Dragan Pavlićević is Associate Professor in the Department of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, and researches China-Europe relations, China‘s infrastructure projects abroad, China‘s multilateral initiatives, and issues related to local-level and participatory governance in China. He is the author of Public Participation and State Building (Routledge, 2020) and numerous academic studies and policy analysis on China’s foreign relations. Nicole Talmacs is Associate Professor in the Department of International Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, and researches Chinese soft power and cultural exchange in areas of strategic interest to China. She is the author of China’s Cinema of Class (Routledge, 2017).

• Chapter 1: Answering the “China Question”: Local responses to Global China.- Chapter 2: China’s rise, the Belt & Road Initiative, and the future of the global order.- Chapter 3:  Understanding and Responding to Global China in the West.- Chapter 4: Contesting China in Europe: Contextual Shift in China-EU relations and the role of “China Threat”.- Chapter 5: BRI Engagement and State Transformation in the Middle East: A Case Study on Turkey.- Chapter 6: Societal Contestations and Adaptations to the Belt and Road Initiative in Kazakhstan.- Chapter 7: The political performance of contestation and adaptation in Australian-Chinese relations.- Chapter 8: Contesting China’s Politics of Routes: The India Way.- Chapter 9: BRI Engagement and State Transformation in the Middle East: A Case Study on Turkey.- Chapter 10: Brazil-China relations: contestation, adaptation, or transformation?.- Chapter 11: Epistemic considerations on the studying ofChinese financing infrastructural projects in Africa.- Chapter 12: ASEAN States’ Hedging against the China Question: Contested, Adaptive, Transformative.- Chapter 13: Agents of the Belt and Road initiative or agents of agency? Fijian state and civil society perceptions of Chinese companies.