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Бакалавриат 2020/2021

Государство и общество в Восточной Азии

Лучший по критерию «Полезность курса для расширения кругозора и разностороннего развития»
Направление: 41.03.01. Зарубежное регионоведение
Когда читается: 2-й курс, 1, 2 модуль
Формат изучения: без онлайн-курса
Язык: английский
Кредиты: 4
Контактные часы: 60

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This is a required course for Politics and Economics in Asia, the HSE-KIC dual degree program. This advanced undergraduate course provides a comprehensive introduction to East Asian politics. The first part (Module I) highlights East Asia as a region, focusing on shared historical memories, cultural values, and patterns of state-building. The second section (Module II) examines institutional arrangements, political development, and state-society relations in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. The emphasis in this course pivots on understanding of conceptual issues that are anchored in politics of China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan but that are generally relevant to comparative politics. Specifically, we will explore these and related questions: • How do nation-states form, and how are they held together? • What is development? • What would be the optimal way to design institutions in a democracy? • How do authoritarian regimes survive? • How can political institutions and policies shift deeply held cultural attitudes in society? While comparative in nature, the course will also emphasize paired comparisons of recent country-level developments (i.e., South and North Korea, China and Taiwan).
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • Through the course, students are expected to acknowledge the importance of the historical origins and the developmental paths of state-society relations in understanding the unique aspects of each government’s policies as well as of people’s political behaviors.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Students will develop competency in the following areas: • Collecting, analyzing, documenting, and reporting research clearly, concisely, logically, and ethically; • Understanding the standards for legitimate interpretations of research data within the academic community; • Using primary and library research to discover information;
  • Students will also develop competency in the following areas: practicing the unique qualities of academic writing style (e.g., sentence conciseness, readability, clarity, accuracy, , using direct order organization, objectivity).
  • Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to: • Be familiar with the key events that have shaped contemporary East Asian politics; • Understand and critically analyze state-society relations in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan in the 21st century
  • Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to: • Effectively compare the development of China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan; • Understand the role and significance of the main concepts associated with comparative politics and how they can be applied to the study of state-society relations in East Asia; • Locate East Asian politics within the global context and provide a comparative perspective
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Week 1 Asia in a Comparative Perspective
    What is East Asia? What does constitute East Asia? Is East Asia a part of the Global South? What does shape the development of East Asia in the 21st century? • Holcombe, C. (2017). Introduction: What is East Asia? In C. Holcombe A History of East Asia. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-10. • Holcombe, C. (2017). The Nineteenth-Century Encounter of Civilizations. In C. Holcombe A History of East Asia. Cambridge University Press, pp. 217-258. • Holcombe, C. (2017). The Age of Westernization (1900-1929) In C. Holcombe A History of East Asia. Cambridge University Press, pp. 259-288.
  • Week 2 Colonialism and Imperialism
    What are colonialism and imperialism? How does colonialism affect modern East Asia? How does the colonial past of East Asia shape the relationship between the state and market? • Haggard, S., Kang, D., & Moon, C. I. (1997). Japanese colonialism and Korean development: A critique. World Development, 25(6), 867-881. • Robinson M.E. 2007. Colonial State and Society. In Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, pp. 36–55 • Booth, A. E. 2007. What Were Colonial Governments Doing? The Myth of the Night Watchman State. In Colonial Legacies: Economic and Social Development in East and Southeast Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 67-87. • Holcombe, C. (2017). The Age of Westernization (1900-1929) In C. Holcombe A History of East Asia. Cambridge University Press, pp. 259-288. • Holcombe, C. (2017). The Dark Valley (1930-1945). In C. Holcombe A History of East Asia. Cambridge University Press, pp. 288-311.
