The 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...
The question of how China will relate to a globalising world is one of the key issues in contemporary international relations and scholarship on Ch...
As scholars and publics look for alternatives to what is understood as a violent Western world order, many claim that China can provide such an alternative through the Chinese dream of a harmonious world. This book takes this claim seriously and examines its effects by tracing the notion across several contexts: the policy documents and speeches that launched harmony as an official term under previous president Hu Jintao; the academic literatures that asked what a harmonious world might look like; the propaganda and mega events that aimed to illustrate it; the online spoofing culture that...
As scholars and publics look for alternatives to what is understood as a violent Western world order, many claim that China can provide such an alt...
The 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...
The question of how China will relate to a globalising world is one of the key issues in contemporary international relations and scholarship on Ch...