• China and Asia in the 21st Century , Curley, Melissa, and Thomas, Nicholas
  This lecture will discuss: Chinese foreign policy and regional affairs, China and the Northeast Asia, China and Taiwan (and Hong Kong), China and Southeast Asia, China and South Asia, Issues in Chinese foreign policy, human rights, the environment, security concerns,Êand will include a guest diplomatic lecturers.
  www.hku.hk/cas/bc/part1.pdf - August 6, 2004

• Foreign Trade and Investment in China , Xiao, Geng
  This course examines the reform and growth of China's foreign trade and investment sector and their implications for domestic economic reform and growth as well as for regional and global economic dynamics. Basic economic principles are used to explain the structural, institutional, and policy dimensions of China's integration into the global economy. Institutional economics are used to examine the legal, financial and regulatory risk of investing in China. The aim is to help students of diverse backgrounds to develop systematic frameworks and ways of thinking for assessing the constant changes in China's external sector and their consequences for local and global economies. Major topics include: 1. China in the world economy: a historical perspective 2. China's domestic economic problems 3. Reform and growth of China's foreign trade and investment 4. Impact of China's opening on the global economy 5. Legal, financial and regulatory risk of investing in China 6. Next stage of China's institutional reform
  www.econ.hku.hk/outline2003-04/econ0602.pdf - August 6, 2004

• The Economic System of Hong Kong , Luk, Y.F.
  This course aims to provide a basic but comprehensive understanding of the salient aspects of the Hong Kong economy. The emphasis will be on both economic analysis and institutional arrangements of the major economic sectors and related policies. More attention will be given to topics of recent public concern. After some preliminary discussion on national income accounting and historical development, the course will go on to the following topics: the monetary system and exchange rate regime, financial markets and institutions, public finance and fiscal policy, external trade and foreign investment, economic relations with the Mainland, the labour market, employment and income distribution, the property market and housing policy, regulation of public utilities and competition policy, industrial development and policy, etc. These are all important areas of study about the Hong Kong economy, but the extent of coverage of each will have to depend on the amount of time available. Some topics may even be skipped under the time constraint.
  www.econ.hku.hk/outline2003-04/econ0603s2.pdf - August 6, 2004

• 20th-Century China , Huang, Philip C.
  The course examines modern Chinese history against the three dominant ideological views of it.
  www.sscnet.ucla.edu/04S/hist184-1/ - August 6, 2004

• China Through the Media , Guo, Gang
  The major purposes of this course are to familiarize students with the main media sources on Mainland China, including newspaper, radio, television, Internet, etc.; to help students understand political affairs on Mainland China through the media sources; to improve students' skills at analyzing news, reports, and stories from Chinese media sources. This is not a language course, and no prior language skills in Chinese are required (but are definitely helpful). The media contents utilized in this course come from a variety of sources, all of which are in English.
  olemiss.edu/courses/inst310/ - August 26, 2004

• China's Economic System and Reforms , Keidel, Albert
  The cource covers China's modern economic system and reforms, with an emphasis on the system and reforms emerged since 1978. In addition to presenting the principal events, statistical trends, policies and controversies, the course links China's experience to basic principles of Economic development.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/chinareadinglists/ChinaEconomicSystemsandReformsKeidel.pdf - September 20, 2004

• China's New Market Economy , Brown, William B.
  The course looks at theoretical issues that remain to be solved before China's transition to market economy can be considered complete, along with practical issues related to doing business in a country in the midst of major change.
  icp.gmu.edu/course/syllabi/00fa/701-009.htm - September 21, 2004

• China's Two Social Revolutions , Whyte, Martin
  This site displays a syllabus for Harvard University's course "China's Two Social Revolutions." 
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~fc63/syllabus/FC63-Syllabus.pdf - August 24, 2004

• Chinese Foreign Policy , SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
  The cource covers historic precursors to China's foreign policy in the communist era; developments and changes in the foreign policy of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the last fourty years; Beijing policy with respect to key georgaphic and functional issue areas and the tools Beijing employs to effect its policies; and the central factors affecting contemprorary Chinese forign policy and the PRC's changing role in the world.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/chinareadinglists/ChineseForeignPolicyLampton.pdf - September 20, 2004

• Chinese Foundations of Civilization , Vervoorn, Aat
  The course examines social, political, economic and cultural developments in China to the end of the Han Dynasty in AD 220. This was the period that saw the emergence of the schools of thought, institutions, technological and artistic traditions that were to shape subsequent Chinese history and strongly influence the other societies and cultures of East Asia. Topics covered include the roles of agriculture and technology in the rise of ‘advanced’ civilization during the Shang and Zhou periods; innovation and competition among the states of the period of political division; the unification of China under the First Emperor; and the continuing influence of political, intellectual an artistic achievements of the 400 year-long Han Dynasty. Particular attention will be paid to the rise of the various schools of philosophy during the pre-Han period, including Confucianism, Moism, Daoism, and Legalism. The outstanding thinkers of this period dealt with fundamental social, moral and political issues as relevant and important now as they were 2500 years ago. The introduction of Buddhism into China, and it’s domestication there, will also be considered.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6203.asp - January 11, 2005

• Chinese Nonproliferation and Security Policy , Saunders, Phillip C.
  This seminar introduces students to Chinese foreign policy, arms control, nonproliferation, and security issues. It begins with a brief history of phases in Chinese foreign and security policy and then gives an overview of major theoretical approaches to the subject. These theoretical perspectives are useful in examining a wide range of policy issues, including the relationship between ballistic missile defense and Chinese strategic modernization, the evolution of Chinese arms control policy, the sources of China\\\'s nonproliferation behavior, security trends in the Taiwan Strait, civil-military relations, the Chinese foreign policy process, and the domestic sources of Chinese foreign and security policy.
  gsti.miis.edu/NEAS/syllabus/Syllabus_ChinNonprolif_and_.pdf - September 27, 2004

