The following books are available for purchase:
Lampton, David M., ed. The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780804740562.
Mann, James. About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship with China, From Nixon to Clinton. New York, NY: Knopf, 1998. ISBN: 9780679450535.
Spence, Jonathan. The Search for Modern China. 2nd ed. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1999. ISBN: 9780393973518.
Readings by Session
| Lec # | Topics | Readings |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Historical and Geographical Legacies |
Required Spence, J. The Search for Modern China. 2nd ed. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1999, pp. 145-166, 197-201, 220-222, 280-282, 366-374, skim 419-488. ISBN: 9780393973518. Garver, John. “The Legacy of the Past.” In Foreign Relations of the People’s Republic of China. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992, pp. 2-30. ISBN: 9780133264142. Swaine, Michael D., and Ashley Tellis. Interpreting China’s Grand Strategy. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corp, 2000, pp. 9-20. ISBN: 9780833027672. Nathan, Andrew J., and Robert S. Ross. Great Wall and Empty Fortress. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1998, pp. 1-18. ISBN: 9780393317848. Singer, J. David. “The Levels of Analysis Problem in International Relations.” In The International System: Theoretical Essays. Edited by Klaus Kanor, and Sidney Verba. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961, pp. 77-92. Recommended Fairbank, John K., ed. “A Preliminary Framework.” In The Chinese World Order. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968, pp. 1-19. ISBN: 0196264251. |
| 2 | 1949-1969: Alliance With the Soviet Union and Its Collapse |
Required Spence, J. The Search for Modern China. 2nd ed. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1999, pp. 489-558, skim 559- 578. ISBN: 9780393973518. Yibo, Bo. “The Making of the ‘Leaning to One Side’ Decision.” Chinese Historian 5, no. 1 (Spring 1992): 57-62. Barnett, A. Doak. China and the Major Powers in East Asia. Washington, DC: Brookings, 1978, pp. 20-87. ISBN: 9780815708247. Christensen, Thomas J. Useful Adversaries. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996, pp. 148-176. ISBN: 9780691026374. Jian, Chen. China’s Road to the Korean War. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1995, pp. 158-189. ISBN: 9780231100243. Di, He. “The Evolution of the People’s Republic of China’s Policy Toward the Offshore Islands (Quemoy, Matsu).” In The Great Powers in East Asia: 1953-60. Edited by Warren I. Cohen, and Akira Iriye. New York, NY: Columbia University Press: 1990, pp. 222-245. ISBN: 9780231071741. Recommended “Symposium on Rethinking the Lost Chance in China.” Diplomatic History 21, no. 1 (Winter 1997). Goncharov, Sergei N., John W. Lewis, and Xue Litai. Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao and the Korean War. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993, pp. 76-109. ISBN: 9780804721158. Westad, Odd A., ed. “Introduction.” In Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1945-1963. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998, pp. 5-32. ISBN: 0804734852. |
| 3 | 1969-1981: Alignment With the U.S. |
Required Spence, J. The Search for Modern China. 2nd ed. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1999, pp. 595-646. ISBN: 9780393973518. Mann, James. About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship with China, From Nixon to Clinton. New York, NY: Knopf, 1998, pp. 13-114. ISBN: 9780679450535. Li, Gong. “Chinese Decision Making and the Thawing of U.S.-China Relations.” In Re-examining the Cold War: U.S.-China diplomacy, 1954-1973. Edited by Robert S. Ross, and Jiang Changbin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002, pp. 321-360. ISBN: 9780674005266. Recommended Ross, Robert. “From Lin Biao to Deng Xiaoping: Elite Instability and China’s U.S. policy.” The China Quarterly, no. 118 (June 1989): 265-299. Lieberthal, Kenneth. “Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy.” In China’s Foreign Policy in the 1980s. Edited by Harry Harding. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984, pp. 43-70. |
| 4 | 1982-1990s: Nonaligned Foriegn Policy |
