Chih-yu Shih is Visiting Chair Professor of Tongji University and Professor Emeritus of National Taiwan University. He is the author of Post-Chineseness: Cultural Politics and International Relations, also published by SUNY Press.

"Shih's discussion of relationality and roles from the classical Confucian perspective is a significant and indispensable step toward a full-fledged theorization of 'relationality' in international relations. Utilizing a rather de-nationalized and de-Sinicized notion of Confucian philosophy, Shih's work opens a meaningful path for the full theorization of non-Western IR." — Jungmin Seo, Yonsei University"Significantly advancing the 'relational turn' in International Relations (IR), this remarkable book offers a highly original understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of Chinese international policy. Richly textured with relevant historical examples to illuminate both philosophical and theoretical insights, Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism is an important piece of work that requires maximum exposure."—Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Aberystwyth University

• IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Translating Confucianism as a Pluriversal EngagementPart One. Cosmology: Denationalizing Tianxia 1. De-Sinicizing Tianxia: The Invisible Hand of International Relations2. Rivalry in Tianxia: Hegemony as Role RelationsPart Two. Relation: Practicing Confucian IR 3. Role and Relation in Confucian IR: Relating to Strangers in the States of Nature4. Performing Anger: The Ethics of Foreign Policy Role Emotion5. Patience with Nonsolutions: Emotion and Trust in Role Creation6. Corrupting Friendship: Distance Sensibilities in International Gift Giving7. Doomed to Expand: Exception and Exceptionalism as the Mechanisms of RelatingPart Three. Identity: (De)securitizing Chineseness 8. Western Belonging Aborted: The Ideological Background of the US-China Rivalry9. Neither Balance nor Deterrence: Relational Security across the Taiwan Strait10. Building Post-Western Regionalism: Moral Superiority or Post-Tianxia?11. Experimenting with Twin Sovereignty: Implications for the Security CommunityConclusion: Unlearning Chinese Relational IRNotesIndex

Chih-yu Shih is Visiting Chair Professor of Tongji University and Professor Emeritus of National Taiwan University. He is the author of Post-Chineseness: Cultural Politics and International Relations, also published by SUNY Press.

"Shih's discussion of relationality and roles from the classical Confucian perspective is a significant and indispensable step toward a full-fledged theorization of 'relationality' in international relations. Utilizing a rather de-nationalized and de-Sinicized notion of Confucian philosophy, Shih's work opens a meaningful path for the full theorization of non-Western IR." — Jungmin Seo, Yonsei University"Significantly advancing the 'relational turn' in International Relations (IR), this remarkable book offers a highly original understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of Chinese international policy. Richly textured with relevant historical examples to illuminate both philosophical and theoretical insights, Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism is an important piece of work that requires maximum exposure."—Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Aberystwyth University

• IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Translating Confucianism as a Pluriversal EngagementPart One. Cosmology: Denationalizing Tianxia 1. De-Sinicizing Tianxia: The Invisible Hand of International Relations2. Rivalry in Tianxia: Hegemony as Role RelationsPart Two. Relation: Practicing Confucian IR 3. Role and Relation in Confucian IR: Relating to Strangers in the States of Nature4. Performing Anger: The Ethics of Foreign Policy Role Emotion5. Patience with Nonsolutions: Emotion and Trust in Role Creation6. Corrupting Friendship: Distance Sensibilities in International Gift Giving7. Doomed to Expand: Exception and Exceptionalism as the Mechanisms of RelatingPart Three. Identity: (De)securitizing Chineseness 8. Western Belonging Aborted: The Ideological Background of the US-China Rivalry9. Neither Balance nor Deterrence: Relational Security across the Taiwan Strait10. Building Post-Western Regionalism: Moral Superiority or Post-Tianxia?11. Experimenting with Twin Sovereignty: Implications for the Security CommunityConclusion: Unlearning Chinese Relational IRNotesIndex