Description
Book SynopsisThis book identifies differing approaches to the issues of conceptualising hegemony, hegemony-building processes and the relationship between a hegemonic state and a rising power. It focuses on transformations of the Chinese state, society and political-economy, China's rapidly ascending status in the world order and changing relations with the outside world, in particular with the US.
Bringing together mainstream and critical approaches from Anglo-America and China, which occupy different positions in the core-periphery structure of social sciences knowledge production and provide diverging standpoints to understanding the phenomenon of a rising China, the book questions the existing division of labour in IR and in general social sciences knowledge production. Through the lenses of multiple Anglo-American and Chinese scholars, it offers a nuanced and multifaceted view on the issue and focuses on a direct comparison of different localized perspectives. The author scrutinizes
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. Mainstream US Conceptions of a Rising China: Offering Lessons for the US Policy Makers; 2. Critical Anglo-American Conceptions of a Rising China: Alternative Visions for a Just World Order; 3. Mainstream Chinese Conceptions of a Rising China: Offering Lessons for the Party Elite; 4. Critical and Neo-Conservative Chinese Conceptions of a Rising China: Alternative Visions for the Future; Conclusion
