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The Emergence of China in the 21st Century (2215.YR.001005.1)

General information

Type:

OPT

Curs:

2,3,4

Period:

S semester

ECTS Credits:

2 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group Teacher Department Language
Year 2 Augusto Soto Álvarez Economía, Finanzas y Contabilidad ENG

Group Teacher Department Language
Year 3 Augusto Soto Álvarez Economía, Finanzas y Contabilidad ENG

Group Teacher Department Language
Year 4 Augusto Soto Álvarez Economía, Finanzas y Contabilidad ENG

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of foreign affairs will be a helpful background for this course.

Workload distribution

Professor: Augusto Soto

a) Lecture time: 18 hours
b) Participatory lecture (student's active involvement in class): 9 hours
c) Homework time: 15 hours*
d) Feedback: 2 hours
Total: 44 hours

* Homework time or work outside of class (self-teaching/learning process) will include readings and a variety of activities and preparation for class discussions.

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

Students will have the necessary knowledge and criteria to understand national and international conditions of one of the superpowers of the XXI century and its impact in the rest of the world. The objective is that students could analyze any news or comment regarding China critically.

Course Learning Objectives

1.- Discern continuities which exist between traditional past (Imperial China) and modern times.

2.- Outline and substantiate reasons for the success of China's reform and openness to the outside world. Understand the causes that are underneath the economic reemergence of China.

3.- Discuss with insight the impact of modernization on Chinese life since 1978. Outline the key role of Deng Xiaoping as main architech of modern China.

4.- Discern and substantiate the main points of cooperation and friction between Beijing and the outside world. Underline the main issues of Chinese geopolitics.

6.- Outline and substantiate a wide range of reasons behind Chinese and foreign interpretations of China's power and anticipate new developments and prospects.

7.- Familiarize with available resources for learning about a wide range of China's contemporary issues.

Assessment criteria

a) Texts introduced and discussed in class (based on material previously indicated by the professor) 50 %

b) A final Report (based on material previously indicated by the professor) 50%

TOTAL: 100%

Bibliography

Basic bibliography & links:

1.- Allison, Graham, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.

2.- Bregolat, Eugeni, Chinese second revolution, London: Palgrave, 2015.

3.- Ferguson, Niall, Civilization. The West and the rest, London: Penguin, 2012.

4.- Frankopan, Peter, The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World, New York: Knopf, 2019.

5.- Jacques, Martin, When China rules the World, London: Penguin, 2012.

6.- Kissinger, Henry, On China, London: Penguin, 2014.

7.- Mahbubani, Kishore, Has the West Lost It?, London: Penguin, 2019.

8.- Lieberthal, Kenneth, Governing China. From Revolution Through Reform, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1995.

9.- Maçaes, Bruno, Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order, New Delhi: Penguin Random House India Private, 2019.

10.- Mitter, Rana, Modern China: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press, 2016.

11.- Needham, J., The Great Titration: Science and Society in East and West, 1969. Available on the Internet: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40401553?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

12.- Nye, Joseph S., Is the American Century Over?, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015.

13.- Pomeranz, Kenneth, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

14.- Roett, Riordan et al., China's Expansion into the Western Hemisphere, Washington: The Brookings Institution, 2008.

15.- Shambaugh, David, China Goes Global. The Partial Power, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

16.- Schell, Orville y Shambaugh, David (eds.) The China Reader. The Reform Era, New York: Random House, 1999.

17.- Spence, Jonathan, The Search for Modern China, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999.

18.- Vogel, Ezra F., Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.

19.- Xi, Jinping, The Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing: Beijing, Foreign Language Press, 2018.

20.- Zhang Weiwei, The China Horizon. Glory and Dream of a Civilizational State, New Jersey: World Century Publishing Corporation, 2016.


1.- China Europe International Business School, Shanghai, China.
http://www.ceibs.edu

2.- Dialogue with China Project (see section LINKS)
http://www.dialoguewithchina.eu

3.- Elcano Royal Institute
http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal



Additional bibliography or material:

Books, articles, analyses

1.- Nathan, Andrew, y Ross, Robert, The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress. China's Search for Security, New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.

2.- Segal, Gerald, 'Does China matter?', Foreign Affairs, Sept./Oct. 1999, vol. 78, nº 5.

3.- Song, Qiang et al., Zhongguo keyi shuo bu (China Can Say No), Beijing, Zhonghua Gongshang Lianhe Chubanshe, 1996.

4.- Soto, Augusto, ¿La vocación global de China a través de sus personalidades¿ 29/10/2009.
http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano/contenido?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/elcano/elcano_es/zonas_es/asia-pacifico/ari152-2009

5.- Soto, Augusto, Five Reflections on China, Russia and the US: Problems and Perspectives (II), Strategic Culture Foundation, April 2, 2016.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/04/02/five-reflections-china-russia-and-us-problems-and-perspectives-ii/

6.- Soto, Augusto, Five Reflections on China, Russia and the US: Problems and Perspectives (I), Strataegic Culture Foundation, March 26, 2016.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/03/26/five-reflections-china-russia-and-us-problems-perspectives/

7.- Soto, Augusto, "The Governance of China in a Changing World - A Review of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China III", China Today, 16-01-2021.
http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/ctenglish/2018/commentaries/202101/t20210116_800232803.html

8.- Vandermeersch, L., Le nouveau Monde sinisé, París, Presses universitaires de France, 1986.

Timetable and sections

Group Teacher Department
Year 2 Augusto Soto Álvarez Economía, Finanzas y Contabilidad

Timetable Year 2

From 2021/9/6 to 2021/10/11:
Each Monday from 14:45 to 17:15.

Monday 2022/7/11 from 9:30 to 9:45.

Group Teacher Department
Year 3 Augusto Soto Álvarez Economía, Finanzas y Contabilidad

Timetable Year 3

From 2021/9/6 to 2021/10/11:
Each Monday from 14:45 to 17:15.

Monday 2022/7/11 from 9:30 to 9:45.

Group Teacher Department
Year 4 Augusto Soto Álvarez Economía, Finanzas y Contabilidad

Timetable Year 4

From 2021/9/6 to 2021/10/11:
Each Monday from 14:45 to 17:15.

Monday 2022/7/11 from 9:30 to 9:45.