GOVT 4827 - Unifying While Integrating: China in the World

(crosslisted)
(also CAPS 4827, ASIAN 4448)(GB) (HA-AS)

Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Co-meets with GOVT 6827.

A. Carlson.

Seminar intended to examine the increasingly complex relationship that has evolved between China and the rest of the international system during the 1980s and 1990s. Emphasizes the interrelated, yet often contradictory, challenges facing Beijing in regard to the task of furthering the cause of national unity while promoting policies of integration with international society and interdependence with the global economy. Concentrates especially on ongoing controversies over the rise of Chinese nationalism and the persistence of “minority nationalism” in many regions within China. (IR)