150077 SE Law and Society in Contemporary China Seminar (2024W)

Mandatory readings

1.1 Liu, Q. (2021). "With or Without You: Qing, Li, Fa, and Legal Pluralism in China." China Law and Society Review 5(2): 88-118.

1.2 Wang, D. (2020). "Jia, as in Guojia: building the Chinese Family into a Filial Nationalist Project." China Law and Society Review 5(1): 1-32.

1.3 Lee, C. K. (2022). Global China at 20: Why, How and So What? The China Quarterly (London), 250, 313–331

Reference materials for the preparation of the exam paper:

2.1 Brodsgaard, Kjeld Erik. Critical Readings on the Communist Party of China (4 Vols. Set). [in English] Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2016.

2.2 Zhou, X. (2022). The Logic of Governance in China: An Organizational Approach. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

2.3 Ma, X. (2022). Localized bargaining: the political economy of China’s high-speed railway program. New York, NY, Oxford University Press.

2.4 Zhang, C. (2021). Governing and ruling: the political logic of taxation in China. Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Press.

2.5 Saich, Tony. From Rebel to Ruler. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2021. (E-book available)

2.6 Dickson, B. J. (2021). The Party and the People. Princeton, Princeton University Press.

2.7 Fewsmith, J. (2021). Rethinking Chinese Politics. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

2.8 Shambaugh, D. L. (2021). China’s leaders: from Mao to now. Cambridge Medford, MA, Polity.

2.9 Pieke, F. N. and B. Hofman, Eds. (2022). CPC Futures: The new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Singapore, NUS Press.

2.10 Torigian, J. (2022). Prestige, Manipulation, and Coercion, Yale University Press.

2.11 Shih, V. C. (2022). Coalitions of the Weak. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

2.12 Fairbank, J., & Feuerwerker, A. (Eds.). The Cambridge History of China (The Cambridge History of China). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Vol. 12-13 (E-book available)

2.13 MacFarquhar, R., & Fairbank, J. (Eds.). (1987). The Cambridge History of China (The Cambridge History of China). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Vol. 14-1
2.14 Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N. The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China. First ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016. (hardcopy available in the library)

2.15 Oxford Bibliographies. Entry: The Chinese Communist Party

2.16 Rudolph, J. (2018). The China Questions, Harvard University Press.

2.17 Chua, L. J., D. M. Engel and S. Liu (2023). The Asian Law and Society Reader. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Writing guides

3.1 Guide on how to write a literature review - UNC Writing Centre and University of Edinburgh

3.2 Radich, M. A student's guide to writing in East Asian Studies. Harvard University.