Contemporary China Course Presentation UTEP-ASDP Cohort 3 Dr

Contemporary China: Course Presentation UTEP-ASDP Cohort 3 Dr. Joshua Fan - History Dr. Gaspare Genna – Political Science Dr. Taeko Hiroi – Political Science Dr. Richard Pineda - Communication THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

Framing Assumptions 1. The course will be team taught: History 43 XX: Contemporary China Political Science 43 XX: Contemporary China Asian Studies 43 XX: Contemporary China Communication 43 XX: Contemporary China 2. The catalog description/advertising will explain the course as a dynamic seminar focused on studying contemporary China from the intersections of history, politics, culture, and communication. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

Framing Assumptions 3. Content is being developed in module format for inclusion into a database of China-focused courses. THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

Contemporary China: Challenges and Transitions The course in four parts: • I. Political Phenomena • II. International Relations/Power Transition Theory • III. Migration, Environment/Energy & Population • IV. Media, Culture & Popular Imaginaries • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

Political System of China • One-Party Socialist Republic • The Evolution of the Constitution – Current version adopted in December 1982, with revisions in 1988, 1993, 1999 & 2004 – The National People’s Congress as the highest state power THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

Parallel Party-State Structure v. Leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) § CCP created and controls the state v. Decisions are made in the CCP and then approved and administered by the state v. Party and state leadership merges (is the same) at the top positions THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

Communist Party Chair/General Secretary Standing Committee of Politburo State President & Premier Standing Committee of State Council Politburo Central Military Commission Party Central Committee National Party Congress National People’s Congress Provincial Party Congress Provincial People’s Congresses Township/County Local

China’s Political Status • Freedom House – Political Rights Score of 7 (worst), on a 1 (most free) to 7 (least free) scale, 2013 • Polity IV – Polity score of -7 (one of the worst), on a 10 (most democratic) to -10 (most autocratic) scale, 2013 THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

Freedom House 2013 Report Belarus Chad China Cuba Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Laos Mali North Korea Saudi Arabia Somalia Sudan Swaziland Syria Turkmenistan Uzbekistan Vietnam PR 7 7 7 7 7 CL 6 6 7 7 6 5 7 7 7 5 Status NF NF NF NF NF

Polity IV Democracy-Autocracy Score (10 to -10) 2013 Polity IV Score -10 Bahrain, Korea North, Qatar, Saudi Arabia -9 Swaziland, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan -8 -7 Oman, UAE Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, Kuwait, Laos, Syria, Vietnam -6 Kazakhstan -5 Equatorial Guinea, Gambia Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville, Fiji, Morocco, Rwanda -4

Democracy Movements • Beijing Spring/Democracy Wall, 1978 -79 – Oct. 1978, CCP policy: “seeking truth from facts” – Dec. 1979, “The Fifth Modernization” by Wei Jingsheng, called for political liberalization/democracy THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

Democracy Movements • Tiananmen Square Protests, 1989 – April 1989, death of Hu Yaobang, a reformist CCP leader – More than one million people gathered in Tiananmen Square and marched in Beijing and elsewhere – June 4: Massacre, w/ a death toll of 2, 000 to 3, 000 • Gov/CCP response: Crackdown THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

Stability Maintenance Program • Maintains domestic stability/public security Ø “Weiwen” in Chinese Ø Top priority of Gov/CCP (along with economic growth) Ø Established in response to the Tiananmen Square Incident THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

Stability Maintenance Program • Since 2011, the budget for internal security has exceeded the military budget Ø 2013 budget: 769 billion Yuan (US$125 billion) Ø Penetrates and found at all levels of government and community THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

Power Transition Theory • Assumptions and Hypotheses – International hierarchy – Preponderant power creates political and economic structures and norms of behavior that enhance stability • International trade, finance, democracy, etc. – Rise and fall of preponderant powers • If dissatisfied, major war likely upon power transition (at parity) THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

China and Asia • Economic Cooperation – ASEAN + China (South Korea and Japan) • Territorial Disputes – – – – Taiwan Jiandao (North and South Korea) Ieodo Island/Suyan Rock (South Korea) Macclesfield Bank/Zhongsha Islands (Vietnam) Okinotori-shima (Japan) Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands (Japan) Spratly Islands (Many) Aksai Chin (India) THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

China and the World • Trade – Latin America – Africa • FDI – Latin America – Africa • GATT/WTO • Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

China and the USA • Economic Interdependence • Managing the Status Quo – Territorial Issues • US Preparedness – Air-Sea Battle Concept (Anti. Access/Area Denial) • China Preparedness – The growing defense industry THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

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Floating Population / Migrant Workers • Films: The Last Train Home, Getting Home, & Lost in Beijing • Sources: Factory Girls (Leslie T. Chang) & Made in China (Pun Ngai) • Literature: Worker Literature vs. Under-stratum / Subaltern Literature [no English translation] THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

Environment vs. Energy Choices THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

Environment vs. Energy Choices • Films: Before the Flood, Still Life, & A CCP approved documentary (2011) • Sources: Before the Deluge (Deirdre Chetham) & The River Dragon Has Come! (Dai Qing) – Choke Point China, The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China, China's Environmental Challenges, & China and the Environment: The Green Revolution THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

One-Child Policy / Family Planning THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

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One-Child Policy / Family Planning • Films: One-Child Policy-China & The Invisible Red Thread • Sources: Just One Child (Susan Greenhalgh), Only Hope (Vanessa Fong), & Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother (Xinran) • Literature: The Dark Road (Ma Jian) THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

Media, Culture & Popular Imaginaries • News Media – comparative focus on media coverage(s): • Discursive media & threat construction • Popular opinion and political capital • Reading: • Pan, et al, One Event, Three Stories: Media Narratives of the Handover of Hong Kong in Cultural China (1999) International Communication Gazette THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

Media, Culture & Popular Imaginaries • Popular Culture – resistance and maintenance of control: • Arts and resistance • The State as cultural propaganda manufacturer • Reading: • Mc. Granhan (1996) “Miss Tibet, or Tibet Misrepresented? : The Trope of Woman-as-Nation in the Struggle for Tibet, ” in Colleen Ballerino Cohen et al. , eds. , Beauty Queens on the Global Stage: Gender, Contests, and Power THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

Media, Culture & Popular Imaginaries • Internet – Manipulative Expressive Space(s): • Political voice and virtual demonstrations • Design or default in shallow internet activism • Reading: • Yang (2012) “A Chinese Internet? History, Practice, and Globalization. ” Chinese Journal of Communication THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO

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