Session One

Boesche, Roger. "Why Could Tocqueville Predict So Well?" Political Theory 11, no. 1 (February 1983): 79-103.

Ceaser, James. "Alexis de Tocqueville on Political Science, Political Culture, and the Role of the Intellectual." The American Political Science Review 79, no. 3 (September 1985): 656-672.

Chan, Alfred L. "Critical Citizenship and Civil Society in Contemporary China." The Canadian Journal of Political Science 28, no. 2 (June 1995): 293-309.

Fewsmith, Joseph. "Institutional Innovation at the Grassroots Level: Two Case Studies." The China Leadership Monitor, no. 18 (Spring 2006).

Louie, Kin-Sheun. "Village Self-Governance and Democracy in China: An Evaluation." Democratization 8, no. 4 (Winter 2001): 134-154.

O'Brien, Kevin J. "Villagers, Elections, and Citizenship in Contemporary China." Modern China 27, no. 4 (October 2001): 407-435.

Pei, Minxin. "Chinese Civic Associations: An Empirical Analysis." Modern China 24, no. 3 (July 1998): 285-318.

Pye, Lucian W. "Civility, Social Capital, and the Civil Society: Three Powerful Concepts for Explaining Asia." The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 29, no. 4 (Spring 1999): 763-782.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. "Chapter 3: How the French Wanted Reforms Before They Wanted Reforms." In The Old Regime and the Revolution. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. "Chapter 8: How the Revolution Came Naturally from what Preceeded It." In The Old Regime and the Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Session Two

Dunch, Ryan. "Protestant Christianity in China Today: Fragile, Fragmented, Flourishing." In China and Christianity: Burdened Past, Hopeful Future, edited by Stephen Uhalley Jr. and Xiaoxin Wu. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2000.

Fan, Maureen. "In China, Churches Challenge the Rules; Bold Congregations Risk Official Wrath." The Washington Post, October 1, 2006.

Madsen, Richard. "Catholic Revival During the Reform Era." The China Quarterly 174 (July 2003): 468-487.

Potter, Pitman P. "Belief in Control: Regulation of Religion in China." The China Quarterly, 174 (July 2003): 317-337.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. "Introduction." In Democracy in America, Volume I. New York: Bantam, 2000.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. "Part 1, Chapter 2: Concerning Their Point of Departure and its Importance for the Future of the Anglo-Americans," pp.32-44. In Democracy in America, Volume I. New York: Bantam, 2000.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. "Part 1, Chapters 5-7." In Democracy in America, Volume I. New York: Bantam, 2000.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. "Part 2, Chapters 9 and 15." In Democracy in America, Volume II. New York: Bantam, 2000.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. "Chapter 2: How Irreligion was able to become a General and Dominant Passion among the French of the Eighteenth Century, and what Kind of Influence this had on the Character of the Revolution." In The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume III. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Session Three

French, Howard W. "Chinese Turn to Civic Power as a New Tool." New York Times, April 11, 2006. (Available at: http://www.ngowatch.org/articles.php?id=222)

French, Howard W. "NGOs in China: For Citizens' Groups, the Struggle for Attention Is Not So Lonely." International Herald Tribune, February 13, 2007. (Available at: http://www.ngowatch.org/articles.php?id=589)

Hamrin, Carol Lee. "The Nature of Chinese Politics Today: Inching toward Open Politics." The China Journal, 45 (January 2001): 123-129.

Ma, Quisha. "Defining Chinese Nongovernmental Organizations." Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 13, no.2 (June 2002): 113-129.

Mooney, Paul. "How to Deal with NGOs: Part I, China." Yale Global Online (August 2006): 1-4. (Available at: http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=7902)

Pocha, Jehangir S. "Chinas Suspicions of Non Profit Organizations; It Fears Money from West May Be Backing Democracy." San Francisco Chronicle, June 25, 2006. (Available at: http://www.ngowatch.org/articles.php?id=318)

Saich, Tony. “Negotiating the State: The Development of Social Organizations in China.” The China Quarterly, 161 (March 2000): 124-141.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. "Part 2, Chapters 4 and 7." In Democracy in America, Volume II. New York: Bantam, 2000.

Session Four

Brogan, Hugh. Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), pp. 386-400.

Dittmer, Lowell. “Taiwan and the Issue of National Identity,” in Asian Survey 44, no. 4. (Jul. - Aug., 2004): 475-483.

Gladney, Dru. Dislocating China: Reflections on Muslims, Minorities, and Other Subaltern Subjects (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), pp. 7-27. 

Gries, Peter Hays. China’s New Nationalism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), pp. 116-134.

Lawlor, Mary. Alexis de Tocqueville in the Chamber of Deputies (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1959), pp. 43-66.

Tocqueville, Alexis de. “Volume 1, Part 2, Chapter 6;” “Volume 2, Part 3, Chapters 3, 16, and 18;” and “Volume 2, Part 4, Chapter 6” from Democracy in America (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000).

Zhao, Suisheng. A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004), pp. 9-36.

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