  • Week 3 Regionalism and Nationalism
    What are the regional dynamics in East Asia? How do East Asian societies communicate with each other? How did China, Korea, and Taiwan experience Japanese colonialism and why does each country have different attitudes toward the colonizer (Japan)? What is nationalism? How nationalism influences East Asian politics? • Chun, J. H. (2016). The role of Japan’s civil society organizations and the deteriorating relationship between Japan and South Korea. International Journal, 71(1), 88-106. • Schneider, F. (2016). China’s ‘info-web’: How Beijing governs online political communication about Japan. New media & society, 18(11), 2664-2684. • Weber, T. (2018). Apology Failures: Japan’s Strategies Towards China and Korea in Dealing with Its Imperialist Past. In The Palgrave Handbook of State-Sponsored History After 1945. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 801-816. • Suzuki, S. (2015). The rise of the Chinese ‘Other’ in Japan's construction of identity: Is China a focal point of Japanese nationalism?. The Pacific Review, 28(1), 95-116. • Kingston, J. (2019). One-Hand Clapping: Japanese Nationalism in the Abe Era. In Japan and Asia’s Contested Order (pp. 147-163). Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore
  • Week 4 Research workshop (I)
    What is a good research question? How to formulate a thesis statement? How to write literature reviews and bibliographies?
  • Week 5 Asian values?
    What is democracy? Do cultural factors influence economic and political development? Are Asian values compatible with democracy? Can culture function as an independent variable to explain political outcomes? How does separation of powers work in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan? How people in East Asia choose their leaders? What is democracy? What is development? • Jung, K. D. (1994). Is culture destiny? The myth of Asia's anti-democratic values. Foreign Affairs, 189-194. • Chang, Y. H., Wu, J. J., & Weatherall, M. (2017). Popular Value Perceptions and Institutional Preference for Democracy in “Confucian” East Asia. Asian Perspective 41(3), 347-375. Suggested reading: • Dalton, Russell J., and Nhu-Ngoc T. Ong. (2005). Authority orientations and democratic attitudes: A test of the ‘Asian values’ hypothesis. Japanese Journal of Political Science, 6 (2), 211-231. • Kim, S. Y. (2010). Do Asian values exist? Empirical tests of the four dimensions of Asian values. Journal of East Asian Studies, 10(2), 315-344.
  • Week 6 Economic development and the role of the state (I)
    What are the common features of the developmental model that each East Asian country has pursued? What is developmental state? What is neoliberalism? And how neoliberal is East Asia? • Stubbs, R. (2009). What ever happened to the East Asian Developmental State? The unfolding debate. The Pacific Review, 22(1), 1-22. • Wade, R. H. (2018). The developmental state: dead or alive? Development and Change, 49(2), 518-546. • Doner, R. F., Ritchie, B. K., & Slater, D. (2005). Systemic vulnerability and the origins of developmental states: Northeast and Southeast Asia in comparative perspective. International organization, 59(2), 327-361.
  • Week 7 Economic development and the role of the state (II)
    Does the “China model” of development exist? How do the development strategies of each country in East Asia differ? Specifically, what are the differences and similarities between the “China model” and development strategies of other East Asian states? • Stubbs, R. (2018). Order and Contestation in the Asia-Pacific Region: Liberal vs Developmental/Non-interventionist Approaches. The International Spectator, 53(1), 138-151. • Pekkanen, R. (2004). After the developmental state: Civil society in Japan. Journal of East Asian Studies, 4(3), 363-388. • Pirie, I. (2018). Korea and Taiwan: The crisis of investment-led growth and the end of the developmental state. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 48(1), 133-158. • Dickson, B. J. (2011). Updating the China model. The Washington Quarterly, 34(4), 39-58. • Arrighi, G. (2007). Introduction. In Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the twenty-first century. Verso books, pp. 1-10. Research workshop (II) What are academic and non-academic sources? What information should be cited and why? Where to find and how to use citation guides?
  • Week 8 Mid-term exam
    Multiple choice & short answer tests.
  • Week 9 China (I): The resilience of the Chinese Communist Party
    How can we explain the longevity of the Chinese Communist Party? Why is the CCP able to survive during the economic transition? Is the CPC regime legitimate? • Li, C. (2012). The end of the CCP's resilient authoritarianism? A tripartite assessment of shifting power in China. The China Quarterly, 211, 595-623. • Li, L. (2016). Reassessing trust in the central government: evidence from five national surveys. The China Quarterly, 225, 100-121. • Chong, J. I. (2014). Popular narratives versus Chinese history: Implications for understanding an emergent China. European Journal of International Relations, 20(4), 939-964. • Dickson, B. J. (2011). Updating the China model. The Washington Quarterly, 34(4), 39-58.
