Schedule (Spring 2020)

Weekly readings will be marked by where they can be found: bookstore (see Course Book List); book reserve, ereserve, or online for articles available for downloading from the web. Note that most of the articles and excerpts are available in books on reserve. Please let me know as soon as possible if you have any trouble obtaining the readings. For class reading questions and discussion forums go to the Course Moodle Page.

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List of Discussion Facilitators

Part I: Perspectives on China, Economics and Development

Week One: Goals and Perspectives

Assignments

Weeks One-Two Film: "Manufactured Landscapes," 2006 (90 min) (Screen via Moodle)

Chronology: Important Dates in the Development of "Modern China"

  • Tues Jan 28: Introductions and Goals

  • Thurs Jan 30 What is "China"? The Cultural Politics of Space, Globalization and Transnationality

    Ong, Aihwa. Intro., Ch.s 1-2, Flexible Citizenship: the Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Duke, 1999. (83 pp). (ereserve, bookstore, book reserve).
Film Commentary sign up and Guidelines

Further Reading

  • Cartier, Carolyn. 2002. Globalizing South China. [Nuanced ethnography by a geographer refuting older ways of spatializing "China"]
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    Duara, Prasenjit. 2018. Asia Redux: Conceptualizing a Region for Our Times. J. of Asian Studies.

  • Ho, Engseng. 2017. Inter-Asian Mobility (plus comments). J. of Asian Studies. [Ong was already doing in 1999 what Ho calls for here; his article is a nice, accessible critique of classical social theory though, and offers a list of alternative terms]

     

  • Jing Wang. "Introduction: The Politics and Production of Scales in China," in Locating China : space, place and popular culture / edited by Jing Wang London ; New York : Routledge, 2005. [brief overview of shifting policies and metaphors of space and scale viz. political economy]
  • Liu, Andrew. 2019. Production, Circulation, and Accumulation: The Historiographies of Capitalism in China and South Asia, J. of Asian Studies.
    In light of the emergent “history of capitalism” field in Euro-American history, this article reviews and critically situates how the category “capitalism” has been debated within the historiographies of China and South Asia. In discussions paralleling European historiography, Sinologists and Indologists explored whether the “prime mover” of capitalism was changes in production or in circulation. The example of South Asian studies shows how, from the 1960s through the 1980s, the dominant production-centered approach—drawing upon Marxist theory—produced stories of economic “failure” in Asia. The example of Chinese history since the 1990s points to the resurgence of a Smithian circulation-centered approach that challenges the Eurocentric story of failure. Each of these approaches emerged out of distinct eras of capital accumulation in the twentieth century: mid-century state-supported industrialization and late-century deregulated globalization. The tension between these approaches points towards a more integrative reinterpretation that sees the core dynamics of capitalism as a cyclical process of “capital accumulation,” one that integrates both production and circulation-centered approaches and also challenges Eurocentric histories of capitalism. This article's conclusion provides speculative thoughts on writing the histories of capitalism for China and South Asia today.

  • Mei Zhan. 2015. Tales of Physics and Cosmographies of Capitalism. Cultural Anthropology Journal.

  • Myers. Asian Studies 1986. [test and refute Skinner's influential macroregions theory].
  • Ong, Aihwa. 2008 Privatizing China, Socialism from Afar (co-editor Li Zhang). Cornell University Press

  • Ong, Aihwa. 2006 Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty. Durham: Duke University Press

  • Ong, Aihwa. 2004 Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems. (co-editor Stephen J. Collier). Malden, Ma.: Blackwell Publishers

  • Ong. Aiwha, 2004. "The Chinese Axis: Zoning Technologies and Variegated Sovereignty," Journal of East Asian Studies 4 (2004), 69-96.

  • Skinner, G.W. "Regional Urbanization in 19th Century China," and "Cities and the Hierarchy of Local Systems," Cities in Imperial China, 1977. [describes his influential macroregion approach to Chinese geography].

  • Sisca, Francesco. "China at the Center of Asia," Asia Times, March 2, 2001. [Argues China is the "hub of Asian stability post 1997 Asian financial crisis].

  • Wan, William. 2015. China wages a quiet war of maps with its neighbors. The Washington Post.
  • Nick Young and June shih. Philanthropic Links btw the Chinese Diaspora and the PRC, Geithner, eds, Diaspora Philanthropy and Equitable Development in China and India, Harvard Univ. Press, 2004. [Excellent and rare overview of early 2000s links between overseas Chinese and development in the PRC]

Links

Check these links out for further information on this week's topics!

Use these links as quick references and contextualizing material as well as for ideas about forms of related activism and community work. To really delve, you need to print and read all essays, or go look at books and articles in Further Reading.

Remember that materials on the web MUST be evaluated as critically as any other texts we consider in this course. For brief guidelines on thinking critically about the web, click HERE. 

The Cultural Politics of Space: Cartographic Representations of "China"

Overseas Chinese

Films

  • A Photographer Goes Missing in China  [As counterpart to Manuf Landscapes film, Amazing photos by now-detained Chinese photographer Lu Guang, including fake sheep in front of coal plant in XinjiangJ (New York Times 2018)

Films and Videos

Course YouTube Playlists

Week Two: Anthropological Approaches to Economics and Development

Assignments

 Weeks One-Two Film: "Manufactured Landscapes," 2006 (90 min) (Screen via Moodle)

  • Feb 4 Sociocultural Economies?

[skim!] Wilk, Richard. 1996. "Ch. 1 "Economic Anthropology: An Undisciplined Discipline," and Ch. 2, "Economics and the Problem of Human Nature." Economies and Cultures: Foundations of Economic Anthropology. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. (40 pages) (ereserve, Bookstore and book reserve).

Polanyi, Karl. 2001 (1944). Ch.s 4-6, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. New edition w/foreword by Joseph Stiglitz. Beacon Press. (35 pages). (ereserve, Bookstore and book reserve).

Images: Polanyi's Arguments in Charts!

  • Feb 6 Anthropology, Modernity and Development

Bear, Laura, Karen Ho, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and Sylvia Yanagisako. 2015. "Gens: a Feminist Manifesto for the Study of Capitalism," Cultural Anthropology Journal. Online

Escobar, Arturo. Ch. 1 "Introduction: Development and the Anthropology of Modernity," and Ch. 2 "The Problematization of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development," Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton, 1995. (54 pages). (ereserve, Bookstore and book reserve).

Major International Development Organizations

1-2 page Theory Commentary due, Friday, Feb 7, 5 pm, Moodle upload.

Further Reading

Sociocultural Economies?

  • Carrier, James G. ed. 2005. A handbook of economic anthropology. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar. (Reed lib has: see me)
  • Cook, Scott. 1966. The Obsolete "Anti-Market" Mentality: A Critique of the Substantive Approach to Economic Anthropology," American Anthropologist 68. (JSTOR). [formalist rejoinder]
  • Comaroff, Jean and John. L. Comaroff."Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming," in Comaroff, Jean and John. L. Comaroff, eds. Millenniel Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism. Duke, 2001. [influential take on globalization by anthropologists at Chicago].
  • Dalton, George. 1969. Theoretical Issues in Economic Anthropology, Current Anthropology 10(1) pp. 63-102 (JSTOR). [substantivist manifesto]
  • Edelman and Haugerud, eds. "Introduction: The Anthropology of Development and Globalization," The Anthropology of Development and Globalization: From Classical Political Economy to Contemporary Neoliberalism. Blackwell, 2005. (50 pages). (Bookstore and book reserve).
  • Foley, Duncan. 2006. Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
    [This is a very recent, accessible and even-handed overview of theories of political economy by a well-known economist at the New School of Social Research. Covers Smith, Ricardo, Marx, the neo-classical turn and more. Argues that "Adam's Fallacy" is the original fallacious assumption that an "economic" realm could be analyzed separately from all other social realms.]
  • Graeber, David. Toward an Anthropological theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams. Palgrave, 2001. [Chicagoan student of Terry Turner, argues for a counter-intuitive dialectical approach to understanding the cultural politics of value; good for supplemental reading and reference].
  • Halperin, Rhoda. Economies Across Cultures, Macmillan 1988. [good discussions re: Polanyi]
  • Halperin, Rhoda. Cultural Economies Past and Present, Univ. of TX press, 1994. [good discussions re: Polanyi]
  • Hinze, Daniel. Book Review: The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics. Review of Radical Political Economics. Dec 12, 2019
  • Maurer, Bill. 2006. The Anthropology of Money. Annual Review of Anthropology 35. [Avail. Online. Very useful recent overview and critique of most recent anthropological debates on economics, money, finance, exchange and more].
  • McCloskey, Donald. 1985 The Rhetoric of Economics. Madison: Univ. of WI press. [Now Deirdre McCloskey, economist critical of the field].
  • McCloskey, Donald. 1990. If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise. Univ. Chicago Press. [Now Deirdre McCloskey, economist critical of the field].
  • Miller and Carrier, eds. Virtualism: a New Political Economy. Oxford, 1998.
  • Nolan, Peter. 2004. "Epilogue: Adam Smith and the Contradictions of the Free Market Economy," Transforming China: Globalization, Transition and Development. London: Anthem Press. [arguing that Smith had a more complex view of the market than most think]
  • Plattner, Stuart, ed., Economic Anthropology. Stanford, 1989.
  • Sahlins, Marshall. Culture in Practice: Selected Essays. Zone Books, 2000. [see especially his seminal article in econ. anthro. "The Original Affluent Society," and his article "The Sadness of Sweetness: or The Native Anthropology of Western Cosmology,"]

Anthropology, Modernity and Development

  • Bennett 1988: "anthropology and development: ambiguous engagement", Development 4: 6-16
  • Cooper, Frederick and Randall Packard, eds. International development and the Social Sciences, California, 1997. [intro and Ferguson articles excerpted in Edelman and Haugurud] (see me)
  • Eyben, Rosalind. "Development and Anthropology: a View from Inside the Agency," Critique of Anthropology 20(1), 2000. [responding to Gardner and Lewis, a dev. anthro. seeking practical solutions.]
  • Gardner, Katy and David Lewis. Anthropology, Development and the Post-modern Challenge. 1997. [library has]
  • Grillo, R.D. and R. L. Stirrat. Discourses of Development: Anthropological Perspectives.Oxford, 1997.
  • M. Hobart, ed., (Brit. anthro). An Anthropological Critique of Development: the Growth of Ignorance. London: Routledge, 1993.
  • United Nations. "Declaration of the Right to Development," Adopted Dec. 1986.
  • Peet, Richard. Theories of Development. London: The Guilford Press, 1999.
  • Romer, David. "The Solow Growth Model", Macroeconomics, 200?.

Films

Links

Karl Polanyi (1886-1964)

Economic Discourses

U.S. Economics Thinktanks

Heterodox Economics Organizations

Quantifying and Measuring Development: Indicators

Week Three: Competing Visions of China and Development

Assigments

Chronology: Important Moments in European and American Visions of a Developing "China"

Week Three Film: "Unleashing the Dragon," Part 1, 1995 (50 min) (Screen via Moodle)

  • Tues Feb 11 Legacies of China and "the West"

    Blue, Gregory. "China and Western Social Thought in the Modern Period," in Brooks, ed., China and Historical Capitalism: Geneologies of Sinological Knowledge. Cambridge, 1999. (52 pages) (ereserve, Bookstore and book reserve).

  • Thurs Feb 13 Visions of the "Waking Dragon"
PRC White Paper. Sections I-II, Conclusion, in "China's Peaceful Development Road", Information Office of the State Council, Dec. 2005.

Online. Hu Jintao. (read up to section that starts with "Comrades," around 5 pages). Speech at Meeting Marking 30th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up, December 18, 2008. Beijing Review.

Huntingon, Samuel. "The Clash of Civilizations," Foreign Affairs, 1993. Online JSTOR.
Ong, Aihwa. Ch. 7 "Saying No to the West: Liberal Reasoning in Asia," Flexible Citizenship: the Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Duke, 1999. (28 pages). (Bookstore, ereserve, and book reserve).

Further Reading

Legacies of China and "the West"

  • Hevia, James. Cherishing Men from Afar (overview: Ch. 2 "A Multitude of Lords: The Qing Empire, Manchu Rulership, and Interdomainal Relations,"). Duke, 1995. [excellent account of the failed British McCartney mission to Qing China to open trade].
  • Laura Hostetler, Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001
  • Mackerras, Colin, ed. Sinophiles and Sinophobes: Western Views of China. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy, Princeton UP, 2000.
  • Sahlins, Marshall. "Cosmologies of Capitalism," in Dirks, et al, eds., Culture/Power/History, Princeton, 1984.
  • Said, Edward. Orientalism. Random House, 1978. [famous critical intellectual history of European and American thought about "the Orient", defines "Orientalism" as "a style of thought based upon an ontological and epistemological distinction made btw. 'the Orient' and ...''the Occident'" (p. 2)]
  • Spence, Jonathan. The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds, 1998.
  • Vukovich, Daniel. China and Orientalism: Western Knowledge Production and the PRC. Routledge, 2011.

