Cultural Pragmatism For Us China Relations

Author : Charles Chao Rong Phua
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000738582

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Cultural Pragmatism for US-China Relations by Charles Chao Rong Phua Pdf

The Thucydides trap and a US-China face-off are not structurally inevitable; US-China relations are what the US and China make of them. Phua focuses on the ability to see "US as US" and "China as China" to trigger both countries’ cultural tendencies towards pragmatism. Phua examines China’s arduous journey to fit in the Westphalian system, the deep cultural misunderstandings by the West of Sunzi’s The Art of War, and attempts to offer an inside-out cultural synthesis of classical and modern Chinese thought as a proxy of their operational code, beyond the standard clichés about Confucian and Daoist thought. He builds on Jervis’ perception and misperception as well as Alastair Johnston’s cultural realism. Readers will benefit from a culturally-Chinese, western-educated and politically neutral understanding of "China as China". An essential primer for academics, practitioners and students of international relations, diplomacy and Chinese culture.

Author : Suisheng Zhao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317474838

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Chinese Foreign Policy: Pragmatism and Strategic Behavior by Suisheng Zhao Pdf

This volume explores how China is adapting to international norms and practices while still giving primacy to its national interests. It examines China's strategic behaviour on the world stage, particularly in its relationships with major powers and Asian neighbours.

Author : Chi Wang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015023011102

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History of U.S.-China Relations by Chi Wang Pdf

Author : Hongshan Li,Zhaohui Hong
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761811583

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Image, Perception, and the Making of U.S.-China Relations by Hongshan Li,Zhaohui Hong Pdf

These 15 essays comprise a multidisciplinary evaluation of how mutual perceptions and appearances affect US-China relations. The first section, addressing American perceptions of China, includes discussion of the role of American merchants and businessmen in the making of image in China and the role of the American media in shaping public opinion about China. The second section treats Chinese perceptions of the US, including Chinese students' perceptions of the US and anti- American nationalism in China, among other topics. The five remaining essays address policy matters. Lacks an index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Christopher Marsh,June Teufel Dreyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : China
ISBN : UCSD:31822031212681

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U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-first Century by Christopher Marsh,June Teufel Dreyer Pdf

The importance of every major development in the relationship between the two powers is discussed, from the success of Chinese economic reform and the rise of civil society to the U.S. EP-3 reconnaissance plane collision and the Taiwan Strait issue.

Author : Devi Prasad Tripathi,B. R. Deepak
Publisher : Vij Books India
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : India
ISBN : 938446483X

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India and Taiwan by Devi Prasad Tripathi,B. R. Deepak Pdf

The book is a collection of eleven essays by eminent Indian and Taiwanese scholars, as well as research scholars who look at the multifaceted relationship between India and the Republic of China and contemporary Taiwan from strategic, trade, economics, educational and cultural perspectives.

Author : Robert G. Sutter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742568433

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U.S.-Chinese Relations by Robert G. Sutter Pdf

A second edition of this book is now available. This comprehensive and lucid assessment of the key historical and contemporary determinants of Sino-American relations explains the conflicted engagement between the two governments. Offering a welcome richness of discussion and analysis, distinguished analyst Robert G. Sutter explores the twists and turns of the relationship over the past two hundred years. The mixed historical record convincingly shows that strong differences and mutual suspicions persist, only partly overridden by a mutual pragmatism that shifts with circumstances. As the only book on the subject that combines a unified assessment of the historical evolution, contemporary status, and likely prospects of U.S.-Chinese relations, this balanced and pragmatic study will be an essential resource for all concerned with the globe's most crucial bilateral partnership.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Special Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : China
ISBN : LOC:00183870002

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United States-China Relations by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Special Subcommittee on Investigations Pdf

Author : Yawei Liu/Michael Cerny
Publisher : Bouden House
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9798210270191

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Finding Firmer Ground: The Role of Higher Education in U.S.-China Relations by Yawei Liu/Michael Cerny Pdf

