China from the Inside Out : Fitting the People's Republic into the World.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (209 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Understanding China Once More -- The Comparative Dilemma of 'Wealth and Power' -- 'Nationalism' and 'Cosmopolitanism' -- Mao Zedong as China's Paradox -- Containment and the Persistence of Realism -- 2. Fitting the People's Republic into the World -- 'Cleaning Up the House Before Entertaining the Guests' -- Establishing the Foundations of Contemporary Foreign Policy at Bandung -- The Chinese Learning Dialectic -- Resolving the Outstanding Contradiction within Foreign Policy -- Foreign Policy and the Cultural Revolution -- Plumbing the Depths of Chinese Foreign Policy 'Pragmatism' -- Deng Xiaoping Places China in the World -- 3. Connecting the 'Rule of Law', 'Human Rights' and 'Democracy' in China -- Connecting the 'Rule of Law', 'Human Rights'and 'Democracy' -- The Confucian Past in the Constitutional Present -- The 'Rule of Law' in China? -- A Chinese Human Rights Paradigm? -- The Criminalization of Domestic Violence -- The Dilemmas of Procedural Justice -- The Prospect for 'Democracy' in China? -- The Contradictions of Sinification -- 4. 'Socialism' or 'Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics'? -- Reform Strategy -- China in the 'Primary Stage of Socialism' -- 'Socialism' versus 'Capitalism' in Tiananmen Square,1986 and 1989 -- Deng's 'Southern Tour' and the 'Socialist Market' -- The Political Economy of 'Newly Emerging Interests' -- The Hu Jintao Leadership and the Private Property Issue -- The Politics of Housing Reform -- 5. China's New 'Model' of International Relations -- The Contemporary Relevance of 'Harmony with Differences' -- The Maturation of Chinese Diplomacy -- The New Security Concept -- Development in the Era of Globalization -- The Chinese Rebuttal to Realism -- 'Revisit the Past and Know New Things' -- 6. China Redux. The Learning Dialectic and the Strategy for Development -- 'Reform as Revolution'? -- 'Democratization of International Relations' and 'Diversity of Civilizations' -- The Learning Dialectic and Hu's 'Scientific Development Concept' -- The Party's 'Chinese Characteristics'? -- Notes -- Selected Concepts in Pinyin and Chinese Characters -- Selected Readings by Chapter Themes -- INDEX.
A pioneering look at China's rise from the perspective of its internal debates and domestic politics.