Wang The China Race

Global Competition for Alternative World Orders
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9660-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 472 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

An analysis of the China Race—the global competition for leadership and world order between the US-led West and the People's Republic of China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wang, Fei-Ling

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction
The China Race
Arrangement of the Book

1. The China Race: A Normative Analysis of Global Competition and World Order
The Uncommon Race

The Qin-Han Polity and the China Order

A Framework of Analysis

Three Hypotheses

A Contextualization: The China Race versus the Cold War

Consequences of Choices

Odds of Success of the Options

Principles of Normative Assessment

A Short Note on Globalization

Further Considerations on Preferences and Criteria
Issues of Epistemology

2. PRC Foreign Policy: From World Communism to Community of Common Destiny

The Motivation and the Routes

World Revolution or Common Destiny: The Core Interest
Omnidirectional Efforts: Nothing Is Small

Foreign Policy of and for the Party

Cost to the People

Impact on the Chinese Nation

Service and Disservice

The Effects of Beijing’s Ventures Abroad

Torrents of Bad Coins

Deals with PRC Characteristics

Time for Engaging in the Race

3. The PRC-USA Rivalry: For Existence and the World

An Existential Rivalry

The Challenger

Aiming High and Globally

Further Reflections on PRC Power and Aims

The State of Sinology

A Study of China Studies

Reframing the Paradigms

The Reorientation of US China Policy

The Anticipated Zigzags

The China Race in the United States

The Glacier in Motion

4. Contaformation: A Strategy for Managing the China Race

The Parameters

Contaformation: Components and Objectives

The State of the Race

Crushing the Party and Quashing the Peculiar Racism

Ideas on Racing Well

The Worldwide Race

The China Race in the PRC

Empowering the Chinese People

More Tracks and Shortcuts

Winning the Race versus Transforming the PRC

The Race and Peace: Matrices of Cost

Epilogue
The Future of China and the World

Notes

Works and Sources Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fei-Ling Wang is Professor of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the author of The China Record: An Assessment of the People's Republic and The China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power, both also published by SUNY Press.