Rosemary Foot is Professor of International Relations and John Swire Senior Research Fellow in the International Relations of East Asia at St Antony's College, University of August. She is author of several books; the latest (co-authored with Dr Andrew Walter) is entitled "China, the United States, and Global Order."

• Table of Contents ; List of Figures ; Acknowledgements ; About the Contributors ; Acronyms ; Introduction ; Rosemary Foot ; Part One ; Ideational Debates ; 1. China's Harmonious World and Post-Western World Orders: Official and Citizen Intellectual Perspectives ; William A. Callahan ; 2. Chinese Exceptionalism in the Intellectual World of China's Foreign Policy ; Feng Zhang ; 3. The Domestic Sources of China's <"Assertive Diplomacy,>" 2009-2010: Nationalism and Chinese Foreign Policy ; Robert S. Ross ; Part Two ; Transnationalism ; 4. Immigrant China ; Frank N. Pieke ; 5. Transnational Consumers: The Unintended Consequences of Extreme Markets in Contemporary China ; Karl Gerth ; Part Three ; Globalization and Domestic Resistance ; 6. Addressing global imbalances: domestic and global dynamics ; Andrew Walter ; 7. Norms Without Borders? Human Rights in China ; Gudrun Wacker ; 8. China's Environmental Diplomacy: Climate Change, Domestic Politics and International Engagement ; Joanna I. Lewis ; Index

This magnificent volume covers many important aspects of Chinas external relations. It may also inspire a wide range of scholars to reconsider the necessity of some artificial divides within political studies ... offers invaluable information on and insights into the actors and factors that shape Chinas emergence on the global stage,