou, "Seat Bonuses under the Single Non-Transferable Vote for Large Parties: Evidence from Japan and Taiwan," Comparative Politics, January 1994.
8. Hong Kong
Means Gordon, "Soft Authoritarianism in Malaysia and Singapore," Journal of Democracy, vol.7, no.1, Oct. 1996, pp. 103-117.
Brian Hook, "Political Change in Hong Kong," in David Shambaugh ed., Greater China 118-211
"Hong Kong, Singapore, and 'Asian Values,"' Journal of Democracy, vol.8, No.2, April 1997, pp.10-46.
Recommended
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, David Newman and Alvin Rabushka, Red Flag Over Hong Kong, 1996.
Lam, Jermain T.M., The Political Dynamics of Hong Kong Under Chinese Sovereignty, Nova Science Pub, 2000.
9. Japanese Domestic Politics
Purnendra Jain and Takashi Inoguchi (eds.), Japanese Politics Today: Beyond Karaoke Democracy? Paperback, Macmillan, 1998. ($19.95 Amazon) 10.
Janpanese Foreign Policy "Japan," in National Security Planning Associates, pp. 1-28
Chalmers Johnson, "The State and Japanese Grand Strategy," in Richard Rosecrance and Arthus Stein (eds.), The Domestic Bases of Grand Strategy (Cornell Univ. Press, 1993)
Howard Baker and Ellen L. Frost, "Rescuing the U.S.- Japan Alliance," Foreign Affairs 71: 2 (l992): 97-113
Tsuneo Akaha, "The Post-cold war Security Agenda of Japan," Pacific Review 8:1 (l995)
Richard Halloren, "Is Japan a Military Threat to Asia?" Arms Control Today 24:9 (November l994), pp.12-17
11. Korean Domestic Politics
Shin, Doh Chull, and Huoyan Shyu," Political Ambivalence in South Korea and Taiwan" Journal of Democracy, vol. 8, no.3, July 1997, pp.91-124.
Emerson Niou and Jinseog Yu, "Class Voting in Taiwan and South Korea," working paper.
Hagen Koo, The State and Society in Contemporary Korea, Cornell l994
12. Korean Foreign Policy
Chung-in Moon and Seok-soo Lee, "The Post-cold war security agenda of South Korea- Old Inertia, New Thinking, and Assessments," Pacific Review 8:1 (l995)
"Republic of Korea," in National Security Planning Associates, pp.59-82
Robert Manning, "The United States and the Endgame in Korea," Asian Survey 37:7 (July 1997), pp.597-608
Chung-in Moon, "Sunshine Policy Faces Challenges," US-Korea Tomorrow, 2000.
13. An Overview of the East Asian Politics
Gerald Segal, "How Insecure is Pacific Area?" International Affairs 73:2 (April 1997), pp.235-250
Steven Radelet & Jeffrey Sachs, "Asia's Remergence," Foreign Affairs (Nov./ Dec., 1997), pp.44-59
Bruce Koppel, "Fixing the Other Asia," Foreign Affairs (Jan- Feb., 1998), pp.98-110.
14. The Role of US in East Asia
James Baker, "America in Asia: Emerging Architect for a Pacific Community," Foreign Affairs 70:5 (l991)
Joseph Nye Jr., "The Case for Deep Engagement," Foreign Affairs 74:4 (1995), pp.90-102
Chalmers Johnson and E.B. Keehn, "The Pentagon's Ossified Strategy," Foreign Affairs 74:4 (1995), pp.106-113