Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism: Rediscovering Confucianism in a Pluriversal World

Author:   Chih-yu Shih
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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Pages:   323
Publication Date:   01 August 2024
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Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism: Rediscovering Confucianism in a Pluriversal World


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Pluriversalism within International Relations and the literature on Chinese international relations each embrace ideas of relation and difference. While they similarly strive for recognition by Western academics, they do not seriously engage with each other. To the extent that either succeeds in winning recognition, it ironically reproduces Western centrism and the binary of the Western versus the non-Western. In Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism, author Chih-yu Shih demonstrates, through a critical translation exercise, that Confucian themes enable both the critique and realignment of liberal thought, allowing all of us, including the members of Confucianism and the neo-liberal order, to understand how we adapt to and coexist with each another. In the end, Confucianism not only informs the pluriversal necessity that all are bound to be related but also de-nationalizes China's internationalism.

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Author:   Chih-yu Shih
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438498874


ISBN 10:   143849887
Pages:   323
Publication Date:   01 August 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Translating Confucianism as a Pluriversal Engagement Part One. Cosmology: Denationalizing Tianxia 1. De-Sinicizing Tianxia: The Invisible Hand of International Relations 2. Rivalry in Tianxia: Hegemony as Role Relations Part Two. Relation: Practicing Confucian IR 3. Role and Relation in Confucian IR: Relating to Strangers in the States of Nature 4. Performing Anger: The Ethics of Foreign Policy Role Emotion 5. Patience with Nonsolutions: Emotion and Trust in Role Creation 6. Corrupting Friendship: Distance Sensibilities in International Gift Giving 7. Doomed to Expand: Exception and Exceptionalism as the Mechanisms of Relating Part Three. Identity: (De)securitizing Chineseness 8. Western Belonging Aborted: The Ideological Background of the US-China Rivalry 9. Neither Balance nor Deterrence: Relational Security across the Taiwan Strait 10. Building Post-Western Regionalism: Moral Superiority or Post-Tianxia? 11. Experimenting with Twin Sovereignty: Implications for the Security Community Conclusion: Unlearning Chinese Relational IR Notes Index

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"""Shih's discussion of relationality and roles from the classical Confucian perspective is a significant and indispensable step toward a full-fledged theorization of 'relationality' in international relations. Utilizing a rather de-nationalized and de-Sinicized notion of Confucian philosophy, Shih's work opens a meaningful path for the full theorization of non-Western IR."" — Jungmin Seo, Yonsei University ""Significantly advancing the 'relational turn' in International Relations (IR), this remarkable book offers a highly original understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of Chinese international policy. Richly textured with relevant historical examples to illuminate both philosophical and theoretical insights, Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism is an important piece of work that requires maximum exposure.""—Mustapha Kamal Pasha, Aberystwyth University"


Author Information

Chih-yu Shih is Visiting Chair Professor of Tongji University and Professor Emeritus of National Taiwan University. He is the author of Post-Chineseness: Cultural Politics and International Relations, also published by SUNY Press.

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