Asian Thought on China's Changing International Relations

Abstract

At the end of the Cold War, commentators were pondering how far Western ideas would spread in an international environment defined by 'the end of history'. Today, the debate seems to be how far Chinese ideas will reach. This innovative edited volume goes beyond the conventional focus on China's bilateral relations, in a bid to identify the extent to which China's nascent rise has provoked fresh geo-strategic and intellectual shifts within Asia. Offering a unique discussion of the evolution of Chinese schools of International Relations and the reactions of China's Asian partners to the practices of its international interactions, the contributors to this volume seek to explain and understand the relational nature of China's international outreach in the full spectrum of its unabridged complexity, contingency, and contradictions. Introduction: Are Asia's thinkers accommodating China's rise? / Niv Horesh -- Part I: Chinese international relations reframed? Chinese exceptionalism and the politics of history / William A. Callahan ; A realist never changes his spots : a critical analysis of Yan Xuetong's turn to culture in Chinese international relations / Linsay Cunningham-Cross ; Wang Gungwu and the study of China's international relations / Yongnian Zheng and Dan Wu ; On Wang Hui's contribution to an 'Asian school of Chinese international relations' / Ralph Weber -- Part II: Reflections on Chinese international relations. Australian intellectual and popular responses to China's rise / Colin Mackerras ; Respected and suspected : Middle Eastern perceptions of China's rise / Yitzhak Shichor ; Kazakh responses to the rise of China : between elite bandwagoning and societal ambivalence? / Michael Clarke ; Korean responses to historic narratives of Sino-Korean relations and China's new international relations thinking / Hyun Jin Kim ; Japanese intellectual responses to China's rise / Peter Mauch ; How can they theorize? Strategic insensitivity toward nascent Chinese international relations thinking in Taiwan / Chih-yu Shih and Ching-chang Chen -- Conclusion: Recognizing Chinese international relations theory / Emilian Kavalski.