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Class Schedule (Spring 2010)

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.

List of Discussion Facilitators

Part I: Perspectives on China, Economics and Development

Week 1
Week 2
Week 3

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

Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7

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

Week 8
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11

Week 12
Week 13

 

Part I: Perspectives on China, Economics and Development

 

Week One: Goals and Perspectives

  • Assignments
  • Further Reading
  • Related Films
  • Links

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

  • Tues Jan 26: Introductions and Goals

  • Thurs Jan 28: 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). (Bookstore, book reserve).
  • 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
  • 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]

  • 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].

  • Myers. Asian Studies 1986. [test and refute Skinner's influential macroregions theory].

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

  • 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].

  • Cartier, Carolyn. 2002. Globalizing South China. [Nuanced ethnography by a geographer refuting older ways of spatializing "China"]

  • 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 recent links between overseas Chinese and development in the PRC]

Films and Videos

Course YouTube Playlists

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

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Week Two: Anthropological Approaches to Economics and Development

  • Assignments
  • Further Reading
  • Related Films
  • Links
  • Feb. 2 Sociocultural Economies?
    Wilk, Richard. 1996. "Introduction and Ch. 2, "Economics and the Problem of Human Nature." Economies and Cultures: Foundations of Economic Anthropology. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. (40 pages) (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). (Bookstore and book reserve).

Images: Polanyi's Arguments in Charts!

  • Feb. 4 Anthropology, Modernity and Development
    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). (Bookstore and book reserve).

Major International Development Organizations

1-2 page Theory Commentary due, Friday, Feb. 5, 5 pm, my office.

Sociocultural Economies?

  • 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.]
  • 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].
  • James G. Carrier, ed. 2005. A handbook of economic anthropology. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar. (Reed lib has: see me)
  • Plattner, Stuart, ed., Economic Anthropology. Stanford, 1989.
  • Dalton, George. 1969. Theoretical Issues in Economic Anthropology, Current Anthropology 10(1) pp. 63-102 (JSTOR). [substantivist manifesto]
  • Cook, Scott. 1966. The Obsolete "Anti-Market" Mentality: A Critique of the Substantive Approach to Economic Anthropology," American Anthropologist 68. (JSTOR). [formalist rejoinder]
  • 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,"]
  • 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]
  • 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].
  • 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].
  • Miller and Carrier, eds. Virtualism: a New Political Economy. Oxford, 1998.
  • 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].
  • 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].

Anthropology, Modernity and Development

  • United Nations. "Declaration of the Right to Development," Adopted Dec. 1986.
  • Romer, David. "The Solow Growth Model", Macroeconomics, 200?.
  • Bennett 1988: "anthropology and development: ambiguous engagement", Development 4: 6-16
  • M. Hobart, ed., (Brit. anthro). An Anthropological Critique of Development: the Growth of Ignorance. London: Routledge, 1993.
  • Peet, Richard. Theories of Development. London: The Guilford Press, 1999.
  • 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)
  • Grillo, R.D. and R. L. Stirrat. Discourses of Development: Anthropological Perspectives.Oxford, 1997.
  • Gardner, Katy and David Lewis. Anthropology, Development and the Post-modern Challenge. 1997. [library has]
  • 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.]

Karl Polanyi (1886-1964)

Economic Discourses

U.S. Economics Thinktanks

Heterodox Economics Organizations

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Week Three: Competing Visions of China and Development

  • Assignments
  • Further Reading
  • Related Films
  • Links

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

Film: Sun., Feb. 7, Bio 19, 7 pm, "Unleashing the Dragon," Part 1, 1995 (50 min)

  • Feb. 9 Legacies of China and "the West"
    Hevia, James. 1995. Ch. 2 "A Multitude of Lords: The Qing Empire, Manchu Rulership, and Interdomainal Relations," in Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793. Duke University Press. (25 pages). (ereserve, book reserve)

    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) (Bookstore and book reserve).

  • Feb. 11 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 Ebsco.

    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 and book reserve).

