CIVILIZATION OF CHINESE-SPEAKING COUNTRIES

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

L0642

Academic Year of enrolment:

2023

Year of supply:

2023/2024

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Degree:

Course of 2nd Cycle Degree in MODERN LANGUAGES FOR MANAGEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Disciplinary Sector:

Languages and Literature of China and South East Asia

Language:

Italian

Location:

PESCARA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

SAVINA TONIO

Cycle:

Second semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

120

Prerequisites:

No prior knowledge required

Objectives

This course contributes to the achievement of the educational objectives of the Master's Degree in Foreign Languages for Managment and International Cooperation, by providing knowledge related to the foreign relations of the People's Republic of China, with specific reference to the United States. The course will enable students to gain knowledge of the origins and historical processes related to China's foreign policy, letting students develop critical skills to evaluate current socio-political dynamics.
Expected Results
At the end of the course, the student is able to:
- put historical events within the broader framework of contemporary socio-political dynamics;
- acquire the terminology of Chinese foreign policy;
- present orally what has been learned, drawing upon historiographical and International Relations terminology.
Making Judgments
At the end of the course, the student is able to:
- interpret contemporary socio-political phenomena;
- put socio-political phenomena in a historical perspective;
- read academic texts critically.

Contents

US-China rapprochement; the Three Joint Communiqués; Washington’s reaction to the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests; the Taiwan Relations Act and the Taiwan issue; the strategy of taoguang yanghui (to keep a low profile); U.S. policies of engagement and co-engagement; contemporary Chinese nationalism; China’s accession to the WTO; the concept of “peaceful rise”; the “Chinese threat”; the pivot to Asia; the Belt and Road Initiative; Trump’s China policy.

Extended Syllabus

Adopting a historical perspective, the course addresses the international relations of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), with specific reference to bilateral interactions with the US, from the 1970s to the present day. The dialectic relation between the US and China, marked by cooperation and competition, will be examined within the broader framework of Chinese foreign policy, from the abandonment of the international class struggle, to the adoption of the so-called "low-profile" strategy, to the central role assumed by the PRC in the global stage. Changes in the Chinese approach to the international dimension will also be related to domestic socio-political phenomena, focusing on the process of reform and opening up and the emergence of contemporary Chinese nationalism.

Recommended Bibliography

Compulsory readings

Books

Aiden Warren, Adam Bartley, U.S. Foreign Policy and China. Security Challenges During the Bush, Obama, and Trump Administrations, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2021, (pp. 81-204).

Tonio Savina, I rapporti tra Cina e Stati Uniti. Una prospettiva astropolitica. Libreriauniversitariaedizioni.it, Padova, 2020 (cap. 1, par. 1/3/5; cap. 2, par. 1; cap. 3 par. 1/3; cap.4, par. 1/5 ; cap. 5 par. 1).

Journal Articles

Bonnie Glaser, Evan Medeiros, “The ecology of foreign policy-making in China: the ascension and demise of peaceful rise,” The China Quarterly, n.190, 2007, pp. 291–310.

Marina Miranda, “La questione dell’identità nazionale in Cina e il nuovo nazionalismo contemporaneo”, in L’Identità Nazionale nel XXI Secolo in Cina, Giappone, Corea, Tibet e Taiwan, a cura di M. Miranda, Editrice Orientalia, Roma, 2012, pp. 45- 56.

Simone Dossi, “China’s rise, the Belt & Road Initiative and the future of the global order”, in Dragan Pavlićević e Nicole Talmacs (a cura di), The China Question: Contestations and Adaptations (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), 21-42.

Further bibliographical material might be provided in class.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Classes (54 hours in total)

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Oral exam

Contacts/More Information

The teacher is available to meet with students during weekly office hours.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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