History of Diplomacy in Modern China
Fall 2015
Monday 09:55-12:30
Instructor：Liu Yongtao
Course Code: POLI110033.01
Class Venue：H6102
Office Hour: Friday 13:00-14:00 (Room 411, Center for American Studies)
Phone: 6564-2583
Email: liuyt@fudan.edu.cn
Course Content:
This course is designed to college students with basic historical facts and figures about Chinese diplomacy. It is intended to provide an introductory survey of Chinese diplomacy ranging from 1949 when the People’s Republic of China was established to the early 21st century.
The course is devoted to a general overview of Chinese diplomacy from 1949 to the present in chronological way. Taking history metaphorically as a mirror and a text, the course examines major events, clues, and doctrines in China’s diplomacy at different phases in this part of the history. The course also examines selectively China’s relationships with some actors in order to understand how Chinese foreign policy is performed and evolved empirically.
Course Objectives:
The course wants to prepare students for a more meaningful understanding and appreciation of Chinese perspectives and approaches to international relations/affairs. At the completion of this course, the students should be able to know not only some basic historical “facts” or “data” about Chinese diplomacy, but also, more importantly, to realize how the ideas and practice of diplomacy in modern China unfold as they are in changing social and political contexts in which this history has been (re)produced and (re)narrated.
Course Requirements:
Students are encouraged to read extensively about modern histories of Chinese diplomacy available. Lectures will not duplicate, but instead will build on, and hence will assume prior familiarity with, assigned readings. Active, informed and civil participation in class discussion is expected.
Grading:
Students are expected to participate fully in the course, and take active part in academic performances, including presentations and discussions, in class. At the end of the course a term paper is submitted and it is based on what have been instructed in the course and reading materials.
A term paper with 3000-5000 words (40%); two quizzes (20%); class presentation (20%); class discussion (20%). Points lost by absence and late coming.
Required Readings:
Zhong Lianyan: International Relations of the Communist Party of China, (tans. Li
Guoqing) (Beijing: China Intercontinental Press, 2007).
Zhou Yihuang: China’s Diplomacy, (trans. Wang Pingxing) (Beijing: China Intercontinental
Press, 2004).
Recommended readings:
The Common Program of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (1949)
Ana Alves and AntónioVasconcelos de Saldanha: “The Growing Relevance of Africa in Chinese Foreign Policy: The Case of Portuguese peaking Countries”, in M. Seabra Pereira (ed.): A Portrait of State-of-the-Art Research at the Technical University of Lisbon (Springer , 2007), pp. 183-196.
Jean-Marc F. Blanchard: “Harmonious World and China’s Foreign Economic Policy:
Features, Implications, and Challenges”, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Vol.13, No.2, 2008, pp.165-192.
Jae Ho Chung: “Decoding the Evolutionary Path of Chinese Foreign Policy, 1949–2009:
Assessments and Inferences”, East Asia, (2011) 28:175–190.
Qian Qichen: Ten Episodes in China’s Diplomacy (HarperColins Publishers, 2005).
Yihong Shi: “China’s Contemporary Political Leadership, Foreign Policy, and Their
Chineseness”, East Asia, (2011), 28:247-257.
Yizhou Wang: “Transition of China’s Diplomacy and Foreign Relations”, China & World
Economy, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2009, 93-101.
Shu Guang Zhang: “Constructing ‘Peaceful Coexistence’: China’s Diplomacy toward the
Geneva and Bandung Conferences, 1954-55”, Cold War History, Vol. 7, No. 4, 2007, pp.
509-528.
Chen Zhimin: “International Responsibility, Multilateralism, and China’s Foreign Policy”, in
Mario Telò (ed.): State, Globalization and Multilateralism: The Challenges of
Institutionalizing Regionalism (Springer, 2012), pp.79-95.
Charles E. Ziegler: “The Energy Factor in China’s Foreign Policy”, Journal of Chinese Political Science, Vol.11, No.1, 2006, pp.1-23.
Note: Some social documentaries about Diplomacy in Modern China produced by China’s Central Television (CCTV) are to be shown selectively in the class as supplementary materials.
You are also encouraged to read extensively about modern China and its foreign policy, using various resources available. The following web sites may be useful places to start.
http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/
www.mod.gov.cn
www.bjreview.com.cn
www.chinadaily.com.cn
www.chinanews.com
http://www.china.org.com/
www.people.com.cn
www.xinhuanet.com
http://gb.cri.cn/
Week One (Sept. 7) Introduction: An overview of Chinese diplomacy in the past 65 years
Week Two (Sept.14) Chinese foreign policymaking: institutions
and processes
Questions:
Which ministries are now as important source of information and expertise on foreign affairs in China?