Required Spence. The Search for Modern China. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1999, pp. 677-704. ISBN: 9780393973518. Baijia, Zhang. “Chinese Politics and Asia-Pacific Policy.” In The Golden Age of the U.S.-China-Japan Triangle, 1972-1989. Edited by Ezra Vogel et al. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002, pp. 38-51. ISBN: 9780674009608. (PDF - 2.1 MB). Hamrin, Carol Lee. “China Reassess the Superpowers.” Pacific Affairs 56, no. 2 (Summer 1983): 209-231. Xiaoping, Deng. “Peace And Development Are The Two Outstanding Issues In The World Today.” March 4, 1985. ———. “Speech At An Enlarged Meeting Of The Military Commission Of The Central Committee Of The Communist Party Of China.” June 4, 1985. Mann, James. About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship with China, From Nixon to Clinton. New York, NY: Knopf, 1998, pp. 194-255. ISBN: 9780679450535. Shambaugh, David. “China’s Foreign Policy Connundum since Tiananmen.” Issues and Studies (November 1992): 67-8x. Zemin, Jiang. Report to the 14th CPC National Congress in Beijing. October 12, 1992. Recommended Ross, Robert. “International Bargaining and Domestic Politics: U.S.-China Relations since 1972.” World Politics 38, no. 2 (June 1986): 255-287. Huaqiu, Liu. “A Powerful Ideological Weapon for Guiding External Work in the New Period – Understanding Through Study of Deng Xiaoping’s Diplomatic Thinking.” Renmin Ribao, July 13, 2000. Su, Chi. “Sino-Soviet Relations of the 1980s: From Confrontation to Conciliation.” In China and the World. 2nd ed. Edited by Samuel S. Kim. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1989, pp. 148-178. ISBN: 9780813306193. Kim, Samuel. “Peking’s Foreign Policy in the Shadows of Tiananmen.” Issues and Studies 27, no. 1 (1991): 39-69. Ross, Robert. “The Diplomacy of Tiananmen: Two-Level Bargaining and Great Power Cooperation.” Security Studies 10, no. 2 (Winter 2000/2001): 139-178. |
| 5 | Foriegn Policy Making |
Required Ning, Lu. The Dynamics of Foreign-Policy Decisionmaking in China. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1997, pp. 7-39. ISBN: 9780813333151. Cheung, Tai Ming. “The Influence of the Gun: China’s Central Military Commission and Its Relationship with the Military, Party and State Decision-Making Systems.” In The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy. Edited by Lampton. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001, pp. 61-90. ISBN: 9780804740562. Glaser, Bonnie S., and Phillip C. Saunders. “Chinese Civilian Foreign Policy Research Institutes: Evolving Roles and Increasing Influence.” The China Quarterly 171 (September 2002): 601-620. Fewsmith, Joseph, and Stanley Rosen. “The Domestic Context of Chinese Foreign Policy: Does Public Opinion Matter?” In The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform, 1978-2000. Edited by Lampton. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001, pp. 151-187. ISBN: 9780804740562. Gries, Peter H. China’s New Nationalism. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004, pp. 116-134. ISBN: 9780520232976. Recommended Johnston, Alastair Iain. “Chinese Middle Class Attitudes Towards International Affairs: Nascent Liberalization?” The China Quarterly, no. 179 (September 2004): 603-628. Downs, Erica Strecker, and Phillip Sanders. “Legitimacy and the Limits of Nationalism: China and the Diaoyutai Islands.” International Security 23, no. 3 (Winter 1998/1999): 114-146. Hamrin, Carol. “Elite Politics and the Development of China’s Foreign Relations.” In Chinese Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice. Edited by Robinson and Shambaugh. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 70-109. ISBN: 9780198283898. Swaine, Michael. The Role of the Chinese Military in National Security Policymaking. Revised edition. Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation, 1998, chapters 1-3. ISBN: 9780833025272. “Collection of articles on think-tanks.” The China Quarterly, no. 171 (September 2002): skim. |
| 6 | Use of Force |
Required Johnston, Alastair Iain. “China’s Military Interstate Dispute Behavior: A First Cut at the Data.” The China Quarterly, no. 153 (March 1998): 1-30. Whiting, Allen S. “China’s Use of Force, 1950-96, and Taiwan.” International Security 26, no. 2 (Fall 2001): 103-131. Godwin, Paul H. B. “Change and Continuity in Chinese Military Doctrine, 1949-1999.” In Chinese Warfighting: The PLA Experience Since 1949. Edited by Mark A. Ryan, David M. Finkelstein, and Michael A. McDevitt. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2003, pp. 23-55. ISBN: 9780765610874. Information Office of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China. China’s National Defense in 2004. December 2004, Chapters I-IV. Jiang Zemin’s Report at 16th Party Congress. “VII. National Defense and Army Building.” Gill, Bates, James Mulvenon, and Mark Stokes. “The Chinese Second Artillery Corps: Transition To Credible Deterrence.” In The People’s Liberation Army as Organization: Reference Vol. v1.0. Edited by James C. Mulvenon, and Andrew N. D. Yang. Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation, pp. 510-517, 536-560, skim rest. Brown, Harold, Joseph W. Prueher, and Adam Segal. Chinese Military Power: Report of an Independent Task Force. New York, NY: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2003. Office of the Secretary of Defense. The Military Power of the People’s Republic of China (July 2005). (PDF - 1.3 MB) Recommended Segal, Gerald. Defending China. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1985, pp. 231-257. ISBN: 9780198274704. Gurtov, Melvin, and Byong-Moo Hwang. China Under Threat: The Politics of Strategy and Diplomacy. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980, pp. 1-24. ISBN: 9780801823978. Johnston, Alastair Iain. “Realism(s) and Chinese Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Period.” In Unipolar Politics: Realism and State Strategies after the Cold War. Edited by Ethan B. Kapstein, and Michael Mastanduno. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1999, pp. 261-318. ISBN: 9780231113090. Shambaugh, David. Modernizing China’s Military: Progress, Problems, and Prospects. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, pp. 56-93. ISBN: 9780520225077. Gill, Bates, and Michael O’Hanlon. “China’s Hollow Military.” The National Interest (Summer 1999): 55-62. Lilley, James R., and Carl Ford. “China’s Military: A Second Opinion.” The National Interest (Fall 1999): 71-77. |
| 7 | Rising China’s Grand Strategy |
Required Baijia, Zhang. “Chinese Domestic and Foreign Policies in the 1990s.” In The Age of Uncertainty: The U.S.-China-Japan Triangle from Tiananmen (1989) to 9/11 (2001). Edited by Harvard East Asian Monographs Online, 2005, pp. 61-81. (PDF - 2.1 MB) Friedberg, Aaron. “The Struggle for Mastery in Asia.” Commentary (November 2000): 17-26. Johnston, Alastair Iain. “China’s International Relations: The Political and Security Dimensions.” In The International Relations of Northeast Asia. Edited by Samuel S. Kim. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003, pp. 65-100. ISBN: 9780742516953. Goldstein, Avery. “An Emerging China’s Emerging Grand Strategy: A Neo-Bismarckian Turn?.” In International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific. Edited by G. John Ikenberry, and Michael Mastanduno. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2003, pp. 57-106. ISBN: 9780231125918. Bijian, Zheng. “A New Path for China’s Peaceful Rise and the Future of Asia.” 2003. Jiang Zemin’s Report at 16th Party Congress. “IX. The International Situation and Our External Work.” Recommended Chan, Steve. “Exploring Puzzles In Power-Transition Theory: Implications For Sino-American Relations.” Security Studies 13, no. 3 (Spring 2004): 103-141. Deng, Yong. “The Chinese Conception of National Interests in International Relations.” The China Quarterly, no. 154 (June 1998): 308-329. Betts, Richard K., and Thomas J. Christensen. “China: Getting the Questions Right.” The National Interest (Winter 2000-2001): 17-29. |
| 8 | Integration With Intergovermental Organizations |
Required Kim, Samuel S. “China and the United Nations.” In China Joins the World: Progress and Prospects. Edited by Elizabeth Economy, and Michel Oksenberg. New York, NY: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1999, pp. 42-89. ISBN: 9780876092255. Pearson, Margaret M. “The Major Multilateral Economic Institutions Engage China.” In Engaging China: The Management of an Emerging Power. Edited by Alastair Iain Johnston, and Robert S. Ross. London, UK: Routledge Press, 1999, pp. 207-234. ISBN: 9780415208413. Johnston, Alastair Iain, and Paul Evans, eds. “China’s Engagement in International Security Institutions.” In Engaging China: The Management of an Emerging Power. London, UK: Routledge Press, 1999, pp. 235-272. ISBN: 9780415208413. Hongying, Wang. “Multilateralism in Chinese Foreign Policy: The Limits of Socialization.” Asian Survey 40, no. 3 (May/June 2000): 475-491. Recommended Johnston, Alastair Iain. “Socialization in International Institutions: The ASEAN Way and International Institutions.” In International Relations Theory and the Asia-Pacific. Edited by G. John Ikenberry, and Michael Mastanduno. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2003, pp. 107-162. ISBN: 9780231125918. Carlson, Allen. “Helping to Keep the Peace (Albeit Reluctantly): China’s Recent Stance on Sovereignty and Multilateral Intervention.” Pacific Affairs 77, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 1-27. Morphet, Sally. “China as a Permanent Member of the Security Council: October 1971 - December 1999.” Security Dialogue 31, no. 2 (June 2000): 151-166. Johnston, Alastair Iain. “Learning versus Adaptation: Explaining Change in Chinese Arms Control Policy in the 1980s and 1990s.” The China Journal, no. 35 (January 1996): 27-61. |
