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Economic transformation
CR, Ch 6 Naughton, pp. 129-148;
Ch 8 Downs, pp. 171-200;
Economist
, “The East is Grey,” August 10, 2013.
6
/28
Political System
CR, Ch 10 Fewsmith, pp. 227-246;
Susan Lawrence,
China’s Political Institutions in Charts,
Congressional Research
Service R43303 (November 12, 2013);
Susan Lawrence and Michael Martin,
Understanding China’s Political System,
Congressional Research Service (March 20, 2013).
/30
Political system continued
Brantly Womack, “Modernization and the Sino-Vietnamese Model,”
International
Journal of China Studies
2:3 (August-September 2011), pp. 157-175;
Yu Keping, “Search for balance in China: a quest for dynamic stability,”
East Asia
Forum
September 22,1013.
7
10/5
READING DAY
/7
A life in China: Sidney Rittenberg
The Revolutionary
(in
class documentary)
8
10/12
FIRST TEST: Short Answer Questions
/14
FIRST TEST: Essay Questions
9
/19
Challenges of sustainability
Brantly Womack, “Political Reform and Sustainable Development in China,”
Fudan
Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences
3:1 (March 2010), pp. 32-54.
/21
Challenges of diversity: Tibet
Ezra Vogel, “Chapter 17: One Country, Two Systems,” in
Deng Xiaoping and the
Transfomation of China
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011), pp. 477-522;
Brantly Womack, Resolving
Asymmetric Stalemate: The case of the Tibetan
Question,”
Journal of Contemporary China,
no. 52 (August 2007), pp. 443-460.
10
/26
China, region, and world
Brantly Womack, “China between Region and World,”
China Journal
no. 61 (January
2009), pp. 1-20;
Xi Jinping, “New Asian Security Concept For New Progress in Security
Cooperation,” May 21, 2014.
/28
Taiwan and triangles
Chas Freeman, “The Beijing-Taipei-Washington Triangle,” presented November 18,
2013;
Brantly Womack, “The Washington-Beijing-Taipei Triangle:
An American
Perspective,” ms;
REN Xiao, “The Beijing-Taipei-Washington Triangle:
A PRC Perspective,” ms;

4
Tse-Kang LENG, “The Taipei-Beijing-Washington Triangle:
A Taiwanese
Perspective,” ms.
11
11/2
China’s peaceful rise
Barry Buzan, “The Logic and Contradictions of ‘Peaceful Rise/Development’ as
China’s Grand Strategy,”
The Chinese Journal of International Politics
, 2014, pp. 1–40;
Brantly Womack, “China and the Future Status Quo,”
Chinese Journal of
International Politics
8:2 (Summer 2015), pp. 115-137.