  • Week 10 China (II): Civil society and new middle class
    How does Chinese experience support, improve, or challenge the key assumptions of modernization theory? How does economic openness in China change and challenge the party institutions? Can civil society emerge under authoritarian regimes, like the one in China, and how will it affect regime stability? • Teets, J. C. (2013). Let many civil societies bloom: The rise of consultative authoritarianism in China. The China Quarterly, 213, 19-38. • Chen, J., & Dickson, B. J. (2008). Allies of the state: Democratic support and regime support among China's private entrepreneurs. The China Quarterly, 196, 780-804. • Yan, X. (2012). “To Get Rich Is Not Only Glorious”: Economic Reform and the New Entrepreneurial Party Secretaries. The China Quarterly, 210, 335-354.
  • Week 11 Taiwan & Hong Kong: Nationalism, national identity, and democratization
    How can we explain the democratization process in Taiwan? What is the impact of social movements on Taiwan’s and Hong Kong’s politics? What do cases of Taiwan and Hong Kong contribute to our understanding of democracy? • Kwan, J. P. (2016). The rise of civic nationalism: Shifting identities in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations, 2(2), 941-973. • Ortmann, S. (2015). The umbrella movement and Hong Kong's protracted democratization process. Asian Affairs, 46(1), 32-50. • Ho, M. S. (2015). Occupy Congress in Taiwan: Political opportunity, threat, and the Sunflower Movement. Journal of East Asian Studies, 15(1), 69-97. • Veg, S. (2017). The rise of “localism” and civic identity in post-handover Hong Kong: Questioning the Chinese nation-state. The China Quarterly, 230, 323-347.
  • Week 12 Japan: American influence
    How do the US-Japan relations influence the political development of Japan? Did the United States “export” democracy to Japan? What is America’s role in Japanese nation-building? • Dobbins, J. F. (2003). America's role in nation-building: From Germany to Iraq. Survival, 45(4), 87-110. • Yoshimi, S., & Buist, D. (2003). ‘America’s desire and violence: Americanization in postwar Japan and Asia during the Cold War. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 4(3), 433-450. • Koikari, M. (2002). Exporting democracy?: American women," feminist reforms," and politics of imperialism in the US occupation of Japan, 1945-1952. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 23(1), 23-45.
  • Week 13 Korea (I): Democracy & development
    How does politics shape economic policy-making in South Korea after the Cold War? Compare the patterns of democratization in Korea and Taiwan. Who were the actors, and what were their resources? Why did they prevail? • O’Brien, T. (2017). Unbuilding from the inside: Leadership and democratization in South Africa and South Korea. Government and Opposition, 52(4), 614-639. • Macrae, K. (2016). Post-Cold War Conservative Reappraisals of Syngman Rhee: Neoliberalism and the New Right. Seoul Journal of Korean Studies, 29(2), 327-359. • Robinson M.E. (2007). Political and Economic Development in South Korea. In Korea’s Twentieth-Century Odyssey. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, pp. 121-145. • Fleckenstein, T., & Lee, S. C. (2017). Democratization, post-industrialization, and East Asian welfare capitalism: the politics of welfare state reform in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 33(1), 36-54.
  • Week 14 Korea (II): National identity in a divided nation
    What is national identity? How does “national identity” differ from “nationality” and being a citizen (having a passport)? How do Koreans define their national identity? How does national identity develop among a population that has troublesome political borders? • Son, S. A. (2018). South Korea’s North Korean image problem: Human rights under the spotlight. Asian Studies Review, 42(4), 662-681. • Ha, S. E., and Jang, S. (2016) National identity in a divided nation: South Koreans’ attitudes toward North Korean defectors and the reunification of two Koreas. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 55 (2016): 109-119. • Campbell, E. (2015). The end of ethnic nationalism? Changing conceptions of national identity and belonging among young South Koreans. Nations and Nationalism, 21(3), 483-502.