Legacies of China and "the West"

  • 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)]
  • Sahlins, Marshall. "Cosmologies of Capitalism," in Dirks, et al, eds., Culture/Power/History, Princeton, 1984.
  • Laura Hostetler, Qing Colonial Enterprise: Ethnography and Cartography in Early Modern China, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001
  • Spence, Jonathan. The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds, 1998.
  • Sinophiles and Sinophobes: Western Views of China. Edited by COLIN MACKERRAS. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2000. (ordered for Reedlib)
  • Hevia, James. Cherishing Men from Afar. Duke, 1995. [excellent account of the failed British McCartney mission to Qing China to open trade].
  • Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe and the Making of the Modern World Economy, Princeton UP, 2000.

Visions of the "Waking Dragon"

  • 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].
  • 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.]
  • UNDP China Human Development Report, 2005. Available Online.
  • Challenges for China's Development: An Enterprise Perspective. Brown and MacBean, eds. Routledge, 2005. (see me).
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • Tian Yu Cao, ed., The Chinese Model of Modern Development, Routledge, 2005. (reed has).
  • 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].
  • 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
  • Naughton, Barry. "China's Economic Think Tanks: Their Changing Roles in the 1990s," The China Quarterly 171, 2002: 625-635.
  • Zuo Dapei. 2003. "China's Heterodox Economics," Available online at the China Study Group website.
  • 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 (ordered for Reed)
  • 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

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.

Orientalism and Spatial Politics

Historical Maps of China
Perry Castenada digital map collection, U. of Texas

Chinese History Resources

Chinese History Online
Brief overviews by dynasty, up to modern period.

Chinese History Online
University of S. California's Archival Research Center online resources for Chinese history (by dynasty).

Brief Overviews of Chinese Dynasties

Zheng He, Ming Dynasty sea explorations (Wikipedia, and All Empires Encyclopedia)

Macartney Embassy to the Qing Court, 1792 (Wikipedia)

The Opium Wars (1839-1842)
Brief overview from Washington State University's online world civilizations course.

The Taiping Rebellion (mid 19th century)
Brief overview from Washington State University's online world civilizations course.

Visions of Economics and Development

PRC White Papers
Chinese State Council site providing links to all major White Papers.

National Development and Reform Commission (PRC)
State Council department responsible for macro-regulation of the national economy.

State Council Committee on Western Development (PRC, Chinese)

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

 

Week Four: Republican Era China

  • Assignments
  • Further Reading
  • Related Films
  • Links

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

  • Feb. 16 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) (book reserve)

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

  • Feb. 18 Sun Yat-Sen (1866-1925) and the International Development of China (1922)

Slides: Maps of Republican Era Development

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)

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)

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.

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.

Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925)

Overview of Sun Yat-sen's Life
Washington State University online course.

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.

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Week Five: The Promise of Maoist China (1950s)

  • Assignments
  • Further Reading
  • Related Films
  • Links

Film: Sun., Feb. 21, Bio 19, 7 pm, "China On the March," 1957 (130 min)

Chronology: The Maoist Years in China

  • Feb. 23 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, and book reserve) (17 pages).

    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.

    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.

    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, http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/ec.html

Dena Hutto Research workshop

Unger, Jonathan. Ch. 1: "State Power and the Villages," The Transformation of Rural China. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002. (20 pages) (book reserve)

Ruf, Gregory. See maps, p. 8, 10, 14, Read Ch.s 2-3, Cadres and Kin: Making a Socialist Village in West China, 1921–1991. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. (60 pages) (bookstore and book reserve).

3-5 page preliminary institution/project analysis due Friday, Feb. 26, 5 pm, my office

China on the March Film commentaries due Monday, 5 pm, my office.

Visions of Maoist Development

Maoist Rural Development

  • Friedman, et al. Chinese Village, Socialist State. Yale, 1991.
  • Madsen et al. Chen Village.
  • Crooks. Ten Mile Inn.

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 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

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

  • Assignments
  • Further Reading
  • Related Films
  • Links

Film: Sun., Feb. 28, Bio 19, 7 pm, "Morning Sun ," 2003 (117 min)

Chronology: The Maoist Years in China

  • Mar 2 The Great Leap Forward (1958)
    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

    [SKIM] 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)

    **Warning!! Graphic violence described** Becker, Jasper. chs. 7 "An Overview of the Famine," Ch. 8, "Henan: a Catastrophe of Lies," Ch.18, "How Many Died?" Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine. The Free Press, 1996. (38 pages). (book reserve).

