Sociology 308
China and Russia: Comparisons and Relations
Fall 1997
Monday and Wednesday, 1:30
Instructor: Gilbert Rozman
Lectures
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Overview
(September 15-24)
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Historical
Comparisons (September
29-October 8)
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Social
Analysis
(October 13-November
12)
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Identities
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Relations (November
17-December 3)
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Conclusions
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8-10)
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Overview
- September 15. Introduction: The Significance of Comparing
China and
Russia. The Significance of Sino-Russian Relations.
- September 17. Types of Comparisons. A Chronological Overview.
- September 22. Contemporary Social Problems. A Sociological
Perspective.
- September 24. The Strategic Partnership. Historical and Global
Context.
Historical Comparisons
- September 29. China and Russia on the Eve of Modernization.
- October 1. The Russian and Chinese Revolutions.
- October 6. The Stages of Socialism in Russia and China.
- October 8. Reforming and Dismantling Socialism.
Social Analysis
- October 13. State Enterprises and Workers: Problems of the
Socialist Order.
- October 15. Reforming State Enterprises and Workers:
Corporatism or Capitalism?
- October 20. Cities and Villages: Socialist Restrictions.
- October 22. Entrepreneurship in Cities and Villages.
- November 3. Social Problems: Individualism, Creativity, and
Social Change.
- November 5. Social Problems: Education.
- November 10. The State and Social Relations: Gender and
Inequality.
- November 12. Decentralization and Social Relations: Corruption
and Initiative.
Identities and Relations.
- November 17. National Identity under Socialism.
- November 19. Great Power Identities in the 1990s.
- November 24. Sino-Russian Relations: From Premodern Times to
the Sino-Soviet Alliance.
- November 26. The Sino-Soviet Conflict.
- December 1. Sino-Soviet Normalization and Sino-Russian
Partnership.
- December 3. Regionalism in Northeast Asia.
Conclusions
- December 8. Conclusions: Prospects for Each Country in
Comparative Perspective.
- December 10. Conclusions: Bilateral Relations in Local,
Regional, and Global Contexts.
Precepts and Readings
Precept 1
Peter Nolan, China’s Rise, Russia’s Fall: Politics, Economics and
Planning in the Transition from Stalinism (1995).
- Ch. 2, "Economic Performance during the Reform Period in China and
Russia," 10-23.
- Ch. 3, "The Need for Reform of the Chinese and Soviet Systems of
Political Economy," 24-53;
- Ch. 5, "Catch-up Capabilities Compared," 110-59;
- Ch. 6, "Reform in China," 160-91;
- Ch. 7, "Reform in Russia," 230-301.
Precept 2
Mark Lupher, Power Restructuring in China and Russia (1996).
- Ch. 2, "Power Restructuring in Late Imperial, Republican, and
Revolutionary China," 19-53;
- Ch. 3, "Power Restructuring in Muscovite, Imperial, and Revolutionary
Russia," 54-92.
Andrew Walder, Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in
Chinese Industry (1986).
- Ch. 2, "The Factory as an Institution," 59-84;
- Ch. 3, "The Party-State in the Factory," 113-22;
- Ch. 8, "Theoretical Reflections," 242-53.
Precept 3
Yan Sun, The Chinese Reassessment of Socialism: 1976-1992 (1995).
- Ch. 9, "The Chinese and Soviet Reassessment of Socialism: A
Comparison," 237-57.
Gilbert Rozman, ed., Dismantling Communism: Common Causes and Regional
Variations (1992)
- Ch. 1, "Stages in the Reform and Dismantling of Communism in China and
the Soviet Union," 15-58.
Minxin Pei, From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China
and the Soviet Union (1994).
- Ch. 3, "China’s Capitalist Revolution," 85-117;
- Ch. 4, "The Private Sector under Perestroika," 118-49.
Precept 4
David S. G. Goodman and Beverly Hooper, eds., China’s Quiet Revolution:
New Interactions between State and Society (1994).
- Anita Chan, "Revolution or Corporatism? Workers in Search of a
Solution," 162-93.
Barrett L. McCormick and Jonathan Unger, eds., China after Socialism:
In the Footsteps of Eastern Europe or East Asia? (1996).
- Ch. 9, Anita Chan, "Chinese Enterprise Reforms: Convergence with the
Japanese Model?" 181-202.
Cheng Li, Rediscovering China: Dynamics and Dilemmas of Reform
(1997).
- Ch. 2, "The Color of Money: Shanghai Surprises," 17-34;
- Ch. 4, "Dynamism of Market Economy," 53-74;
- Ch. 13, "Unresolved Issues of State-Owned Enterprises," 227-39.
Joseph R. Blasi, Maya Kroumova, Douglas Kruse,Kremlin Capitalism:
Privatizing the Russian Economy (1997).
- Ch. 1, "Privatization," 13-49;
- Ch. 2, "Ownership," 50-57;
- Ch. 3, "Power," 114-21;
- Ch. 4, "Restructuring," 150-66;
- Ch. 5, "The Future of Reform," 167-87.
Precept 5
Barrett L. McCormick and Jonathan Unger, eds., China after
Socialism.
- Ch. 2 Mark Selden, "Post-Collective Agrarian Alternatives in Russia
and China," 7-28;
- Ch. 7, Wong Siu-lun, "Chinese Entrepreneurship and Economic
Development," 130-48.
Cheng Li, Rediscovering China.
- Ch. 3, "Daxing: Shanghai Panorama," 35-49;
- Ch. 5, "Sunan’s Miracle: Rural Industrial Revolution Changes China’s
Landscape," 75-92;
- Ch. 6, "Who Created China’s Economic Miracle? Meet Chen Jinhai,
Peasant-Turned-Industrialist," 93-108;
- Ch. 7, "200 Million Mouths Too Many: China’s Surplus Rural Laborers,"
111-26;
- Ch. 8, "94ers Eastward Ho!: China’s Internal Migration," 127-48;
- Ch. 9, "Rome Was Not Built in a Day, but Zhangjiagang Was: A Model of
Urbanization," 149-64;
- Ch. 14, "Is a Rich Man Happier than a Free Man? Huaxi Village, China’s
‘Mini Singapore,’" 243-.
Marshall I. Goldman, Lost Opportunity: Why Economic Reforms in Russia
Have Not Worked (1994).
- Ch. 5, "Shock Therapy," 94-121;
- Ch. 6, "Privatization,"122-44;
- Ch. 9, "China as a Model," 190-212;
- Ch. 11, "The Clash between Economics and History," 229-57.
Precept 6
Brian Hook, ed., The Individual and the State in China (1996).
- Ch. 2, Lucian W. Pye, "The State and the Individual: An Overview
Interpretation," 16-42;
- Ch. 7, Thomas B. Gold, "Youth and the State," 175-95.
Alex Inkeles, "Causes and Consequences of Individual Modernity in China,"
The China Journal, Vol. 37 (January 1997), 31-62.
Suzannne Pepper, Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th-Century China:
The Search for an Ideal Development Model (1996).
- Ch. 7, "Introducing the Soviet Union," 157-63;
- Ch. 8, "The Soviet Model for Chinese Higher Education," 164-91;
- Ch. 9, "Sino-Soviet Regularization and School System Reform," 211-16;
- Ch. 10, "Blooming, Contending, and Criticizing the Soviet Model,"
217-55;
- Ch. 11, "On Stalin, Khrushchev, and the Origins of Cultural
Revolution,"259-77;
- Ch. 14, "Chinese Radicalism and Education Development," 512-36.
Precept 7
Brian Hook, ed., The Individual and the State in China.
- Ch. 6, Michel Bonnin and Yves Chevrier, "The Intellectual and the
State: Social Dynamics of Intellectual Autonomy during the
Post-Mao Era," 149-74;
- Ch. 3, Andrew G. Walder, "Workers, Managers, and the State: The Reform
Era and the Political Crisis of 1989," 43-69;
- Ch. 4, Robert F. Ash, "The Peasant and the State," 70-103;
- Ch. 8, Gordon White, "The Dynamics of Civil Society in Post-Mao
China," 196-221.
Yan Sun, "Reform, State, and Post-Communist Corruption: Is Corruption More
Functional in China than in Russia?" (unpublished manuscript).
William A. Joseph, ed., China Briefing: The Contradictions of
Change (1997).
- Nancy E. Riley, "Gender Equality in China: Two Steps Forward, One Step
Backward," 79-108.
Precept 8
Tim McDaniel, The Agony of the Russian Idea (1996).
- Ch. 3, "The Logic of Soviet Communism," 86-117;
- Ch. 4, "A Viable Form of Modern Society?" 118-61;
- Ch. 5, "The Failure of Yeltsin’s Reforms," 162-86.
Jonathan Unger, ed., Chinese Nationalism.
- George T. Crane, "Special Things in Special Ways: National Identity
and China’s Special Economic Zones," 148-68;
- Edward Friedman, "A Democratic Chinese Nationalism," 169-82;
- Geremie R. Barme, "To Screw Foreigners Is Patriotic: China’s
Avant-Garde Nationalists," 183-208.
Barrett L. McCormick and Jonathan Unger, eds., China after
Socialism.
- Jonathan Unger and Anita Chan, "Corporatism in China: A Developmental
State in an East Asian Context," 95-129.
- Barrett L. McCormick, "Reforming Socialism in China--Another New
Dragon? 203-14.
Precept 9
S. C. M. Paine, Imperial Rivals: China, Russia, and Their Disputed
Frontier (1996).
- Ch. 1, "Background: Revival of Russian Interest in the Far East,"
28-43;
- Ch. 2, "Traditional Chinese Diplomacy in Retreat: The Treaty of
Aigun," 49-71;
- Ch. 3, "Capitulation: The Treaty of Peking," 79-97;
- Ch. 7, "The Apogee of Tsarist Imperialism: The Chinese Eastern
Railway," 178-97;
- Ch. 8, "Over-Extension: The Boxer Uprising and the Russian Invasion,"
209-25.
- "Conclusion," 343-62.
Precept 10
Gilbert Rozman, "China, Japan, and the Post-Soviet Upheaval," in Karen
Dawisha, ed., The International Dimension of Post-Communist
Transitions in Russia and the New States of Eurasia (1997) 146-67.
Stuart D. Goldman and Robert G. Sutter, "Russo-Chinese Cooperation:
Prospects and Implications" (Congressional Research Service
Report for Congress, 1997), 1-14.
Sherman Garnett, "The Russian Far East in Sino-Russian Relations," SAIS
Review (Summer-Fall 1996), 1-19.
Gilbert Rozman, "The Crisis of the Russian Far East: Who Is to Blame?"
Problems of Post-Communism (September/October 1997), 3-12.
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, "China as a Factor in the Collapse of the Soviet
Empire," Political Science Quarterly (Winter 1995-96), 501-518.
Precept 11
A collection of unpublished manuscripts on Sino-Russian central and
cross-border relations and on regionalism in Northeast Asia.
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