Visions of the "Waking Dragon"

  • Brown and MacBean, eds. Challenges for China's Development: An Enterprise Perspective.  Routledge, 2005. (see me).
  • China and Socialism Roundtable. Critical Asian Studies 37.3, 2005. [a variety of Chinese and western social scientists respond to the study by leftist American economists Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett on China and Socialism].
  • Dirlik, Arif. 2012. The Idea of a 'Chinese model': a Critical Discussion, China Information 26.
  • Frank, Andre Gunder. 1998. Reorient: Global Economy in the Asian Age. Univ. of California Press. [Influential heterodox economist argues China always was a competing economic center and is now surpassing Europe and the U.S.]
  • Hart-Landsberg, Martin and Paul Burkett. "China and Socialism: Engaging the Issues: Rejoinder," Critical Asian Studies 37.4, 2005. Available online:http://www.lclark.edu/~marty/mhlpublications.htm
  • Huntington, Samuel. 1976. The Crisis of Democracy. [arguing too much democracy bad, and anglo-protestant culture under seige in US.]
  • Li Luoli, (vice char, gen sec, China Dev. Institute) speech on "Two Critical issues in China's Social economic Development," [at conf. in Hainan 2004, cites Deng fazhan cai shi ying daoli, says: only dev. can solve equity issues, organizing would slow pace, affect efficiency; people aren't ready for democracy]. (see me).
  • Li Zhang: The Rise of China: Media perception and implications for int'l politics, Journal of Contemporary China, March 2010.
  • Naughton, Barry. "China's Economic Think Tanks: Their Changing Roles in the 1990s," The China Quarterly 171, 2002: 625-635.
  • New York Times. 2017. "The Man Behind Trump's Voter-Fraud Obsession," [discusses Kris Kobach, Trump adviser and Kansas Sec of State, who is personally responsible for attacks on voting rights nationally, ACLU has 4 lawsuits against him. He was a student of Samuel Huntington's, See Huntington's 1976 The Crisis of Democracy, arguing too much democracy bad, and anglo-protestant culture under seige in US.]
  • So, Wai-chor. 1997. The Adventures of an Ideology: Western Marxism in Post-Mao China. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 29(3), pp. 23-33.
  • The Economist "surveys" on China:
    • Zeigler, Dominic. "Ready to Face the World?" Mar 6, 1997. (see me).
    • Zeigler, Dominic. "Now Comes the Hard Part," April 6, 2000. (see me)
    • Miles,James. "The Dragon Out of Puff," June 13, 2002 (see me)
    • Ahmed, Sameena. "Behind the Mask," Mar 18, 2004. (see me).
    • Long, Simon. "The Tiger in Front: a Survey of India and China," March 5, 2005. (see me).
  • Tian Yu Cao, ed., The Chinese Model of Modern Development, Routledge, 2005. (reed has).
  • Understanding China's Rise. (Special Issue), Journal of Contemporary China 19(64), 2010. [includes articles in impact of Beijing Olympics on US perceptions of China, Li Zhang on foreign media coverage of China and more].
  • UNDP China Human Development Report, 2005. Available Online.
  • Wang, Hui, 1959- (translation from original chinese), Karl, Rebecca E., tr. The Year 1989 and the Historical Roots of Neoliberalism in China; positions: east asia cultures critique Volume 12, Number 1, Spring 2004
  • Wang Hui, 2003, China's New Order.
  • Wang. 2011. Rise of Neoclassical Economics and China's WTO Agreement with the US in 1999. J. of Contemporary China.
  • Zuo Dapei. 2003. "China's Heterodox Economics," was available online at the China Study Group website.

Films

Online:

  • "2008 China Stand Up!" [Zhongguo Zhanqilai, set to the theme song "Conquest of Paradise," from Gerard Depardiu film; this amateur video was wildly popular among Chinese netizens during the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics]
  • "Debt Ceiling" [2009 bit by John Hodgman on the Jon Stewart show, in which Hodgman offers advice on how to deal with America's growing debt to China].
  • "Oh China Slow Down!" (Zuguo a Manxie zou!) [Music video, trenchant critique of negative impacts of China's rapid economic growth, in traditional pop music genre], 2012. 
  • "Mo Money Mo Fazhan" [parody of a rap music video in Chinese and English by an American guy and his Chinese friends in Beijing, 2013]

Films in Reed Library:

  • China, unleashing the dragon [videorecording] / series producer, Richard Hall Publication New York : First Run/Icarus Films, 1995 HC427.92 .C46458 1995 video  v.2;  HC427.92 .C46458 1995 video  v.3;  HC427.92 .C46458 1995 video  v.4
  • China in the red [videorecording] / an Ambrica Productions film for WGBH/Frontline ; written, produced and directed by Sue Williams ; co-producer, Kathryn Dietz Publication [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, c2003, 2004. HC427.95 .C455 2003 vide
  • China rises [videorecording] / a production of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the New York Times and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, and in co-production with Discovery Times Channel, S4C, S4C International and France 5 ; series producer, Kelly Crichton.  HC427.92 .C4644485 2006 DVD
  • China, the wild east [videorecording] / written and directed by Peter Kaufman ; produced by Xiaozhen Jiang, Peter Kaufman ; a Wild East Production for Turner Original Productions Publication [Atlanta] : Turner Original Productions, 1995. DS734.96 .C45 1995 video
  •  China in transition [videorecording] Publication [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, [1994?]. Eight special reports, originally broadcast on the MacNeil/Lehrer newshour, about the changing face of China. Topics covered include economic changes, role of the military, women, culture and the arts, higher education, and human rights.  HC427.92 .C55 1990z video.
  • Dances with the dragon. [videorecording] / produced by Lei Zhong ; directed by Christine Choy, Tao Shen and Lei Zhong Publication Cliffside Park, NJ : S&S International Media, Inc., 1999. A two part documentary exploring US-China trade relations through frank interviews in China and the U.S. with families, street vendors and workers as well as the "professionals" in the field of U.S.-China relations. Part two focuses on obstacles and issues related to U.S.-China trading relations such as cultural differences, intellectual property rights, human rights, China's only-child family policy and cultural exchanges, concluding with the similarities between the two countries in their expectations for the next generation. HD2429.C5 D3 1999 video  v.1.

Links

Orientalism and Spatial Politics

Chinese History Resources

Visions of a Rising China

Visions of Economics and Development: Chinese State Perspectives

PRC Leaders Envision a Muscular China 2015-2019

Part II: Historical Precedents: "Development" and "Modernity" in Post-Imperial China

Week Four: Republican Era China (1920s-30s)

Assignments

Chronology: Moments in Chinese Visions of a Developing "China"

  • Tues Feb 18  Chinese Visions of Nationalism and Modernity

    Brooks, Timothy. "Capitalism and the Writing of Modern History in China" in Brooks, ed., China and Historical Capitalism: Geneologies of Sinological Knowledge. Cambridge, 1999. (47 pages) (ereserve, book reserve)

    Duara, Prasenjit. "Ch. 1 Linear History and the Nation-state," in Rescuing History from the Nation. Chicago, 1995. (33 pages). (ereserve, book reserve)

  • Thurs Feb 20 Sun Yat-Sen (1866-1925) and the International Development of China (1922)

    Sun Yat-sen. "Introduction: The International Development of China,"Introduction (pp. 1-10), "Program I" (skim) (p 11-29), and "Program V" (p 197-221), "Conclusion" (p 231-237), and Letters of Response (p. 251-265), The International Development of China. New York, Putnam, 1922. (book and ereserve)

    [Skim!] Godley, Michael R.. 1993. Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: Sun Yatsen and the International Development of China. in Unger, Jonathan [ed.] Using the Past to Serve the Present: Historiography and Politics in Contemporary China, Armonk, N. Y.: M. E. Sharpe. (20 pages) (ereserve, book reserve)

Slides: Maps of Republican Era Development

Further Reading

Chinese Visions of Nationalism and Modernity

  • R. Bin Wong. "Chinese Understandings of Economic Change: From Agrarian Empire to Industrial Society," in Brook, Timothy and Hy V. Luong. Culture and Economy: The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia. Michigan, 1997.
  • Pepper, Suzanne. Radicalism and Educ. Reform in 20th cent. China: the Search for an ideal development model, Cambridge, 1996 (see me) [very in-depth study thru Maoist years]

Sun Yat-Sen (1866-1925) and the International Development of China (1922)

  • Edmonds 1987 Sun's Railway Plans, China Quarterly 111. 
  • Ho, Peter. "the Myth of Desertification at China's Northwestern Frontier," Modern China 26 (3), July 2000: 348-395.
  • Zanasi, Margherita. "Far from the Treaty Ports: Fang Xianting and the Idea of Rural Modernity in 1930s China," Modern China 30 (1), Jan. 2004: 113-46.
  • Zanasi, Margherita. 2007. "Exporting Development: The League of Nations and Republican China," CSSH 49(1): 143-169.

Films

Youtube Playlists: Early Modern China

Films in Reed Library

  • China in revolution, 1911-1949 [videorecording] , Northbrook, Ill. : Coronet Film & Video, Released by Zeitgeist Films, c1989. Made for television broadcast on PBS
    This documentary recounts the 38 years between 1911 and 1949, during which China was transformed from a centuries-old empire into the world's largest Communist state. It was a transformation that affected hundreds of millions of people.  DS774 .C555 1989 video
  • The last Emperor of China [videorecording] : Pu Yi / produced by Hua Wen Film Co
    San Francisco, Calif. : Nan Hai (USA) Co., (dist.), 1988. Documentary of the life of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi, who ascended to the throne at age 3, but abdicated in favor of a republican form of government by age 6. He was allowed to continue to live in the Imperial Palace in Beijing and retain his title Emperor Hsuan Tung. The changes he experienced were a direct result of China's modern history. DS773 .L37 1988 video
  • Red sorghum [videorecording] / China Film Import Export, Inc. ; New Yorker Films Artwork Publication New York, NY : New Yorker Video, c1991. Directed by Zhang Yimou; written by Chen Jianyu, Zhu Wei and Mo Yan; music by Zhao Jiping Performer Gong Li, Jiang Wen, Ji Cun Hua. Beginning as a lusty romantic comedy about a nervous young bride's arrival and ensuing seduction at a remote and winery, and ending as a heroic drama of partisan resistance during the Japanese occupation.PN1997 .R4424 1991 video.

Links

Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925)

Timeline of Sun Yat-sen's Life
Website for Schell and Delury's book Wealth and Power

Sun Yat-sen Biography, Wikipedia

Sun Yat-sen
Historian Jonathan Spence's article on Sun in Time East Asia, August 1999

Sun Yat-sen's Fundamentals of National Reconstruction (1923)
Excerpted in translation online, brief account of his famous "Three Principles of the People".

Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles of the People
Wikipedia article overview, includes link to full-text online in Chinese.

Week Five: Maoist Development and Mass Campaigns (1958-76)

Assignments

Week Five Film: "Morning Sun," 2003 (117 min) (Screen via Moodle) **Content Notes: discussion, footage and still photos of Red Guard violence, including beatings and executions.

Chronology: The Maoist Years in China

  • Feb 25 Maoist Land Reform and New Chinese Citizens

    Mao Zedong. "The Chinese People have Stood Up!" Opening address at the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Sept. 21, 1949. (4 pages). Available Online

    DeMare, Brian James. Introduction: the Story of Mao's Revolution (p. 1-27) Land Wars : The Story of China's Agrarian Revolution. Stanford, California: Stanford UP, 2019. (26 pp) (ereserve) **Content Notes: description of violence in Land Reform campaigns, mention of sexual assault, torture, beatings.

    Hershatter, Gail. Introduction (p. 1-8), Ch 1 "Frames (p. 13-31)," ch. 3 "Widow" (p. 65-95), The Gender of Memory. University of California Press, 2011. (56 pp) (ereserve, bookstore and book reserve).

Rent Collection Courtyard: Lifesize Clay Diorama of Maoist Rural Liberation, 1966
  • Feb 27 Campaign Time and The Great Leap Forward (1958)

    Mao Zedong. Quotations From Mao Zedong [Mao's Little Red Book], 1966. "11. The Mass Line," "20. Building Our Country Through Diligence and Frugality," and "21. Self-Reliance and Arduous Struggle," (10 pages). Online (Marxist.org)

    Yang Jisheng. "An Everlasting Tombstone," (pp. 3-22), Ch. 6 (pp. 197-221, vs 247)  (Edward Friedman, ed.). Tombstone; the Great Chinese Famine. New York: Farrer, Straus and Giroux, 2012 [2008]. (40 pages) (ereserve, bookstore and book reserve).

    [SKIM] Hershatter, Gail. Ch. 9 "Laborer," The Gender of Memory. University of California Press, 2011. (ereserve, bookstore and book reserve).

Further Reading

Visions of Maoist Development

  • Croll, Elizabeth. "The Negotiation of Knowledge and Ignorance in China's Development Strategy," in M. Hobart, ed., An Anthropological Critique of Development: the Growth of Ignorance. London: Routledge, 1993. (ereserve) (17 pages).
  • Marie-Claire Bergère, "China in the Wake of the Communist Revolution: Social Transformations, 1949-1966", Werner Draguhn & David S.G. Goodman (eds), China's Communist Revolutions - Fifty Years of The People's Republic of China (London, etc.: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002)
  • E. Stuart Kirby (ed.), Contemporary China 1955 (London: Oxford University Press, 1956)
  • Chang-tai Hung. Mao's New World: Political Culture in the Early People's Republic.
  • Hershatter, Gail. The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past.
  • Landsberger, Stefan. "Early Campaigns," "Land Reform and Collectivization," Early Industrialization," "Combat illiteracy Campaigns," "Eliminate the Four Pests," Online at  Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages,
  • Mao Zedong. "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People." Available online: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/
  • Mao Zedong. "On the Ten Major Relationships," Speech at an enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, April 25, 1956. (20 pages) Available online.
  • Tucker, Nancy. The China threat : memories, myths, and realities in the 1950s. New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.