    Ruf, Gregory. Ch. 4, pp 90-110 "Getting Organized: Struggling with Collectivism," Cadres and Kin: Making a Socialist Village in West China, 1921–1991. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. (bookstore and book reserve). (20 pages).

  • Mar. 4 The Cultural Revolution (1966-)

Rent Collection Courtyard: Lifesize Clay Diorama
of Maoist Rural Liberation, 1966

Ruf, Gregory. Ch. 4, pp 111-121 "Getting Organized: Struggling with Collectivism," Cadres and Kin: Making a Socialist Village in West China, 1921–1991. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. (bookstore and book reserve). (10 pages)

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: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/works/red-book/index.htm

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).

Handout Midterm Exam

The Great Leap Forward (1958)

  • Mao Zedong. "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People." Available online: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/
  • 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].

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.]
  • TBA

Mao Zedong (1893-1976)

Yan Jiaqi and Gao Gao (authors of Turbulent Decade)

Maoist Campaigns

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

  • Assignments
  • Further Reading
  • Related Films
  • Links

Film: Sun., Mar 7, Bio 19, 7 pm, "Ermo," 1996 (95 min)

  • Mar. 9 Moral Economies and the Micropolitics of Exchange under Reforms
    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. (bookstore and book reserve). (~80 pgs)

  • Mar. 11 The Cultural Politics of Gifting
    Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui. Ch.s 3, 5, Gifts, favors, and banquets : the art of social relationships in China. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1994. (bookstore and book reserve). (~60 pgs).

Take home Midterm Exam due Friday, Mar. 12, 5 pm, my office

Moral Economies and the Micropolitics of Exchange under Reforms

  • 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).
  • 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)
  • Bottelier, Peter. 2007. China and the World Bank: How a partnership was built. J. of Contemporary China 16(51), May: 239-258.
  • Ying Fan. 1998. The Transfer of Western Managment to China: Context, Content and Constraints. Management Learning 29(2): 201-221.
  • Warner, Malcolm. 1986. The 'Long March' of Chinese Management Education, 1979-84. The China Quarterly 106, June: 326-342.
  • 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

  • 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].
  • Hefner, Robert, ed. Market Cultures: society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms. Westview Press, 1998.
  • Yan Yunxiang. The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Village.
  • 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].

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.


Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997)

Deng Xiaoping Profile
Wikipedia account

Deng Xiaoping Centenary (China.org, 2004)

Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping in Translation
People's Daily online archive.

 

Mayfair Yang, UCSB
Yang's faculty page at the Univ. of CA Santa Barbara

Marcel Mauss (1872-1950)
Wikipedia account

David Graeber on Mauss
Graeber is prof. of anthropology at London University.

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Spring Break Mar. 13-21

 

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

 

Week Eight: The State, Market Values and Moral Economies (1980-90s)

  • Assignments
  • Further Reading
  • Related Films
  • Links
  • Mar. 23 Socialist Market Values?
    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)

    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. (Book reserve).

    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).

    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).

  • Mar. 25 Market vs. Guanxi values?
    Guthrie, Douglas. "The Declining Importance of Guanxi in China's Economic Transition," The China Quarterly 154 (June 1998): 254-82. (29 pages) Online (JSTOR).

    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).

    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).

Socialist Market Values?

  • 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.
  • Scott, James C.. 1998. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven: Yale Univeristy Press
  • Critical Asian Studies, China and Socialism Roundtable (see week 3 Further Reading)
  • Burkett and Hart-Landsberg rejoinder, Critical Asian Studies (see week 3 Further Reading)
  • Burkett and Hart-Landsberg. China and Socialism. Monthly Review. (see me). [book length study to which the CAS roundtable refers, Reed llb. has],
  • Hefner, Robert. Introduction. Market Cultures: society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms. Westview Press, 1998.
  • 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)
  • 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,]
  • Wedeman, Andrew. "the Intensification of Corruption in China," China Quarterly, 2004.
  • Przeworski et al. Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990
  • Gallagher, Mary. "Reform and Openness: Why China's Economic Reforms have Delayed Democracy," World Politics 54 (April 2002): 338-72.
  • Paley, Julia. "Toward an Anthropology of Democracy," Annual Review of Anthropology 31, 2002: 469-96.

