Providing Students with an overview and analysis of Japanese and Chinese domestic and foreign policies from 1945 to the present.
Course Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of Japanese and Chinese contemporary history and politics.
Teaching Methods
Frontal teaching/classes
Assessment Methods
Written & Oral Exam
Texts
A. Japan: 1. Murphy, Taggart A., Japan and the Shackles of the Past; Oxford University Press 2014; 2. Kingston, Jeff, Japan; Polity Press 2019, B. China: 1. Callahan, William A., China Dreams. 20 Visions of the Future. 2. Blanchette, Jude D., China’s New Red Guards. The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong; Oxford University Press 2019
Contents
The course analyzes Japanese and Chinese domestic and foreign policies from 1945 to the present. 20 hours will be spent on Japan and 20 hours will be be spent on China. The course will begin with the analysis of politics, economics in postwar Japan. Domestic, foreign and foreign economic policies in Japan from 1945 to the present day. 20 hours. The second part of the course (20 hours) will analyze Chinese domestic and foreign policies under Mao Zedong from 1945 until the present day. 4-6 hours will be spent on the future and visions of Chinese regional and global foreign policies as seen by Chinese scholars and policymakers. For that part of the course the book China Dreams. 20 Visions of the Future will be used.