Maoist Rural Development

  • Demare, Brian. Land Wars.[His latest book on land reform in Maoist China. Discussion of in Made in China 2018 issue].
  • Friedman, et al. Chinese Village, Socialist State. Yale, 1991.
  • Hershatter. ch. 5 "Farmer", Ch. 8 "Model" , The Gender of Memory. University of California Press, 2011.
  • Madsen et al. Chen Village.
  • Crooks. Ten Mile Inn.
  • Ruf, Gregory. Ch. 4, pp 90-121; "Getting Organized: Struggling with Collectivism," Cadres and Kin: Making a Socialist Village in West China, 1921–1991. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.
  • Unger, Jonathan. Ch. 1: "State Power and the Villages," The Transformation of Rural China. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002. (20 pages) (ereserve, book reserve)

The Great Leap Forward (1958)

  • Becker, Jasper. Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine. The Free Press, 1996.
  • Dikotter, Frank. Mao's Great Famine. New York : Walker & Co., 2010. (bookstore, book reserve)
  • Li Zhisui, The Private Life of Chairman Mao - The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician (London, etc.: Random House, 1996)
  • Mao Zedong. "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People." Available online: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/
  • Mao Zedong. "Introducing a Co-operative," April 15, 1958. [speech about model commune Yingchu]. (3 pages).Online:http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-8/mswv8_09.htm
  • Mao Zedong. "On the Ten Major Relationships," Speech at an enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, April 25, 1956. (20 pages) Available online: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_51.htm
  • MacFarquhar, Roderick. ch. 5 "The Coming of the Communes," Ch. 6 "High Tide", The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, vol. 2. Columbia University Press, 1983. (40 pages) (ereserve)
  • Roderick MacFarquhar, Timothy Cheek, Eugene Wu (eds), The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao - From the Hundred Flowers to the Great Leap Forward (Cambridge, etc.: Harvard University Press, 1989
  • Frederick Teiwes and Warren Sun, China's Road to Disaster - Mao, Central Politicians, and Provincial Leaders in the Unfolding of the Great Leap Forward 1955-1959 (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1998)
  • Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr. Catastrophe and contention in rural China : Mao's Great Leap forward famine and the origins of righteous resistance in Da Fo Village. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • Yang, Dali. Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Famine. Stanford Upress, 1996. [political science rational actor analysis].
  • Zhou Xun, ed. The great famine in China, 1958-1962 : a documentary history. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012 [translations of primary sources from county archives; some of which were used in Dikotter's book, compiler/translator was Dikotter's research assistant].
  • Zhou Xun, ed. Ch. 7 "Strategies of Survival," (pp. 114-141). The great famine in China, 1958-1962 : a documentary history. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012 (ereserve).

The Cultural Revolution (1966)

  • Xiaomei Chen. "Growing up with Posters in the Maoist Era," in Evans and Donald, eds., Picturing Power: Posters of the Cultural Revolution., 1999. (18 pages). 
  • Unger, Jonathan. Ch. 3: "The Cultural Revolution in the Villages," The Transformation of Rural China. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002. (book reserve)
  • Gittings, John. "Excess and Enthusiasm," in Evans and Donald, eds., Picturing Power: Posters of the Cultural Revolution. 1999.
  • Benewick, Robert. "Icons of Power: Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution," in Evans and Donald, eds., Picturing Power: Posters of the Cultural Revolution. 1999.
  • Han, Dongping. "Impact of the Cultural Revolution on Rural Education and Economic Development: The Case of Jimo County," Modern China 27.1 Jan. 2001: 59-90. [rural Shandong, author looks at home county; optimistic view, sees CR intro of educ. youth as critical to mechaniz., industiraliz.]
  • Yan Jiaqi and Gao Gao. 1996 (1986). Introduction, Ch. 3, "The Rise of the Red Guards," and Ch. 4. "Declaring War on the Old World," Turbulent Decade: A History of the Cultural Revolution. DWY Kwok, trans., Univ. of Hawaii Press. (35 pages). (ereserve).

Films

Youtube Videos:

Films in Reed Library:

  • Furong zhen [videorecording] = Hibiscus town . Los Angeles, Calif. : China Film & Export ; Palo Alto : Nanhai, c[1989?].After the famous novel by Gu Hua. Story of a couple who sells rice beancurd for a living. During the "four clean-ups" movement of 1964, they are classified as new rich peasants: their house is confiscated and the husband is driven to suicide. After the Cultural Revolution, the wife falls in love with a rightist and almost dies when having a difficult delivery of their baby.PL2860.U1 F8 1980z video
  • China [videorecording] : the cold red war (Soviet anti-PRC films)
    [USA] : MPI Home Video, c1990    1 videocassette (70 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 1/2 in [Includes Truth and Slander and Beware Maoism] The ideological battles between the US and the USSR were nothing compared to the fierce and hostile intercommunistic battles between the Soviet Union and The People's Republic of China. This film is a dramatic example of the power of propaganda filmmaking. Complete with eerie sound effects, these government-made films portray a China constantly preparing to fight for world domination and an imperialist dictator--Chairman Mao.
  • The East Wind State Farm. Dgenerate films, 2009. Condemned "Rightists", sentenced to 21 years of thought reform in the countryside, share harrowing first-person accounts of life in a Chinese labor camp. In 1957, two hundred teachers, students, and cadres were labeled as "Rightists" for voicing criticism of the Communist Party and sent to the East Wind State Farm in southwest China. As part of China's disastrous Great Leap Forward, these inmates were forced to take part in ill-conceived deforestation, agricultural and industrial projects that led to wide-scale famine. Later they endured the Cultural Revolution when their camp was visited by large groups of "sent-down" youth from the cities. After 21 years of "remolding", the "Rightists" were finally "rehabilitated" in 1978 and allowed to leave in 1978. The East Wind State Farm re-examines the tragic events of Chinese modern history during the height of Maoist rule. Director Hu Jie collects dozens of extensive interviews with both inmates and staff who served through three decades of the camp's existence
  • Making Mao. New York, NY : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2011. [mediocre film on 1950s propaganda; gives overview of propaganda system and use of art to rep. Mao and the revolution; some good old footage, but problematic and reductionist narration].
  • The Mao years, 1949-1976 [videorecording]/ a film by Ambrica Productions and WGBH Educational Foundation; DS777.55 .M35 1994 video
  • 10 years of the Cultural Revolution [videorecording] : 1966-1976. 5 part series 2008. DS778.7 .T46 2008 DVD
  • Nixon in China [videorecording] / Adams ; [WNET/New York and Houston Grand Opera ; Walter Cronkite provides historical background and narrates this grand opera depicting U.S. President Richard Nixon's historic state visit to mainland China in February 1972. PN1995.9.O7 N59 2000z DVD
  • Mao's Great Famine, 2012. [this film is from Dikotter's perspective: Mao as 'mass murderer'; vs. controversy over how Dikotter represents Yang Jisheng's work; Yang presents himself as more 'objective', and measured, other China scholars, including Chinese scholars, support Yang's view--issue is how to frame Mao and the politics of responsibility].

Links

Links

Mao Zedong (1893-1976)

Maoist Campaigns

Week Six: Negotiating Reforms Under Deng Xiaoping (1980s)

Assignments

Week Six Film: "Ermo," 1996 (95 min) (Screen via Moodle)

  • Tues Mar 3 Moral Economies

    Deng Xiaoping. "Emancipate the Mind, Seek Truth from Facts and Unite as one in Looking to the Future," December 13, 1978, Speech at the closing session of the Central Working Conference which made preparations for the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party that immediately followed. Online: http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/dengxp/vol2/text/b1260.html (9 pages)

    Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui. Introduction, Ch. 2, Ch. 4. Gifts, favors, and banquets : the art of social relationships in China. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1994. (ereserve, bookstore and book reserve). (~80 pgs)
Xinhua: 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up
  • Thurs Mar 5 the Micropolitics of Exchange under Reforms

    Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui. SKIM/OPTIONAL Ch. 3, FOCUS on Ch. 5, Gifts, favors, and banquets : the art of social relationships in China. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1994. (ereserve, bookstore and book reserve). (~30 pgs).

Further Reading

Moral Economies and the Micropolitics of Exchange under Reforms

  • Anagnost, Ann. "Prosperity and Counter-Prosperity: the Moral Discourse on Wealth in Post-Mao China," in Dirlik and Meisner, eds. Marxism and the Chinese Experience, ME Sharpe, 1989.
  • Bottelier, Peter. 2007. China and the World Bank: How a partnership was built. J. of Contemporary China 16(51), May: 239-258.
  • Brook, Timothy. Introduction, in Brook, Timothy and Hy V. Luong, eds., Culture and Economy: The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia. Michigan, 1997. (Book reserve)
  • Brook, Timothy. "Profit and Righteousness in Chinese Economic Culture" in Brook, Timothy and Hy V. Luong, eds., Culture and Economy: The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia. Michigan, 1997. (Book, ereserve)
  • Critical Asian Studies, China and Socialism Roundtable (see week 3 Further Reading)
  • Burkett, Paul and Martin Hart-Landsberg. "Thinking about China: Capitalism, Socialism and Class Struggle," China and Socialism Roundtable, Critical Asian Studies 37: 3, 2005: 433-440. (8 pages). (ereserve).
  • Burkett and Hart-Landsberg. China and Socialism. Monthly Review. (see me). [book length study to which the CAS roundtable refers, Reed llb. has],
  • China and the Legacy of Deng Xiaoping: From Communist Revolution to Capitalist Evolution. By MICHAEL E. MARTI. [Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2002. xviii+265 pp. $27.95. ISBN 1-57488-416-6.] (ordered for Reedlib)
  • Gallagher, Mary. "Reform and Openness: Why China's Economic Reforms have Delayed Democracy," World Politics 54 (April 2002): 338-72.
  • Hefner, Robert. Introduction. Market Cultures: society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms. Westview Press, 1998.
  • Meisner, Maurice. 1996. Ch. 8: "The Economic Legacies of the Mao Era and the Post-Mao Reformers," The Deng Xiaoping Era. New York: Hill and Wang. (book reserve).
  • Meisner, Maurice. Ch. 11: "Bureaucratic Capitalism," in The Deng Xiaoping era : an inquiry into the fate of Chinese socialism, 1978-1994 / New York : Hill and Wang, 1996. (ereserve, Book reserve).
  • Mobo Gao. "China and Capitalism is Good for the West, Why is Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics Bad?" China and Socialism Roundtable, Critical Asian Studies 37: 3, 2005: 469-472. (4 pages). (ereserve).
  • Paley, Julia. "Toward an Anthropology of Democracy," Annual Review of Anthropology 31, 2002: 469-96.
  • Przeworski et al. Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990
  • Scott, James C.. 1998. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven: Yale Univeristy Press
  • Warner, Malcolm. 1986. The 'Long March' of Chinese Management Education, 1979-84. The China Quarterly 106, June: 326-342
  • Yan Sun (poli sci). Corruption and Market in Contemporary China. Cornell, 2004. [calls China post-socialist/communist; starts w/gambling of Chinese high rollers; sees corruption as part and parcel of reforms, as barrier to "genuine" transition to market; divides by types of corruption: officials vs. citizens, officials and public funds, state and localities, state and officials,]
  • Ying Fan. 1998. The Transfer of Western Managment to China: Context, Content and Constraints. Management Learning 29(2): 201-221.
  • Wedeman, Andrew. "the Intensification of Corruption in China," China Quarterly, 2004.
  • Zweig, David. 2000. Foreign Aid, Domestic Institutions and Entrepreneurship: Fashioning Management Training Centres in China. Pacific Affairs 73(2), Summer: 209-231.

