POL SCI 159B

Main Course

Government and Politics of China: China in Age of Reform

Description

Lecture, three or four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Designed for juniors/seniors. Survey of China's political and ideological transformation in post-Mao era. Assessment of impact of changing socioeconomic conditions on revolutionary policies and programs of Chinese Communist Party. Exploration of etiology of 1989 Tiananmen crisis and consequences for China of collapse of Communism in East Europe and the Soviet Union.