  • Week 15 Japan, South Korea & Taiwan: Party politics and democracy
    South Korea and Japan are multi-party democracies. What political, economic, and sociocultural determinants have shaped institutional combinations in each country? How are their party politics different and similar? How is the political system in Japan different from other East Asian democratic countries? How does the electoral system in Japan reinforce the dominance of the LDP? • Vincent, S. (2017). Dominant Party Adaptation to the Catch-All Model: a Comparison of Former Dominant Parties in Japan and South Korea. East Asia, 34(3), 197-215. • Krauss, E., Nemoto, K., Pekkanen, R. J., & Tanaka, A. (2017). Party politics, elections and (mis-) trust in Japan. Japan Forum 29 (1), 19-38. • Sanborn, H. (2015). Democratic consolidation: Participation and attitudes toward democracy in Taiwan and South Korea. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties, 25(1), 47-61. • Fleckenstein, T., & Lee, S. C. (2017). Democratization, post-industrialization, and East Asian welfare capitalism: the politics of welfare state reform in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 33(1), 36-54.
  • Week 16 Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in East Asia
    What have been the major successes of feminist activism in East Asia? How can political institutions and policies shift deeply-held cultural attitudes towards women in East Asian societies? How do legislations aimed at promoting women’s representation in elected public bodies influence the gender dynamics in Japan and South Korea? • Dalton, E. (2015). Ch. 5. Negotiating a masculinized party culture & Conclusion: The failure of “equality” and the possibility of gender quotas. Women and politics in contemporary Japan. Routledge, pp. 103-137. • Yoon, J., & Shin, K. Y. (2017). Opportunities and Challenges to Gender Quotas in Local Politics: The Case of Municipal Council Elections in South Korea. Asian Journal of Women's Studies, 23(3), 363-384. • León, M., Choi, Y. J., & Ahn, J. S. (2016). When flexibility meets familialism: Two tales of gendered labour markets in Spain and South Korea. Journal of European Social Policy, 26(4), 344-357. • To, Sandy. (2013) Understanding Sheng Nu (“Leftover Women”): the Phenomenon of Late Marriage among Chinese Professional Women. Symbolic Interaction 36(1): 1-20. • Judd, Ellen. (2007). No Change for Thirty Years: The Renewed Question of Women’s Land Rights in Rural China. Development and Change 38(4): 689-710.
  • Week 17 FINAL EXAM
    Multiple choice & short answer tests.
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Participation during in-class activities
    READING / PREPAREDNESS Fully Prepared and Engaged: Has completed and thought about the readings; makes effective use of the readings in discussion; makes use of personal experiences and existing knowledge, but relates such anecdotes and background information to the themes of the readings. Prepared and Engaged: Has completed most or all the assigned readings; provides competent analysis of, or comments on, the readings with limited prompting. Somewhat Prepared, but Not Actively Engaged: Displays familiarity with most readings; does not regularly refer to readings in discussion; fails to relate readings to personal observations or existing knowledge. Unprepared and Disengaged: Little apparent familiarity with assigned readings; lack of willingness to participate. Clearly Unprepared: Unfamiliar with readings. DISCUSSION Excellent: Leads discussion; offers analysis and insightful comments; takes care to listen to others and not dominate discussions; expands the discussion by regularly making reference to assigned readings as well as to current events, personal experiences and existing knowledge; actively asks questions. Good to Very Good: Clear, thoughtful and often insightful comments and questions; willing and able to be a frequent contributor to discussions; willing and able to expand the discussion by relating readings to current events, personal experiences, and existing knowledge; asks questions. Satisfactory: Willing to participate, but clear and insightful comments are sporadic; less willing to expand the conversation or ask questions. Marginal: Unwilling to participate actively in discussion; remarks often marred by misunderstandings; unhelpful and unwilling to listen. Unacceptable: Rarely speaks; unhelpful.