The Cultural Politics of Gifting and Exchange

  • Gold, Thomas. "After Comradeship: Personal Relations in China since the Cultural Revolution," The China Quarterly 104 (Dec. 1985): 657-75.
  • Guthrie, Douglas. "The Declining Importance of Guanxi in China's Economic Transition," The China Quarterly 154 (June 1998): 254-82. (29 pages) Online (JSTOR).
  • Maurer, Bill. 2006. The Anthropology of Money. Annual Review of Anthropology. Vol. 35: 15-36. Available on JSTOR. [Important recent overview of a revinvigorated economic anthropology, rethinking the nature of money.]
  • Mauss, Marcel. The Gift. 1922.
  • Graeber, David. "Introduction" and "Mauss Revisited", Toward an Anthropological theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams. Palgrave, 2001.
  • Defillipis, James, ed. "Symposium on Social Capital," in Antipode, 2002. [short pieces from a roundtable critically looking at the concept of "social capital" that became a central organizing theme in global development circles from the 1990s on, pieces by Ben Fine, Katherine Rankin, Thad Williamson, Anthony Bebbington].
  • Gan Wang. "Cultivating Friendship Through Bowling in Shenzhen," in Davis, ed. The Consumer Revolution in Urban China. Univ. of California Press, 2000.
  • Hefner, Robert, ed. Market Cultures: society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms. Westview Press, 1998. 
  • Latham, Stuart et al, eds. Consuming China: Approaches to Cultural Change in Contemporary China. Routledge, 2006. (reed lib has, see me) [See Croll and Stafford articles on gifting, exchange and corruption, responding to Yang].
  • Ong, Aihwa. 2006. Corporate Players, New Cosmopolitanisms and Guanxi in Shanghai. Greg Downey and Melissa Fisher, eds., Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections on The New Economy. Duke University Press. [see me]
  • Wank, David. "Cigarettes and Domination in Chinese Business Networks," in Davis, ed. The Consumer Revolution in Urban China. Univ. of California Press, 2000. (Book, ereserve).
  • Yan Sun (poli sci). Corruption and Market in Contemporary China. Cornell, 2004. [calls China post-socialist/communist; starts w/gambling of Chinese high rollers; sees corruption as part and parcel of reforms, as barrier to "genuine" transition to market; divides by types of corruption: officials vs. citizens, officials and public funds, state and localities, state and officials,]
  • Yan Yunxiang. The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village.
  • Yang, Mayfair. "The Gift Economy and State Power in China," in CSSH 31.1, 1989: 25-54.
  • Yang, Mayfair. "The Resilience of Guanxi and its New Developments: a Critique of some New Guanxi scholarship," The China Quarterly 170 (June 2002): 459-76. (17 pages) Available online (scroll down to Yang).

Films

Youtube videos: The 30th Anniversary of Reform and Opening up in China, 2009

Films in Reed Library

  • Management in Chinese cultures [videorecording] / producer, Roger Penfound ; BBC [for] the Open University Publication [Princeton, NJ] : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2001. Videocassette release of an episode of the 1998 telecourse Academic consultant/presenter, Jane Henry ; camera, Hamdani Milas ; editor, Clive Wilkinson Summary In Chinese culture, western stresses on individualism, delegation and empowerment are replaced by an emphasis on community and the family, a lean hands-on management style and a Confucian deference to authority. Through interviews with innovators, entrepreneurs and managers in both China and Hong Kong, this programme asks a number of questions about the effects these cultural differences have on the way business is done in this region Notes Chiefly in English with Chinese subtitles; some Chinese (Cantonese) with English voice-overs.

Links

Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997)

The 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up

Theorists on the Gift

Part III: Development and Contested Value/Values in Post-Mao China

Week Seven: Capitalist Development: Urbanization, Industry and Class (1980s-90s)

Assignments

Week Seven Film: "Mardi Gras: Made In China," 2006 (72 min) (Screen via Moodle)

 Pun Ngai, Ch. 3, ch. 7, Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace. Duke University Press, 2005. (ereserve, Bookstore and Book reserve)

Email Midterm Exam

Further Reading

Opening up as Urban Industrialization

  • Bottelier, Peter. 2007. China and the World Bank: How a partnership was built. J. of Contemporary China 16(51), May: 239-258.
  • Chen, Nancy et al. China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture. Duke, 2001.
  • Chen, Aimin. "Urbanization in China and the Case of Fujian Province," Modern China 32.1, Jan. 2006: 99-130.
  • Chung, Jae Ho and Tao-Chiu Lam. "China's 'City System' in Flux: Explaining Post-Mao Administrative Changes," China Quarterly 2004. [frame urbanization as 'progress' skewed by admin.]
  • Leslie T. Chang. Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (Spiegel & Grau, 2009)
  • Laid-Off Workers in a Workers’ State: Unemployment with Chinese Characteristics (Palgrave Macmillan 2009, edited by Thomas B. Gold, William J. Hurst, Jaeyoun Won, and Qiang Li.
  • Julian Gewirtz. The Futurists of Beijing: Alvin Toffler, Zhao Ziyang, and China's “New Technological Revolution,” 1979–1991. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911818002619
  • IMF report. China's Growth and Integration 2004 [collection of papers from IMF economists, neolib view of 'flexible labour markets" and hukou reform]. (see me)
  • Krug, Barbara, ed. China's Rational Entrepreneurs: The Development of the New Private business Sector. Routledge, 2004.
  • Li Ning. "High Tech Industrial Zones: New Impetus Pushing Economy up," Beijing Review, April 24, 2000. (2 pages) (ereserve).
  • Lin, Yi-Min. 2001. Between Politics and Markets: Firms, Competition and Institutional Change in Post-Mao China. (see me)
  • Restructuring the Chinese City: Changing Society, Economy and Space. Ma and Wu, eds., Routledge, 2005. (see me)
  • Meisner, Maurice. Ch. 10: The Cities," The Deng Xiaoping era : an inquiry into the fate of Chinese socialism, 1978-1994 / New York : Hill and Wang, 1996. (Book reserve).
  • O'Donnell, Mary. 1999. "Path Breaking: Constructing Gendered Nationalism in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone," positions: east asia cultures critique 7.2: 343-375. [good overview of estab. of the SEZ concept]
  • Suzanne Pepper - China's Special Economic Zones: The Current Rescue Bid for a Faltering Experiment [20:3] ] Critical asian studies
  • Scharping, Thomas and Kam Wing Chan. "Urbanization in China since 1949," China Quarterly 109, March 1987.
  • Chinese Urban Life under Reform: The Changing Social Contract. By WENFANG TANG and WILLIAM L. PARISH. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. [sociologist and poli sci]
  • Warner, Malcolm. 1986. The 'Long March' of Chinese Management Education, 1979-84. The China Quarterly 106, June: 326-342.
  • Ying Fan. 1998. The Transfer of Western Managment to China: Context, Content and Constraints. Management Learning 29(2): 201-221.
  • Zweig, David. 2000. Foreign Aid, Domestic Institutions and Entrepreneurship: Fashioning Management Training Centres in China. Pacific Affairs 73(2), Summer: 209-231.

Urban Industry, Discipline and Resistance

  • Blecher, Marc. 2002. Hegemony and Workers' Politics in China. China Quarterly 170. [focus on workers' acceptance of core values of market and state; interviews 95-99 Tianjin; looks at rise in workers' protests 90s; addresses Gramsci hegemony]
  • Blecher, Marc. 2008. Critical Asian Studies. “When Wal-Mart Wimped Out”
  • Chan, Anita. (2001). China's workers under assault : the exploitation of labor in a globalizing economy (Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe). [wife of Jonathan Unger, cases mostly east, except one in Sichuan; organized by chs. on types of violations of "rights", translates news articles from Chinese]
  • Chan, Kam Wing and Li Zhang. "the Hukou system and rural-Urban migration in China: Processes and Changes," The China Quarterly 160, Dec. 1999.
  • Calvin Chen. Some Assembly Required: Work, Community, and Politics in China’s Rural Factories (Harvard University Press, 2008
  • Duhigg, Charles and David Barboza. In China, Human Costs are Built into an Ipad. The New York Times, Jan. 25, 2012.
  • Eyferth, Jacob, ed. How China Works: Perspectives on the Twentieth-Century Industrial Workplace (Routledge, 2006
  • Frazier, Mark. New Perspectives on Chinese Labor. China Beat blog, 2010. [Summary of new scholarly work on urban labor and resistance]
  • Frazier, Mark. Socialist Insecurity: Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China (Cornell University Press, 2010)
  • Gaetano and Jacka, eds. On the Move: Women in Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China. Columbia, 2004
  • Fitzpatrick, Stephen. Work and Mobility: Recent Labour Migration Issues in China. (see me, collection of essays by Chinese social scientists from CASS]
  • Gereffi, Gary et al. (sociology, environ. policy) "the NGO-Industrial Complex," Foreign Policy 125, 2001: 56-65. [talks of new global activism's pressure on MNCs, use of certification as problematic; industries using own certification to preempt laws]
  • Mary E. Gallagher.  Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China (Princeton University Press, 2005).
  • Harney, Alexandra. The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage (The Penguin Press, 2008)
  • Hart-Landsberg, Martin; Burkett, Paul. 2004. China & Socialism: Market Reforms and Class Struggle. Monthly Review 56(3). (see me).
  • Lisa Hoffman, "guiding college graduates to work: Social constructions of Labor Markets in Dalian," China Urban [Dalian is a NE SEZ]
  • William Hurst. The Chinese Worker After Socialism Cambridge University Press, 2009
  • Iredale, Robyn, Naran Bilik and Fei Guo. China's Minorities on the Move. ME Sharpe, 2003.
  • Kipnis, Andrew. 2006. Suzhi: a Keyword Approach. China Quarterly.
  • Lee, Ching Kwan (sociology), Gender and the South China Miracle: 2 worlds of factory women. California, 1998 (Reed lib has)
  • Lee, Ching Kwan. 2002. From the specter of Mao to the spirit of the law: Labor insurgency in China. Theory and Society 31, pp. 189-228.
  • Lee, Ching Kwan. Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt. University of California Press, 2007
  • Lee, Ching Kwan, ed. Working in China: Ethnographies of Labor and Workplace Transformation (Routledge 2007.
  • Li Zhang. Strangers in the City: Reconfigurations of Space, Power and Social networks within China's Floating Population. Stanford, 2001.
  • Pun Ngai and Jenny Chan. 2012. Global Capital, the State and Chinese Workers: The Foxconn Experience. Modern China 38(4): 383-410.
  • Rofel, Lisa. 1999. Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China after Socialism. Berkeley: University of California.
  • Sassen, Saskia. Ch. 5 "Toward a Feminist Analytics of the Global Economy," in Globalization and its Discontents. New York: The New Press, 1998. [talks of valorization/devalorization of types of workers]
  • ----------------. Ch. 6 "Notes on the Incorporation of Third World Women into Wage Labor through Immigration and Offshore Production," in Globalization and its Discontents. New York: The New Press, 1998. 
  • Solinger, Dorothy. Contesting Citizenship in Urban China. California, California, 1999.
  • Solinger, Dorothy. States’ Gains, Labor’s Losses: China, France, and Mexico Choose Global Liaisons, 1980-2000 (Cornell University Press, 2010)
  • Solinger, Dorothy. "Human Rights Issues in China's Internal Migration: Insights from Comparisons with Germany and Japan," in The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights, Cambridge 1999.
  • The Economist, Corporate Social Responsibility survey, 2005.
  • Woon, Yuen-Fong. "Labor Migration in the 1990s: Homeward Orientation of Migrants in the Peral River Delta Region and its Implications for Interior China," Modern China 25.4 Oct. 1999: 475-512.

Films

Youtube/online videos

Films in Reed Library

  • The Gate of Heavenly Peace (on Tiananmen square protests and crackdown, 1989)
  • Student protest in China [videorecording] : Friday, May 5, 1989 / ABC News
    Oak Forest, IL : MPI Home Video, 1989, c1990    1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  • Is Wal-Mart good for America? [videorecording] / senior producer, Hedrick Smith ; written by Hedrick
    [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, 2004    1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
  • Manufactured landscapes.National Film Board of Canada, 2006. Manufactured Landscapes is a feature documentary on the work of internationally renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. The film follows him as he travels through China photographing the evidence and effects of that country's massive industrial revolution. The Three Gorges Dam, factory floors a kilometre long and the breathtaking scale of Shanghai's urban renewal are subjects for his lens. Shot in Super-16mm film, the documentary extends the narratives of Burtynsky's photographs, meditating on the human impact on the planet without trying to reach simplistic judgements or reductive resolutions. In the process, it shifts our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it
  • Working sister [videorecording] = Da gong mei / Smokey Golden Productions, Inc. Berkeley, CA : University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning, c1998 Seventeen-year-old farm girl Xu Li Li works in a factory in the south, and travels the 1000 miles home to her family farm for the New Year. One of the 'da gong mei', the working sisters, she talks about her life at the factory and back home on the farm.
  • A decent factory / a film by Thomas Balmès ; Brooklyn, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, 2004. Follows representatives of Nokia as they examine working conditions at a Chinese factory that manufacturers products for the company.

Links

Week Eight: The Aesthetics and Violence of New Urbanism (late 90s-2000s)

Assignments

Week Eight Film: Meishi Street, 2006. (Screen via Moodle)

  • Mar. 17 Class Cancelled. Readings and film optional. Will still have casual Zoom meeting conversation.

    From Industrialism to Urbanism as Planned Spectacle, Land Expropriation and Urban "Domicide"
[SKIM] Wang Meiqin. 2015. Advertising the Chinese dream: Urban billboards and Ni Weihua’s documentary photography," China Information, Special issue on visual arts and urbanization 29(2) (July). (ereserve).