Which international relations theories are best suited to explaining China’s international relations development?
Week Three (Sept.21) Independent diplomacy and defence of the new nation (1949-1955)
Questions:
How is Chinese foreign policy in the early 1950s evaluated?
What is the implication of the Korean War for Chinese foreign policy?
Week four (Sept. 28) Expanding diplomatic relations with other countries (1956-1965)
Questions:
What are principles and positions that China holds in dealing with border disputes?
What are the causes of China-India border conflict in 1962?
(Oct.5) National Holiday (the class of this week has shifted to
September 28)
Week Five (Oct.12) Opposing two superpowers in the same time
(1966-1971)
Questions:
What are the major causes that make Sino-Soviet relationship deteriorating?
How did the radical revolutionary thoughts affect Chinese diplomacy during the Great Cultural Revolution?
Week Six (Oct.19) Division of three worlds and China-US relations (1972-1978)
Questions:
What is the significance of Mao’s strategic division of three worlds?
What are the main contents and significance of the Shanghai Communiqué signed in 1972 between China and the United States?
Week Severn (Oct.26) Economic reform and readjusting of Chinese
foreign policy (1979-1988)
Questions:
What are the major causes of Chinese adjusting its foreign policy in the 1980s?
What are major features of Chinese foreign policy in the 1980s?
Week Eight (Nov.2) Mid-term Quiz
Week Nine (Nov.9) Increasing capabilities and biding time:
promoting multi-polarity (1989-2000)
Questions:
How does China’s view on multilateralism and regionalism evolve after the end of the cold war?
How is post-cold war China’s peripheral diplomacy evaluated?
Week Ten (Nov.16) China’s diplomacy in the new millennium (2001- 2008)
Questions:
What are the reasons behind China’s decision to expand its foreign policy more deeply into regions beyond Asia?
What do you think a new type of relationship among big powers should look like?
Can a harmonious world be constructed? Why?
How does post-cold war China exercise its economic diplomacy?
What are major policy positions that China holds toward Africa and Latin America?
Week Eleven (Nov.23) China’s diplomacy: now and ahead(2009- )
Questions:
What does it mean by saying to construct a new pattern of relationship among major countries?
What is the implication of “one belt one road” in Chinese diplomacy?
How do you understand the role of people to people and cultural exchanges in international relations?
Week Twelve (Nov.30) second quiz
Week Thirteen (Dec.8): Hand in the written paper
Study Guide/Check List
1. Be familiar with the ideas and foreign policy programs of
Mao Zedong Zhou Enlai Chiang Kaishek Deng Xiaoping
Leaning to one side (yi bian dao), set up a new stove (ling qi lu zao)
Five principles of peaceful coexistence Pingpong diplomacy
Division of three worlds Open door to the outside world
Harmonious world One country, two systems
South-South cooperation South–North dialogue
New Diplomacy/New Security One belt one road
2. Be able to trace China’s relations with
Albania Britain Cambodia
European Union (EU) France India
Japan North Korea Russia
(Former) Soviet Union South Korea United States
Vietnam (Former) Yugoslavia Zambia
3. Be familiar with the relations and positions of the following foreign leaders vis-a-vis China
Stalin Truman Kim Il-sung
Eisenhower Khruschev Nehru
Ho Chi Minh Prince Sihanouk Nixon
Carter Reagan Gorbachev
Clinton Putin the Bushes
4.Be familiar with the Chinese role/position in the following conflicts (crises)
The Korean War
The Indochina War
The China-Indian Border Conflict
The Treasure Island Conflict
The Persian Gulf War
The War in Iraq
The North Korean Nuclear Issue
5. Be able to discuss the following conferences and international meetings
Geneva Conference (1954) Geneva Summit (1955)
Bandung Conference (1955) Cairo Conference (1956)
APEC Meetings G-20 summits ASEAN+3
6.Be able to discuss the following treaties, agreements, and announcements
Sino-Soviet Friendship Treaty German Reunification
Helsinki Accords Shanghai Communiqué
Sino- British Joint Declaration over the return of Hong Kong
Joint declaration over the return of Macao
SALT I AND II Test Ban Treaty
7. Be able to identify, describe, and explain the sources, purposes, and effects of the following organizations and mechanisms
AIIB APEC AFR ASEAN
ASEAN+3 BRICS EAS G8+5
G-20 NATO SCO SEATO
WTO Six-Party-Talks U.S.-Japan Alliance Warsaw Pact
8. Be able to discuss Chinese policies and responses to issues in
West Europe East Europe East Asia
Southeast Asia Africa Middle East
North America South America Latin America and the Caribbean