  • non-blocking Research workshop I (participation and in-class activities)
  • non-blocking Research workshop II (participation and in-class activities)
  • non-blocking Research questions
  • non-blocking Mid-term exam
  • non-blocking Research essay proposal and bibliography
    This assignment is worth 15% of Module 2 grade
  • non-blocking Final paper: Research essay
    This assignment is worth 35% of Module 2 grade.
  • non-blocking Finai exam - Take home exam
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • Interim assessment (1 module)
    0.35 * Mid-term exam + 0.1 * Participation during in-class activities + 0.25 * Research questions + 0.15 * Research workshop I (participation and in-class activities) + 0.15 * Research workshop II (participation and in-class activities)
  • Interim assessment (2 module)
    0.35 * Finai exam - Take home exam + 0.35 * Final paper: Research essay + 0.15 * Participation during in-class activities + 0.15 * Research essay proposal and bibliography
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • America’s role in nation-building : From Germany to Iraq / James Dobbins ... Rand Corporation. (2003). RAND.
  • Dickson, B. (2011). Updating the China Model. Washington Quarterly, 34(4), 39. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163660X.2011.608335
  • Doner, R. F., Ritchie, B. K., & Slater, D. (2005). Systemic Vulnerability and the Origins of Developmental States: Northeast and Southeast Asia in Comparative Perspective. International Organization, 02, 327.
  • Fleckenstein, T., & Lee, S. C. (2017). Democratization, post-industrialization, and East Asian welfare capitalism: the politics of welfare state reform in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Journal of International & Comparative Social Policy, 33(1), 36–54. https://doi.org/10.1080/21699763.2017.1288158
  • Howard Sanborn. (2015). Democratic Consolidation: Participation and Attitudes Toward Democracy in Taiwan and South Korea. https://doi.org/10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.C.2035121.V1
  • Judd, E. R. (2007). No Change for Thirty Years: The Renewed Question of Women’s Land Rights in Rural China. Development & Change, 38(4), 689–710. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7660.2007.00429.x
  • Justin P. Kwan. (2016). The Rise of Civic Nationalism: Shifting Identities in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
  • Ming-sho Ho. (2015). Occupy Congress in Taiwan: Political Opportunity, Threat, and the Sunflower Movement. Journal of East Asian Studies, 15(1), 69–97. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1598240800004173
  • Pekkanen, R. (2004). After the Developmental State: Civil Society in Japan. Journal of East Asian Studies, 4(3), 363–388. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1598240800006019
  • Stubbs, R. (2009). What ever happened to the East Asian Developmental State? The unfolding debate. Pacific Review, 22(1), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/09512740802650971
  • Suzuki, S. (2015). The rise of the Chinese ‘Other’ in Japan’s construction of identity: Is China a focal point of Japanese nationalism? Pacific Review, 28(1), 95–116. https://doi.org/10.1080/09512748.2014.970049
  • Veg, S. V. (DE-588)138055025, (DE-576)306314770, aut. (2017). The rise of “localism” and civic identity in post-handover Hong Kong : questioning the Chinese nation-state / Sebastian Veg.
  • Yoshimi, S. (2003). “America” as desire and violence: Americanization in postwar Japan and Asia during the Cold War. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 4(3), 433–450. https://doi.org/10.1080/1464937032000143797
  • Young-Hee Chang, Jack Junzhi Wu, & Weatherall, M. (2017). Popular Value Perceptions and Institutional Preference for Democracy in “Confucian” East Asia. Asian Perspective, 41(3), 347–375. https://doi.org/10.1353/apr.2017.0017

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Campbell, E. (2015). The end of ethnic nationalism? Changing conceptions of national identity and belonging among young South Koreans. Nations & Nationalism, 21(3), 483–502. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12120
  • O, B. T. (2017). Unbuilding from the Inside: Leadership and Democratization in South Africa and South Korea. Government & Opposition, 52(4), 614–639. https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2015.41
  • So Young Kim. (2010). Do Asian Values Exist? Empirical Tests of the Four Dimensions of Asian Values. Journal of East Asian Studies, 10(2), 315–344. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1598240800003477