'How will the asymmetric rivalry between global US and regional China play out in a multinodal world shaped by local agency? In Recentering Pacific Asia, Womack historicizes the centrality of Pacific Asia in analytical depth and challenges us to rethink the future of world order by taking seriously the asymmetric parity power dynamics in 'China's region.' Insightful, provocative, and timely, it compels us to think differently about Pacific Asia as central to global order transition.' Yongjin Zhang, Professor of International Politics, University of Bristol
Introduction; 1. Continuities in China's Pacific Asian centrality; 2. Thin connectivity: traditional Chinese centrality; Commentary Wang Gungwu; 3. Sharp connectivity: Western modernization and de-centered Pacific Asia; Commentary Wu Yu-Shan; 4. Thick connectivity: the re-centering of Pacific Asia; Commentary Qin Yaqing; 5. China, Pacific Asia, and reconfiguring a multinodal world; Commentary: Evelyn Goh; 6. Global power rivalry, Pacific Asia, and world order.