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Subject(s)

• China—Foreign relations—21st century [Browse]
• China—Foreign economic relations [Browse]

Editor

• Mayer, Maximilian, 1980- [Browse]

Summary note

This Handbook sheds light on the complex and transformative nature of Global China, prompting a re-evaluation of existing theories on global and regional dynamics. It encourages theoretical innovation, methodological reflection, and analytical transformation, providing new avenues for critical engagement with China's global interactions.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Global China: New Approaches to Research On China in the World
• Introduction
• Beyond Binary Premises
• Scrutinizing Knowledge Production On China
• Trap of Great Power Reductionism
• Territorial Trap and Methodological Nationalism
• Cultural Trap: Civilizational Essentialism
• Synopsis of Chapters
• Framing Global China
• Actors and Agencies of Global China
• Global China and International Organizations
• Global China's Responses to Global Challenges
• Entangled Encounters: Internalizing Global China at Home and Localizing Global China Abroad
• Conclusion
• References
• Part I Framing Global China
• 1 Global China, Sinology and Chinese Studies
• Introduction: Borders and Limits
• Asymmetric Cosmopolitanism, the Practice of Comparison and the Beginnings of Academic Sinology
• Sinology, Area Studies and Chinese Studies
• Looking Towards the Future
• Notes
• 2 China - Questions In Geography
• Global China in Human Geography
• Framing Global China Across Internal Disciplinary Debates
• How Chinese Scholars Frame/Discuss Global China
• Cross-disciplinary Resonances, Kinships and Borrowings, Disconnections and Blind Spots
• 3 China's Traditional, Modern and Neo-​Socialist World Orders
• Traditional World Orders: All-Under-Heaven, Great Harmony and the Tributary System
• Twentieth Century Modern World Orders: Great Harmony, Three People's Principles and Three Worlds Theory
• Twenty-first Century Neo-Socialist World Orders: Harmonious World, Tianxia System and Community of Shared Destiny for Mankind
• References.
• 4 Americans' Reaction to China's Rise: Power Shift, Problem Shift and Policy Shift
• China's Rise and International Relations Theories of Power
• Rethinking Power Shifts
• Chinese Revisionism?
• A Post-Westphalian Hegemon?
• Sino-American Tensions
• Conclusions
• 5 China as a Driver of a Post-​Western Global Imaginary
• Western/American Centrism in International Relations and the Rise of Post-Western/Global Imaginaries
• The Development of China's International Studies and the Nascent Popularity of the Chinese School of International Relations
• The Possibility of Constructing "Post-Western" Subjectivity
• 6 The China Challenge? A Holographic Global China Perspective
• From a Territorial China to a Holographic Global China
• The China Challenge as Holographic Global Challenge
• The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Economic "China" Challenge
• Climate and the Environmental "China" Challenge
• The COVID-19 Pandemic and the "China" Public Health Challenge
• Part II Actors and Agencies of Global China
• 7 Great Power Relationships or Common Destiny? Chinese Government and Private Actors' Long and Winding Road to Find a Place in Global Cyberspace
• Beijing's Charm Offensive: The Community of Common Destiny and the Digital Silk Road
• Trade War and Decoupling: The Deterioration of Relations With the United States
• Note
• 8 International Actorness of the Chinese Local Governments
• Paradiplomacy With Chinese Characteristics: Reforms and Decentralization
• Local Governments' Contribution to Beijing's Foreign Policymaking
• Chinese Local Governments and Sub-National Globalization
• Chinese Local Governments' Bi- and Tri-Lateral Relations.
• Chinese Local Governments in Multilateral Relations
• 9 The Party-​State's Global Transgressive Political Activities and Influence Work
• Conceptualizing Transgressive Political Activities
• Party-state Systems and Actors
• Overview of Systems Involved in External Influence Work
• United Front
• Propaganda
• Foreign Affairs
• Intelligence System
• Co-Optation and Complicity
• 10 Chinese Relationality and the Design of Diplomatic Initiatives
• Improvised Resemblance and the Chinese Relationship in Foreign Policy-Making
• Conducting Improvised Resemblance in Distant Regions: FOCAC and the 16+1