Qin Shao. Introduction (pp. 1-30) and Chapter 4 (pp. 189-226). Shanghai Gone: Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2013 (ereserve, bookstore, book reserve).
  • Mar. 19

Class Canceled for Online Teaching Prep

Spring Break Mar. 23-27

Take home Midterm Exam due Monday, Mar 30, 5 pm, Moodle upload

Further Reading

  • Broudehoux, Anne-Marie. 2004. The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing. Routledge.
  • Cai, Yongshun. Collective Ownership or Cadres' Ownership? The Non-agricultural Use of Farmland in China. The China Quarterly, Volume 175, 2003.
  • Cartier, Carolyn. 2015. “Territorial Urbanization and the Party-State in China.” Territory,Politics, Governance 3(3): 294-320.
  • Cartier, Carolyn. City-space: scale relations and China's spatial admin. hierarchy
  • Cartier, Carolyn. Zone Fever, the Arable Land Debate and Real Estate Speculation: China's evolving land use regime and its geographical contradictions. Journal of Contemporary China 10 (28): 445-469, 2001.
  • Chen, Aimin. "Urbanization in China and the Case of Fujian Province," Modern China 32.1, Jan. 2006: 99-130.
  • Chen, Nancy et al. China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture. Duke, 2001.
  • China Information, Special issue on visual arts and urbanization 29(2) (July), 2015. [especially Berry on Cao Fei's filmic interventions]
  • Chung, Jae Ho and Tao-Chiu Lam. "China's 'City System' in Flux: Explaining Post-Mao Administrative Changes," China Quarterly 2004. [frame urbanization as 'progress' skewed by admin.]
  • Dutton, Michael. Street Life China. [late 90s look at rising phenomenon of urbanization in China from the perspective of the street, including ubiquitous demolitions].
  • Guo Xiaolin.  Land Expropriation and Rural conflicts in China. China Quarterly, 2001.           
  • Ho, Peter. Who Owns China's Land? Policies, Property Rights and Deliberate Institutional Ambiguity, China Quarterly, 2001.
  • Ho, Cheuk Yuet. Bargaining demolition in China: A practice of distrust. Critique of Anthropology 2013;33 412-428.
  • Li Zhang. Contesting Spatial Modernity in Late-Socialist China. Current Anthropology 47(3): 461-484, 2006. (online)
  • Ma and Wu, eds., Restructuring the Chinese City: Changing Society, Economy and Space.  Routledge, 2005. (see me)
  • Oakes, Tim. 2017. “Happy Town: Cultural Governance and Biopolitical Urbanism in China.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. (ereserve)
  • Scharping, Thomas and Kam Wing Chan. "Urbanization in China since 1949," China Quarterly 109, March 1987.
  • Sargeson, S. 2004. Full circle? Rural land reforms in globalizing China, Critical Asian Studies 36(4), 637-56.
  • Sargeson, S. and Song, Y. 2010. Land expropriation and the gender politics of citizenship in the urban frontier, The China Journal 64, 19-45.
  • Tang and Parish. Chinese Urban Life under Reform: The Changing Social Contract. BCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. [sociologist and poli sci]
  • Xiao Chen. "Dynamic Hangzhou," Beijing Review, Dec. 23, 2004. (1 page). (ereserv).
  • Yeh, Emily. "Property Relations in Tibet Since Decollectivization and the Question of Fuzziness," Conservation and Society 2 (1), 2004.

Films

Films online:

China's empty cities, Australia's SBS Dateline, 2013

Video Game on Fighting Eviction" (coverage of popular video game on 'dingzi hu'), NDTV, 2012.

"This is why they don't allow guns in China", China Uncensored (U.S. amateur news vlog episode on 'nail houses'), 2012.

China's Housing Demolition Office "Demolish Heaven & Earth", (Chinese netizens debate housing demolition) NTDTV.com, 2012.

"Road built around house after couple refuse to move", (coverage of famous 'dingzi hu' case), Zoominuk, 2012.

China's Empty Cities House 64 Million Empty Apartments, journeyman pics 2011

"Dingzi Hu" (Nail House), (live version of popular rock song on dissident homeowners who refuse to move for developers, by edgy singer Zuoxiao Zuzhou, who participated in anti-demolition activism in Jiangsu city. NYT critic: Zuoxiao Zuzhou is a Chinese singer whose accented, croaky voice is hardly ever in tune. But for his fans he's the voice of a generation — one of the very few voices who dare to speak out. After a collaboration, Cowboy Junkies member Michael Timmins called him "China's Leonard Cohen." "On These Tiny Grapes, Zuoxiao's new album of edgy ballads focusing on the woes of modern-day China, he hones in on rampant corruption, food scandals, injustice and abuse of power"). (Youtube 2013)  (good friend of Ai Weiwei; they did the Gangnam style parody together)

"Dingzi Hu" studio version (Youtube 2012)

The Concrete Revolution, documentary by Xiaolu Guo, 2004, depicts urban demolition as a 'new civil war'. Award-winning filmmaker Xiaolu Guo examines the tremendous moral and human cost of creating a "New China" for the 2008 Olympics. Blending social commentary, frank interviews and evocative imagery, the viewer is led to ponder who really benefits from the endless construction taking place in Beijing. As traditional communities are bulldozed to make way for modern high-rise apartment buildings and ancient traditions are cast aside at the expense of approximately one million poor laborers from villages who barely get paid, the film asks how far will China go to sacrifice its traditional way of life for this new Western version? Thought-provoking and controversial, The Concrete Revolution offers a rare, first-hand survey of China in the 21st century.

Films in Reed Library:

Urbanisation in China : happiness is seen everywhere / 16x9.NL Production, 2011. (Chinese with English subtitles).

Nostalgia (Xiang Chou). by SHU Haolun. China, 2006. Documentary, 70 minutes. [about demolitions in Shanghai; vs. Meishi st, which is about Beijing ahead of the Olympics; film reviewer says Meishi st is landmark in activist filmmaking, gave residents cameras; also subtitles on Nostalgia are really bad]

Links

Svensson on Ningbo photog exhibition 2018, Made in China 2018: Several photographers trained their cameras on a recent trend of demolitions of entire villages in Zhejiang province. Dong Pin documented the demolition of a village outside of Leqing that only took two months to accomplish. Her photographs of people sitting on the ruins of their homes or looking out from their soon to be demolished houses are imbued with emotional distress and displacement brought about by rapid urbanisation and its non-transparent practices. Another photographer, Liu Yanfeng, documented life in a village outside of Lin’an before its demolition. The speed of demolitions in the city has given rise to the special term ‘Lin’an speed’ (lin’an sudu). Tao Lina’s photographs document the changes of a village in Taizhou as a result of

Week Nine: Developing the Marginalized: the Rural (1990s-2000s)

Assignments

Week Nine Film: Nongjia le (Peasant Family Happiness), by Jenny Chio, 2013 (Screen via Moodle)

  • Tues Mar 31 Suzhi and Developing the Rural Poor

    Yan Hairong. Ch. 1 The Emaciation of the Rural: "No Way Out," and Ch. 3 Suzhi as a New Human Value: Neoliberal Governance of Labor Migration (~50 pgs), in New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. (ereserve, book reserve, bookstore)

  • Thurs Mar 2 Reforming the Rural as "Modern" Space

    Hayward, Jane. 2018. China’s Land Reforms and the Logic of Capital Accumulation, Made in China 4. (~2 pgs) (ereserve)

    Chio, Jenny. Introduction: Rural as space and sociality. October 16, 2017 (Intro to special issue, ~3 pages) (ereserve)

    Chio, Jenny. Rendering rural modernity: Spectacle and power in a Chinese ethnic tourism village. Critique of Anthropology October 26, 2017 . (ereserve)

Discuss Final Project Guidelines

Further Reading

Decollectivization and Rural Entrepreneurship

  • Small Works: Poverty and Economic Development in Southwestern China, by John A. Donaldson
  • Escobar, Arturo. ch. 2: Discovering Poverty, Encountering Development, 1995.
  • Best, Joel. Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians and Activists. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
  • Deng Xiaoping. "On Questions of Rural Policy," May 31, 1981. Online: http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/dengxp/vol2/text/b1440.html
  • Special issue of Journal of Current Chinese Affairs. Vol 38, No 4 (2009): Transforming Rural China: Beyond the Urban Bias?
  • Hayward, Jane. 2017. “Beyond the Ownership Question: Who Will Till the Land? The New Debate on China’s Agricultural Production.” Critical Asian Studies 49, no. 4: 523–45 [Replaces Meisner; updates him and gives background on recent debates, HRS, hukou, new socialist countryside, and issue of land]
  • Meisner, Maurice. Ch. 9 "The Countryside: The Social Consequences of Decollectivization," The Deng Xiaoping era : an inquiry into the fate of Chinese socialism, 1978-1994 / New York : Hill and Wang, 1996. (33 pages).
  • Parish, William, ed. Chinese Rural Development: the Great Transformation. ME sharpe, 1985. (see me).
  • Oi, Jean. 1999. Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform. Berkeley: University of California Press. (see me)
  • Christiansen, Flemming and Zhang Junzuo, eds. Village Inc.: Chinese Rural Society in the 1990s. Hawaii, 1998. (see me).
  • Sato, Hiroshi. (econ) The Growth of Market Relations in Post-Reform Rural China: a Micro-analysis of Peasants, Migrants and Peasant Entrepreneurs. [summarizes microeconomic surveys done in rural Yunnan and Zhejiang, gives local context of microfinance efforts in Yunnan, peasant entrepreneurs, networks]. (see me).
  • Gene Cooper. (anthro USC). 1998 The Artisans and Entrepreneurs of Dongyang County: Economic Reform and Flexible Production in China. New York: M.E. Sharpe.
  • Beth E. Notar. "Authenticity, Anxiety and Counterfeit Confidence: Outsourcing Souvenirs, Changing Money, and Narrating Value in Reform-Era China". Modern China, Jan 2006; 32: 64 - 98.
  • Meisner, Maurice. Ch. 9 "The Countryside: The Social Consequences of Decollectivization," The Deng Xiaoping era : an inquiry into the fate of Chinese socialism, 1978-1994 / New York : Hill and Wang, 1996. (ereserve, Book reserve). (33 pages).
  • Croll, Elizabeth. 1994. From Heaven to Earth: Images and Experiences of Development in China. Routledge. (reed lib has, see me).
  • Unger, Jonathan. Ch. 9: "Poverty in the Rural Hinterlands: The Conundrums of Underdevelopment," The Transformation of Rural China. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002. (25 pages)
  • Ye, Jingzhong. 2015. “Land Transfer and the Pursuit of Agricultural Modernization in China.” Journal of Agrarian Change 15, no. 3: 314–37.
  • Zhan, Shaohua. 2017. “Hukou Reform and Land Politics in China: The Rise of a Tripartite Alliance.” The China Journal, no. 78: 25–49.

Suzhi and Developing the Rural Poor

  • Escobar, Arturo. ch. 2: Discovering Poverty, Encountering Development, 1995. Kipnis, Andrew. 2006. Suzhi: a Keyword Approach. China Quarterly.
  • Donaldson, John. Small Works: Poverty and Economic Development in Southwestern China
  • Hsu, Caroline. 2007 Ch. 7. "The Narrative Construction of Class and Status under Market Socialism: The Emerging Suzhi Hierarchy," Creating Market Socialism. Duke University Press.
  • Kipnis, Andrew. 2007. "Neoliberalism Reified: Suzhi discourse and Tropes of Neoliberalism in the People's Republic of China," Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13: 383-400. (JSTOR)
  • Power, Marcus. Ch. 2. "Illuminating the Dark Side of Development," in Rethinking Development Geographies. Routledge, 2003. (bookstore, book reserve).
  • "Viewpoint". "Innovative Rural Financing," Beijing Review, Sept. 30, 2004. (see me)
  • Impact Assessment Report, 2000.
    UNICEF Social Development Program for Poor Areas (SPPA, featured in the film, "Because They're Worth it,")
  • Ruomei Sun. "The Development of Microfinance in China," Rural Development Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. (see me).
  • Hospes and Lont, eds. 2004. Livelihood and Microfinance: Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives on Savings and Debt. Eburon. (see me).
  • Made in China 2018 focus issue on the rural:

                - Daniele Dainelli presents ‘Domestic Archeology’, a photographic project on the Chinese countryside that took him seven years to accomplish.

                http://www.danieledainelli.com/index.html: have them choose one to write about?

