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PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-100415838436

ISBN-139780415838436

eBay Product ID (ePID)164708121

Product Key Features

Number of Pages210 Pages

Publication NameChinese Politics and International Relations : Innovation and Invention

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2014

SubjectGlobalization, World / General, International Relations / General, General, Security (National & International)

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPolitical Science

AuthorAstrid Nordin

SeriesRoutledge Studies in Globalisation Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight14.4 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2013-020816

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal327.51

Table Of ContentIntroduction Part I: Innovation in foreign and security policy 1. Innovation Through Debate and Differentiation: Chinese nuclear doctrine since the reform era Nicola Horsburgh 2. China and Globalization: Innovating Chinese Development Cooperation Ward Warmerdam Part II: Theoretical innovation: Chinese school of International Relations Theory 3. Narrating a Discipline: The search for innovation in Chinese International relations Linsay Cunningham-Cross 4. "You need to do something that the Westerners cannot understand" - The Innovation of a Chinese School of IR Peter Marcus Kristensen and Ras Tind Nielsen Part III: Innovation in image management 5. Confucius Institutes as innovative Tool of China's Cultural Diplomacy Falk Hartig 6. Image in transformation: Guangzhou reinventing itself for the Asian Games 2010 Annukka Kinnari Part IV: Innovation in resistance 7. Un-innovative Censorship, Innovative Resistance: The Internet, forbidden words and the humorous homonyms of Egao Astrid Nordin

SynopsisThe question of how China will relate to a globalising world is one of the key issues in contemporary international relations and scholarship on China, yet the angle of innovation has not been properly addressed within the field. This book explores innovation in China from an International Relations perspective in terms of four areas: foreign and security policy, international relations theory, soft power/image management, and resistance. Under the complex condition of globalisation, innovation becomes a particularly useful analytical concept because it is well suited to capturing the hybridity of actors and processes under globalisation. By adopting this theme, studies not only reveal a China struggling to make the future through innovation, but also call attention to how China itself is made in the process. The book is divided into four sections: Part 1 focuses on conceptual innovation in China's foreign and security policies since 1949. Part 2 explores theoretical innovation in terms of a potential Chinese school of International Relations Theory. Part 3 expands on innovation in terms of image management, a form of soft power, in particular how China exports its image both to a domestic and foreign audience. Part 4 highlights how innovation is used in China by grassroot popular groups to resist official narratives. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese studies, Chinese foreign policy and international relations, international relations theory and East Asian security.

LC Classification NumberDS777.8.C4635 2013