...This chapter situates the book in the broader literature examining China as a rising power and defines the terms used throughout the book, including international order. It introduces the methodological approach of the book of exploring the degree to which China competes or cooperates...

...This chapter explores China's post–Cold War interests in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa: promoting its domestic economic growth through access to resources and markets, fostering support for it in the international arena, ensuring its domestic stability, advocating for developing country...

...Cooperation forums (China–Arab States Cooperation Forum- CASCF and Forum on China-Africa Cooperation-FOCAC) are China’s primary multilateral mechanisms to coordinate economic, political, and security relations with the Middle East and Africa. China's political behavior is competitive, excluding...

...China created special envoys for the Middle East, Syria, and Africa to address what it perceives as hot spots and challenges to peace and security in these regions. When it was initially established, China's special envoy for Middle East issues focused on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In a post...

...This chapter answers the following questions: What are China's interests in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa? How have they changed over time? How is China cooperating or competing with the United States in these regions? How is China's behavior converging with or diverging from liberal...

... China to Hong Kong. The chapter illustrates the role of law in global capitalism's modalities of inclusion and exclusion, and specifically how global capitalism has turned low-status workers such as domestic and sex workers into permanent strangers. Barbarians Cities declining populations Kotkin Joel...

...This chapter focuses on France’s efforts to maintain a role in East Asian affairs and protect its control of French Indo-China. The chapter traces the decline of French influence to WWI, examines France’s efforts to maintain a collective security approach before the outbreak of war, and analyzes...

...This chapter discusses the nationwide network development of the Lower Yangzi chambers of commerce and their interactions with the various Republican regimes. As China shifted from the imperial into the Republican era in the course of the 1911 Revolution, the Lower Yangzi chambers of commerce...

...This concluding chapter focuses on the legacy of the Lower Yangzi chambers of commerce. The network revolution led by these chambers of commerce and other new associations in late Qing and early Republican China constituted one of the most substantial and significant aspects of sociopolitical...

...This chapter presents some final thoughts from the author. This book has followed both British celebrations and repudiations of China's familiar exotic in nineteenth century, arguing that such receptions mattered greatly in the history of British visuality. They mattered as opposing examples...

...This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this book, which is about the impact of foreign direct investment on environmental regulation in China, and explains that China is both heavily foreign-invested and polluted, and that the pollution is the result of industrial production. The book...

...This chapter explores the legal and regulatory framework that polices the environmental protection aspects of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China. It describes how the legal regime governing environmental aspects of FDI has developed over time and investigates how the Chinese central...

... organizations Wignaraja Ganeshan China and ASEAN leadership Hamanaka Shintaro China and trade agreements approach to Japan and ASEAN future of South Korea domestic reform of trade policy organs Taiwan limited influence of business on government of World Trade Organization WTO and Asian regional...

... of the multidirectional migration patterns that reflect and impact China’s domestic management of ethnic diversity and its external relations. This chapter argues that contemporaneous migration further illuminates three dimensions of alterity, namely alterity as phenotypical difference, as the diversification of co...

... an underlying concept of transcendence. In the Heat of the Sun offers a novel interpretation of China's Cultural Revolution and rewrites the dominant narrative of trauma, violence, and dislocation. Red Azalea tackles an overarching mysticism that unites and expresses both...

...This chapter talks about the entry of new firms into the telecommunications service market of China. It considers the ministerial struggles and the contending forces that caused the government to separate China Telecom twice. Railcom and Netcom are the two firms that are examined in this chapter...

...This chapter addresses the timeline of the Korean War and explains why the Soviet Union, China, and the United States were the most significant belligerents in decisions about prosecuting and ending it. Using mini-case studies, it shows North and South Korea's insignificance in their respective...

..., and China. In the special case of interacting coalition shifts on opposing sides, it seemed that the two mechanisms for developing an overlapping bargaining space worked in tandem. The data does not confirm the argument that Dwight Eisenhower's nuclear threats significantly played in ending the war...

...This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on anticorruption novels and the discourse of corruption in China, explaining that the authors of the novels analyzed blamed both untrammeled money and unregulated power for corruption, and are uniformly incensed by unjust bureaucratic power...

...This chapter provides an overview of the structural inequality created by the People’s Republic of China in the 1950s, especially that produced by the hukou household registration system. It shows that the processes of inequality under the hukou system has many parallels with that in the Qing...