| 9 | Taiwan |
Required Nathan, Andrew J., and Robert S. Ross. The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, c1997, pp. 193-211. ISBN: 9780393040760. Yun-han, Chu. “The Evolution of Beijing’s Policy Towards Taiwan During the Reform Era.” In China Rising: Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy. Edited by Yong Deng, and Wang Fei-ling. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004, pp. 245-278. ISBN: 9780742528918. Mann, James. About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship with China, From Nixon to Clinton. New York, NY: Knopf, 1998, pp. 315-338. ISBN: 9780679450535. Scobell, Andrew. “Show of Force: The 1995-1996 Taiwan Crisis.” In China’s Use of Military Force . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 171-191. ISBN: 9780521525855. Roy, Denny. “Tensions in the Taiwan Strait.” Survival 42, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 76-96. Jiang Zemin’s Report at 16th Party Congress. “VIII. “One Country, Two Systems” and Complete National Reunification.” Recommended Ross, Robert. “The 1996 Taiwan Strait Confrontation: Coercion, Credibility and Use of Force.” International Security 25, no. 2 (Fall 2000): 87-123. Christensen, Thomas J. “The Contemporary Security Dilemma: Deterring a Taiwan Conflict.” Washington Quarterly 25, no. 4 (Fall 2002): 7-21. Ross, Robert. “The Stability of Deterrence in the Taiwan Straits.” The National Interest (Fall 2001): 67-76. Christensen, Thomas J. “Posing Problems without Catching Up: China’s Rise and Challenges for U.S. Security Policy.” International Security 25, no. 4 (Spring 2001): 5-40. Romberg, Alan. Rein in at the Brink of the Precipice: American Policy Toward Taiwan and U.S.-PRC Relation. Washington, DC: Henry L. Stimson Center, 2003, skim but key. ISBN: 9780974725543. Glosny, Michael A. “Strangulation from the Sea? A PRC Submarine Blockade of Taiwan.” International Security 28, no. 4 (Spring 2004): 125-160. |
| 10 | Trade and Economic Relations |
Required Moore, Thomas. “China’s International Relations: The Economic Dimension.” In International Relations in Northeast Asia. Edited by Samuel S. Kim. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003, pp. 101-134. ISBN: 9780742516953. Pearson, Margaret M. “The Case of China’s Accession to GATT/WTO.” In The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform, 1978-2000. Edited by Lampton. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001., pp. 337-370. ISBN: 9780804740562. Moore, Thomas. “Empowered and Restrained: Chinese Foreign Policy in the Age of Economic Interdependence.” In The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform, 1978-2000. Edited by David M. Lampton. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001., pp. 191-229. ISBN: 9780804740562. Lee, Pak K. “China’s Quest for Oil Security: Oil (Wars) in the Pipeline?” The Pacific Review 18, no. 2 (June 2005): 265-301. Recommended Yongjin, Zhang. China Goes Global. London, UK: The Foreign Policy Centre, 2005. ISBN: 1903558530. Moore, Thomas G., and Yong Deng. “China Views Globalization: Toward a New Great-Power Politics?” The Washington Quarterly 27, no. 3 (Summer 2004): 117-136. Hongying, Wang. “China’s Exchange Rate Policy in the Aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis.” In Monetary Orders: Ambiguous Economics, Ubiquitous Politics Power. Edited by Jonathan Kirshner. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003, pp. 153-171. ISBN: 9780801440601. |
| 11 | Territorial Disputes and Ambitions |
