Niv Horesh is Associate Professor in China Studies at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. His research incorporates four main strands in the following order: Chinese History, World Monetary History, PRC Political Economy, and PRC Foreign Policy with emphasis on the Middle East. His most important study in the first and second strands is Chinese Money in Global Context: Historic Junctures Between 600 BCE and 2012 (2014). The most important study in the third strand is East Asian Challenge to Western Neoliberalism: Critical Perspectives on the ‘China Model’ (Routledge, 2017), co-authored with geographer Kean Fan Lim. The fourth strand is best represented by How China's Rise is Changing the Middle East (Routledge, 2019), co-authored with Anoushiravan Ehteshami.

• 1. Introduction 2. PRC foreign policy: Mao vs. Xi 3. ‘One country, two histories’: how PRC and Western narratives of China’s pre-imperial and imperial past diverge 4. How PRC and Western narratives of Chinese modernity diverge 5. Chinese ‘strategic culture’ reconsidered 6. Peacetime or peaceful ? Identifying change and continuity in Chinese grand strategy from a global historical perspective 7. Examining new FDI patterns from a Japanese historical perspective 8. Conclusions

Niv Horesh is Associate Professor in China Studies at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. His research incorporates four main strands in the following order: Chinese History, World Monetary History, PRC Political Economy, and PRC Foreign Policy with emphasis on the Middle East. His most important study in the first and second strands is Chinese Money in Global Context: Historic Junctures Between 600 BCE and 2012 (2014). The most important study in the third strand is East Asian Challenge to Western Neoliberalism: Critical Perspectives on the ‘China Model’ (Routledge, 2017), co-authored with geographer Kean Fan Lim. The fourth strand is best represented by How China's Rise is Changing the Middle East (Routledge, 2019), co-authored with Anoushiravan Ehteshami.

• 1. Introduction 2. PRC foreign policy: Mao vs. Xi 3. ‘One country, two histories’: how PRC and Western narratives of China’s pre-imperial and imperial past diverge 4. How PRC and Western narratives of Chinese modernity diverge 5. Chinese ‘strategic culture’ reconsidered 6. Peacetime or peaceful ? Identifying change and continuity in Chinese grand strategy from a global historical perspective 7. Examining new FDI patterns from a Japanese historical perspective 8. Conclusions

Niv Horesh is Associate Professor in China Studies at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. His research incorporates four main strands in the following order: Chinese History, World Monetary History, PRC Political Economy, and PRC Foreign Policy with emphasis on the Middle East. His most important study in the first and second strands is Chinese Money in Global Context: Historic Junctures Between 600 BCE and 2012 (2014). The most important study in the third strand is East Asian Challenge to Western Neoliberalism: Critical Perspectives on the ‘China Model’ (Routledge, 2017), co-authored with geographer Kean Fan Lim. The fourth strand is best represented by How China's Rise is Changing the Middle East (Routledge, 2019), co-authored with Anoushiravan Ehteshami.

• 1. Introduction 2. PRC foreign policy: Mao vs. Xi 3. ‘One country, two histories’: how PRC and Western narratives of China’s pre-imperial and imperial past diverge 4. How PRC and Western narratives of Chinese modernity diverge 5. Chinese ‘strategic culture’ reconsidered 6. Peacetime or peaceful ? Identifying change and continuity in Chinese grand strategy from a global historical perspective 7. Examining new FDI patterns from a Japanese historical perspective 8. Conclusions