Sinicizing international relations : self, civilization, and intellectual politics in ... subaltern east asia

The book brings civilizational politics back to the studies of international relations and foreign policy through a study of the multiple meanings of international relations and related terms in East Asia and the intrinsic relation of international relations to individual choices of scholarly identity. Sinicizing International Relations brings civilizational politics back to the studies of international relations and questions the notion of a rising Chinese nation by deconstructing the possibility of looking at China in its entirety. The works of scholars writing on China are influenced by their own historical and philosophical backgrounds and the daily political and economic conditions in which they live and work. Their writings on China rising intrinsically reflect their encounters and choice. Studying the rise of China involves interactions between the identity of the observers who are doing the studying and the identities of China. Each set of interacting identities comprises choices on at least three levels: civilizational, national, and (sub)ethnic. As a result, intellectual choices of identity become intrinsic to international relations scholarship, and international relations acquire complicated cultural meanings in East Asian communities, which contemporary international relations theories fail to comprehend (site de l'éditeur) Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction: Transcending National Identities....Pages 1-11 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 Harmonious Realism: Undecidable Responses to the China Threat....Pages 15-32 Harmonious Racism: China’s Civilizational Soft Power in Africa....Pages 33-39 Front Matter....Pages 41-41 Taiwan Chinese: Encountering and Choice in Postcolonial Scholarship....Pages 43-59 Global Chinese: Contending Approaches to Defending Chineseness....Pages 61-77 Front Matter....Pages 79-79 Urban Chinese: Self-Sinicization as a Method of Political Stability....Pages 81-95 Village Chinese: Anomaly as a Method of Chinese Transition....Pages 97-114 Front Matter....Pages 115-115 Japanese Asian: The Absence of China 1997 in Japan Times Reporting....Pages 117-132 Korean Asian: The Sinic Tribute System of China and Its Equals....Pages 133-151 Global Asian: China as Position between Host and Home....Pages 153-173 Conclusion: Serious Hypocrisy....Pages 175-179 Back Matter....Pages 181-245