China Orders the World

Normative Soft Power and Foreign Policy
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4214-0383-0
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

This volume examines a series of complex debates surrounding the role of China’s historical ideals in shaping its foreign policy. Presenting and analyzing the works of key Chinese philosophers and prominent international relations theorists, the contributors—prestigious scholars from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France—examine how an idealized version of China’s imperial past now inspires a new generation of Chinese scholars and policymakers and their plans for China’s future.

Although a growing number of books treat China’s rise and world view, China Orders the World brings together Chinese and Western scholars in a uniquely detailed and nuanced exploration of how traditional Chinese culture is being remolded into a "Chinese-style" world order for the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Callahan, William A

Barabantseva, Elena

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Introduction: Tradition, Modernity, and Foreign Policy in China
Part I: Rediscovering Traditional Concepts
Chapter 2. Rethinking Empire from the Chinese Concept "All-under-Heaven" (Tianxia)
Chapter 3. The Possibility and Inevitability of a Chinese School of International Relations Theory
Chapter 4. Xunzi's Thoughts on International Politics and Their Implications
Part II: Mixing Past, Present, and Future
Chapter 5. Tianxia, Empire, and the World: Chinese Visions of World Order for the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 6. The Enduring Function of the Substance/Essence (Ti/Yong) Dichotomy in Chinese Nationalism
Chapter 7. Paradoxes of Tradition and Modernity at the New Frontier: China, Islam, and the Problem of "Different Heavens"
Part III: Tradition and Modernity in Popular and State Discourse
Chapter 8. Beyond World Order: Change in China's Negotiations over the World
Chapter 9. Confucianism, "Cultural Tradition," and Official Discourse in China at the Start of the New Century
Chapter 10. Conclusion: World Harmony or Harmonizing the World?
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Barabantseva, Elena
Elena Barabantseva is a British Inter-University China Centre Research Fellow and lecturer in Chinese politics at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on Chinese identity politics, nationalism, transnationalism, and cultural citizenship. She is the author of Overseas Chinese, Ethnic Minorities and Nationalism: De-Centering China.

Callahan, William A
William A. Callahan is a professor of international politics and Chinese studies at the University of Manchester (UK), and codirector of the British Inter-University China Center in Oxford. His research examine sthe nexus of identity and security in China and East Asia. His books include China: The Pessoptimist Nation, Contingent States: Greater China and Transnational Relations, and Cultural Governance and Resistance in Pacific Asia.

William A. Callahan is a professor of international politics and Chinese studies at the University of Manchester (UK), and codirector of the British Inter-University China Center in Oxford. His research examine sthe nexus of identity and security in China and East Asia. His books include China: The Pessoptimist Nation, Contingent States: Greater China and Transnational Relations, and Cultural Governance and Resistance in Pacific Asia. Elena Barabantseva is a British Inter-University China Centre Research Fellow and lecturer in Chinese politics at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on Chinese identity politics, nationalism, transnationalism, and cultural citizenship. She is the author of Overseas Chinese, Ethnic Minorities and Nationalism: De-Centering China.