 

Market vs. Guanxi values?

  • Gold, Thomas. "After Comradeship: Personal Relations in China since the Cultural Revolution," The China Quarterly 104 (Dec. 1985): 657-75.
  • Yang, Mayfair. "The Gift Economy and State Power in China," in CSSH 31.1, 1989: 25-54.
  • Gan Wang. "Cultivating Friendship Through Bowling in Shenzhen," in Davis, ed. The Consumer Revolution in Urban China. Univ. of California Press, 2000.
  • 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,]
  • 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].
  • TBA

Martin Hart-Landsberg
Lewis and Clark College, Portland!

Paul Burkett
Kalamazoo College

Confucius Institutes (Estab. 2004, headquartered in Beijing)

Confucius Institute headquarters home page

Wikipedia summary of International criticisms of Confucius Institutes


Sites on "Corruption" in China

China Labor Watch (U.S.-based independent advocacy group).

WorldWatch Institute China Watch

EastAsiaWatch
Private watch and blog site on E. Asia, includes blog links on China

Global Policy Forum
Non-profit group for monitoring UN policy making, their links on corruption and money laundering in Asia.

Transparency International, U.S. Chapter
Their description: Berlin-based non-profit, non-partisan organization founded in 1993 to curb corruption in international transactions.  Through its network of chapters in over 80 countries, TI encourages governments to implement effective anti-corruption laws and policies, promotes reform through international organizations and raises public awareness.

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

  • Assignments
  • Further Reading
  • Related Films
  • Links

Film: Sun., Mar 28, Bio 19, 7 pm, "Mardi Gras: Made In China," 2006 (72 min)

  • Mar. 30 Opening up as Urban Industrialization
    Deng Xiaoping. Excerpts from talks during his 1992 "Southern Tour", available online: http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/dengxp/vol3/text/d1200.html (8 pages)

    Pun Ngai. Intro, Ch. 1, 2 Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace. Duke University Press, 2005. (Bookstore and Book reserve)

  • Apr. 1 Urban Industry, Discipline and Resistance
    Pun Ngai, Ch. 3, chs. 6, 7, Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace. Duke University Press, 2005. (Bookstore and Book reserve)

Opening up as Urban Industrialization

  • Broudehoux, Anne-Marie. 2004. The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing. Routledge.
  • Li Ning. "High Tech Industrial Zones: New Impetus Pushing Economy up," Beijing Review, April 24, 2000. (2 pages) (ereserve).
  • Xiao Chen. "Dynamic Hangzhou," Beijing Review, Dec. 23, 2004. (1 page). (ereserv).
  • 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).
  • Bottelier, Peter. 2007. China and the World Bank: How a partnership was built. J. of Contemporary China 16(51), May: 239-258.
  • Ying Fan. 1998. The Transfer of Western Managment to China: Context, Content and Constraints. Management Learning 29(2): 201-221.
  • Warner, Malcolm. 1986. The 'Long March' of Chinese Management Education, 1979-84. The China Quarterly 106, June: 326-342.
  • Zweig, David. 2000. Foreign Aid, Domestic Institutions and Entrepreneurship: Fashioning Management Training Centres in China. Pacific Affairs 73(2), Summer: 209-231.
  • 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)
  • 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]
  • Lin, Yi-Min. 2001. Between Politics and Markets: Firms, Competition and Institutional Change in Post-Mao China. (see me)
  • Krug, Barbara, ed. China's Rational Entrepreneurs: The Development of the New Private business Sector. Routledge, 2004. (see me).
  • 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]
  • Chen, Nancy et al. China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture. Duke, 2001.
  • Scharping, Thomas and Kam Wing Chan. "Urbanization in China since 1949," China Quarterly 109, March 1987.
  • 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.]
  • Chen, Aimin. "Urbanization in China and the Case of Fujian Province," Modern China 32.1, Jan. 2006: 99-130.
  • Suzanne Pepper - China's Special Economic Zones: The Current Rescue Bid for a Faltering Experiment [20:3] ] Critical asian studies
  • Restructuring the Chinese City: Changing Society, Economy and Space. Ma and Wu, eds., Routledge, 2005. (see me)