• Chinese Political System , Saunders, Phillip C.
  This course provides an introduction to the study of the Chinese political system. The course begins with an overview of theoretical approaches to studying Chinese politics and survey of the historical legacies that shape modern China. Part two introduces and analyzes the key institutions and relationships that make up the modern Chinese political system. Part three examines a range of current Chinese domestic and foreign policy issues, including political reform, economic reforms, and Sino-U.S. relations. Part four looks briefly at Hong Kong and Taiwan politics to provide a comparative perspective. Students will learn to critically evaluate theoretical models of Chinese politics and apply them to both historical and current policy issues.
  gsti.miis.edu/neas/syllabus/Syllabus_ChinesePolSystem.pdf - September 27, 2004

• Chinese Politics in the Communist Era , Lampton, David M.
  The cource covers modern Chinese political developments since 1949; principal governing structures and processes characteristics of the Chinese political system since the communist takeover; principle political personalities, elite composition, and political strategies of China's post-1949 political leadership; the governing capacities of the Chinese political system and changes in those capacities over time; changes in character and structure of state-society relations in contemprorary China; and current Chinese public policy.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/chinareadinglists/ChineseCommunismLampton.pdf - September 20, 2004

• Chinese Strategic Thought , Harvard University
  This course is an intensive reading and research course in Chinese strategic thought from the Warring States period to contemporary China. Much of the secondary literature on Chinese strategic thought argues there are key continuities in approaches to war and peace which cut across time and historical context. Mao Zedong, some argue, borrowed freely from Sun Zi's The Art of War. From the mid 1980s on there has been a renewed attention to Sun Zi inside the Chinese military professional education system. Contemporary strategic thinkers in China and on Taiwan refer explicitly to ancient texts when talking about everything from modern revolutionary guerilla warfare to nuclear strategy. The United States Department of Defense is increasingly interested in how traditional strategic concepts from Chinese classics may influence current Chinese approaches to deterrence, crisis management, pre-emption, and deception. Yet few students of Chinese strategic thought have explicated precisely what those elements of continuity are, how influential these have been, or whether there are elements of discontinuity, contestation and debate within a more amorphous and less unified strategic tradition. Any answers to these questions will be relevant to how we analyze contemporary China's conflict behavior. If, indeed, there are clear elements of continuity this suggests that an understanding of the core concepts in a unified Chinese strategic tradition is critical for understanding contemporary China's conflict behavior. If there are multiple traditions, then an interesting question is which traditions does contemporary China draw on and why? If there are clear discontinuities, then this may require both a revision of our understanding of contemporary Chinese approaches to war and peace and an inquiry into the 'sociology' of any misreading of Chinese strategic tradition.
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~gov2882/syllabus/GOV2882.html - August 24, 2004

• Economic Development of China , Xiao, Geng
  This course provides an analytical study of economic development and reform in China since 1949. Applying basic economic principles, including economics of institutions, it introduces first China's experiments of socialist economic development and central planning during 1949-1978 and then examines China's economic opening and market-oriented reforms since 1978.
  www.econ.hku.hk/outline2003-04/econ0601s2.pdf - August 6, 2004

• Economic History of China , Leung, Patrick
  This course will discuss an overview of China's economic historical development, economic revolution in the Song/Yuan era, China and Europe compared in the early modern period - in the rise of capitalism - in ecological constraints and sustained industrial growth, China's role in global trade and the flow of silver and gold 1400-1800: Ming/Qing China's fiscal crises, and finally the modern era and the future.
  www.econ.hku.hk/outline2003-04/econ0605.pdf - August 6, 2004

• Emperors and Revolutionaries: Histories of Modern China , Louie, K.
  This course explores the transformations in Chinese society and culture from the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) through the tumultuous period of the early Republic (1911-1949). It aims to introduce students to key concepts in the analysis of modern Chinese history while developing the understanding of main events that led to the development of the contemporary Chinese states. Major issues include: the internal tensions developing within the prosperous Qing state, the impact of European expansion on China’s stability, the urban intellectuals’ attempts at reform, the rising influence of the youth voice, and the emancipation of women. The main historiographical theme is the exploration of the “ownership” of history (e.g. tensions between nationalist and communist versions of history, Chinese and Western histories, and imperial and republican notions of the past). English is the language for instruction and for all readings.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6037.asp - January 11, 2005

• Gender in China , Louie, K.
  This course explores key concepts in the analysis of gender relations in China. It includes both historical and contemporary perspectives on the evolution of gender roles in Chinese society. It aims to present students with a broad vision of the major tensions between the genders and draws examples from a range of genres - such as literary texts, film, historical documents, newspaper articles, magazine advertisements, and poster art. The course presents a uniquely Chinese perspective on the study of gender in a global context. It facilitates an important cross-cultural comparison for those students studying gender while simultaneously providing Asian Studies students with fundamental knowledge of men-women relations, sexuality and the impact of these on social and political structures in this important East Asian culture. English is the language for instruction and for all readings.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6035.asp - January 11, 2005

• Grassroots China: The Social Consequences of Development , Thurston, Anne F.
  The course examines how the dramatic changes that have taken place in China since 1976 have affected ordinary Chinese people.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/chinareadinglists/GrassrootsChinaThurston.pdf - September 20, 2004

• Human Rights and the Development of Democracy in China , Thurston, Anne F.
  The cource covers China's efforts to democratize both recently and in teh first half of the 20th century; theories of democratization and democratic transition in relation to analysis of the possibilities of and impediments to future democratization in China; and polictical and societal applications of the Human Rights concepts both in China and the United States.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/chinareadinglists/HRDemocracyofChinaThurston.pdf - September 20, 2004

• Introduction to Chinese Politics , Twomey, Christoper P.
  The course treats the politics of the People's Republic of China. It focuses on the top-level leadership, the policy-making process, state-society relations, the role of the state in the economy, and political institutions.
  www2.bc.edu/%7Etwomeych/courses/ChinaPol/chinapolsyllabus.pdf - September 21, 2004

• Mass Approach Political Development: China. , Noumoff, S. J.
  The Seminar will be devoted to a thorough analysis of the various development strategies adopted by the Chinese Communist Party during the periods prior, and subsequent, to the success of the 1949 Revolution. While each of these strategies lays claim to the legacy of Marx, the interpretation and operationalization of that legacy vastly differs.
  upload.mcgill.ca/politicalscience/course03_poli649.pdf - August 5, 2004

• Modern Chinese Fictions: Identity Politics in China , The Australian National University
  Modern Chinese fiction is a potentially powerful means for enhancing our understanding of present-day China. In recent years, with the rapid growth of translations of this literature into English, this potential is increasingly being realized. With the aim of understanding the people and culture of China, this courses examines twentieth–century fiction, in translation from late imperial times to the present. Selected novels and short stories will be read and discussed in relation top the social setting of the time. The course examines these influential works by using categories such as class and gender throughout. At the end of the semester, students should be able to intelligently discuss the general historical trends of twentieth century China that have impacted in the ways that Chinese writers fictionalise their world. Students should also have in-depth knowledge of the major works of several of the most important Chinese writers in the last hundred years.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6034.asp - January 11, 2005

• Political Leadership in Greater China , Lampton David M.
  The cource examines political change, national integration, and development in China after World War II through the lives of come of the personalities who have most shaped that history. The cource alsoÊanalyzes political leadership in China over time and comparatively.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/chinareadinglists/LeadersofGreaterChinaLampton.pdf - September 20, 2004

• Politics of China , Guo, Gang
  This course is an introduction to the politics of China, with an emphasis on the mainland in the post-Mao reform era. It includes important topics in the Chinese political history, political ideology, political institutions, political processes, as well as some key issues in contemporary Chinese politics.
  olemiss.edu/courses/pol324/ - August 26, 2004

• Seminar in East Asian Studies B: The Manchurian Crisis 1931-1933 , The Australian National University
  Japan's economic and military expansion into Manchuria, which paved the way for the establishment of Manchukuo under Japanese oversight, touched off a major international crisis that involved, besides Japan, China, Korea, Russia and the Western member nations of the League of Nations. In the course of this crisis, Japan, already frustrated by its experiences in the London and Washington naval conferences of the League in the 1920s, withdrew from the League. The crisis abated by 1933, but was followed by a series of events that drew Japan into war with China in 1937 and the Allied Powers in 1941. In seeking an explanation for the crisis, students will be made familiar with a number of primary sources. The weekly two-hour sessions will be based on set readings and will consist of discussion on the assigned topic led by a designated student, followed by comments by the instructor and further consideration of the central issues. Each student can expect to lead two sessions during the semester. Assessment will be based on one 2000-word bibliographical essay, three 3-page reports, and a final term paper of some 20 double-spaced pages. The bibliographical essay covers the primary literature relating to a topic of students' choosing and involves an evaluative discussion of when, by whom, and for whom the primary materials were written. The reports consist of analytical summaries of the central issues of three of the topics in the syllabus, selected by the students. The final paper is a research paper in which students should forward their own theses and findings, and should be based as far as possible on use of the primary sources. Where available, these primary sources (which are in English) will be placed on reserve; materials in Japanese, Korean or Chinese languages should be identified and acquired from the library, after consultation with the instructor.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_EAST8018.asp - January 12, 2005

• Social Issues in Contemporary China , Emily Hannum
  China's transition to a market-oriented society has effected fundamental changes in the lives of citizens. As a discipline centrally interested in issues of inequality, sociology offers a unique perspective on these changes through its focus on the distribution of social welfare goods, such as wealth, health and education. This class will consider pressing social concerns that China must struggle to address as it continues down the path of market reforms. Using topical problems to illustrate broader issues of participation in the new economy, we will consider questions such as the following: How are women and men faring differently in China's new labor market and workplaces? Are rural peasants and the emerging underclass of urban laid-off workers being left behind by market transition?  
  www.ssc.upenn.edu/soc/Syllabi/fall2004/soci280_401_fall2004.pdf - January 6, 2005

• Society & Economy in China A: Historical Development , The Australian national University
  This course starts by looking in a non-technical way at conceptions of what is meant by the term ÒeconomyÓ. It studies how ÒeconomicÓ analysis has been incorporated into the models of society developed by some major social theorists. Then it moves on to examine ways in which these ideas have been taken up and used by historians examining the evidence about Chinese society. It looks closely at some debates about the nature of long-term developments in the economic dimensions of Chinese society down to the early modern period. It presents ways in which ideas derived from economic thinking have been used to analyse more general topics in the history of Chinese society, such as its regional and spatial organisation. Lastly, it looks at the arguments about the condition of the Chinese economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. What were the effects of imperialist pressure and the imposition of an open trading regime?
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6018.asp - August 9, 2004

• Taiwan and Cross-Strait Relations , Brown David G.
  The seminar examines Taiwan's economic and political development, investigates the country's unique international status and its complex sense of identity, and studies the development of cross-strait relations and PRC and U.S. policies toward Taiwan.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/chinareadinglists/TaiwanDBrown.pdf - September 20, 2004

• The Chinese Economy , Xiao, Geng
  This course reviews the economic transformation of the People's Republic of China and its implications. China's experiences are subjected to theoretical and empirical analysis of modern economics. The course covers structural and institutional changes as well as current debates on reform and policy. Topics include history, geography, population, rural reform, industrialization, urbanization, enterprise reform, foreign trade and investment, financial system, and regional development. The objective is to gain understanding on the working of the Chinese economy and its relations with the global economy. The course provides opportunities for students to apply economic theories to real world problems.
  www.econ.hku.hk/outline2003-04/econ6031s2.pdf - August 6, 2004

• The Emergence of Modern China , Harvard University
  Can a nation's quest for modernity draw upon its historical experience? In what respects must its history be cast aside? We shall explore the complex relationships between China's imperial history and her modern experience. Emphasis of this course will be on analysis of primary sources, in translation, to understand the Chinese experience through the writings of those who lived it.
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~hist1824/Syllabus/aasyllabus.doc - August 24, 2004

• U.S.-China Relations , Lampton, David M.
  The course covers historical background and context of the U.S.-China relations, primary since 1949, and particularly since the conclusion of the Cold War; the process by which both nations make formal government decisions with respect to each other, and the ways in which society and interest groups affect bi-lateral cooperation.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/chinareadinglists/USChinaRelationsLampton.pdf - September 20, 2004

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• Accessing Japanese Law: Contemprorary Issues in Japanese Law and Society , The Australian National Universty
  This course has three components.First, the course has a general substantive law component in which deeper exploration of a variety of Japanese legal areas may be explored.The specific areas of law will be decided depending upon the students’ interests and background in the first week of the course following consultation between the lecturer and students.This is particularly necessary as the survey nature of ASIA2032 does not allow coverage of many important areas or does not allow sufficiently deep investigation of other areas. Second, the course will have a practical skills component using video negotiation with students in Tokyo to test theories of Japanese legal consciousness, Japanese negotiation, Japanese contracting, and Japanese dispute resolution.Students with sufficient language skills will be encouraged to negotiate wholly or partially in Japanese language. This portion of the course seeks to provide an opportunity for students to apply their knowledge and thereby gain the concomitant benefits. Third, the course has a component for personal research in Japanese law. This portion of the course will be largely directed by the students’ own research projects in an area of Japanese law.This portion seeks to both engage students in directing their own education and to prepare them for more significant research projects such as Honours or work demands.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6021.asp - January 11, 2005

• Education and Social Change in Modern Japan , The Australian National University
  The political history of Japan since 1850 serves as the main framework for the study of social change and education in modern Japan. The transformation of an agrarian society into an urban one, with the attendant reshaping of the life course of Japanese people, is studied within the context of state formation in modern Japan. The lives of representative Japanese, especially that phase of the life course spent in school, are studies in relation to the political history of the nation-state and the changing place of Japan in the modern world.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6309.asp - January 11, 2005

• Electoral Politics in America and Japan , Harvard University
  This course analyzes a set of core topics in the comparative study of elections in Japan and the United States. Given the great differences between the two nations, this might seem a curious comparison to make. Among developed nations, America and Japan appear to be as different as any two countries could be, whether comparisons are made along social, cultural, or political lines. And both are thought to be unique: the U.S. because of its presidential system of government, two-party dominance, and low levels of voter participation, Japan because of its postwar history, influential bureaucracy, and lengthy dominance by a single political party. The challenge, then, is to identify electoral phenomena common to these two seemingly idiosyncratic political systems. Our more general task is to learn about electoral politics in both nations simultaneously by using what is known about one to expand our understanding of the other.
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~gov90ph/syllabus/gov90ph.pdf - August 24, 2004

• Gender and Japanese History , Harvard University
  Participants in this course will use a focus on gender and sexuality to explore important aspects of Japanese social history.  The course introduces important theoretical issues as well as covering a broad sweep of the past, starting in the medieval era and stretching up until Japan's recovery from the disasters of World War II. Students should be prepared to engage actively in discussion each week, and use the case of Japan to develop their own ideas about gender, sexuality and the state of the world we live in today.
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~hst1854/syllabus/ - August 24, 2004

• HIstory of Modern Japan: Imperial Japan from 1895 to 1945 , Li, Narangoa
  This course focuses on the changes brought by the imperialist expansion on the political, cultural, and economic fabric of Japanese society. With its successes in the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 and the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-05 Japan emerged as a great power in world history. Japan challenged the colonial interests of the Western powers in Asian continent and developed its expansionist ambitions. Starting from colonial bases in Taiwan and Korea, Japan launched a program of military, economic and cultural expansion, first on the Asian mainland, and then in the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Although this program of expansion ended more than 50 years ago, Japan\'s activities in Asia in the first half of this century remain unfinished business in a political sense. Even beyond the boundaries of the Japanese empire, the rest of Asia was affected in one or the other way by the Japanese military interlude, and those territories occupied by Japan experienced fundamental transformations. The issue of collaboration and the questions of reparations and of textbook history remain profoundly sensitive across the Asian continent. Through lectures, discussions and films, students will gain a better understanding of these historic changes and Japan\'s political and economic relations with its Asian neighbours today.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6029.asp - January 11, 2005

• International Business Lobbying: The United States, Europe and Japan , Volpe
  This course will cover topics involving federal, state, local and international business lobbying by American companies/associations/interest groups, and by foreign entities doing business in the United States. It will also survey US business lobbying abroad, including, but not limited to, Europe and Japan.
  icp.gmu.edu/course/syllabi/00sp/752.htm - September 21, 2004

• Introductory Course to the Japanese Economy , Lincoln, Edward J.
  The course is a basic introduction to the Japanese economy, with a focus on contemprorary institutions and issues.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/japanreadinglists/JapneseEconomyLincoln.pdf - September 20, 2004

• Japan in International Politics: Postwar Legacies and Cold War Dynamics , Boston University
  Both the international and domestic contexts in which Japan formulates its foreign policy are in the process of change. The Cold War has ended, and the bipolar structure that has shaped international politics since the end of World War II has dissembled. Within Japan, the political party system that has defined the postwar foreign policy making process is in the process of transformation. This course will explore the ways in which international and domestic influences have shaped Japan's international behavior in the past in an effort to consider how Japan is likely to affect, and be affected by, international politics in the future.
  bu.edu/ir/syllabi/casir579.html - August 12, 2004

• Japan's International Trade and Technology , Yoshida, Phyllis Genther
  The course examines Japan's emergence as one of the world's most advanced economies.  It provides a foundation for understanding Japan's science, technology and trade policies, and effectively applying that understanding to current policy issues.  It highlights how Japan responded to economic and technological challenges and, in turn, how the United States altered its perception of its own global competitiveness to address Japan's challenge.
  icp.gmu.edu/course/syllabi/00sp/718.htm - September 21, 2004

• Japanese Foreign and Security Policy , Akaha, Tsuneo
  This seminar will examine the historical and contemporary sources of Japan\'s contemporary foreign and security policies and the challenges the country faces as it redefines its role in the globalizing world, particularly with respect to its relations with the other major actors in Asia-Pacific, i.e., the United States, Russia, China, Korea, and ASEAN countries.
  gsti.miis.edu/neas/syllabus/Syllabus_Japan_ForSecPolicy.pdf - September 27, 2004

