Routledge Handbook on Global China

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.

"In midst of populist bestsellers, nuanced analysis of China's rapidly transforming relations with the rest of world have received but limited attention. This explains the USP of this handbook that outlines a novel framework to study China devoid of conventional conceptual stereotypes and biases.The book aptly sheds light on China in a world growing ever more complex; shaping and being shaped by multiple novel actors and agencies, becoming less and less understandable through the prism of Western-centric perspectives.Students, academics, experts and practitioners studying the influence of actors especially from the Global South will appreciate the depth and sophistication of the analytical tools and theoretical lenses of research that Global China showcases in various chapters of this path-breaking study."Swaran Singh, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi."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 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

• List of figuresList of tablesList of contributorsIntroduction: Global China: New Approaches to Research on China and the WorldMaximilian Mayer, Emilian Kavalski, Marina Rudyak and Xin ZhangI. Framing Global China1. Global China, Sinology, and Chinese StudiesBart Dessein2. China’s Questions in GeographyIngo Liefner3. China’s Traditional, Modern, and Neo–Socialist World OrdersWilliam A. Callahan4. Americans’s Reactions to Global China’s Rise: Power Shift, Problem Shift, and Policy ShiftSteve Chan5. China as a Driver of a Post–Western Global ImaginaryYih-Jye Hwang6. The China Challenge? A Holographic Global China PerspectiveChengxin Pan and Wanyi ZhaoII. Actors and Agencies of Global China7. Great Power Relationships or Common Destiny? Chinese Government and Private Actors’s Long and Winding Road to Find a Place in Global CyberspaceRogier Creemers8. International Actorness of the Chinese Local GovernmentsDominik Mierzejewski and Anna Rudakowska9. The Party–State’s Global Transgressive Political Activities and Influence WorkRalph Weber10. Chinese Rationality and the Design of Diplomatic InitiativesChiung-Chiu Huang11. Exporting Chinese Digital AuthoritarianismMartin K. Dimitrov12. From the Oriental to the Global City: China’s Urban RiseRyanne Flock and Elena Meyer-Clement13. The State of the American and Chinese Technological CompetitionCzaba MoldiczIII. Global China and International Organizations14. Alternative Leadership: China and Global FinanceJörn-Carsten Gottwald and Niall Duggan15. Global China in Health Governance: Inherent Conflicts in Governance NormsLai-Ha Chan16. Global Climate Governance in Transition and China’s ContributionHongyuan Yu, Bo Yu and Yunhan Yu17. China in Global Cultural Governance: Crafting a Culture of Dialogue and Cooperation through UNESCOTiewa Liu and Huawei Zong18. China, Catalyst of Change: Altering the Dynamics of Development in the Global SouthJeremy Garlick19. Decoding China's Reading of Global Development and Cooperation NormsMarina RudyakIV. Global China’s Responses to Global Challenges20. China and Sustainable Transition—Chairman Coal vs. Green Cyber–DragonDavid Tyfield21. Meating Global China at HomeTracey Fallon22. Global China in the Age of AlgorithmsSéverine Arsène23. China and ModernityJosef Gregory Mahoney24. From “Debt Diplomacy” to Donorship: China’s Changing Role in Global DevelopmentPádraig Carmody, Tim Zajontz, and Ricardo ReboredoV. Entangled Encounters: Internalizing Global China at Home and Localizing Global China Abroad25. Innovation in China: Indigenous Efforts and Global IntegrationCong Cao and Yutao Sun26. China’s Subnational Foreign PolicymakingNicholas Thomas27. Chinese Indonesian Intellectuals’s Quest for Post–Chineseness: Introduction of an Intellectual History AgendaHarryanto Aryodiguno and Chih-yu Shih28. Nationalism with Chinese Characteristics: Xinjiang and the Politics of (In)SecurityDavid O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown29. Regionalizing Global China: Institutions, Competitions and ReactionsTony Tai-Ting Liu30. Limits of Chinese Infrastructure Power and the Local Political Economy in Developing Countries: Evidence from PakistanMuhammad Tayyab Safdar31. Globalising China and Peripheral UrbanisationXiangming ChenEpilogue: Epistemic Traps and Analytical RegistersMaximilian Mayer, Emilian Kavalski, Marina Rudyak, and Xin ZhangIndex