The U.S.-China educational exchange began auspiciously after a 30-year hiatus in 1978 when Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping announced his strategic decision to send 5,000 students and scholars from China each year to further their education. 1 Then-U.S. President Jimmy Carter famously responded, “Tell him to send 100,000.” This was the launch of educational exchange as a core pillar of the U.S.-China relationship. Until the 40th anniversary of the normalization of U.S.-China relations and U.S.-China educational exchange in 2019, there was general agreement that the exchange of students and scholars benefited both countries. There was recognition that the enormous increase in personal interaction and friendships — and knowledge about each other’s society, culture, economy, and government — strengthened understanding, trust, and cooperation. At a time when U.S.-China relations are at its lowest point since the normalization of relations, the benefits of educational exchange are being questioned, if not under assault. Few could have predicted that Chinese students would be weaponized by both sides, caught up in the political and security disputes between the two governments. A trade war, political tensions, concerns about academic espionage and influence operations, rising incidents of anti-Asian hate, and a global pandemic have created a perfect storm to stir up distrust as well as retaliatory measures that restrict student mobility on both sides of the Pacific. After years of fast growth, the number of Chinese students and researchers coming to the U.S. has slowed. China is still the largest source of international students in the U.S., accounting for about one-third of the total, but America’s appeal is weakening. Is this shift toward declining numbers an overdue correction to better protect America against academic espionage and influence operations and prevent China from capitalizing on American know-how to accelerate its own progress? Or is this decline in numbers an unnecessary and damaging hit on American universities’ preeminent position in global higher education and its open science model, leading to loss of U.S. competitiveness and international prestige? This report more broadly, is an attempt to discern the benefits, risks, and challenges of U.S.-China educational exchange and determine how educational exchange can advance the interests of both the U.S. and China going forward.

Author : Priscilla Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443887823

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The Power of Culture by Priscilla Roberts Pdf

China and the United States, two massive economic and military powers, cannot avoid engaging with each other. Enjoying what is often termed “the most important bilateral relationship in the world”, the two sometimes cooperate, but often compete, as their interests come into conflict. Both countries are separated not just by the Pacific Ocean, but also by their very different histories, experiences, societies, customs, and outlooks. Non-governmental, unofficial relationships and exchanges are often as important as formal dealings in determining the climate of Sino-American relations. For several decades in the mid-twentieth century, Chinese and Americans were virtually isolated from each other, trapped in icy hostility. Chinese scholars are now making up for lost time. This assortment of essays, most by mainland Chinese academics and students, focuses upon the role of culture – very broadly defined – in Sino-American affairs. Taking a holistic approach, in this collection over thirty authors focus on such topics as the influence of ideology, the impact of geopolitics, the use of rhetoric, soft power, educational encounters and exchanges, immigration, gender, race, identity, literature, television, movies, music, and the press. Cultural factors are, as the authors demonstrate, enormously significant in affecting how Chinese and Americans think about and approach each other, both as individuals and at the state level.

Author : Claire Conceison
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824864316

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Significant Other by Claire Conceison Pdf

Chinese views of the United States have shifted dramatically since the 1980s, with changes in foreign relations, increased travel of Chinese citizens to the U.S., and wide circulation of American popular culture in China. Significant Other explores representations of Americans that emerged onstage in China between 1987 and 2002 and considers how they function as racial and cultural stereotypes, political strategy, and artistic innovation. Based on fieldwork in Beijing and Shanghai, it offers a unique view of contemporary Mainland Chinese spoken drama from the perspective of a Western academic who is both a Chinese studies scholar and a theatre practitioner. Claire Conceison’s close readings of recent plays take into account not only the texts of the plays themselves and other primary sources, but also production contexts, creative origins, artistic collaboration, and audience reception. Identifying the American as China’s "significant Other," Conceison introduces the complex cultural relationship between China and the United States, situating it in both the long history of Sino-Western relations and the present dynamics of post-colonialism. She then examines the emergent discourse of Occidentalism, tracing its origins and recent circulation and repositioning it as a discursive strategy to analyze appearances of Americans on the Chinese stage. Conceison maintains that Chinese staging of American characters—often played by local actors made up and costumed as Americans, and more recently played by foreigners themselves—reveals cultural norms and attitudes regarding the United States, reflects Sino-American political relations, articulates Chinese national and cultural identity, and signifies innovation in spoken drama as an art form.

