Interpreting China as a Regional and Global Power: Nationalism and Historical Consciousness in World Politics

355 Pages·2014·1.807 MB·English

by  Bart Dessein (eds.)

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Interpreting China as a
Regional and Global Power
Nationalism and Historical Consciousness
in World Politics
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ProfessorofChineseLanguageandCulture,CentreforLanguagesandCultures,
GhentUniversity,Belgium
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Contents
ListofTables,FiguresandMaps vii
NotesonContributors viii
Introduction 1
BartDessein
Part I HistoricalConsciousness
1 EarlyChineseNationalism:TheOriginsunderManchu
Rule 7
JuliaSchneider
2 RadicalConfucianism:TheCritiqueofImperial
OrthodoxyinGuocuixuebao(1905–1911) 30
Tze-kiHon
3 HistoryandHistoricalConsciousnessinContemporary
China:PoliticalConfucianism,SpiritualConfucianism,
andthePoliticsofSpirit 44
AdyVandenStock
4 AllunderHeavenandtheChineseNation-state 64
BartDessein
Part II ChinaandherPeriphery
5 SubjectiveKnowledgeFoundationoftheCross-Taiwan
StraitsInternationalPeaceDiscourse 83
Hung-jenWang
6 UniversalandAsianValuesinEastAsianRegionalism:
Japan’s‘NewAsianism’aftertheColdWar 98
KristofElsen
7 DiversifyingNarratives:PerceptionsofaWeakJapan
FacingaRisingChina 120
TineWalravens
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8 HidingbehindtheTribute:Status,Symbol,andPowerin
Sino-SoutheastAsianRelations,PastandPresent 142
BrunoHellendorff
9 TheIndo-Pacific:TheNewGreatGamebetweenChina
andtheUnitedStates 169
TanguyStruyedeSwielande
10 Nationalism,HistoricalConsciousnessandRegional
Stability:RisingChinaasaRegionalPowerandItsNew
AssertivenessintheSouthChinaSea 191
EmileKok-KhengYeoh
11 China’sRiseinCentralAsia:TheDragonEnterstheHeart
ofEurasia 216
ThierryKellner
Part III ChinaandtheWorldatLarge
12 TheRiseofChinawithinGlobalGovernance 249
NiallDuggan
13 China’sRiseandtheGeopoliticalIdentityoftheEuropean
Union 271
FrankGaenssmantel
14 IsChinaontheVergeofaWeltpolitik?AComparisonof
theCurrentShiftintheBalanceofPowerbetweenChina
andtheWestandtheShiftbetweenGreatBritainand
WilhelmineGermany 293
Jean-ChristopheDefraigne
Epilogue 324
BartDessein
Index 334
Tables, Figures and Maps
Tables
11.1 TradebetweenChinaandCentralAsia2001–2012 228
11.2 China’spositionintheforeigntradeoftheCARsin2012 228
14.1 FDIoutwardstock 298
14.2 Grossstocksofoutwardinvestments 299
Figures
5.1 Identity,value,anddependency 92
7.1 RisingconcernaboutChina’sincreasingpower:Global
Poll2011(1) 124
7.2 RisingconcernaboutChina’sincreasingpower:Global
Poll2011(2) 125
7.3 AffinitytowardsChina 126
8.1 China’sforeignpolicystrategyvis-à-visherperiphery
andtheworld 145
8.2 Militaryspendingevolution(2002–2012) 158
14.1 Thesharesofthelargestexportersofmanufactured
productsin1913 311
14.2 China’sexportstoAsiaandtheUS2000–2011 313
14.3 TheshareofexportsinGermany1870–1913andChina
1973–2012 314
14.4 MilitaryspendingbyChinaandtheUS1991–2011 318
Maps
9.1 ThetrianglesinthePacificOcean 184
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Contributors
Jean-Christophe Defraigne is Professor of International Economics at
theInstituteforEuropeanStudiesofSaint-LouisUniversity,Brussels,and
VisitingProfessorattheLouvainSchoolofManagement,ZhejiangUni-
versity. He was a research fellow at Jingmao Daxue in 2003–2004 and
has been an academic consultant for EU and Asian public institutions,
NGOsandthinktanks.
Bart Dessein is Professor of Chinese Language and Culture at Ghent