• China's Improvisation of Resemblance in Regional and Global Projects: The SCO and BRI
• 11 Exporting Chinese Digital Authoritarianism
• Analog Chinese Surveillance Mechanisms
• Adapting Analog Surveillance to the Digital Age
• Digital Authoritarianism: Technologically Enabled Grid Policing and Blacklists
• Analog Surveillance in a Strong Authoritarian State: The Case of Rwanda
• Importing Surveillance Technology: Rwanda in Context
• Conclusion: Scope Conditions for Exporting China's Digital Authoritarianism
• 12 From the Oriental to the Global City: China's Urban Rise
• (Dis)Connecting Chinese Cities in Imperial and Republican Times
• Anti-urbanism and "Production Cities" Under Communist Rule
• Globalizing China's Cities in the Name of the State
• 13 The State of the American and Chinese Technological Competition
• Historical and Recent Technology Developments in China and the United States
• China
• The United States
• Technological Competition in Numbers
• Competition at Corporate Level.
• The Outlines of the Future
• Geopolitical Repercussions
• Part III Global China and International Organizations
• Chapter 14 Alternative Leadership: China and Global Finance
• The Analytical Perspective: China's Changing Role in the Global Financial Order
• China's Emergence as a Leader in Global Financial Governance - Inside and Outside the Existing Financial Architecture
• From Capital to Investment Flows: China Inc. as Global Investor
• Supporting Architecture Reform and Capital Flows: The Slow Internationalization of the Chinese Renminbi (RMB)
• Conclusion: China's Piecemeal Rise in Global Finance
• 15 Global China in Global Health Governance: Inherent Conflicts in Governance Norms
• Global Governance and Global Health Governance
• Global Health Governance Norms
• Global China and Global Health Governance
• China-WHO Relations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Vaccine Diplomacy
• 16 Global Climate Governance in Transition and China's Contribution
• Progress in Global Climate Governance
• An Emerging Bottom-Up Model
• Transition to a Green, Low-Carbon Future
• New Actors as Force Multipliers
• Major Challenges Ahead
• Diminishing Momentum
• The Developing World's Dilemma
• Growing Political Hurdles
• China in Action: Chinese Climate Policy
• Domestic Green Transition
• China's Climate Diplomacy
• Sharing Knowledge and Expertise
• 17 China in Global Cultural Governance: Crafting a Culture of Dialogue and Cooperation Through Unesco
• Engaging the World Through UNESCO: A Review of the China-UNESCO Relationship
• From 1971 to the 1990s: Learning By Doing
• From the Late 1990s to the Present Day: Engaging By Doing
• China's Approaches to Work With UNESCO.
• Alignment With UNESCO's Global Priorities of Africa and Gender Equality
• Promoting UNESCO's Agenda of Intercultural Dialogue
• A Case of Promoting Dialogue: Reviving the UNESCO Courier
• Way Forward for the Culture of Dialogue and Cooperation in a Complex World
• 18 China, Catalyst of Change: Altering the Dynamics of Development in the Global South
• China's Comparative Advantages
• China's Strategic Goals
• The Nitty-Gritty of China's Influence in the Global South
• 19 Decoding China's Reading of Global Development and Cooperation Norms
• Development
• Aid
• Modernization
• Multilateralism
• Cooperation
• Part IV Global China's Responses to Global Challenges
• Chapter 20 China and Sustainable Transition - Chairman Coal Vs. Green Cyber-​Dragon
• Can't Quit - Chairman Coal's Addiction
• Secretly Seeking a Way Out
• No Easy Escape - Trying to Assemble the Alternative
• Conclusion: The Uncertain Hatching of the Cyber-Dragon
• 21 Meating Global China at Home
• China's Growing Appetite for Meat
• Meat and Modernity
• Less Meat? Tradition, Trends and Challenges
• 22 Global China in the Age of Algorithms
• Introduction - Big Data as a Moment
• China in the Era of Algorithms
• Algorithmic Government
• Emulating a Global Trend
• Transnational Flows
• Global Issues
• Globalized-tech Creates Friction in a Context of Geopolitical Tensions
• Mutual Dependency as Vulnerability
• Cross-border Data Flows
• Ethical Dilemmas
• Decoupling and Its Limits
• Decoupling: Chinese and US Measures
• Standards as a Battlefield Compatible With Globalization?
• 23 China and Modernity
• Introduction.
• Modernity as Periodization.

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ISBN

• 1-04-013308-8
• 1-003-04471-9
• 1-04-013302-9

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