SINICIZATION AND THE RISE OF CHINA
Chinas rise and civilizational processes of Sinicization suggest that a recombination of the new with the old, rather than a total rupture with or return to the past, is Chinas likely future. In both space and time, civilizations offer the broadest context for world politics. Civilizational politics is of particular salience in China. Reification of civilizations into simple categories such as East and West is widespread in everyday politics and common in policy and academic writings. This books emphasis on Sinicization as a specific civilizational process counters political and intellectual shortcuts and corrects the mistakes to which they often lead. Sinicization illustrates that, like other civilizations, China has always been open to variegated social and political processes that have brought together many different kinds of people, adhering to very different kinds of practices. This book tries to avoid the reifications and celebrations that mark much of the contemporary public debate about Chinas rise. It highlights instead complex processes and political practices that avoid easy shortcuts in bridging East and West. The analytical perspectives of this book are laid out in Peter Katzensteins opening and concluding chapters. They are explored in six outstanding case studies, written by widely known authors who inquire into questions of security, political economy, and culture.
Featuring an exceptional line-up and representing a diversity of theoretical views within one integrative perspective, this work will be of interest to all scholars and students of China, Asia, international relations, sociology, and political science.
Peter J. Katzenstein is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, USA. His work addresses issues of political economy, security, and culture in world politics.
SINICIZATION AND THE RISE OF CHINA
Civilizational processes beyond East and West
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CONTENTS
Peter J. Katzenstein
Allen Carlson
Xu Xin
Tianbiao Zhu
Takashi Shiraishi
Chih-yu Shih
Caroline S. Hau
Peter J. Katzenstein
Allen Carlson is an associate professor in Cornell Universitys Government Department. He is also the author of Unifying China, Integrating with the World (2005) and the co-editor of Contemporary Chinese Politics (2010).
Caroline S. Hau is an associate professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. Her most recent book is Traveling Nation-Makers: Transnational Flows and Movements in the Making of Modern Southeast Asia, co-edited with Kasian Tejapira.
Peter J. Katzenstein is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. His work addresses issues of political economy, security, and culture in world politics.
Chih-yu Shih teaches cultural studies, China studies, and political psychology at National Taiwan University. He publishes on Chinese ethnic politics, socialist reform, village democracy, foreign policy, and Asianism, among other subjects, and edits Asian Ethnicity. He is currently working on comparative epistemology of China Studies.
Takashi Shiraishi is president of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies as well as the Institute of Developing Economies Japan External Trade Promotion Organization. He is also an executive member of the Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office.
Xu Xin is an adjunct associate professor in the Government Department and director of the China and Asia-Pacific Studies Program at Cornell University. His areas of interest include Chinese foreign policy, East Asian security politics, and the Taiwan issue.
Tianbiao Zhu is an associate professor in the School of Government at Peking University, where he currently serves as Associate Dean. His teaching and research interests include international and comparative political economy and the political economy of development.
This book is part of a trilogy exploring civilizations in world politics. The first volume, Civilizations in World Politics: plural and pluralist perspectives (2010), developed a particular conceptual approach stressing the plurality and pluralism of civilizations and applied it to six major civilizations. Two follow-on volumes explore civilizational processes and identities in greater detail. Situated in a broader comparative perspective, Sinicization and the Rise of China: civilizational processes beyond East and West (2012) inquires into Sinicization during the era of Chinas peaceful rise. With particular attention to the problematic relationship between liberalism and race, Anglo-America and Its Discontents: civilizational identities beyond West and East
