Routledge Handbook on Global China (Maximilian Mayer, Emilian Kavalski, Marina Rudyak, Xin Zhang (eds) Now Available.

 

 

Happy to pass along the announcement that the  Routledge Handbook on Global China (Maximilian Mayer, Emilian Kavalski, Marina Rudyak, Xin Zhang (eds) is now available. This from the online press release:

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.

The essays are worth reading.  The table of contents follows below.

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. China – Questions in Geography
Ingo Liefner
3. China’s Traditional, Modern and Neo–Socialist World Orders
William A. Callahan
4. Americans’s Reaction to China’s Rise: Power Shift, Problem Shift and Policy Shift
Steve Chan
5. China as a Driver of a Post–Western 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 Actors’ 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 Party-State’s Global Transgressive Political Activities and Influence Work
Ralph Weber
10. Chinese Relationality 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: China’s Urban Rise
Ryanne Flock and Elena Meyer-Clement
13. The State of the American and Chinese Technological Competition
Csaba Moldicz

III. Global China and International Organizations

14. Alternative Leadership: China and Global Finance
Jörn-Carsten Gottwald and Niall Duggan
15. Global China in Global Health Governance: Inherent Conflicts in Governance Norms
Lai-Ha Chan
16. Global Climate Governance in Transition and China’s 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 China’s Responses to Global Challenges

20. China and Sustainable Transition—Chairman Coal vs. Green Cyber-Dragon
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: China’s 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. China’s Subnational Foreign Policymaking
Nicholas Thomas
27. Chinese Indonesian Intellectuals’ Quest for Post–Chineseness: 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 O’Brien 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

Index