Chinese Politics

This book examines how since about 2008 the economy of Taiwan has become ever more deeply integrated into the economy of China. It goes beyond a consideration of trade and investment flows, and discusses also the large population flows, the growing integration of the two financial systems and the na..

This book traces the development of Taiwan’s relations with its diplomatic partners and Taiwan’s policy toward the political opponents of its political opponent—mainland China...

This book argues that the interplay between the pro-opening coalitions and dissenting parties has been central to the policymaking process. Financial opening has not only been driven by central bureaucratic actors, but also by financial industry interests and the local authorities of financial cente..

This book explores the conflict and cooperation over water resources in the Mekong river basin. It scrutinizes the spring 2010 Mekong crisis and events surrounding it which led to a series of security-related interactions with China. The book embeds China’s Mekong hydro-politics in the bigger pictur..

China is a continent-sized economy and society with substantial diversity across its different regions, meaning that its engagement with the global economy cannot just be understood at the national level. This book responds to this challenge by looking at the development of China’s regions in this e..

This book provides new arguments on China’s rise and the transformation of East Asia and analyzes the foreign policy behavior of the regional states and relations among them. In doing so, the contributors show why and how China is rising, and in turn, the regional structures or institutions that are..

Identifying the most significant issues arising from China’s rapid development, this book examines the evolution of China’s contemporary foreign policy and international relations. It highlights the global importance of China’s management of its own politics and economics, and underlines the most pr..

_x005F_x000D_ This book is one of the first to address China’s role and influence in the Security Council. It develops a picture of a state struggling to find a way between the need to protect its stakes in a number of ‘rogue regimes’, on one hand, and its image as a responsible rising power on the ..

_x005F_x000D_ This book is one of the first to address China’s role and influence in the Security Council. It develops a picture of a state struggling to find a way between the need to protect its stakes in a number of ‘rogue regimes’, on one hand, and its image as a responsible rising power on the ..

This book discusses how Chinese fans of Japanese and Korean popular culture have formed their own nationalistic discourse since the 1990s. As nationalism is constructed from various entangled ideologies, narratives, myths and collective memories, popular culture simply becomes another resource for t..

Explores the changes occurring in China today – what are the goals of political contestation, how are Chinese Communist Party leaders legitimizing their rule, who are the specific actors involved in contesting state legitimacy and what are the implications of changing state-society relations for the..

Explores the changes occurring in China today – what are the goals of political contestation, how are Chinese Communist Party leaders legitimizing their rule, who are the specific actors involved in contesting state legitimacy and what are the implications of changing state-society relations for the..