Required Mosher, Steven M. Hegemon: China’s Plan to Dominate Asia and the World. San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2002, pp. 97-116. ISBN: 9781893554405. Fravel, M. Taylor. “Regime Insecurity and International Cooperation: Explaining China’s Compromises in Territorial Disputes.” International Security 30, no. 2 (Fall 2005 forthcoming). Li, Nan. “From Revolutionary Internationalism to Conservative Nationalism: The Chinese Military’s Discourse on National Security and Identity in the Post-Mao Era.” Peaceworks no. 39. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2001. Guan, Ang Cheng. “The South China Sea Dispute Revisited.” Australian Journal of International Affairs 54, no. 2 (2000): 201-215. Su, Steven Wei. “The Territorial Dispute over the Tiaoyu/Senkaku Islands: An Update.” Ocean Development & International Law 36 (2005): 45-61. Recommended Carlson, Allen. “Constructing the Dragons Scales: China’s Approach to Territorial Sovereignty and Border Relations.” Journal of Contemporary China 12, no. 37 (November 2003): 677-698. Garver, John W. “China’s Push Through the South China Sea: The Interaction of Bureaucratic and National Interests.” The China Quarterly, no. 132 (December 1992): 999-1028. |
| 12 | Regional Engagement and New Diplomacy |
Required Shambaugh, David S. “China Engages Asia: Reshaping the Regional Order.” International Security 29, no. 3 (Winter 2004/05): 64-99. Jisi, Wang. “China’s Changing Role in Asia.” In The Rise of China and A Changing East Asian Order. Edited by Kokubun Ryosei and Wang Jisi. Tokyo, JPN: Japan Center for International Exchange, 2004, pp. 3-22. ISBN: 9784889070699. Sutter, Robert S. China’s Rise in Asia - Promises, Prospects and Implications for the United States. Occasional Paper. Honolulu, HI: Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, 2005. Jianwei, Wang. “China’s Multilateral Diplomacy in the New Millennium.” In China Rising: Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy. Edited by Yong Deng, and Wang Fei-ling. New York, NY: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004, pp. 159-200. ISBN: 9780742528918. Kim, Samuel S. “China’s New Role In The Nuclear Confrontation.” Asian Perspective 28, no. 4 (2004), pp. 147-184. Recommended Shambaugh, David. “China and the Korean Peninsula.” The Washington Quarterly 26, no. 2 (Spring 2003): 43-56. |
| 13 | Relations With the United States |
Required Lampton, David M. Same Bed Different Dreams: Managing China-U.S. Relations 1989-2000. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001, pp. 15-63. ISBN: 9780520215900. Deng, Yong. “Hegemon on the Offensive: Chinese Perspectives on U.S. Global Strategy.” Political Science Quarterly 116, no. 3 (2001): 343-365. Qingguo, Jia. “Learning To Live With The Hegemon: Evolution Of China’s Policy Toward The U.S. Since The End Of The Cold War.” Journal of Contemporary China 14, no. 44 (August 2005): 395-407. Friedberg, Aaron L. “11 September and the Future of Sino-American Relations.” Survival 44, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 33-50. Swaine, Michael. “China: Exploiting a Strategic Opening.” Strategic Asia 2004-05. Seattle: NBR, 2004, pp. 67-80 only. Jisi, Wang. “Searching for stability with America.” Foreign Affairs 84, no. 5 (September/October 2005): 39-48. Recommended Ross, Robert S. “The Geography of Peace: East Asia in the Twenty-first Century.” International Security 23, no. 4 (Spring 1999): 81-118. Blum, Samantha. “Chinese Views of U.S. Hegemony.” Journal of Contemporary China 12, no. 35 (2003): 239-264. Lubman, Stanley. “The Dragon as Demon: Images of China on Capitol Hill.” Journal of Contemporary China 13, no. 40 (August 2004): 541-565. |
| 14 | Relations With Japan |
Required Johnson, Chalmers. “The Patterns of Japanese Relations with China, 1952-1982.” Pacific Affairs 59, no. 3 (Fall 1986): 402-428. Tuosheng, Zhang. “Sino-Japanese Relations at the Turn of the Century (1992 to 2001).” In The Age of Uncertainty. Edited by Ezra Vogel et al. pp. 227-253. (PDF - 2.1 MB) Gries, Peter H. “China’s ‘New Thinking on Japan’.” The China Quarterly (forthcoming 2005). Christensen, Thomas J. “China, The U.S.-Japan Alliance, And The Security Dilemma In East Asia.” International Security 23, no. 4 (Spring 1999): 49-80. Roy, Denny. “The Sources and Limits of Sino-Japanese Tensions.” Survival 47, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 191-214. Recommended Whiting, Allen S. “Past to the Present.” China Eyes Japan. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989, pp. 27-40. ISBN: 9780520065116. Rozman, Gilbert. “China’s Changing Images of Japan, 1989-2001: The Struggle To Balance Partnership and Rivalry.” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 2, no. 1 (2002): 95-130. Sutter, Robert. “China and Japan: Trouble Ahead?” The Washington Quarterly 25, no. 4 (Autumn 2002): 37-49. Wan, Ming. “Tensions in Recent Sino-Japanese Relations: The May 2002 Shenyang Incident.” Asian Survey 43, no. 5 (September/October 2003): 826-844. |
