Rise of China

Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao is the Executive Director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS) at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan.Cheng-yi Lin is a research fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan.

"Provide[s] a useful survey of recent developments in China's relations with its neighbours." - Kenneth C. Walker, Asian Affairs, Nov 2010

• Part 1: Overview 1. The Rise of China: An Overall Assessment Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao and Cheng-yi Lin Part 2: Discourse on the Rise of China 2. China’s Grand Strategy of "Peaceful Rise": A Prelude to a New Cold War? Masako Ikegami 3. The Domestic Origin of China’s Rise and Its International Impact: The Party-State Developmental Syndicate Szu-chien Hsu Part 3: Domestic Consequences: Social Unrest and Economic Challenges 4. Growing Social Unrest and Emergent Protest Groups in China Chih-jou Jay Chen 5. China’s Economic Development and Its Challenges To-far Wang Part 4: External Strategies to Asia-Pacific and Implications 6. China’s Policies towards the Asia-Pacific Region: Changing Perceptions of Self and Changing Others’ Perceptions of China? Rosemary Foot 7. The Rise of China and Territorial Disputes Srikanth Kondapalli 8. China’s Policies toward the SCO and ARF: Implications for the Asia-Pacific Region Chien-peng Chung Part 5: Regional Reactions to China’s Rise 9. America's Perspective on China’s Rise Bruce Cumings 10. Japan's Views on the Rise of China and Its Implications: Bureaucratic Interests and Political Choices Yoshifumi Nakai 11. Beijing's Strategy and Implications for India Vikram Sood 12. The Rise of China and Implications for Southeast Asia: A Philippine Perspective Carolina G. Hernandez 13. Hong Kong Citizens’ Evaluations of the "One Country, Two Systems" Practice: Assessing the Role of Political Support for China Timothy Ka-ying Wong and Shirley Po-san Wan 14. A Rising China and Hu Jintao’s Taiwan Policies Wen-cheng Lin and Cheng-yi Lin. Glossary