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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an ambitious book that speaks to important theoretical debates and has an empirical contribution that moves beyond the existing literature on pre-modern East Asian international relations. It will be debated and discussed at length in the field." -- David C. Kang, Professor of International Relations and Business * University of Southern California *
"Ambitious and innovative, this book proposes a 'relational approach' to the study of the early Ming's foreign relations and introduces into the debate the Confucian ethics of mutual affection and obligation in inter-polity relations. This is a much-needed move in a business dominated by Eurocentric ideas, perspectives and theories...It might well galvanize historians of East Asia and lead to renewed dialogue with IR scholars in the years to come."––Yangwen Zheng,
Journal of Chinese Overseas"
Chinese Hegemony is a fascinating, well-written, carefully constructed and researched book. I am impressed by its intellectual sweep and the diverse audiences to which it should appeal." -- Richard Ned Lebow, Professor of International Political Theory, Department of War Studies * King's College London *