• Japanese Government and Politics , Geigle, R.
  This is a course in the government and politics of Japan.  In it we will study the nineteenth and twentieth century development of democratic institutions and practices in Japan.  Most Americans are aware that the government of the United States wrote a democratic constitution and imposed it on the Japanese at the end of WW II.  They are not generally aware, however, that Japan adopted its own democratic constitution in 1889 during a period known as the \"Meiji Restoration\" and that the constitution they adopted was, in part, modeled after western democracies, including our own.  It did so at the end of an extraordinary period of national self-examination that began with the end of the period of Japanese history known as the \"Tokugawa.\"  This was a two century period of self-isolation that left Japan one of the most culturally homogeneous populations in the world and one of the least politically, economically, and materially developed.  This isolation ended when the \"West,\" particularly the United States, forced Japan into a series of \"unequal\" trade agreements in the 1850\'s.
  www.csubak.edu/~rgeigle/PLSI322.htm - February 17, 2005

• Japanese Political Economy , Grimes, William
  This course will address various aspects of the Japanese political economy. We will seek insights into state-society relations and the nature of the Japanese state from a variety of angles, both theoretical and empirical. Along the way, we will cover a number of the most influential English-language texts on Japan. In the end, students will have learned a great deal about Japan's state and private sector, how they work, and how they interact.
  bu.edu/wgrimes/IR765syllabus.html - August 12, 2004

• Japanese Politics , Schoppa, Len
  Surveys contemporary Japanese society and political behavior including such topics as political culture, interest groups, political parties, parliamentary democracy, decision-making, and public policy.
  www.people.virginia.edu/~ljs2k/cp553.html - August 26, 2004

• Japanese Politics and Public Policy , Calder, Kent E.
  The course is an introduction to post-World War II Japanese politics and public policy, involving substantial comparison throughout with political patterns elsewhere in the industrialized world, and within East Asia. After a general introduction to Japanese political development since 1868, the cource undertakes more detailed analysis of current political structure and processes, as well as of domestic and foreign policy issues. Particular emphasis is palced on understanding how domestic and international politics influence the functioning of the Japanese economiy.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/japanreadinglists/JapanesePoliticsandPolicyCalder.pdf - September 20, 2004

• Modern Japanese Society , Akami
  This course is an introductory course on modern Japanese society, which provides students with basic understanding and introduces key issues and various perspectives to analyse these issues. While it covers major economic and political events after the Meiji restoration of 1868 to the present, its main focus is on the consequences of these events on social, intellectual and cultural aspects. The course aims to provoke questions about assumptions behind the perspectives, such as the notion of an East/West dichotomy and the totality of national culture. It also tries to see the historicity of conventional understandings of modern Japanese society. It sets out to examine when, how and why these understandings were constructed, and it considers the implications of recent events. Students will be encouraged to bring in a comparative perspective in tutorials and essays.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6010.asp - January 11, 2005

• Political Economy of Japan , Harvard University
  This course examines the history of Japan\'s political economy, its recent success and its current problems. Why did Japan succeed in becoming the first non-Western society to industrialize? Did Japan develop a particular brand of capitalism? What role did the political system play? What are its advantages and disadvantages of the Japanese model? Can it overcome the current technological changes and global pressures? Or is it no longer a viable model to emulate?
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~gov1273/ - August 24, 2004

• Politics of Japan , Bragg, Kaye
  This is a course in the government and politics of Japan.  We will briefly review Japanese history to the l950\'s with emphasis on the political culture and its development and on its geophysical and demographic characteristics.   We will then carefully explore the end of the Tokugawa (a period of self isolation under a powerful ruling Shogunate) and the search for a modern national identity.   We will give special attention to the traditional cultural practices as Japan\'s political leaders sought to accommodate them while economically,  militarily,  and politically modernizing.   Of special interest will be the evolving roles of men and women as traditional conceptions of self, family, and positional ascription became challenged by the drive to modernize the system.
  www.csubak.edu/~kbragg/poly307.htm - February 17, 2005

• Russian-Japanese Relations Seminar , Akaha, Tsuneo
  This year Japan and Russia are commemorating the 150 years of diplomatic relations and the 100th anniversary of the Russo-Japanese War. Despite their status as two of the most important global powers, the two countries’ relations remain limited and constrained. Most observers blame this state of affairs on the absence of a peace treaty between Tokyo and Moscow due to the seemingly irreconcilable dispute over the group of islands lying between the two countries, known as “the Northern Territories” in Japan and as the “southern Kuriles” in Russia. While the importance of the territorial dispute cannot be overstated, there are other aspects to the bilateral relations that are often overlooked in contemporary discussions of those relations. In this seminar, we will take a comprehensive and in-depth look at Russo-Japanese relations, including historical, political, cultural, and economic factors.
  gsti.miis.edu/neas/syllabus/IP675SP05Syllabus.pdf - February 2, 2005

• Social Change in Japan: Conference Course , Harvard University
  This course is designed to provide an introduction to the social institutions structuring life in contemporary Japan and to engage students in some of the debates surrounding Japan's transformation in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The semester is structured around several questions: 1) How is social order created and maintained in Japanese society? How do the key institutions of family, education, work, and the state create social order through the way they are formally structured and through the social values and norms they convey? How have symbols from Japanese "tradition" been deployed by schools,  employers, the state, and others to maintain order? 2) How do the major social institutions (family, school, and work) through which all citizens pass create a common among Japanese while at the same time structuring divergent paths through life? How do characteristics such as gender, age, social class, and ethnic identification structure people's actual life experiences in contemporary Japan? 3) What are some of the major social issues facing Japan in the early 21st century? How does a "sociological imagination" help us understand these issues and the range of possible solutions to them?
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~soc180/syllabus/Soc180_Syllabus.pdf - August 24, 2004

