Understanding Chinese Politics

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course is an undergraduate-level seminar on politics of contemporary China. Understanding politics, economy, society, and their complex relations of our neighbor. The course will systematically analyze and understand those objects through applying some theoretical frameworks of political science such as regime type, political institution, participation, contentious politics, clientelism, developmentalism, nationalism, and interactions between domestic and international politics. This course aims at understanding basic political history of contemporary China, theoretically and empirically exposing students to major issues and debates in the study of reform-era Chinese politics and helping students major characteristics of the Chinese Communist Party regime.