                -Svensson on Ningbo Int'l photog exhibition on Village Images: Several photographers trained their cameras on a recent trend of demolitions of entire villages in Zhejiang province. Dong Pin documented the demolition of a village outside of Leqing that only took two months to accomplish. Her photographs of people sitting on the ruins of their homes or looking out from their soon to be demolished houses are imbued with emotional distress and displacement brought about by rapid urbanisation and its non-transparent practices. Another photographer, Liu Yanfeng, documented life in a village outside of Lin’an before its demolition. The speed of demolitions in the city has given rise to the special term ‘Lin’an speed’ (lin’an sudu). Tao Lina’s photographs document the changes of a village in Taizhou as a result of

  • -Jacobsen. Beyond Proletarianisation The Everyday Politics of Chinese Migrant Labour. Made in China 4 2018[good brief, uses fieldwork, gets at complexity of rural-urban integration and labour politics now]

  •  

    Jacka, Tamara. Inside Work: the Hidden Exploitation of Rural Women in Modern China, Made in China 4, 2018 

  • Microfinance Initiatives: Can they Work in China?
    American Chamber of Commerce, PRC
  • PRC White Paper. "The Development-Oriented Poverty Reduction Program for Rural China. Information Office of the State Council, Oct., 2001. Available Online:http://www.china.org.cn/e-white/fp1015/
  • OECD report. Rural Finance and Credit Infrastructure in China. [collection of papers from workshop 2003, Paris]. (see me).
  • Power, Marcus. Rethinking Development Geographies. Routledge, 2003. 
  • Ferguson, James. "Introduction," in The Anti-Politics Machine: 'Development', Depoliticization, and Bureaucractic Power in Lesotho. University of Minnesota Press, 1994. (Book reserve).
  • Anagnost, Ann. "The Corporeal Politics of Quality (Suzhi), published in Public Culture, 16:2 (2004). [talks of the notion of quality and rural migrants' bodies]
  • Yan Hairong. American Ethnologist
  • Wang Shaoguang and Hu Angang. (Chinese economists) The Political Economy of Uneven Development. ME Sharpe, 1999. [rewrite and translation of influential study that helped lead to Xibu Kaifa, intro is extended critique of neoclassical econ. models that predict regional 'convergence'; data up to 1995] (see me).
  • Knight, John and Lina Song. (dev. economists) The Rural-Urban Divide: Economic Disparities and Interactions in China. Oxford, 1999. (see me).
  • Rahman, Azizur and Carl Riskin. Inequality and Poverty in China in the Age of Globalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. (ordered for Reedlib)
  • The Economist, Survey on Rural Microfinance, 2005. (see me).
  • The Economist, Survey on Philanthropy, 2006.(see me).
  • Interview with Tom Easton, New York Bureau Chief of the Economist, author of the Microfinance survey, Nov., 2005.http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5104911
  • UNDP Report on Microfinance in China. Available online.http://www.uncdf.org/english/microfinance/documents_and_reports/country_feasibility/chinadb3.php
  • Reddy, Sanjay and Thomas Pogge. "How not to Count the Poor," Available online at: socialanalysis.org
  • Reddy, Sanjay and Camelia Minoiu. "Chinese Poverty: Assessing the Impact of Alternative Assumptions," Available online at: socialanalysis.org
  • Ruf, Gregory. Ch.s 5-6, Cadres and Kin: Making a Socialist Village in West China, 1921–1991. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.  (89 pages)(40 pages).
  • Chan, Kam Wing and Li Zhang. "the Hukou system and rural-Urban migration in China: Processes and Changes," The China Quarterly 160, Dec. 1999.
  • Murphy, Rachel. (poli sci) How Migrant Labor is Changing Rural China. Cambridge, 2002. [student of Peter Nolan, fieldwork in Jiangxi; attempts of local cadres to keep people there]
  • Mei Zhang. China's Poor Regions: rural-urban migration, poverty, economic reform and urbanization. Routledge, 2003; [hardcover, Reed lib. has, Brit-trained Chinese economist? Shanxi, divides study in overview, sending and destination areas] (see me).
  • Tim Oakes, Tourism and Modernityin China, Routledge, 1998.
  • De Wet, Chris, ed. Development-Induced Displacement. Berghan Books, 2006. (reed lib has, see me.)

Developing Chinese Women

  • Adams, Vincanne and Stacey Pigg, eds. Sex and Development.
  • Bossen, Laurel. Chinese Women and Rural Development: Sixty Years of Change in Lu Village, Yunnan. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2002. (Reed has 3 copies)
  • Escobar, Arturo. "Engendering Vision: The Discovery of Women in Development, " pp. 171-191, in Encountering Development, Princeton, 1995 (20 pages).
  • Evans, Harriet. "Defining Difference: The 'Scientific' Construction of Sexuality and Gender in the PRC," Signs 20(2) (Winter 1995): 357-394.
  • Women's Work, Men's Work: Gender and Tourism among the Miao in Rural China

    Xianghong Feng

    First published: 18 June 2013

    https://doi-org.proxy.library.reed.edu/10.1111/awr.12002

  • Jacka, Tamara. 2017. “Translocal Family Reproduction and Agrarian Change in China: A New Analytical Framework.” Journal of Peasant Studies 45, no. 7: 1341–59
  • Jacka, Tamara. 1997. Women’s Work in Rural China: Change and Continuity in an Era of Reform. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Li Rongxia. "Cracking Down on the Abduction of Women and Children, Beijing Review May 8, 2000.
  • PRC White Paper. Foreword, Sections I-III, V, VII, "Gender Equality and Women's Development in China," Information Office of the State Council, Beijing, August 2005. Online: http://www.china.org.cn/e-white/20050824/ (9 pages)
  • UN Beijing conf. declaration 1995
  • UNDP "Fastfacts": Engendering Development in China. Available Online.
  • Warren, Kay and Susan Bourque. "Women, Technology and International Development Ideologies: Analyzing Feminist Voices, " in di Leonardo, ed., Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge, California, 1991.
  • Wen Jun. "Social Development and Women's employment among China's National Minorities," Chinese Sociology and Anthropology 29(3), 1997.
  • Wolf, Margery. Revolution Postponed: Women in Contemporary China. Stanford, 1985.

Mobilizing Quality Women; Creating Quality Places

  • Anagnost: suzhi and population
  • Best, Joel. Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians and Activists. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
  • Bray, David. 2013. “Urban Planning Goes Rural: Conceptualising the ‘New Village’.” China Perspecti- ves, no. 3: 53–62.
  • Cartier, Carolyn and Rothenberg-Aalami. "Empowering the 'Victim'? Gender, Development and Women in China Under Reform." Journal of Geography 98: 283-94, 1999.
  • Chao, Emily. Dangerous Work: Women in Traffic. Modern China 29.1, Jan. 2003.
  • Croll, Elizabeth. Endangered Daughters: Discrimination and Development in Asia. Routledge, 2000.
  • Hershatter, Gail. 2013. The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past. [Ch. 10 Narrator" chapter (pairs well with Yan Hairong]
  • Hsiung, Ping-chun, Maria Jaschok, and Cecilia Milwertz. Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Queers. NY: Berg, 2001.
  • Greenhalgh, Susan. "Controlling Births and Bodies in Village China", American Ethnologist 21(1), Feb. 1994.
  • Hansen, Anders Sybrandt. Learning the knacks of actually existing capitalism: Young Beijing migrants and the problem of value," Critique of Anthropology 32, 2012. (available online).
  • Tamara Jacka, Sally Sargeson. Cheltenham. Women, gender and rural development in China / : Edward Elgar, 2011.
  • Jeffreys, Elaine. China, Sex and Prostitution. Routledge, 2004.
  • Judd, Ellen. "Introduction," Ch. 1 "The Meanings of Quality," Ch. 2 "GAD with Chinese Characteristics," Ch. 6 "Mobilization and Competition," and Ch. 8 "Reflections", The Chinese Women's Movement Between State and Market. Stanford Univ. Press, 2002. (54 pages).
  • Otis, Eileen. 2013. Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China.
  • Sarah Rogers Manufactured Modernity: Dwelling, Labour, and Enclosure in China’s Poverty Resettlements Made in China 2018 4
  • Wesosky, Sharon. Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization. Routledge, 2002.
  • Wong, Yuk-Lin Renita. "When East Meets West: Nation, Colony and Hong Kong Women's Subjectivities in Gender and China Development," Modern China 30(2), April 2004. (34 pages) (Available online).
  • Yan Hairong. "Neoliberal Governmentality and Neohumanism: Organizing Suzhi/Value Flow Through Labor Recruitment Networks," Cultural Anthropology 18(4), November 2003.
  • Ye Jingzhong. The Disempowered Participation of the Women's Federation in International Development Projects. Full Text Available By: Chinese Sociology &Anthropology, Summer2008, Vol. 40 Issue 4, p38-48
  • PRC White Paper. "Gender Equality and Women's Development in China," Information Office of the State Council, Beijing, August 2005. Available online: http://www.china.org.cn/e-white/20050824/ (13 pages)

Films

Youtube

Links

Week Ten: Developing the Marginalized: The Precarious Unemployed (2000s-2010s)

Assignments

 Film: Bitter Money (Ku Qian), Wang Bing 2017  (Screen via Moodle)
  • Tues Apr. 7 Precarity and the Rise of Therapeutic Governance

    Pun Ngai and Chris Smith. "Class and Precarity in China," Made in China 2017. (ereserve) (~3 pgs)

    Jie Yang. Introduction: the "Heart" of China's Economy (30 pp) and [SKIM] Ch. 3 Sending Warmth and Therapy. Unknotting the Heart: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China. Cornell University Press 2015. (ereserve, bookstore, book reserve)

  • Thurs Apr 9 The Heart of Unemployment

    Jie Yang. 6 Job Burnout or Suppressed Anger? Unknotting the Heart: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China. Cornell University Press 2015. (30 pp) (ereserve, bookstore, book reserve)

Further Reading

Further Reading

See also other contributors to Made in China volume on the great shift in workers' lives since late 90s, early 2000s--this takes up where Pun Ngai's Made in China leaves off, updates week 7

The Politics of Poverty and Precarity

Goodman, David. Urban Polarities: Inequality, Social Mobility, and the Role of the State, in Dorothy Solinger, ed. Polarized Cities: Portraits of Rich and Poor in Urban China. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. [good brief overview]

Lee, Ching Kwan. Precarization or Empowerment? Reflections on Recent Labor Unrest in China

Li Zhang. Ch. 2. in Dorothy Solinger, ed. Polarized Cities: Portraits of Rich and Poor in Urban China. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.

Heurlin. Christopher. Unemployment among Land-Losing Farmers in China: Evidence from the 2010 Census, Pages: 1-19 | DOI: 10.1080/10670564.2018.1542223. Contemporary China, 2018

Kweon, Yesola & ByeongHwa Choi. What Money Can Buy: Perceived Economic Security in China. Pages: 1-16 | DOI: 10.1080/10670564.2018.1557950. Contemporary China, 2018.

Mun Young Chou. Ch. 4 The Passionate Poor, in Dorothy Solinger, ed. Polarized Cities: Portraits of Rich and Poor in Urban China. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. [on Foxconn workers who also volunteer at social work NGOs]

Solinger, Dorothy J. 2012. “The New Urban Underclass and Its Consciousness: Is It a Class?” Journal of Contemporary China 21, no. 78: 1011–28.

Solinger, Dorothy. Ch. 3 Banish the Impoverished Past, in Dorothy Solinger, ed. Polarized Cities: Portraits of Rich and Poor in Urban China. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019.

Targeting Women as Clients of Development

Cartier, Carolyn and Rothenberg-Aalami. "Empowering the 'Victim'?  Gender, Development and Women in China Under Reform." Journal of Geography 98: 283-94, 1999. (ereserve). (10 pages).

Gail Hershatter. The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past, 

edited by Tamara Jacka, Sally Sargeson. Cheltenham. Women, gender and rural development in China /  : Edward Elgar, 2011. (bookstore and book reserve)

Judd, Ellen. "Introduction," Ch. 1 "The Meanings of Quality," Ch. 2 "GAD with Chinese Characteristics," The Chinese Women's Movement Between State and Market. Stanford Univ. Press, 2002. (54 pages). (Bookstore and book reserve).

Judd, Ellen. Ch. 6 "Mobilization and Competition," and Ch. 8 "Reflections", The Chinese Women's Movement Between State and Market. Stanford Univ. Press, 2002. (48 pages). (Bookstore and Book reserve).

PRC White Paper. "Gender Equality and Women's Development in China," Information Office of the State Council, Beijing, August 2005. Available online: http://www.china.org.cn/e-white/20050824/  (13 pages)

Otis, Eileen. Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China, by

Yan Hairong. 2008. New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China. Durham: Duke University Press. 314pp.

Films

Films Online

 

Links

Week Eleven: Developing the Marginalized: The "Great Open the West" Campaign (1980s-2000s)

Assignments

Film: Kokonor, 2008, 53 min (Screen via Moodle)
  • Tues Apr. 14 The State, Minorities, and Regional Disparity

    [SKIM] Fei Xiaotong. "On the Social Transformation of China's National Minorities". Toward a People's Anthropology. Beijing: New World Press, 1981. (pp. 36-59) (23 pages). (ereserve).

    Wang Xiaoqiang and Bai Nanfeng. [Skim] "Translator's Introduction" (pp. xiii-xxi), Ch. 3. "The Intrinsic Determinant of Backwardness," Ch. 7, "An Open Conclusion," The Poverty of Plenty (Furao de Pinkun); translated by Angela Knox New York : St. Martin's Press, 1991. (50 pages) (Book reserve,ereserve)
  • Thurs Apr. 16 Western Development: The Case of Eastern Tibet

    Huatse Gyal Zoom visit to class!

    Goodman, David. "Qinghai and the Emergence of the West: Nationalities, Communal Interaction and National Integration," China Quarterly 178, 2004. (ereserve).