• Special Topics in Comparative Politics: Japanese Politics , Pollard, Vincent Kelly
  Course objectives: By the end of the semester and depending on your commitment, you will be able to do the following, hopefully with a greater degree of proficiency than on the first day: a) evince familiarity with Japanese governmental and nongovernmental politics; b) be aware of minor political currents which may be early indicators of bigger changes; c) while acknowledging that facts can be misleadingly be divorced from values, distinguish between descriptions of political reality in Japan and prescriptions for political action; d) appreciate the use of evidence in making political inferences about Japanese politics; e) demonstrate awareness of relevant stand-alone and networked information sources useful for empowering interested citizens of Japan as potential activists in their society; f) as part of a team, propose your own research topic on Japanese politics, articulate the key research questions and take the initial steps towards answering them; g) appreciate how history, geography, religion and language have shaped Japanese political choices; and h) have a sense of what people in the United States and elsewhere might distill, learn, modify and apply from the Japanese political experience as we envision alternative futures.
  library.kcc.hawaii.edu/external/asdp/polisci/easian/japan/pollard2.html - January 14, 2005

• Special Topics: Japan's Economic Crisis , Alexander, Arthur J.
  This course addresses the Japanese economic miracle and crisis in the broader perspective of economic growth and the Asian crisis. The first part of the course reviews what the recent research tells us about economic growth, the second dwells on Japan in the 19th century, when its modern development began. From there, the course moves to the post-1945 experience and consider a few specific topics such as trade and technology. The last session will consider Japan's future.
  icp.gmu.edu/course/syllabi/99fa/701_52152.htm - September 21, 2004

• The History of Japan's Emergence as a World Power , Matsukata, Naotaka
  The course examines series of socio-political and ideological transtions that Japan has made starting from the mid-nineteenth century, focusing on the coutry's perspectives for the future.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/japanreadinglists/JapanEmergenceMatsukata.pdf - September 20, 2004

• US/Japan Relations - WWII to the Present , Packard, George
  PDF of course syllabus for US/Japan Relations - WWII to the Present, Political Science G8876Y, available on this site.
  www.columbia.edu/cu/polisci/grad/main/courses/index.html#International%20Relations - February 17, 2005

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• Modern Korea , The Australian National University
  The course will introduce students to the history of modern Korea, with a focus on Korean nationalism. The course is divided into three periods, the Early Modern Period (1800Ð1910), the Colonial Period (1905Ð1945), and the Era of Division (1945 to the present), and examines the chief internal and external forces which shaped the Korean nation up to the late 1980s.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6006.asp - August 9, 2004

• Government and Politics of the Korean Peninsula , Merrill, John
  The course explores the political, economic, and social factors that have shaped the development of the two Koreas. Selected case studies on topics such as the Korean War, neo-authoritarian development, South Korea's democratization, the IMF crisis, etc. are used to illustrate broader socieal science themes.
  www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/asiaoverview/readinglists/japanreadinglists/Korean%20PeninsulaMerrill.pdf - September 20, 2004

• North Korea: HIstory and Politics 1945-1990's , The Australian National University
  This postgraduate course is not offered in 2005.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6007.asp - January 11, 2005

• The Korea Colloquium , Korea Institute
  The schedule of a colloquium on issues pertaining to Korea. Contains dates, names of the guest speakers, and issues discussed.
  www.fas.harvard.edu/~korea/colloquium/colloquium_s2005.html - February 16, 2005

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• Government and Politics of Russia , University of California, Los Angeles
  The course examines the move from Soviet authoritarianism toward Russian democracy and the question of backsliding. Lectures open with a discussion of the Soviet order and its breakdown under the Gorbachev leadership, 1985-1991. The bulk of the lectures will concern the emergence of Russian political institutions and the political contest during the presidencies of Boris Yeltsin, 1991-1999, and Vladimir Putin, 2000 to the present.
  www.polisci.ucla.edu/faculty/anderson/04S156Asyl.htm - August 6, 2004

• History of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991 , Harvard University
  Since 1991, thanks to the partial, but substantial, opening of the archives our knowledge of Soviet history has significantly progressed. In particular, the picture of pre-1939 developments is now much clearer. Besides many horrors, it presents elements of great scientific interest relating to the meanings and features of the civil war? the place of Soviet history in the wider pan-European context, the relations between the new state and the countryside, the role played by ideology and the “personal?factor, the nature of terror etc. These topics will be presented and discussed in the first part of the course, on the basis of the most recent archival findings. World War II and the post-war years, up to Khrushchev's demotion, represent the frontier of today's historical research. And while, thanks to the rich documentation in our possession, the Gorbachev years are more or less well-known, the Brezhnev era remains relatively unexplored. The second part of the course will thus focus on this second stage of Soviet history, trying to delineate the problems it presents, and the first attempts to tackle them. The goal will be to give the student an understanding of the stages and the meanings of Soviet history in the light of new research.
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~hist1531/syllabus/ - August 24, 2004

• Russian and Soviet Politics , Roche, Michel
  This course explores the institutions of the Soviet system and pressures to reform this system. Examines specific changes made to the system through democratization and market reform. Compares these changes to similar transitions in other countries to assess possible twists in Russian's political future.
  upload.mcgill.ca/politicalscience/course02_poli329.pdf - August 5, 2004

• The International Relations of the Post-Soviet States , Harvard University
  This course is designed to explore the foreign policies of Russia and the other post-Soviet states.It will begin with an examination of the legacies of Soviet foreign policy and the collapse of the USSR. We will then go on to explore issues in contemporary Russian foreign policy beginning with relations with the West, including NATO and EU expansion. With that as a context, we will look at Russian ties with the other post-Soviet states and at these new states' foreign policies toward the outside world. We will look at the role of energy in Russia's relations with the West and with the other post-Soviet states.  We will conclude the semester with a preliminary analysis of the state of Russian ties with the West in the aftermath of the war in Iraq.
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~gov1885/syllabus/syl2004.doc - August 24, 2004

• The Reemergence of Russia , Boston University
  Disintegration of the old Soviet system and signs of a reemerging Russia; careers of Gorbachev and Yeltsin and their attack on the foundations of Stalinism; Moscow's role in the 1989 revolutions; the August 1991 coup d'etat. The legacy of communism in the present medical and ecological crises; current political developments.
  web.bu.edu/ir/syllabi/casir542.html - August 12, 2004

