Asian Thought On China's Changing International Relations (palgrave Studies In International Relations)

which inform modern China's world view. As one of the greatest and best-known intellectuals amongst overseas Chinese over the last few decades, Wang emphasized that it was not easy to determine the exact relationship between how the Chinese see themselves and how others see their action. This is important in exploring Chinese foreign-policy rhetoric vs. praxis at present. Chapter 4 by Ralph Weber extends the scope of discussion in showing that intellectuals from outside the realm of Chinese IRT can help us better understand the Chinese Weltanschauung and its corollaries in IRT. Focusing on Wang Hui's thought, Weber concludes that there is no evidence to suggest Wang, who is one of the best-known Chinese intellectuals in the West, has influenced Western IR theoreticians. Nevertheless, by likening Wang Hui to a 'Nietzsche waiting for his Morgenthau', Weber seems to allude to the possibility that Wang's ideas may prove more influential in the future. Opening Part II, Chapter 5 by Colin Mackerras explains Australian popular and intellectual attitudes and responses towards China's rise. Mackerras concludes that since 2005 there has been a trend towards greater suspicion of China in Australia, sometimes approaching fear. However, Mackerras seems to allude to the fact that this trend is somewhat less pronounced in Australian academe than in the popular domain. Similarly, Yitzhak Shichor finds in Chapter 6 that the notion of new Chinese IRT is all but meaningless in the Middle East. Moreover, China Studies are underdeveloped in most Middle Eastern countries, with the exception of Israel. China may be respected in the Middle East, but is still suspected. If anything, such suspicion is all the more evident in recent years. America, in that sense, has been a soft target for criticism and hate across the region, but is still perceived as the ultimate arbiter of the prevailing world order. In Chapter 7, Michael Clarke suggests Kazakhstan's foreign policy, while on the surface pragmatic and in alignment with Beijing's goal of establishing a 'harmonious' international order, in fact provides the capital city of Astana with the strategic option of hedging against China, mainly by invoking rhetoric similar to Russia's. Kazakhstan's selfconscious construction of Kazakhstan as a 'Eurasian' state that 'bridges' both East and West is suggestive of the ways it is cautiously situating its allegiances, and the intellectual distances it maintains from Beijing and Beijing's historically-framed narratives. Chapter 8 by Hyun Jin Kim shows that most South Korean intellectuals and policy-planners are ill-at-ease in formulating responses to Notes 1 . Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction: Are Asia’s Thinkers Accommodating China’s Rise?....Pages 1-14 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 Chinese Exceptionalism and the Politics of History....Pages 17-33 A Realist Never Changes His Spots: A Critical Analysis of Yan Xuetong’s Turn to Culture in Chinese International Relations....Pages 34-53 Wang Gungwu and the Study of China’s International Relations....Pages 54-75 On Wang Hui’s Contribution to an ‘Asian School of Chinese International Relations’....Pages 76-94 Front Matter....Pages 95-95 Australian Intellectual and Popular Responses to China’s Rise....Pages 97-122 Respected and Suspected: Middle Eastern Perceptions of China’s Rise....Pages 123-140 Kazakh Responses to the Rise of China: Between Elite Bandwagoning and Societal Ambivalence?....Pages 141-172 Korean Responses to Historic Narratives of Sino—Korean Relations and China’s New International Relations Thinking....Pages 173-191 Japanese Intellectual Responses to China’s Rise....Pages 192-204 How Can They Theorize? Strategic Insensitivity toward Nascent Chinese International Relations Thinking in Taiwan....Pages 205-229 Conclusion: Recognizing Chinese International Relations Theory....Pages 230-247 Back Matter....Pages 249-254 At the end of the Cold War, commentators were pondering how far Western ideas would spread in an international environment defined by 'the end of history'. Today, the debate seems to be how far Chinese ideas will reach. This innovative edited volume goes beyond the conventional focus on China's bilateral relations, in a bid to identify the extent to which China's nascent rise has provoked fresh geo-strategic and intellectual shifts within Asia. Offering a unique discussion of the evolution of Chinese schools of International Relations and the reactions of China's Asian partners to the practices of its international interactions, the contributors to this volume seek to explain and understand the relational nature of China's international outreach in the full spectrum of its unabridged complexity, contingency, and contradictions At the end of the Cold War, commentators were pondering how far Western ideas would spread; today, the debate seems to be how far Chinese ideas will reach. This volume examines Chinese international relations thought and practices, identifying the extent to which China's rise has provoked fresh geo-strategic and intellectual shifts within Asia.