    Huatse Gyal (2018) “I am concerned with the future of my children”: the project economy and shifting views of education in a Tibetan pastoral community, Critical Asian Studies 51(1). (ereserve)

Further Reading

The State, Capitalist Development and Regional Disparity

  • Bao Tong, "Three Represents: Marking the End of an Era", Far Eastern Economic Review (5 September 2002). Available online:http://www.geocities.com/thienwp/3rep.htm (scathing critique of the "3 Represents" theory from a former aid to CCP general secretary Zhao Ziyang in the 1980s).
  • Goodman, David. "The Campaign to 'Open up the West,' National, Provincial and Local Perspectives," China Quarterly 178, 2004.
  • Hechter, Michael. Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development. Univ. of California Press, 1999(1975).[Ch. on theory of ethnic change deals w/internal coloniz. of periph in course of nat'l development].
  • Holbig, Heike. "the Emergence of the Campaign to Open up the West: Ideological Formation, Central Decision-Making and the role of the Provinces," China Quarterly 178, 2004.
  • Keyser, Catherine. Professionalizing research in post-Mao China: the System Reform Institute. (ordered for Reed lib) [gives story of the SRI, Zhao Ziyang's think tank and the rise of the "young reformers" like Wang and Bai in shaping early post-Mao econ policy; the think tank was closed after 1989 and Zhao Ziyang's fall from grace].
  • Landsberger, Stefan. "Jiang Zemin Theory: 'Three Represents',"  Online at  Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages,
  • Hongyi Harry Lai. "China's Western Development Program," Modern China 28 (4), 2002.
  • Kunzang. 2009. Alternatives (to) development on the Tibetan Plateau: Preliminary research on the Anti-Slaughter Movement (unpublished manuscript).    
  • Lau, Ting Hui. Development and Disposability: Counting and Recounting Dead Bodies in the Margins of China  PhD Candidate, Cornell University
  • Li Minsheng. "Entrepreneurs From Non-Public Sector Hail Jiang's Speech," Beijing Review, August 9, 2001.
  • OECD report. Income Disparities in China: an OECD Perspective. [collection of papers from Chinese NDRC and foreign OECD economists]. (see me).
  • Ogutcu, Mehmet and Markus Taube. "Getting China's Regions Moving" OECD observer, May 2002 [China is not a member of the OECD, this is good for perspective of world business and investors] (see me)
  • Rogers, Sarah. 2018. Manufactured Modernity: Dwelling, Labour, and Enclosure in China’s Poverty Resettlements. Made in China 4
  • Tibet Information Network. China's Great Leap West. (Reed lib has).
  • Wang Shaoguang and Hu Angang. The Political Economy of Uneven Development. ME Sharpe, 1999. [Chinese economists, rewrite and translation of influential study that helped lead to Western Development program, intro is extended critique of neoclassical econ. models that predict regional 'convergence'; data up to 1995] (see me).
  • Yang Lichao and Robert Walker. 2019. Anti-poverty Policies and Discourses of Blame in China. Made in China.
    [short analysis of 2019 NPC report] Contradicting its own analysis of the importance of structural determinants of poverty and the personal challenges confronting those remaining in deep poverty, the Report engages with ideas that mirror Western anxieties about dependency, the culture of poverty, and the underclass. It expresses concern that increasing sums of money are being given to ever-larger numbers of people. It notes high levels of transfer income—accounting for 60 percent of the income of farmers and herders in parts of Qinghai—that undermine initiative and risk-taking. It refers to old customs and habits in Tibet and elsewhere that are difficult to change, and to persons unwilling to work in Jiangxi and Qinghai. Tellingly, the Report repeats complaints from people not receiving help that benefits are going to the idle and lazy, and that poverty is caused by gambling, bride-price, and lack of family support for the elderly. The Report responds by proposing ideological and cultural education, cuts in benefits for people unwilling to work, and punishment to eliminate undesirable attitudes that hinder the eradication of poverty.

Western Development: The Case of Qinghai Province

  • Becquelin, Nicolas. "Staged Development in Xinjiang," The China Quarterly 2004.
  • Coskin, Chris and Emily Yeh, eds. 2014. Mapping Shangri-La.
  • Michael H. Glantz, Qian Ye and Quansheng Ge. "China's western region development strategy and the urgent need to address creeping environmental problem," Aridlands Newsletter, No. 49, May/June 2001. Available Online:
    http://ag.arizona.edu/OALS/ALN/aln49/glantz.html 
  • Goodman, David. "Qinghai and the Emergence of the West: Nationalities, Communal Interaction and National Integration," China Quarterly 178, 2004. Online (JSTOR).
  • Kunzang. 2009. Alternatives (to) development on the Tibetan Plateau: Preliminary research on the Anti-Slaughter Movement (unpublished manuscript) (ereserve).
  • Lan Xinzhen. "Development Out West," Beijing Review, Dec. 30, 2004. [Overview of western development efforts 4 years later suggesting things have not gone as expected.]
  • Litzinger, Ralph. "The Mobilization of 'nature": perspectives from North-west Yunnan," The China Quarterly 2004.
  • McNally, Christopher. "Sichuan: Driving Capitalist Development Westward," The China Quarterly 2004.
  • Oakes, Tim. "Building a Southern dynamo: Guizhou and State Power," China Quarterly 178, 2004.
  • Rohlf, Greg. "Dreams of Oil and Fertile Fields: The rush to Qinghai in the 1950s," Modern China 29.4, Oct. 2003. Online (Sage pub).
  • Saalman, Lora. (int'l studies) "The FDI Paradox: China's Socialist Market Economy and the 'Develop the West' Campaign," 2004 (see me).
  • Yeh, Emily. Green Governmentality.

Films

Online

  • "The Coral Necklace" (byu ru'i ske rgyan), 2011. Short feature film by well-known comedian and director Zhi bde nyi ma, aired on  Qinghai Television. Story of a young Tibetan nomad girl who sells her yak to buy a coral necklace and bitterly regrets it.

Independent Documentaries

  • Shielding the Mountains. Directed by Kunga Lama. Produced by Emily Yeh. 2010. (20 min)
  • Meltdown in Tibet. Michael Buckley (Independent Canadian traveler,filmmaker). (in Reed lib.)
  • Kokonor: Lac salé, haut plateau du Tibet / by Dorje Tsering Chenaktsang Publication Paris : Purple Productions, 2008. Documentary of the Tibetan tourism industry near Qinghai Lake (in the Tibetan region of Amdo) and related economic and social conditions, including environmental degradation, military exercises in the late 1950s, and nuclear proliferation; direct interviews with local residents and entrepreneurs. (in Reed lib.)
  • Summer Pasture. New York, N.Y. : Kham Film Project ; Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, c2010. "Filmed in the high grasslands of eastern Tibet [in 2007], Summer pasture offers an intimate glimpse into the life of a young nomad couple and their infant daughter. Locho and his wife Yama live in Dzachukha, eastern Tibet--nicknamed '5-most' by the Chinese for being the highest, coldest, poorest, largest, and most remote country in Sichuan Province. They depend on their herd of yaks for survival, much as their ancestors have for generations. In recent years, however, Dzachukha has undergone rapid development, and Locho and Yama are finding their traditional way of life increasingly more difficult to maintain. Summer pasture evolves as a patient exploration of Locho and Yama's personalities, relationship, and the changes taking place around them. Over its course we witness their travails with illness, infidelity, and the dissolution of their community. In the face of mounting challenges, Locho and Yama ultimately reveal the personal sacrifice they will make to ensure their daughter's future"--Container
  • Yartsa Rinpoche. 2013. by Dorje Tsering Chenaktsang

State-sponsored Environmentalism

Foreign Development Efforts

Links

Develop The West

Qinghai-Tibet Railway

Qinghai and Eastern Tibet

Week Twelve: Chinese Development in/of "Africa" (mid-2000s on)

Assignments

Film: Guangzhou Dream Factory, 2017 (Screen via Moodle)

  • Tues Apr 21 Yellow Peril and Global China?

Dittgen, Romain and Anthony Ross. "Fantasies about China and “the Chinese” in Contemporary South Africa," in Bille and Urbansky, eds., Yellow Perils: China Narratives in the Contemporary World. University of HI Press, 2018. (ereserve book reserve)

Lee, Ching Kwan. Chapter 1 "Unnatural Capital: Chinese State Investment and its Travails in Africa,". The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa. University of Chicago Press, 2018. (30 pages) (ereserve, bookstore, book reserve)

  • Thurs Apr 23 Transnational Labor Politics
Lee, Ching Kwan. OPTIONAL: Chapter 3 "Labor Bargains: Regimes of Exploitation and Exclusion," and FOCUS ON: Chapter 5 "Contesting Capital: Aspiration and Capacity from Below". (~30 pages). The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa. University of Chicago Press, 2018. (ereserve, bookstore, book reserve)

Further Reading

 

Debates on China's Burgeoning Roles in Africa

Brautigam, D. 2010. The Dragon's Gift.

Jean-Pierre Cabestan. Beijing’s ‘Going Out’ Strategy and Belt and Road Initiative in the Sahel: The Case of China’s Growing Presence in Niger.Contemporary China, 2018. Pages: 1-22 | DOI: 10.1080/10670564.2018.1557948

Miriam Driessen. Laughing about Corruption in Ethiopian‐Chinese Encounters. 14 October 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13320 In Ethiopia, the growing Chinese presence has inspired lively debate, often with an edge of humor. Corruption is one of the recurring topics in amusing narratives that circulate on and off the Chinese‐run building sites that have emerged across the Ethiopian landscape over the past two decades. While humorous corruption stories hint at the possibility of corruption and introduce the audience to the cultural codes of conduct, corrupt practices, equally aided by laughter, create instances of collaboration and complicity. Corruption in cross‐cultural encounters serves as a lens through which to imagine the Other and evaluate their behavior, and by drawing those complicit in corrupt transactions into shared (im)moral worlds, it generates opportunities for rapprochement. [corruption, humor, encounter, Ethiopia, China]

Monson, James and Stephanie Rupp. 2013. Africa and China: New Engagements, New Research," ASR Forum on Africa and China. African Studies Review, Volume 56, Number 1 (April 2013), pp. 21– 44 [Historians and anthros, including former Reed prof Nina Sylvanus; list those in further reading]

The Atlantic article on Chinese merchants in Egypt 2015

Parks, Brad. "10 Essential Facts About Chinese Aid in Africa," 2015

Rupp, Stephanie. 2013. Ghana, China, and the Politics of Energy," ASR Forum on Africa and China. African Studies Review, Volume 56, Number 1 (April 2013)

Strauss, Julia C. 2013. China and Africa Rebooted: Globalization(s), Simplification(s), and Cross-cutting Dynamics in “South–South” Relations," ASR Forum on Africa and China. African Studies Review, Volume 56, Number 1 (April 2013) [nice overview from leading figure, former ed. of China Quarterly, ed. 2009 China AFrica volume, touts ethnography!

Sylvanus, Nina. 2013. Chinese Devils, the Global Market, and the Declining Power of Togo’s Nana-Benzes," ASR Forum on Africa and China. African Studies Review, Volume 56, Number 1 (April 2013) [rare qualitative, ethnog account, focus on consumption and trade, fielwork 03-04].

Focus on Zambia

  • Al Jazeera documentary King Cobra and the Dragon, 2012:  [like When China Met Africa, based in Zambia]
  • Ferguson, James. 1999. Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt. Berkeley: Univ of Calif Press. p. 1-17, p. 234-257 [gives prior local-global history of copper mining collapse]
  • Sautman and Yan Hairong. Modern China. [On anti-china copper mining in Zambia; refutes HRW report as disprop. focus on Chinese firms [refers to context covered by the Al jaz documentary; this debate covered at length in the Monson and Rupp intro in ASR]
  • Yan Hairong and Sautman. Chinese Farms in Zambia:  From Socialist to “Agro-Imperialist” Engagement? African and Asian Studies 9 (2010) 307-333 [comprehensive overview but this the ethnography is thin]
  • Monson, Jamie. 2013. Remembering Work on the Tazara Railway in Africa and China, 1965–2011: When “New Men” Grow Old ASR Forum on Africa and China. African Studies Review, Volume 56, Number 1 (April 2013) [not much on China, or recent situation]

China Elsewhere
Wanjing Chen. Railroaded Bodies: Situating Lao/Chinese Construction Workers in the Financial Instabilities of BRI. [arguing against simplistic sinophobic responses to chinese workers abroad]

Jessica C. Liao. A Good Neighbor of Bad Governance? China’s Energy and Mining Development in Southeast Asia. Contemporary China, 2018. Pages: 1-17 | DOI: 10.1080/10670564.2018.1557947

Films

When China Met Africa. [on Zambia]

Al Jazeera documentary King Cobra and the Dragon, 2012:  [like When China Met Africa, based in Zambia]

American Factory (Netflix), 2019. [Chinese owned factory in US]. Review of the film.

Feature films

Wolf Warrior 2 (Chinese version of Rambo set in Africa)

 

Links

Maps of China-Africa Relations

Representations of China-Africa Relations

Key Organizations

Blogs

Week Thirteen: Futures and Alternatives

Assignments

Week Thirteen Film: Plastic China, 2017, Wang Jiuliang (Screen via Moodle)

  • Tues Apr. 28 5-10 minute presentations on Final project link curation.
    Come prepared to tell us about your chosen topic, which week of the syllabus it will supplement and why. What is important about this topic in light of our discussions this semester? How does it relate to or extend topics, theories, methods, debates in the syllabus? What voices or perspectives will you juxtapose and how?

    Presenters: Joey, Nate, Lucie, Victoria, Ryan, Odi, James

  • Thurs May 1 5-10 minute presentations on Final project link curation.

    Presenters: Aadit, Annie, Kelly, Jack, Aidan, Miles


Final project curated topical section of website due Tuesday, May 12, 5 pm, (Moodle Upload)

Further Reading

  • Sustainable Development and Environmentalisms?

