Routledge Handbook on Global China

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Introduction: Global China: New Approaches to Research on China and the World
Maximilian Mayer, Emilian Kavalski, Marina Rudyak and Xin Zhang

I. Framing Global China

1. Global China, Sinology, and Chinese Studies
Bart Dessein
2. China’s Questions in Geography
Ingo Liefner
3. China’s Traditional, Modern, and Neo–Socialist World Orders
William A. Callahan
4. Americans’s Reactions to Global China’s Rise: Power Shift, Problem Shift, and Policy Shift
Steve Chan
5. China as a Driver of a Post–Western Global Imaginary
Yih-Jye Hwang
6. The China Challenge? A Holographic Global China Perspective
Chengxin Pan and Wanyi Zhao

II. Actors and Agencies of Global China

7. Great Power Relationships or Common Destiny? Chinese Government and Private Actors’s Long and Winding Road to Find a Place in Global Cyberspace
Rogier Creemers
8. International Actorness of the Chinese Local Governments
Dominik Mierzejewski and Anna Rudakowska
9. The Party–State’s Global Transgressive Political Activities and Influence Work
Ralph Weber
10. Chinese Rationality and the Design of Diplomatic Initiatives
Chiung-Chiu Huang
11. Exporting Chinese Digital Authoritarianism
Martin K. Dimitrov
12. From the Oriental to the Global City: China’s Urban Rise
Ryanne Flock and Elena Meyer-Clement
13. The State of the American and Chinese Technological Competition
Czaba Moldicz

III. Global China and International Organizations

14. Alternative Leadership: China and Global Finance
Jörn-Carsten Gottwald and Niall Duggan
15. Global China in Health Governance: Inherent Conflicts in Governance Norms
Lai-Ha Chan
16. Global Climate Governance in Transition and China’s Contribution
Hongyuan Yu, Bo Yu and Yunhan Yu
17. China in Global Cultural Governance: Crafting a Culture of Dialogue and Cooperation through UNESCO
Tiewa Liu and Huawei Zong
18. China, Catalyst of Change: Altering the Dynamics of Development in the Global South
Jeremy Garlick
19. Decoding China's Reading of Global Development and Cooperation Norms
Marina Rudyak

IV. Global China’s Responses to Global Challenges

20. China and Sustainable Transition—Chairman Coal vs. Green Cyber–Dragon
David Tyfield
21. Meating Global China at Home
Tracey Fallon
22. Global China in the Age of Algorithms
Séverine Arsène
23. China and Modernity
Josef Gregory Mahoney
24. From “Debt Diplomacy” to Donorship: China’s Changing Role in Global Development
Pádraig Carmody, Tim Zajontz, and Ricardo Reboredo

V. Entangled Encounters: Internalizing Global China at Home and Localizing Global China Abroad

25. Innovation in China: Indigenous Efforts and Global Integration
Cong Cao and Yutao Sun
26. China’s Subnational Foreign Policymaking
Nicholas Thomas
27. Chinese Indonesian Intellectuals’s Quest for Post–Chineseness: Introduction of an Intellectual History Agenda
Harryanto Aryodiguno and Chih-yu Shih
28. Nationalism with Chinese Characteristics: Xinjiang and the Politics of (In)Security
David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown
29. Regionalizing Global China: Institutions, Competitions and Reactions
Tony Tai-Ting Liu
30. Limits of Chinese Infrastructure Power and the Local Political Economy in Developing Countries: Evidence from Pakistan
Muhammad Tayyab Safdar
31. Globalising China and Peripheral Urbanisation
Xiangming Chen

Epilogue: Epistemic Traps and Analytical Registers
Maximilian Mayer, Emilian Kavalski, Marina Rudyak, and Xin Zhang

Index

Biography

Maximilian Mayer, Professor of International Relations and the Global Politics of Technology at the University of Bonn, Germany.

Emilian Kavalski, NAWA Chair Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.

Marina Rudyak, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Chinese Studies at Heidelberg University, Germany.

Xin Zhang, Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at the East China Normal University in Shanghai, China.

"The Routledge Handbook on Global China charts a refreshingly new course in China studies that is both audacious and solidly grounded in academic research. Departing from the ontological and epistemological traps where China is often treated as a monolithic other and the study of China increasingly framed in great-power competition, this pathbreaking volume seeks to unpack the complexity of China as it engages the outside world at both globally and regionally, affecting the latter’s diplomatic, economic, and security dynamics as much as being affected by external opportunities and constraints. It calls for a non-binary, nuanced, and comprehensive understanding of China that is at once global in its reach and impact, and local in its perspectives steeped in history, culture and a sense of exceptionalism. The complexity of Global China defies simplicity in its characterization and interpretation. Indeed, the China scholarship can be advanced only if current debates and analyses go beyond conventional frameworks of great-power rivalry, peak China, or China to be socialized, to engage in ontological and epistemological conversations that explore, test, compete, and generate knowledge of Global China and its impacts at the systemic and local levels. The handbook will be timely addition to the existing literature and an important guide for both scholars and analysts at a time of transformational changes in international relations."

Jingdong Yuan, Senior Researcher and Director of the SIPRI China and Asia Security Programme, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

"I have rarely felt inspired to read, let alone use, an academic Handbook on anything – this volume on Global China is the one exception. The approach, to explicitly build non-binary frameworks in order to envision different future trajectories for China in international affairs, is inspired. Whether readers are seeking something thoughtful, something useful, something visionary, or something applicable, they will find inspiration in these pages. Ten out of ten, will read again."

Astrid H. M. Nordin, Chair of Chinese International Relations, Lau China Institute, King’s College London