Political Science and Chinese Political Studies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction: Political Science and Chinese Political Studies – The State of the Field

   1. Introduction: Political Science and Chinese Political Studies – The State of the Field

      • Sujian Guo

      Pages 1-8

3. Overview of the State of the Field

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Chinese Political Studies: Overview of the State of the Field

      • Lynn T. White III

      Pages 11-36

   3. Political Culture and the Study of Chinese Politics

      • Peter R. Moody

      Pages 37-60

   4. Western Political Science Theories and the Development of Political Theories in China

      • Guangbin Yang, Miao Li

      Pages 61-84

   5. Western Political Research Approaches and the Development of Political Science Methodology in China

      • Yuejin Jing, Guoqin Wang

      Pages 85-102

   6. Environmental Politics in China: An Issue Area in Review

      • Fengshi Wu

      Pages 103-124

4. Methodologies in the Chinese Political Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125

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   2. The Logics of Comparative Politics and the Development of Political Science in China

      • Yang Zhong

      Pages 127-134

   3. Political Science Research on China: Making the Most of Diversity

      • Björn Alpermann

      Pages 135-150

   4. Choices for Chinese Political Science: Methodological Positivism or Methodological Pluralism?

      • Jon R. Taylor

      Pages 151-161

   5. The Perestroika Movement in American Political Science and Its Lessons for Chinese Political Studies

      • Shelley Rigger

      Pages 163-176

5. Scientification or Indigenization of Chinese Political Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177

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   2. Reflections on Scientific Inquiry, Academic Freedom, and Enlightenment

      • Jeffrey C. Isaac

      Pages 179-192

   3. The Dilemmas of China’s Political Science in the Context of the Rise of China

      • Baogang He

      Pages 193-214

   4. Politics Against Science: Reflections on the Study of Chinese Politics in Contemporary China

      • Guoguang Wu

      Pages 215-236

   5. To ‘Fall in Line’ or To ‘Grab’: Thoughts on the Indigenization of Political Science

      • Shaoguang Wang

      Pages 237-261

   6. Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom, Let One Hundred Thoughts Contend: Political Science with Chinese Characteristics

      • Jon R. Taylor

      Pages 263-274

We have witnessed the substantial transformation of China studies, particularly Chinese political studies, in the past 30 years due to changes in China and its rising status in the world as well as changes in our ways of conducting research. As area studies specialists, we are no longer “isolated” from the larger disciplines of Political Science and International Relations (IR) but an integral part of them. This book contains theoretically innovative contributions by distinguished political scientists from inside and outside China, who together offer up-to-date overviews of the state of the field of Chinese political studies, combines empirical and normative researches as well as theoretical exploration and case studies, explore the relationship between Western political science scholarship and contemporary Chinese political studies, examine the logic and methods of political science and their scholarly application and most recent developments in the study of Chinese politics, and discuss the hotly-contested and debated issues in Chinese political studies, such as universality and particularity, regularity and diversity, scientification and indigenization, main problems, challenges, opportunities and directions for the disciplinary and intellectual development of Chinese political studies in the context of rising China.

The excellent articles in this eye-opening volume offer the analyses of diverse but extremely well-informed scholarship on these most vital matters. This book is a must read for anyone seeking to comprehend these most profound questions about how Chinese political studies has developed and where it is heading.

—Edward Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Madison

 

 

A thought-provoking collection that draws together Chinese and western scholars to ruminate about the field of Chinese politics. This book shows us how research is changing, how area and disciplinary approaches can support each other, and how “indigenous” and western concepts can deepen the study of Chinese politics.

  —Kevin J. O'Brien, University of California, Berkeley

• , Department of Political Science, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA

  Sujian Guo

Sujian Guo is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for US-China Policy Studies at San Francisco State University, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chinese Political Science. Concurrently, he is a Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean of the Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences at Fudan University, and a chair professor of Zhejiang University, PRC. He is also a guest professor at numerous Chinese universities. His areas of research include Chinese politics, international relations and methodology, and he has published over 40 academic articles and 16 authored and edited books in the above areas.

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