Chinas Grand Strategy Under Xi Jinping
This book attempts to identify change and continuity in PRC grand strategy, and the extent to which Chinese imperial history complicates PRC global outreach in the Xi Jinping era.
Empires convey the wish to make the world a better place even in the midst of oppression and are eschatological in their rhetoric. However, empires that last longer have been more pragmatic in their grand strategy; sometimes appropriating the aura of past golden ages, and at other times learning from the mistakes of their predecessors. To date, Chinese strategic thinkers are preoccupied with learning lessons from the disintegration of the USSR and fascinated by the secrets of American power. Interdisciplinary in its reach, analysing grand strategy through both rhetoric and praxis, this book unpacks the Chinese world view through critical examination of the latest history textbooks currently in use in PRC middle schools. It also brings new evidence to bear on the debate in the West about Chinese strategic culture. Finally, it compares historical Japanese OFDI patterns with China in order to understand what makes the Chinese economy unique.
Chinas Grand Strategy Under Xi Jinping is aimed towards students and scholars of history, international business and wider Chinese studies.
Niv Horesh is Associate Professor in China Studies at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. His research incorporates four main strands in the following order: Chinese History, World Monetary History, PRC Political Economy, and PRC Foreign Policy with emphasis on the Middle East. His most important study in the first and second strands is Chinese Money in Global Context: Historic Junctures Between 600 BCE and 2012 (2014). The most important study in the third strand is East Asian Challenge to Western Neoliberalism: Critical Perspectives on the China Model (Routledge, 2017), co-authored with geographer Kean Fan Lim. The fourth strand is best represented by How Chinas Rise is Changing the Middle East (Routledge, 2019), co-authored with Anoushiravan Ehteshami.
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The series is edited by Shiping Hua, the Calvin and Helen Lang Distinguished Chair in Asian Studies, Director of the Asian Studies Program and Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville, USA.
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Mark Beeson, University of Murdoch, Australia
Jennifer Bussell, University of California at Berkeley, USA
William Callahan, London School of
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Nobuhiro Hiwatari, University of Tokyo, Japan
Jia Qingguo, Peking University, China
Jin Canrong, Renmin University, China
David Kang, University of Southern California, USA
Peter Moody, Notre Dame University, USA
Mariya Y. Omelicheva, University of Kansas, USA
Naveed Sheikh, University of Keele, UK
Narendra Subramanian, McGill University, Canada
Rina Williams, University of Cincinnati, USA
Brian Woodall, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Quansheng Zhao, American University, USA
Chinas Grand Strategy Under Xi Jinping
How History Complicates Beijings Global Outreach
Niv Horesh
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Names: Horesh, Niv, author.
Title: Chinas grand strategy under Xi Jinping : how history complicates Beijings global outreach / Niv Horesh.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents: PRC Foreign Policy : Mao vs. Xi One Country, Two Histories : How PRC and Western Narratives of the Chinas Pre-Imperial and Imperial Past Diverge How PRC and Western Narratives of Chinese Modernity Diverge Chinese Strategic Culture Reconsidered Peacetime or Peaceful? : Identifying Change and Continuity in Chinese Grand Strategy from a Global Historical Perspective Examining New Chinese FDI Patterns from a Japanese Historical Perspective.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020031803 | ISBN 9780367628413 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367628468 (paperback) | ISBN 9781000289237 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781000289275 (epub) | ISBN 9781000289251 (mobi)
Subjects: LCSH: ChinaRelations. | ChinaPolitics and government2002 | ChinaForeign relations. | Strategy. | Geopolitics. | HistoryTextbooks. | TextbooksChina.
Classification: LCC DS779.47 .H67 2020 | DDC 327.51dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020031803
ISBN: 978-0-367-62841-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-11104-7 (ebk)
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I dedicate this book to my much beloved uncle Avi (Abraham Faramos) Horesh
Since my return to Sydney in 2017, I have relied on the generosity and sound counsel of many friends and colleagues so as to find my bearings again. Then, the Corona virus struck meaning I had to bring this book project to fruition under odd, and not all-too-happy, circumstances. In the process, my children, Sivaan and Dekel, kept my spirits high, as did my parents, Yitzhak and Devorah Horesh, my brother, Ori Horesh, and the rest of my Horesh-Khoursheedi clan.
On professional grounds, I thank the series editor, Professor Shiping Hua, the commissioning editor, Stephanie Rogers, and their assistant, Emily Pickthall, for accommodating all my requests despite lockdown difficulties. Professor Alastair Iain Johnston had kindly met with me for a talk at Harvard University back in 2015, and here is partly inspired by that experience.
I am truly blessed to be working at an institution such as Western Sydney University (WSU) where the pursuit of knowledge in the Humanities is still appreciated in its own right. Here, my School Dean, Professor Peter Hutchings, proved invaluably understanding of the demands of book writing, and the significance of lifework balance. Leanne Kent and Bob Burnell also facilitated my return to work in innumerable ways. Lara Keys was always ready to listen to book requests. At the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, I benefited from collegial assistance by amongst others Peter Mauch, Brett Bowden, Carol Liston, Dian Colman, Di Dickinson, Brett Bennet, Greg Barton, Karen Entwistle, Drew Cottle and Matt McGuire.