Author : Susan M. Puska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015043249237

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New Century, Old Thinking by Susan M. Puska Pdf

If a host of pundits are to be believed, we are fast approaching .the Pacific Century,. and, many of them argue, the centerpiece of the new era will be China. Some forecasts have China rising to become the world's largest economy over the next two decades, and acquiring attendant political and military power in the process. Unquestionably, China's size, population and burgeoning economy will elevate it to a more prominent role in Asia, the Pacific and the world by 2020. All the more reason then for those concerned with America's security to develop a keener understanding of this rising giant. Perhaps a good place to start is with some introspection about ourselves in relation to the Chinese. Lieutenant Colonel Susan Puska, in the monograph that follows, provides just such an examination of the reciprocal relations between China and the United States over the past century and a half. She articulates the theme that cycles of misperception have characterized the relationship. If this past is prologue, then potential conflict looms darkly over future U.S.-China interactions. The first step toward precluding conflict, according to the author, is to understand the nature of the past relationship. Then, the two countries must overcome the deep perceptual gap between their cultures, their historical views and their ideological perspectives. Such understanding, widely shared in each society, will not assure development of bilateral partnership, but is essential to giving it a chance.

Author : Weixing R. Hu,Gerald Chan,Daojiong Zha
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461678588

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China's International Relations in the 21st Century by Weixing R. Hu,Gerald Chan,Daojiong Zha Pdf

Most people believe China's foreign behavior is driven by its growing power status in world politics. Chinese leaders still firmly uphold some traditional values in foreign policy such as sovereignty, territorial integrity, and national unification. However, it is often neglected that China's behavior is also shaped by its changing perception of the globalizing world and, to a large extent, is a result of external pressure on China. By examining the dynamics of paradigm shifts in China's foreign policy thinking, this book explores the ideological sources of China's international relations in the new century. With growing economic interdependence with the outside world, which creates both constraints as well as incentives to adapt to the prevailing norms in contemporary international relations, authors of this volume analyze indigenous Chinese sources of intellect on the paradigm shifts. The concepts studied in this volume include national identity, nationalism, globalism, multilateralism, sovereignty, and the role of international law in Chinese foreign policy. This volume helps to shed new light on how the dynamics of paradigm shifts affect China's behavior in international affairs.

Author : Robert G. Sutter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538105351

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US-China Relations by Robert G. Sutter Pdf

This comprehensive and balanced assessment of the historical and contemporary determinants of Sino-American relations, now updated through 2017, explains the conflicted engagement between the two governments. Offering a welcome richness of discussion and analysis, Sutter explores the twists and turns of the relationship over the past 200 years.

Author : Roger T. Ames,Chen Yajun,Peter D. Hershock
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780824884550

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Confucianism and Deweyan Pragmatism by Roger T. Ames,Chen Yajun,Peter D. Hershock Pdf

Over the past generation, the rise of East Asia and especially China has brought about a sea change in the economic and political world order. At the same time, global warming, environmental degradation, food and water shortages, population explosion, and income inequities have created a perfect storm that threatens the very survival of humanity. It is clear now that the Westphalian model of individual sovereign states seeking their own self-interest will not be able to respond effectively to this win-win or lose-lose crisis. In this volume, a cadre of distinguished scholars comes together to reflect on Confucianism and Deweyan pragmatism as possible resources for a new geopolitics that begins from an ontology of interdependence and recognizes the irreducibly ecological nature of the human experience at every level. Both Confucian and Deweyan traditions emphasize the primacy of experience, the importance of vital relationality, and the moral roots of good governance. The potential benefits of conceptually blending the two are many. Indeed, the contemporary Chinese philosopher Tang Junyi provides us with a cosmological understanding of the “idea” of Confucianism that, in parallel to Dewey’s “idea” of democracy, can enable us to anticipate the core values, if not the specific contours, of a “Confucian democracy.” Just as Dewey’s “idea” of democracy is his vision of the flourishing communal life made possible by the contributions of the uniquely distinguished persons that constitute it, Tang Junyi’s Confucianism is a pragmatic naturalism directed at achieving the most highly integrated cultural, moral, and spiritual growth for the individual-in-community. In both, we find an affirmation of communal harmony as a process “starting here and going there” through which those involved learn together to do ordinary things in extraordinary ways. Just such a cosmological understanding of democracy is one way of describing what will be needed to address the many predicaments characterizing the environmental, cultural, socioeconomic, and political dynamics of the twenty-first century.