• Trade and Politics in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union , Crane, Keith & Slay, Ben
  This course examines the background of and recent developments in the political, business, and cultural environment confronting American firms and policy makers engaged in Eastern Europe and the Soviet successor states. Particular emphasis is placed on the economics of the transition from state socialism to capitalism. Specific topics include: the institutions, policies, and performance of socialist and transition economies; macroeconomic stabilization and liberalization; foreign trade, investment, and external transformation; privatization; banking and financial reform; labor markets and social welfare systems; and legal reform.
  www.gmu.edu/departments/t-icp/course/syllabi/98fa/750.htm - September 21, 2004

• Women in Russian Society , University of Iowa
  This course examines the roles and social positions that women have occupied in Russian society from medieval times to the present. Particular focus of our study will include the private (domestic) sphere, the rural and urban communities, evolving patterns of public roles and positions afforded women since the 19th century, the role of education and work in creating the new "Soviet" woman, and finally, the tremendous transitions for women in post-1991 Russian society. To explore the many facets of women's lives, particularly their contributions to social, political, and historical events in Russia, we will draw from a variety of materials from several disciplines, including social history, political science, popular culture, fictional literature by male and female Russian authors, autobiography, and film.
  isis2.uiowa.edu/isis/courses/detail/041:160:001 - January 12, 2005

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• International Relations in Northeast Asia , The Australian National University
  This course will examine the international relations of Northeast Asia over the last hundred years, from the height of \'old\' imperialist rivalry to the post-Soviet world. This region has been critical to global security since the 1930s. The main focus will be on the interactions of China, Japan, Korea, Russia/the USSR, the European powers and the United States through two centuries of upheaval and change.
  info.anu.edu.au/StudyAt/_Asian_Studies/Postgraduate/Courses/_ASIA6017.asp - August 9, 2004

• Developing Areas/China and Japan , Noumoff, S. J.
  This course will be divided into two sections of roughly equal length, Section I - Japan, Section II - China. Conceptually, the two parts of the course will be related by virtue of an exploration of the conceptual underpinings of both societies. Particular attention will be placed on the philosophic foundations of modernity and social change. This will be supplemented by an analysis of the alternative "models" of development. The fundamental question of the relationship of a particular culture to general theory will also be considered in some depth.
  upload.mcgill.ca/politicalscience/course03_poli323.pdf - August 5, 2004

• Population/Migration in Northeast Asia , Van Arsdol, Jr., Maurice D.
  Northeast Asia (NEA) is an a area of great economic and political promise that has experienced state-to-state conflicts, nationalist clashes, and “conflicts of civilizations. NEA nations (China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia, and the Russian Federation) contain more than one-fourth of the earth\'s population. One twentieth of the earth\'s population lives within the region itself (Helongjian, Liaoning, and Jilin Provinces of China, the Russian Far East, and the entirety of the other nations). NEA populations are transitioning from high to low birth and death rates, from population homogeneity to diversity, aging rapidly, urbanizing, and engaged in unsettling cross border population flows. AIDS epidemics in China and Russia, ethnic conflicts, and refugee incidents and other migration issues further challenge regional stability. This course summarizes NEA population history, the current NEA population situation, and how to use population information to enhance stability in NEA. Students will develop a policy memorandum to respond to a current NEA population issue. There are no prerequisites for this course.
  gsti.miis.edu/neas/syllabus/Syllabus_NEA_PopMigration.pdf - September 27, 2004

• Population/Migration in Northeast Asia , Van Arsdol, Jr., Maurice D.
  Northeast Asia (NEA) is an a area of great economic and political promise that has experienced state-to-state conflicts, nationalist clashes, and “conflicts of civilizations.” NEA nations (China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia, and the Russian Federation) contain more than one-fourth of the earth’s population. One twentieth of the earth’s population lives within the region itself (Helongjian, Liaoning, and Jilin Provinces of China, the Russian Far East, and the entirety of the other nations). NEA populations are transitioning from high to low birth and death rates, from population homogeneity to diversity, aging rapidly, urbanizing, and engaged in unsettling cross-border population flows. AIDS epidemics in China and Russia, ethnic conflicts, and refugee incidents and other migration issues further challenge regional stability. This course summarizes NEA population history, the current NEA population situation, and how to use population information to enhance stability in NEA. Students will develop a policy memorandum to respond to a current NEA population issue. There are no prerequisites for this course.
  gsti.miis.edu/neas/syllabus/IP559-SP05_Syllabus.pdf - February 2, 2005

• Regionalism in Northeast Asia Seminar , Akaha, Tsuneo and Anna Vassilieva
  \"Northeast Asia,\" including China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, and Russia, remains largely a geographic referent, not a political community, nor an economic unit. Historical factors and contemporary obstacles prevent the emergence of a regional identity among the peoples of this region. In promoting a common identity in this region, the functionalist approach would suggest the development of a habit of cooperation and sharing of visible benefits among the countries concerned in addressing specific policy problems. This seminar will explore the feasibility of this approach with a focus on such topics as trans-border migration, free trade area development, energy community development, and environmental cooperation. It will include a series of lectures and discussions led by experts from Northeast Asian countries and the U.S.
  gsti.miis.edu/neas/syllabus/Syllabus_NEA_Regionalism.pdf - September 27, 2004

• Russian-Japanese Relations Seminar , Akaha, Tsuneo and Anna Vassilieva
  Both the Japanese and the Russian leaderships acknowledge that relations between their countries are \"abnormal.\" They also acknowledge that essentially the only problem dividing the two countries is the absence of a peace treaty due to the bilateral dispute over what the Japanese call the Northern Territories and the Russians refer to as the southern Kuriles. The dispute is a legacy of past history. Some analysts suggest the dispute is related to the issue of national identity in each country. Can Japan and Russia overcome the legacy of the past and forge a new relationship in the post-Cold War world? Will progress on the territorial dispute bring about a substantial change in other areas of relations? Are economic ties at the mercy of the state of political relations between Tokyo and Moscow? What role does each country play in the other\'s international policy? In its domestic politics? What are the prospects for closer cooperation between the two countries in both bilateral issues and in broader regional and global affairs? The seminar will take an interdisciplinary approach to these questions from Japanese and Russian perspectives and examine the bilateral relations at all levels - from human contacts, local and regional ties, business relations, and diplomatic and defense ties at the state level. It will also examine the impact of changes at the regional and global level on Japanese-Russian relations.
  gsti.miis.edu/neas/syllabus/Syllabus_JapanRuss_Relations.pdf - September 27, 2004