 

Urban Industry, Discipline and Resistance

  • Kipnis, Andrew. 2006. Suzhi: a Keyword Approach. China Quarterly.
  • 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.
  • 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]
  • The Economist, Corporate Social Responsibility survey, 2005.
  • 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]
  • Rofel, Lisa. 1999. Other Modernities: Gendered Yearnings in China after Socialism. Berkeley: University of California.
  • 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]
  • 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.
  • 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]
  • Chan, Kam Wing and Li Zhang. "the Hukou system and rural-Urban migration in China: Processes and Changes," The China Quarterly 160, Dec. 1999.
  • Li Zhang. Strangers in the City: Reconfigurations of Space, Power and Social networks within China's Floating Population. Stanford, 2001.
  • Solinger, Dorothy. Contesting Citizenship in Urban China. California, California, 1999.
  • Iredale, Robyn, Naran Bilik and Fei Guo. China's Minorities on the Move. ME Sharpe, 2003.
  • 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]
  • 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.
  • 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.

Youtube 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.

Chinese Working Women Network (grassroots organization for migrant women factory workers, founded by Pun Ngai in 1996).

Labor and Employment in the PRC

PRC White Paper on Labor and Social Security, April 2002

PRC White Paper on Employment, April 2004

1992 Trade Union Law of the PRC (Amended 2001)

1994 Labour Act of the PRC


Chinese Economic Development Zones

Map of Special Economic Zones (1996, from the Handbook of International Economic Statistics)

Map of Special Economic Zones (1997, from the Handbook of International Economic Statistics)

List of high tech zones (Chinese website, invest in china.cn)

List of nat'l econ zones (Chinese website, invest in china.cn)

Special Economic Zones
Landsberger's commentary on the establishment of the zones via propaganda posters.

Shenzhen City Government Website (Chinese)


International China Labor Watch Sites

China Labour Bulletin
Hong Kong-based pro-labour organization

Laogai Research Foundation
Research on China's Reform through Labour camp/prison system

Mary Gallagher on failures of Labor Laws in China (full text online)


Taylorism

Wikipedia on Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915)

Wikipedia on "scientific management"

Taylor's "Principles of Scientific Management" (1911)
Full text Online.

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Week Ten: Developing the Marginalized: Rural Development (1980s-90s)

  • Assignments
  • Further Reading
  • Related Films
  • Links

Film: Sun., Apr 4, Bio 19, 7 pm, "Because They're Worth it," 2000 (24 min)

  • Apr. 6 Decollectivization and Rural Entrepreneurship
    Wang Zhe. "Behind the Dream of a Village," Beijing Review, June 14, 2001. (ereserve).

    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. (Book reserve). (33 pages).

    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) (bookstore and book reserve). (40 pages).

  • Apr. 8 Suzhi and Developing the Rural Poor
    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) (book reserve)

    Yan Hairong. "Neoliberal Governmentality and Neohumanism: Organizing Suzhi/Value Flow Through Labor Recruitment Networks," Cultural Anthropology 18(4), November 2003. (ereserve).

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. (pp. 181-190). (ereserve)

Decollectivization and Rural Entrepreneurship

  • 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?
  • 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.
  • Croll, Elizabeth. 1994. From Heaven to Earth: Images and Experiences of Development in China. Routledge. (reed lib has, see me).

 

Suzhi and Developing the Rural Poor

  • Escobar, Arturo. ch. 2: Discovering Poverty, Encountering Development, 1995. Kipnis, Andrew. 2006. Suzhi: a Keyword Approach. China Quarterly.
  • 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).
  • 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
  • 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.)

Youtube

Dengist Development Visions

1982 PRC Constitution

Deng Xiaoping Propaganda Posters
Landsberger's commentary on Deng's life and theories via posters.

Deng's 4 Basic Principles, 1979
Landsberger's commentary.

Dengist Population Policy
Landsberger's commentary via posters.

 

Shifting Model Villages

Dazhai Model Commune Posters (1960s-70s)
Steve Landsberger's commentary.

China's Model Village: from Political Symbol to Brand Name
Xinhuanet 2002 account of Dazhai as model entrepreneurial village with the establishment of the Dazhai Economic Development Company in 1991.

