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"The question of how China will relate to a globalising world is one of the key issues in contemporary international relations and scholarship on China yet the angle of innovation has not been properly addressed within the field This book explores innovation in China from an International Relations perspective in terms of four areas foreign and security policy international relations theory soft power image management and resistance. Under the complex condition of globalisation innovation becomes a particularly useful analytical concept because it is well suited to capturing the hybridity of actors and processes under globalisation. By adopting this theme studies not only reveal a China struggling to make the future through innovation but also call attention to how China itself is made in the process. The book is divided into four sections. Part 1 focuses on conceptual innovation in Chinas foreign and security policies since 1949 Part 2 explores theoretical innovation in terms of a potential Chinese school of International Relations Theory. Part 3 expands on innovation in terms of image management a form of soft power in particular how China exports its image both to a domestic and foreign audience. Part 4 highlights how innovation is used in China by grassroot popular groups to resist official narratives.This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese studies Chinese foreign policy and international relations, international relations theory and East Asian security"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: pt. I Innovation in foreign and security policy
• 1. Innovation through debate and differentiation: Chinese nuclear doctrine since the reform era / Nicola Horsburgh
• 2. China and globalization: international socialization and Chinese development cooperation / Ward Warmerdam
• pt. II Theoretical innovation: Chinese school of international relations theory
• 3. Narrating a discipline: the search for innovation in Chinese international relations / Linsay Cunningham-Cross
• 4. Ỳou need to do something that the Westerners cannot understand': the innovation of a Chinese school of IR / Peter Marcus Kristensen
• pt. III Innovation in image management
• 5. Confucius Institutes as innovative tools of China's cultural diplomacy / Falk Hartig
• 6. Image in transformation: Guangzhou reinventing itself for the Asian Games 2010 / Annukka Kinnari
• pt. IV Innovation in resistance
• 7. Un-innovative censorship, innovative resistance: the Internet, forbidden words and the humorous homonyms of egao / Astrid Nordin.

Contributors:

Horsburgh, Nicola, 1981-

Nordin, Astrid

Breslin, Shaun

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Warwick studies in globalisation; [volume] 28

Subjects:

China — Foreign relations — 1949-

National security — China

World politics — 21st century

International relations

Globalization

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

DS777.8 .C4635 2013

ISBNs:

1317961587 (electronic bk.)
9781317961581 (electronic bk.)
9780415838436 (hardback) [Invalid]
0415838436 (hardback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

871637877

Other Control Numbers:

685320 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11563965