Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism

Chih-yu Shih is Visiting Chair Professor of Tongji University and Professor Emeritus of National Taiwan University. He is the author of Post-Chineseness: Cultural Politics and International Relations, also published by SUNY Press.

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Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Translating Confucianism as a Pluriversal Engagement

Part One. Cosmology: Denationalizing Tianxia

1. De-Sinicizing Tianxia: The Invisible Hand of International Relations

2. Rivalry in Tianxia: Hegemony as Role Relations

Part Two. Relation: Practicing Confucian IR

3. Role and Relation in Confucian IR: Relating to Strangers in the States of Nature

4. Performing Anger: The Ethics of Foreign Policy Role Emotion

5. Patience with Nonsolutions: Emotion and Trust in Role Creation

6. Corrupting Friendship: Distance Sensibilities in International Gift Giving

7. Doomed to Expand: Exception and Exceptionalism as the Mechanisms of Relating

Part Three. Identity: (De)securitizing Chineseness

8. Western Belonging Aborted: The Ideological Background of the US-China Rivalry

9. Neither Balance nor Deterrence: Relational Security across the Taiwan Strait

10. Building Post-Western Regionalism: Moral Superiority or Post-Tianxia?

11. Experimenting with Twin Sovereignty: Implications for the Security Community

Conclusion: Unlearning Chinese Relational IR

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Index