Area Politics A(Contemporary Chinese Politics)
Faculty
A. Takahara
Description
This course discusses mainly the politics and diplomacy of the People’s Republic of China since its foundation to the present. The central question regards the changes and continuity in the ideology, organization, policies and behavioural patterns of the Chinese Communist Party, which monopolises power to this day.
Specifically, I plan to discuss the following issues:
１． What we should pay attention to in studying Chinese politics (taking the Second Tiananmen Incident as an example.)
２． Political goals and policy processes under the rule of Mao Zedong; Mao Zedong Thought and the organisation of the Chinese Communist Party; the politics of a transitional economy; China’s local system and central-local relations; socialist market economy; economic growth and social change; political reform; nationalism
３． Diplomacy and security policy under the rule of Mao Zedong; diplomacy and security policy under the rule of Deng Xiaoping; diplomacy and security policy under the auspices of Jiang Zemin; China-US and Japan-China relations
４． Taiwan