Sinicizing International Relations

Chih-yu Shih is a University Chair Professor in the Department of Political Science at National Taiwan University.

• Introduction: Transcending National Identities PART I: A WORLD SINICIZED INTO HARMONY: CENTRALIZED PERSPECTIVES Harmonious Realism: Undecidable Responses to the China Threat Harmonious Racism: China's Civilizational Soft Power in Africa PART II: CHINA INTERNATIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL: PERSPECTIVES BEYOND Taiwan Chinese: Encountering and Choice in Postcolonial Scholarship Global Chinese: Contending Approaches to Defending Chineseness PART III: CHINA SUBALTERN AND DIFFERENT: PERSPECTIVES BELOW Urban Chinese: Self-Sinicization as a Method of Political Stability Village Chinese: Anomaly as a Method of Chinese Transition PART IV: WORLDING EAST ASIA THROUGH CHINA: MULTISITED PERSPECTIVES Japanese Asian: Absence of China 1997 in Japan Times Reporting Korean Asian: The Sinic Tribute System of China and Its Equals Global Asian: China as Position between Host and Home Conclusion: Serious Hypocrisy

"This book introduces a new angle to understand how ancient Chinese thought influences modern theoretical studies of international relations both in China and abroad. The approach of developing international relations theory with ancient Chinese thinking has enriched modern theories of international relations. This approach provides a more reliable analysis of the international politics after the Cold War and a framework for predicting the coming world."-Yan Xuetong, Dean of the Institute of Modern International Relations at Tsinghua University and Chief Editor of The Chinese Journal of International PoliticsFacing questions of how to understand and to relate to the many faces of a rapidly developing China has become a highly challenging issue on the global stage. Professor Chih-yu Shih's new book gives us a careful and insightful study of the many lenses through which to regard a modern and ever-evolving China.-Tingyang ZHAO, Tingyang Great Wall Chair and Professor of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences