Peking University
School of International Studies
Spring 2010
International Political Economy
Professor Zha Daojiong
Office: Room A216, School of International Studies
Office phone: 6275-4853
Email: zha@https://www.doczj.com/doc/962606012.html,
Course Description
This course offers an opportunity for international students to begin familiarizing themselves with some of the recurrent topics in appraising the international contexts and connections of the contemporary Chinese economy. Such topics include the making of China’s foreign economic policy; China’s international trade and monetary policy; China’s foreign development assistance policy; China’s interactions with regional and global economic institutions; China’s relations with the United States, Japan, Europe, Southeast Asia, and Chinese perspectives on current issues of regional and global concern.
Design of the course does not assume prior systematic knowledge about China. Students can expect to build a solid knowledge basis for learning, more systematically, about China and China’s ties with the rest of the Asia Pacific region and beyond.
Course Requirements
For each week, students must assume the role of serving as presenters of the readings selected for the course. We can have more than one student to present on one particular paper. Meanwhile, it is essential for each student to go through the weekly readings thoroughly and prepare to discuss in class.
Each presenter should give a short summary of the assigned reading. The presenter shall also identify three or more of the most important questions that arise from the readings. Such questions serve as the basis for discussion by all the class participants. In other words, the presenter him/herself does not necessarily have to be capable of answering them. Of course, every student should be able to bring such questions to class.
The term paper is due the day of exam to be assigned by the School. Halfway through the semester, a short proposal for the term paper should be submitted. Use the Chicago Manual of Styles for formatting the paper and observe principles of academic integrity.
Grading
Participation 15%
Presentation 35%
Term paper 50%
Course schedule
March 2 Course introduction
Robert O. Keohane, “The old IPE and the new,”Review of International Political Economy, 16:1 February 2009: 34–46.
March 9 Overview of questions about China’s international economic policy
Woo, Wing Thye, “Updating China's international economic policy after 30 years of reform and opening: what position on regional and global economic architecture?” Journal of Chinese Economics and Business Studies, Volume 7, Number 2, May 2009, pp. 139-166.
March 16 Overview of security questions related to China’s rise
Shaun Breslin, “Understanding China's regional rise: interpretations, identities and implications,” International Affairs, V olume 85, Issue 4, July 2009, pp. 817-835. Christopher Hughes, “Japan's response to China's rise: regional engagement, global containment, dangers of collision,” International Affairs, V olume 85, Issue 4, July 2009, pp. 837-856.
March 23 China’s Foreign Economic Relations: 1950s-1960s
Chad Mitcham, “Grain Imbalances, CHINCOM and China’s Evolving Economic and Foreign Trade Strategy, 1949-1957,” in China’s Economic Relations with the West and Japan, 1949-1979 (Routledge, 2005), pp. 3-27.
Oleg Hoeffding, “Sino-Soviet Economic Relations, 1959-1962,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 349 (Sep., 1963), pp. 94-105. April 6 China’s Foreign Economic Relations, 1970s onward
Masaya Tsuchiya, “Recent Developments in Sino-Japanese Trade”, Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 38, No. 2, (Summer - Autumn, 1973), pp. 240-248 Unryu Suganuma, “Japanese Yen Credits to China: geopolitical, geo-economic, and geo-strategic considerations of Sino-Japanese Economic Relations, 1979-1994,” Asian Economies, March 1998, pp. 5-37.
April 13 Issues in China’s Foreign Economic Relations: currency
Paul Bowles and Baotai Wang, “'Flowers and Criticism': the political economy of the Renminbi debate,” Review of International Political Economy, V ol. 13, No. 2 (May, 2006), pp. 233-257.
Daniel Okimoto, “The Financial Crisis and America's Capital Dependence on Japan and China”, https://www.doczj.com/doc/962606012.html,/assets/TheFinancialCrisisAmerica.pdf April 20 Issues in China’s Foreign Economic Relations: trade
Marie-Jose Rinaldi-Larribe, et al., “Does China deserve the market economy status?” Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies, Volume 2, Number 2, 2009, pp. 110-120.
Chad Bown, The Global Resort to Antidumping, Safeguards, and other Trade Remedies Amidst the Economic Crisis, World Bank Working Paper, October 2009. April 27 Issues in China’s Foreign Economic Relations: outward direct investment
Monica Yang, “Isomorphic or not?: Examining cross-border mergers and acquisitions by Chinese firms, 1985-2006,” Chinese Management Studies, V olume 3, Number 1, 2009, pp. 43-57.
Yun Schüler-Zhou, Margot Schüller, “The internationalization of Chinese companies: What do official statistics tell us about Chinese outward foreign direct investment?” Chinese Management Studies, V olume 3, Number 1, 2009, pp. 25-42.
May 11 Issues in China’s Foreign Economic Relations: development aid
Ngaire Woods, “Whose aid? Whose influence? China, emerging donors and the silent revolution in development assistance,” International Affairs, V olume 84, Number 6, November 2008, pp. 1205-1221.
Peter Kragelund, “The Return of Non-DAC Donors to Africa: New Prospects for African Development?” Development Policy Review, V olume 26, Number 5, September 2008, pp. 555-584.
May 18 China and the Korean Peninsula
“China’s Evolving Economic and Political Relations with North Korea”, Scott Snyder , China’s Rise and the Two Koreas: politics, economics, security, Boulder: Lynn Rienner, 2008, chapter 5.
Gilbert Rozman, “South Korea and Sino-Japanese rivalry: a middle power's options within the East Asian core triangle, The Pacific Review, Volume 20, Issue 2,June 2007, pp. 197–220.
May 25 China and Japan
Hidetaka Yoshimatsu, “Social demand, state capability and globalization: Japan-China trade friction over safeguards,” The Pacific Review, V olume 15, Issue 3 (August 2002), pp. 381-408.
Claes G. Alvstam, et al., “On the economic interdependence between China and Japan: Challenges and possibilities,” Asia Pacific Viewpoint, V olume 50, Issue 2, August 2009, pp. 198-214.
June1 China and Southeast Asia
Samuel Ku, “China's Changing Political Economy with Malaysia and Southeast Asia: a comparative perspective,”Journal of Asian and African Studies, Apr 2008, pp. 155-171.
Zha Daojiong, “China and the May 1998 riots of Indonesia: exploring the issues,” The Pacific Review, V olume 13, Issue 4, 2000, pp. 557-575.
June 8 Future of East Asia
Masahiro Kawaii and Shinji Takagi, “Towards regional monetary cooperation in East Asia: lessons from other parts of the world,” International Journal of Finance & Economics, V olume 10, Issue 2, April 2005, pp. 97-116.
Yi-Bin Chiu, “Economic interdependence and bilateral trade imbalance across the Taiwan Strait,” Journal of Economic Studies, Vol. 36 No. 4, 2009, pp. 411-432
June 15 Course summary