• Security and Arms Control in Northeast Asia , Yuan, Jing-dong
  This course introduces the basic principles of security, arms control, and nonproliferation and applies these concepts to the Northeast Asian region. The first part of the course presents some of the basic arms control concepts, describes the existing international organizations and regimes, provides a brief historical overview of the U.S.-Soviet arms control negotiation, and discusses contemporary issues in nuclear, chemical, biological and missile proliferation and international nonproliferation efforts. The second half of the course surveys arms control and nonproliferation issues in Northeast Asia, including the challenges of missile proliferation, missile defenses, and the evolving security dynamics in the region. It will review in detail the security and arms control policies of the major powers in the region and discuss the impact of their interactions on regional peace and stability. The central focus of the course is on preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical and biological weapons) and their delivery systems (ballistic and cruise missiles). The principal objective of the course is to give students a better understanding of the politics of arms control and nonproliferation as well as nonproliferation challenges such as export controls and verification in a changing international security environment. The course is also designed to cope with proliferation problems and the ways that arms control can contribute to national and regional security. A secondary objective is to introduce to students some of the literature and sources of information about security, arms control and nonproliferation. You will learn how and where to look when you have a question about nearly any spect of this topic. And finally, the course will help students to develop and improve their analytical skills, in particular their ability to distill vast amounts of information quickly into data that is useful for practical business and policy analysis.
  gsti.miis.edu/neas/syllabus/Syllabi_NEA_SecArms.pdf - September 27, 2004

• Security and Arms Control in Northeast Asia , Yuan, Jing-dong
  This course introduces the basic principles of security, arms control, and nonproliferation and applies these concepts to the Northeast Asian region. The first part of the course presents some of the basic arms control concepts, describes the existing international organizations and regimes, provides a brief historical overview of the U.S.-Soviet arms control negotiation, and discusses contemporary issues in nuclear, chemical, biological and missile proliferation and international nonproliferation efforts. The second half of the course surveys arms control and nonproliferation issues in Northeast Asia, including the challenges of missile proliferation, missile defenses, and the evolving security dynamics in the region. It will review in detail the security and arms control policies of the major powers in the region and discuss the impact of their interactions on regional peace and stability.
  gsti.miis.edu/neas/syllabus/Syllabus_IP510-SP05.pdf - February 2, 2005

• The Cold War , University of Pittsburgh
  The Cold War was a geopolitical and ideological struggle that dominated the second half of the Twentieth Century.  This course will examine the Cold War, paying particular attention to the international, domestic, and psychological sources of American, Soviet, and Chinese foreign policy.  We will investigate how and why the Cold War began, how it was waged and by whom, why it continued for five decades, and how and why it came to an end.  Along the way, we will also discuss the legacies of the Cold War and what they imply for world peace in the next millennium.
  www.pitt.edu/~schaub/CW-F99.html - January 16, 2004

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• Modern East Asia , Barlow, Jeffery
  This is a class in the history of modern Asia, largely covering the period from the mid-19th century in China and Japan, with much attention paid to the U.S. as an actor in that history.
  mcel.pacificu.edu/history/dept/courses/bar/sp04/H112/index.html - August 9, 2004

• Trade, Investment and Development in East Asia , Fung, K.C.
  This seminar focuses on current economic issues facing selective East Asian economies. The economies we consider include China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Singapore. The economic issues include economic development and growth, international trade, free trade areas, foreign investment, industry structure, technology, exchange rates, etc.
  www.econ.hku.hk/outline2003-04/econ6014.pdf - August 6, 2004

• Contemporary East Asian Economics , Grimes, William
  An introduction to the economics of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Topics include Japanese firms, labor markets, finance, monetary and fiscal policies, industrial policies, and Taiwanese and Korean post-1960 economic development.
  bu.edu/wgrimes/IR368syllabus.html - August 12, 2004

• East Asia and the USA , Stavis, Ben
  This course will introduce students to East Asia (principally Japan and the \"four dragons).  The course will examine the policies which led Pacific Rim countries to economic success.  We will also examine the problems with this strategy, which have led to financial collapse and to stagnation in Japan during much of the 1990s.   The vigorous economic growth of China, coupled with resurgence of nationalism  in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea have led to complex new patterns.  Muslim fundamentalism in Southeast Asia and North Korea\'s nuclear gambit sharpen strategic issues.  In short, this critical region for U.S. economic and strategic security is now in a complex flux.   The U.S. was drawn into three large wars in Asia in the last century; it has many troops in Asia now.  Will we be drawn into another Asian war?
  astro.temple.edu/~bstavis/courses/238syl.htm - February 18, 2005

• East Asian Security , Twomey, Christoper P.
  The course begins with a brief discussion of international security theory before turning toward specific regional security topics. The topics tol be covered: US-China relations, stability on the Korean Peninsula and in the Taiwan Strait, political situation and security in Japan.
  www2.bc.edu/~twomeych/courses/EAS/EAS%20Syllabus.pdf - September 21, 2004

• Economic Development in East Asia , Perkins, Dwight
  This course is designed to provide an overview of the economic changes that have occurred in East and Southeast Asia in the latter half of the twentieth century. Emphasis will be on the underlying causes of these changes and the consequences of these changes. Special emphasis will be placed on the role of the government in the management of these economies and how that role of the government has declined over the years. All countries in the region from Korea to Burma are the subject of the course, but the greatest attention will be focused on China, South Korea, and Malaysia with frequent references to Indonesia, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
  www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~ec1315/syllabus/syllabus05.pdf - February 1, 2004

• Economic Growth and Crises in East Asia , Rodrigo, G. Chris
  The course develops a critical appraisal of the high-growth economies of East Asia - Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea and the causes of the 1997-8 Asian crises. The problems of China and Japan will also be examined to some extent. The emphsis is put on technological development and proximate sources of growth.
  www.gmu.edu/departments/t-icp/course/syllabi/02fa/736-01.htm - September 21, 2004

• Political Economy of East Asia , Guo, Gang