Navigating Sovereignty World Politics Lost in China

by Shih, Chih-yu

• ISBN13: 9781403963758
• ISBN10: 1403963754
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-01-03
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In this book, the author undertakes a postcolonial analysis of identities the Chinese state uses to confront world politics and globalization. Because these identities are created at the confluence of Western modernity and Confucian tradition, two elements that are continually reinterpreted themselves, the result is an ambiguity regarding the identities best suited to explain Chinese behavior. The author argues that this uncertainty is not a new condition but one that reaches back to end of the nineteenth century.It is by understanding this ambiguity surrounding identities that will in turn help present -day authorities predict the future course of Chinese behavior in world politics.

Author Biography

Chih-yu Shih is Professor of China Studies at the National Taiwan University.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	viii
Acknowledgment	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction: Taking Cultural Studies Seriously	1	(6)
The Postmodern Clue: Defining China as an Alterity	7	(18)
The Orientalist Clue: Equalizing the Counter-State	25	(20)
The Nationalist Clue: Defending People's Heart	45	(30)
The Rational Choice Clue: Curing Epistemological Amnesia	75	(14)
The Postcolonial Clue: Bringing Japan Back In	89	(20)
The Globalization Clue: Estranging the Parttime Self	109	(26)
The Confucian Clue: Practicing Anti-Negotiation Toward Taiwan	135	(26)
Conclusion: Becoming an East Asian State?	161	(8)
Notes	169	(26)
References	195	(16)
Index	211