    Premier Zhu Rongji speech on "Sustainable Development", Geneva, 2002. Online at: http://genevamissiontoun.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/35078.html

    Escobar, Arturo. "Sustainable Development: The Death of Nature and the Rise of Environment," (pp. 192-211) Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton, 1995. (19 pages). (ereserve, Bookstore and book reserve).

  • Hathaway, Michael J. 2013. Introduction. Ch. 1 "Environmental Winds", and Ch. 3 "The Art of Engagement," Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China, Univ of Calif Press. (ereserve, book reserve, bookstore). (60 pp).

Goldstein, Joshua. Ch. 5 On the Rough Edge of Prosperity, in Dorothy Solinger, ed. Polarized Cities: Portraits of Rich and Poor in Urban China. Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. [on migrant recyclers in Beijing]

 

 [See Malkki The Need to Help concluding chapter (released Sept 11 2015, ordered for Reed lib)]

 

http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1005014/2019:%20The%20Year%20China%20Went%20to%20War%20on%20Garbage/

Plastic China: https://www.plasticchina.org/ see Made in China 2018 4 for good review of/context for; it went viral in China before quickly banned

Under the Dome by Chai Jing, 2015; Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhIZ50HKIp0 or

 

Managing the

Anthropocene

The Labour of Environmental Regeneration

John Aloysius Zinda Made in China 4, 2018

 

New book 2019 ( ordered for Reed) Environmental Activism, Social Media, and Protest in China: Becoming Activists Over Wild Public Networks

 

Mapping Shangrila chapters on nature reserves/theme parks

See The Nation article on PRC retreat from Green tech to focus on fossil fuels, and threat of Xi Jiping as pro-market pres.

Dynamics of International Aid in the Chinese Context: A Case Study of the World Bank's Cixi Wetlands Project in Zhejiang Province May Tan-Mullins, Gary Chen Guangli The China Quarterly, Volume 212, December 2012, pp 1000 - 1018 doi:10.1017/S030574101200121X Published online by Cambridge University Press 05th December 2012 Link to abstract: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S030574101200121X

See Tashi Tsering articles, academia.edu

Power, Marcus. "Ch. 9 'Theorising Back: Views from the South and the Globalization of Resistance," and Ch. 10: Conclusion: Resisting the Temptations of Remedies, Mirages, and Fairy-Tales," Rethinking Development Geographies. Routledge, 2003 (ereserve, bookstore and book reserve).

Gardner and Lewis 1996. Ch. 6 "Anthropologists Within Development," and Ch. 7 Concluding chapter: "Beyond Development?" Anthropology, Development and the Post-modern Challenge. 1997. (ereserve, book reserve).

Weller, Robert. Discovering Nature. Ch. 1 "Discovering Nature,", Ch. 5, Garbage Wars and Spiritual Environments," Ch. 7 "Globals and Locals". (60 pp) (book, bookstore)

 

Power, Marcus. "Ch. 9 'Theorising Back: Views from the South and the Globalization of Resistance," and Ch. 10: Conclusion: Resisting the Temptations of Remedies, Mirages, and Fairy-Tales," Rethinking Development Geographies. Routledge, 2003 (ereserve, bookstore and book reserve).

Gardner and Lewis 1996. Ch. 6 "Anthropologists Within Development," and Ch. 7 Concluding chapter: "Beyond Development?" Anthropology, Development and the Post-modern Challenge. 1997. (ereserve, book reserve).

Coskin, Chris and Emily Yeh, eds. 2014. Mapping Shangri-La [see articles on establishment of nature reserves and theme parks].

Lee, Jason. "China's Great Leap Backward," The Nation, 2013. [PRC retreat from Green tech to focus on fossil fuels, and threat of Xi Jiping as pro-market pres.]

Dynamics of International Aid in the Chinese Context: A Case Study of the World Bank's Cixi Wetlands Project in Zhejiang Province May Tan-Mullins, Gary Chen Guangli The China Quarterly, Volume 212, December 2012, pp 1000 - 1018 doi:10.1017/S030574101200121X Published online by Cambridge University Press 05th December 2012 Link to abstract: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S030574101200121X

See Tashi Tsering articles, academia.edu

Malkki The Need to Help concluding chapter (released Sept 11 2015, ordered for Reed lib)

Sustainable Development and Environmentalisms?

  • Brosius, Peter. "Analyses and Interventions: Anthropological Engagements with Environmentalism," Current Anthropology 40(3), June 1999: 277-309. [good overview of methodological and theoretical issues re: anthro; has extended comments from others, including Escobar] (available online).
  • Buckley, Lila. "Maturing Environmental Movement Takes Uniquely Chinese Approach," China Watch Online:http://www.worldwatch.org/features/chinawatch/stories/20060106-1
  • China Human Development Report 2002: Making Green Development a Choice. Produced by STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE in collaboration with UNDP. [Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2002. 152 pp. ISBN 0-19-593603-5.], (downloadable)
  • China's Agenda 21 White Paper on Population, Environment and Development, in the 21st Century.
  • Elvin, Mark. The Retreat of the Elephants: an Environmental History of China, Yale UP, 2004. (Reed lib has)
  • Escobar, Arturo. "Sustainable Development: The Death of Nature and the Rise of Environment," (pp. 192-211) Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton, 1995. (19 pages). (ereserve, Bookstore and book reserve).
  • Fengshi Wu. Democratization and Civil Society in East Asia Environmental GONGO Autonomy: Unintended Consequences of State Strategies in China, The Good Society 12.1 (2003) 35-45
  • Economy, Elizabeth. The River Runs Black: Environmental Challenge to China's Future. Cornell, 2004. [int'l affairs out of Umich., overview perhaps good for reference]
  • Glantz, Michael H.  Qian Ye and Quansheng Ge. "China's western region development strategy and the urgent need to address creeping environmental problem," Aridlands Newsletter, No. 49, May/June 2001. Available Online:
    http://ag.arizona.edu/OALS/ALN/aln49/glantz.html 
  • Goldman, Michael. "Constructing an Environmental State: Eco-Governmentality and Other Transnational Practices of a 'Green' World Bank," Social Problems 48. 4, Nov. 2001, 499-523. [uses Laos as case; argues states are still powerful actors, but changing; sees environ. sustainable dev. as tech. of govt] (available online).
  • Journal of Contemporary China: Volume 19 Issue 63 , Special Issue:Environment and Health in China: An Emerging Research Field, 2010.
  • Litzinger, Ralph. "The Mobilization of 'nature": perspectives from North-west Yunnan," The China Quarterly 2004.
  • Ma Xiaoying and Leonard Ortolano. Environmental Regulation in China: Institutions, Enforcement, and Compliance. [Lanham, MD and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000. xviii+209 pp. Hard cover ISBN 0-8476-9398-8; paperback ISBN 0-8476-9399-6.] (ordered for Reedlib)
  • Premier Zhu Rongji speech on "Sustainable Development", Geneva, 2002. (1 page) Online:
    http://www.china-un.ch/eng/qtzz/wtojjwt/t85656.htm
  • Shapiro, Judith. Mao's war against nature : politics and the environment in Revolutionary China. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001. (Reed lib has)
  • The Atlas of Population, Environment and Sustainable Development of China (DVD EAtlas, Windows only). 
    Chinese state-sponsored atlas, includes 153 illustrated maps. (see me).
  • Dee Mack Williams, "The Barbed Walls of China: A Contemporary Grassland Drama," Journal of Asian Studies, 1996.
  • Dee Mack Williams, 2002, Beyond great walls: environment, identity, and development on the Chinese grasslands of Inner Mongolia. (Reed lib. has one copy)

Anthropology and Development?

  • Community Economies Collective. 2001. Imagining and Enacting Noncapitalist Futures. Socialist Review 28(3&4):93-135.
  • Eyben, Rosalind. "Development and Anthropology: a View from Inside the Agency," Critique of Anthropology 20(1), 2000. [responding to Gardner and Lewis, a dev. anthro. seeking practical solutions.]
  • Ferguson, James. "Anthropology and its Evil Twin: "Development" in the Constitution of the Discipline," Cooper, Frederick and Randall Packard, eds. International development and the Social Sciences, California, 1997. (see me).
  • Harvey, David. 1999. The limits to capital. London, New York: Verso
  • Majid Rahnema (Editor), Victoria Bawtree (Editor), The Post-Development Reader (Paperback), (ordered for reed).
  • Looking forward : participatory economics for the twenty first century / Michael Albert & Robin Hahnel Boston, MA : South End Press, c1991 (Reed has)
  • Ong, Aihwa. Flexible Citizenship: the Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Duke, 1999. [Concluding chapter lays out her schema of "postdev' strategies and prolif of NGO's; Afterward on anthro of transnationalism]
  • Perry, Elizabeth. Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China. [Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2001.
  • Pottier, Johan. "Towards an Ethnography of Participatory Appraisal and Research," in Grillo 1997. [perspective of dev. anthro, touting new more reflexive methods]
  • Wesosky, Sharon. Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization. Routledge, 2002 (see me)
  • Vulture funds' threat to developing world 
    BBC article on "vulture funds", type of fund that Power mentioned.
  • Financial Times article on Vulture Fund

Films

Youtube Playlist: China and Environment

Smog Journeys. 7 minute short film by Jia Zhangke, a PSA sponsored by Greenpeace, 2015. (Youtube).

Films in Reed Library

  • Manufactured Landscapes.
  • Meltdown in Tibet. Michael Buckley (Independent Canadian traveler,filmmaker). (in Reed lib.)
  • Kokonor: Lac salé, haut plateau du Tibet / by Dorje Tsering Chenaktsang Publication Paris : Purple Productions, 2008. Documentary of the Tibetan tourism industry near Qinghai Lake (in the Tibetan region of Amdo) and related economic and social conditions, including environmental degradation, military exercises in the late 1950s, and nuclear proliferation; direct interviews with local residents and entrepreneurs. (in Reed lib.)
  • Yartsa Rinpoche. 2014. by Dorje Tsering Chenaktsang
  • China's mega dam [videorecording] / produced by West Beach Entertainment and Transatlantic Films, Ltd. for the Discovery Channel ; produced and directed by Justin Albert Publication [Silver Spring, Md.] : Discovery Channel, 2006
    Summary The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River in China is the largest public works project in the history of mankind. Its size, scale and potential are unprecedented in engineering history. Join Discovery Channel cameras - granted exclusive access to the site - as they document the dramatic effect this massive construction project will have on the surrounding countryside.
  • Design e² [videorecording] : the economies of being environmentally conscious / director, Tad Fettig ; series producer, Elizabeth Westrate ; narration writers, Mark Decena, John Kenney ; produced by kontentreal, LLC Publication [Alexandria, Va.] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, c2006. Examines the economies of being environmentally conscious in green building design. The first program, The green apple, uses New York City, particularly One Bryant Park and the Solaire, to demonstrates how the ubiquitous skyscraper can be a model of environmental responsibility. The second episode, Green for all, features architect and activist Sergio Palleroni as he works to provide design solutions to regions suffering from social and humanitarian crises. Shows projects in East Austin, Tex. and with the Yaqui Indians in Mexico where architecture students are helping residents build low-cost, environmentally-friendly homes using local materials. The third program, The green machine, follows Mayor Richard M. Daley as he strives to make Chicago "the greenest city in America" with numerous LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)-certified buildings, a solar-powered public transportation system, and many green roofs, including one on Chicago's City Hall. The fourth episode, Gray to green, takes the notion of the three R's (reduce, reuse, recycle) to grand proportions by turning Boston's "Big Dig" steel and concrete waste into spectacular residential design. The fifth program, China : from red to green? depicts a rapidly urbanizing country at its tipping point and finds a sustainable solution in Steven Holl's Beijing project, which will have the largest geothermal heating/cooling and greywater recycling system in the world upon completion. The sixth program, Deeper shades of green, presents three visionaries who are changing the face of architecture and environmentalism and features some of their projects. Focuses on Ken Yeang and his "bio-climatic" National Library of Singapore, Werner Sobek and R128, his energy-efficient, steel and glass box house, and William McDonough and his model sustainable village of Huangbaiyu, China.
  • Is Wal-Mart good for America? [videorecording] / senior producer, Hedrick Smith ; written by Hedrick Smith & Rick Young ; produced and directed by Rick Young ; WGBH Publication [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, 2004. Originally broadcast on Nov. 16, 2004 as a segment of: Frontline Summary Examines Wal-Mart's importation of Chinese goods into the United States. Discusses that while some economists credit Wal-Mart's focus on low costs with helping contain U.S. inflation, others charge that the company is the main force driving the massive overseas shift to China in the production of American consumer goods, resulting in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs and a lower standard of living in the U.S .

Links

International Discourse on the Environment
  • Bruntland Report, 1987
  • UN Agenda 21
    Adopted at UNCED conference, Rio, 1992. "Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment."
  • Club of Rome Reports
    "The Club of Rome is a global think tank and centre of innovation and initiative. As a non-profit, non govermental organisation (NGO), it brings together scientists, economists, businessmen, international high civil servants, heads of state and former heads of state from all five continents who are convinced that the future of humankind is not determined once and for all and that each human being can contribute to the improvement of our societies."
  • World Summit on Sustainable Development, Aug-Sept 2002
    Johannesburg, South Africa. Conference at which Premier Zhu Rongji delivered his address.

Map of "Potential environmental hotspots" in China

Chinese Discourse on the Environment

China Environment Watch Organizations