Political Science and Chinese Political Studies The State of the Field [Paperback]

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.

1. Introduction Political Science and Chinese Political Studies: The State of the Field (Sujian Guo, San Francisco State University).- Part I? Overview of the State of the Field.- 2. Chinese Political Studies: Overview of the State of the Field (Lynn T. White III., Princeton University).- 3. Political Culture and the Study of Chinese Politics (Peter R. Moody, Jr., University of Notre Dame).- 4. Western Political Science Theories and the Development of Political Theories?in China (Yang Guangbin and Li Miao, Remin University of China).- 5. Western Political Research ApplSº