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Book SynopsisSince the end of the Cold War, the new Chinese leadership generation has had to promulgate new guiding principles for handling global diplomacy which acknowledges China''s new position. Given the dramatic changes in the international system and its domestic economic success for the growing China''s rise idea on the global stage, China in the 21st century faces a mixture of old and new challenges, including terrorism, hegemonism, and authoritarianism. While Deng Xiaooping combined Taoism, an ancient Chinese philosophy, into Taoist diplomacy in response to the hostile international position after the Tiananmen Incident, China''s foreign policy keeps changing, and the multidimensional diplomacy adopted by China can be seen as a consistent theme in Chinese foreign policy in the 21st century. Multidimensional Diplomacy of Contemporary China attempts to examine the origins, guiding principles and sequential outcomes of China''s multidimensional diplomacy in the 21st century, working under