Mao's model farm prospers under market economy but Legacy Preserved
Xinhuanet 2007 account of Dazhai as model entrepreneurial village planning a major new biofuel plant.



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Week Eleven: Developing the Marginalized: Women as Clients (1980s-90s)

  • Assignments
  • Further Reading
  • Related Films
  • Links

Week Eleven film: Sunday, Apr. 11, "Sparrow Village," 2003, Bio 19, 7 pm, 28 min.

  • Apr. 13 Developing Chinese Women
    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)

    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).

    Judd, Ellen. "Introduction," Ch. 2 "The Meanings of Quality," Ch. 3 "GAD with Chinese Characteristics," The Chinese Women's Movement Between State and Market. Stanford Univ. Press, 2002. (54 pages). (Bookstore and book reserve).

  • Apr 15 Mobilizing Quality Women
    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) Online: (Sage Pub)

    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).

Final Paper Annotated Bibliography due, Monday, April 19, 5 pm, my office (Vollum 312)

Developing Chinese Women

  • UN Beijing conf. declaration 1995:
  • UNDP "Fastfacts": Engendering Development in China. Available Online.
  • Escobar, Arturo. "Engendering Vision: The Discovery of Women in Development, " pp. 171-191, in Encountering Development, Princeton, 1995 (20 pages).
  • Adams, Vincanne and Stacey Pigg, eds. Sex and Development.
  • 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.
  • Wolf, Margery. Revolution Postponed: Women in Contemporary China. Stanford, 1985.
  • 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)
  • Wen Jun. "Social Development and Women's employment among China's National Minorities," Chinese Sociology and Anthropology 29(3), 1997.
  • Evans, Harriet. "Defining Difference: The 'Scientific' Construction of Sexuality and Gender in the PRC," Signs 20(2) (Winter 1995): 357-394.
  • Li Rongxia. "Cracking Down on the Abduction of Women and Children, Beijing Review May 8, 2000.

Mobilizing Quality Women

  • Best, Joel. Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians and Activists. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
  • The Disempowered Participation of the Women's Federation in International Development Projects. Full Text Available By: Ye Jingzhong. Chinese Sociology & Anthropology, Summer2008, Vol. 40 Issue 4, p38-48, 11p, 1 Chart; DOI: 10.2753/CSA0009-4625400403; (AN 34792862)
  • Wesosky, Sharon. Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization. Routledge, 2002. (see me)
  • Hsiung, Ping-chun, Maria Jaschok, and Cecilia Milwertz. Chinese Women Organizing: Cadres, Feminists, Queers. NY: Berg, 2001.
  • Jeffreys, Elaine. China, Sex and Prostitution. Routledge, 2004. (see me)
  • Chao, Emily. Dangerous Work: Women in Traffic. Modern China 29.1, Jan. 2003.
  • Anagnost: suzhi and population (see me).
  • Greenhalgh, Susan. "Controlling Births and Bodies in Village China", American Ethnologist 21(1), Feb. 1994.
  • Croll, Elizabeth. Endangered Daughters: Discrimination and Development in Asia. Routledge, 2000. (see me)

Women in the PRC

All-China Women's Federation (ACWF, Fulian)
English language website.

Iron Women and Foxy Ladies
Landsberger's page on PRC propaganda posters re: women.

UN 4th Conference on Women 1995

World History Archives Speeches from the 1995 UN conference

Linkages Archive on Background Information on the Conference

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Week Twelve: Developing the Marginalized: The "Great Develop the West" Campaign (2000s)

  • Assignments
  • Further Reading
  • Related Films
  • Links

Film: Sun., Apr. 18, Bio 19, 7 pm, "Meltdown in Tibet," 2007? (40 min)

  • Apr. 20 The State, Capitalist Development and Regional Disparity
    Landsberger, Stefan. "Jiang Zemin Theory: 'Three Represents'," Online at Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages, http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/jzmt.html
    [President Jiang Zemin positions himself in 2001 at the 16th Party Congress as a Party theorist and advocate for private entreprise under CCP state developmental auspices].

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. "Translator's Introduction" (pp. xiii-xxi), Ch. 2 "Contradictory Reality," 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. (60 pages) (Book reserve,ereserve).



  • Apr. 22 Western Development: The Case of Qinghai Province
    Rohlf, Greg. "Dreams of Oil and Fertile Fields: The rush to Qinghai in the 1950s," Modern China 29.4, Oct. 2003. Online (Sage pub).

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

Kunzang. 2009. Alternatives (to) development on the Tibetan Plateau: Preliminary research on the Anti-Slaughter Movement (unpublished manuscript) (ereserve).

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).
  • 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)
  • 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]. (see me)
  • 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).
  • Hongyi Harry Lai. "China's Western Development Program," Modern China 28 (4), 2002.
  • 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.
  • Goodman, David. "The Campaign to 'Open up the West,' National, Provincial and Local Perspectives," China Quarterly 178, 2004.
  • Tibet Information Network. China's Great Leap West. (Reed lib has).

Western Development: The Case of Qinghai Province

  • Saalman, Lora. (int'l studies) "The FDI Paradox: China's Socialist Market Economy and the 'Develop the West' Campaign," 2004 (see me).
  • 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.]
  • 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
  • McNally, Christopher. "Sichuan: Driving Capitalist Development Westward," The China Quarterly 2004.
  • Becquelin, Nicolas. "Staged Development in Xinjiang," The China Quarterly 2004.
  • Litzinger, Ralph. "The Mobilization of 'nature": perspectives from North-west Yunnan," The China Quarterly 2004.
  • Oakes, Tim. "Building a Southern dynamo: Guizhou and State Power," China Quarterly 178, 2004.

Independent Documentaries

  • 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.)

State-sponsored Environmentalism

Foreign Development Efforts

Develop The West

Qinghai-Tibet Railway

Qinghai and Eastern Tibet

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Week Thirteen: Futures and Alternatives

  • Assignments
  • Further Reading
  • Related Films
  • Links

Film: Sun., Apr 25, Bio 19, 7 pm, "The Trash Trade: Selling Garbage to China," 2006 (49 min)

  • Apr. 27 Sustainable Development and Environmentalisms?
    Premier Zhu Rongji speech on "Sustainable Development", Geneva, 2002. (1 page) Online:
    http://www.china-un.ch/eng/qtzz/wtojjwt/t85656.htm

    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). (Bookstore and 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)
  • Apr. 29 Anthropology and Development?
    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 (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. (book reserve).


10-12 page Final Institution/project Analysis due Friday, May 7, 5 pm, my office

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).
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Environmental Regulation in China: Institutions, Enforcement, and Compliance. By XIAOYING MA and LEONARD ORTOLANO. [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)
  • Elvin, Mark. The Retreat of the Elephants: an Environmental History of China, Yale UP, 2004. (Reed lib has)
  • Shapiro, Judith. Mao's war against nature : politics and the environment in Revolutionary China. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001. (Reed lib has)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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]
  • Litzinger, Ralph. "The Mobilization of 'nature": perspectives from North-west Yunnan," The China Quarterly 2004.
  • Buckley, Lila. "Maturing Environmental Movement Takes Uniquely Chinese Approach," China Watch Online: http://www.worldwatch.org/features/chinawatch/stories/20060106-1
  • 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
  • The Atlas of Population, Environment and Sustainable Development of China (DVD EAtlas, Windows only).
    Chinese state-sponsored atlas, includes 153 illustrated maps. (see me).

Anthropology and Development?

  • Vulture funds' threat to developing world 
    BBC article on "vulture funds", type of fund that Power mentioned.
  • Financial Times article on Vulture Funds
  • 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]
  • 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).
  • 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.]
  • 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)
  • Pottier, Johan. "Towards an Ethnography of Participatory Appraisal and Research," in Grillo 1997. [perspective of dev. anthro, touting new more reflexive methods]
  • Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China. By Elizabeth J. Perry. [Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2001.
  • Wesosky, Sharon. Chinese Feminism Faces Globalization. Routledge, 2002 (see me)
  • Community Economies Collective. 2001. Imagining and Enacting Noncapitalist Futures. Socialist Review 28(3&4):93-135.
  • Harvey, David. 1999. The limits to capital. London, New York: Verso.

Youtube Playlist: China and Environment

Films in Reed Library

  • 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.)
  • 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 .

 

Global Inequality

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

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