| Course Title: Democratization and Civil Society in East Asia |
| Start Date: 01/23/2023 End Date: 05/08/2023 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2023 |
| Description: This course examines the dramatic emergence of democratic institutions and civil society in East Asia. The primary aim of the class is to help students understand and analyze the process of democratic unfolding in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. We will also evaluate China's recent, albeit limited experiments with democratic practices. We will begin by contrasting Western perspectives of democracy with both traditional and more contemporary Asian understandings of democracy. We will then focus on the actual processes of democratic consolidation in each of the cases, especially the developments that precipitated political crisis and ultimately, political change. |
| Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences , MP - Multicultural Perspectives |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Calvin Chen | 413-538-2668 | cchen@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/23/2023 - 05/08/2023 | Seminar | Tuesday | 01:30PM - 04:20PM | SKNR - Skinner Hall | 202 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| EASIA0001 | EASIA: East Asian Studies major | This course has been approved to count towards the East Asian Studies major. |
| ASIAN0001 | ASIAN: Asian Studies minor | This course has been approved to count towards the Asian Studies minor. |
| IR0001 | INTREL: International Relations major | This course has been approved to count towards the International Relations major. |
| POLIT-COMPAR | POLIT-COMPAR: Politics - Comparative subfield | This course has been approved to count towards the Comparative Politics subfield of the Politics major (100-200-level courses only) and minor (all courses). |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 12 | Available: 6 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan Author: Gordon, Andrew Copyright: 1991 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780520080911 Publisher: University of California Press |
Required | 36.95 |
| Title: Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s Author: Strand, David Copyright: 1989 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780520082861 Publisher: University of California Press |
Required | 33.95 |
| Title: Japan?s Dual Civil Society: Members Without Advocates Author: Pekkanen, Robert Copyright: 2006 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780804754293 Publisher: Stanford University Press |
Required | 26.95 |
| Title: Accepting Authoritarianism: State-Society Relations in China?s Reform Era Author: Wright, Teresa Copyright: 2010 Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780804769044 Publisher: Stanford University Press |
Required | 25.95 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |