This innovative Routledge 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. The chapters propose three key commitments for the study of Global China: Advocating for diverse viewpoints and non- binary frameworks, employing nuanced analysis to understand Beijing’s transnational relations and utilizing alternative methodological approaches to explore different trajectories for China in international affairs.
The Handbook also identifies and avoids epistemic traps that hinder the understanding of Global China, such as othering and strategic narcissism. It suggests five analytical frameworks related to relationality, global capitalist processes, language and discourse power, planetary- scale modernization and experimentalism to guide future research. By adopting these frameworks, researchers can gain a deeper understanding of the multifaceted factors shaping Global China within the broader global context of cooperation, competition and crisis.
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.
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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. Chinas Questions in Geography
Ingo Liefner
3. Chinas Traditional, Modern, and NeoSocialist World Orders
William A. Callahan
4. Americanss Reactions to Global Chinas Rise: Power Shift, Problem Shift,
and Policy Shift
Steve Chan
5. China as a Driver of a PostWestern 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 Actorss 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 PartyStates 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: Chinas 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 Chinas 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 Chinas Responses to Global Challenges
20. China and Sustainable TransitionChairman Coal vs. Green CyberDragon
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: Chinas 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. Chinas Subnational Foreign Policymaking
Nicholas Thomas
27. Chinese Indonesian Intellectualss Quest for PostChineseness:
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 OBrien 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
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Maximilian Mayer, Assistant 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, School of Politics and International Relations, East China Normal University, China.
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