University, and Senior Associate of the European Institute for Asian
Studies,Brussels.Hisresearchfocusesontraditionalandcontemporary
Chinesephilosophy,politicalphilosophy,andtherelationofreligionto
state.
Niall Duggan received his PhD from the Department of Government,
University College Cork. Since completing his PhD, he has worked at
the Department of Government, UCC, the Department of East Asia
Politics, Ruhr University Bochum, and is currently Research Fellow at
Ruhr-UniversitätBochum.
Kristof Elsen studied Japanese and International Relations at Ghent
University. He has focused on Japanese political theory and policy for-
mation in the interwar period through the work of political scientist
Ro¯yama Masamichi. Currently he is exploring these themes in a con-
temporary setting in his work on shifts and currents in East Asian
regionalism.
Frank GaenssmantelisAssistantProfessorintheDepartmentofInter-
national Relations and International Organisation at the University of
Groningen. His research interests include foreign policy analysis, the
foreignpoliciesofChinaandtheEuropeanUnion,andChina–EUrela-
tions.HereceivedhisPhDfromtheEuropeanUniversityInstitute(EUI)
inFlorence.
Bruno Hellendorff is Research Fellow at the Brussels-based Group for
ResearchandInformationonPeaceandSecurity(GRIP)wherehecoor-
dinates the ‘Peace and Security in Asia-Pacific’ research program. He
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NotesonContributors ix
is also Research Associate at the CECRI, and PhD candidate at UCL,
Belgium.
Tze-ki Hon is Professor of History at the State University of New York
at Geneseo. He is the author of The Yijing and Chinese Politics (2005),
RevolutionsasRestoration(2013),and(withGeoffreyRedmond)Teaching
theIChing(BookofChanges)(2014).
Thierry Kellner is Lecturer at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
(Department of Political Science), Member of the center ‘Training and
ResearchinInternationalPolitics’(REPI-ULB),andAssociateResearcher
atBrusselsInstituteofContemporaryChinaStudies(BICCS)andatGRIP
(Brussels). His research concerns Chinese foreign policy (relations with
CentralandWesternAsia).
JuliaSchneiderhasstudiedsinologyinHeidelberg,Berlin,Viennaand
Beijing. She holds a PhD (Ghent/Göttingen) in Chinese Studies, and is
AssistantProfessorattheUniversityofGöttingen.Herresearchfocuses
on historiography and nationalism in late Qing and early Republican
times,non-Hanconquestdynasties,andethnicandculturalidentity.
Tanguy Struye de Swielande is Professor of International Relations at
theUniversityofLouvain.HeisSeniorResearcherattheCentred’étude
des crises et conflits internationaux (CECRI) and Senior Associate Fel-
lowatEgmontInstitute.Hespecializesingeopoliticsandgeostrategyof
middleandgreatpowersandpowertransitiontheory.
AdyVandenStockisaPhDcandidateatGhentUniversity,fundedby
theResearchFoundationFlanders(FWO).Heiscurrentlyworkingonthe
thought of the contemporary Confucian philosophers Mou Zongsan,
TangJunyi,andXiongShiliwithinthegeneralcontextoftheproblem
ofmodernity.
Tine Walravens is an Academic Assistant at the Department of Lan-
guages and Cultures at Ghent University. Her PhD research focuses on
Sino-Japanese relations, and in particular the negative perception of
ChineseimportedfoodinJapan.HerotherfieldsofinterestareEU–Asia
relationsandregionalintegration.
Hung-jen Wang is Assistant Professor in the Political Science Depart-
ment, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He received his PhD