Readings

The following readings are required for this course. Please refer to the calendar section to note which topics correspond to the readings.

Alford, William. "The More Law, the More . . .? Measuring Legal Reform in the People's Republic of China." Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform. Working Paper no. 59. Stanford University, August 2000.
http://siepr.stanford.edu/publicationsprofile/1523

Angang, Hu. "Public Exposure of Economic Losses Resulting from Corruption." China and World Economy 10, 4 (July-Aug. 2002): 44-49.
 

Amsden, Alice H. The Rise of the Rest. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001, Chap. 1 (pp. 1-28).

Blecher, Marc J. "Hegemony and Workers' Politics in China." The China Quarterly, 170 (June 2002): 283-303.

Cai, Yongshun. "The Resistance of Chinese Laid-off Workers in the Reform Period." The China Quarterly, No. 170 (June 2002): 327-344.

Carruthers, Bruce G., and Terence C. Halliday. Rescuing Business: The Making of Corporate Bankruptcy Law in England and the United States. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998, Chap. 1 (pp. 15-44).

Chu, Yun-han, and Jih-wen Lin. "Political Development in 20th-Century Taiwan: State-Building, Regime Transformation and the Construction of National Identity." The China Quarterly 165, (March 2001).

Ding, X.L. "The Quasi-Criminalization of a Business Sector in China." Crime, Law & Social Change 35, 3 (April 2001): 177-202.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1011294000877?LI=true

Dittmer, Lowell and Yu-shan Wu. "The Modernization of Factionalism in Chinese Politics." World Politics 47, 4 (July 1995): 467-94.
http://www.jstor.org/cgi-bin/jstor/logon?T=1&S1=8dd55340.10584427960&config=jstor

Franz, Schurman. Ideology and Organization in Communist China. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1968, Chapters 1-3.

Guthrie, Doug. Dragon in a Three Piece Suit. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1999.

Hays Gries, Peter. "Tears of Rage: Chinese Nationalism and the Belgrade Embassy Bombing." The China Journal, No. 45 (July 2001): 25-43.

Huang, Yasheng. Selling China. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, forthcoming.

Kornai, Janos. "What the Change of System from Socialism to Capitalism Does and Does Not Mean." Journal of Economic Perspectives 14, 1 (Winter 2000): 27-42.

Lardy, Nicholas R. China's Unfinished Economic Revolution. Washington: Brookings, 1998, pp. 1-20.

------. "The Challenge of Bank Restructuring in China." Bank for International Settlements Policy Papers, No. 7, (1999): 17-39. (PDF)

MacFarquhar, Roderick. "The Coming of the Cataclysm 1961-1966." In The Origins of the Cultural Revolution.  Vol. 3. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997.

------. "Demolition Man." In New York Review of Books. March 27, 1997. 

Montinola, Gabriella, Yingyi Qian, and Barry Weingast. "Federalism, Chinese Style: The Political Basis for Economic Success." World Politics 48, 1 (1996): 50-81.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/world_politics/toc/wp48.1.html

Maxim, Boycko, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert Vishny. Privatizing Russia. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995, Chap. 2 (pp. 19-46).

Mai, Lu. "China's Urgent Challenge: To Provide Public Goods in a Market Environment." Unpublished manuscript, 2002. 

North, Douglass, and Barry Weingast. "Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England." The Journal of Economic History, No. 49 (1989): 803-832.

Nolan, Peter H. China and the Global Business Revolution. London: Palgrave, 2001, Chap. 1 (pp. 1-25).

Oi, Jean. "Fiscal Reform and the Economic Foundations of Local State Corporatism." World Politics 45, 1 (October 1992): 99-126.

Prasenjit, Duara. Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1988.

Perry, Elizabeth J., and Li Xun. Proletarian Power: Shanghai in the Cultural Revolution. Boulder: Westview, 1997.

Peerenboom, Randall. "Seek Truth From Facts: An Empirical Study of Enforcement of Arbitral Awards in the PRC." 2001.

Rose-Ackerman, Susan. Corruption and Government. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999, pp. 1-25. 

Saich, Anthony. "Negotiating the State." The China Quarterly 161, (March 2000):  124-141.

Shleifer, Andrei, and Robert W. Vishny. The Grabbing Hand. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1998, Chap. 1 (pp. 1-17).

Shleifer, Andrei, and Daniel Treisman. Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000, Chap. 1 and 2 (pp. 1-38).

Shirk, Susan. The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China. Berkeley: Univ. of California, 1993.

Tsai, Kellee. Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 2002. 

Unger, Jonathan and Geremie Barme, eds. Chinese Nationalism. (Armonk: M. E. Sharpe) 1996.

Wank, David L. Commodifying Communism. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999.

Xiaobo, Lu. "Booty Socialism, Bureau-preneurs, and the State in Transition: Organizational Corruption in China." Comparative Politics 32, 3 (2000): 273-294.

Xiaoying, Wang. "The Post-Communist Personality." The China Journal, (January 2002): 1-18.

Optional:
Hirschman, Albert. Journeys Toward Progress. New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1963.