Decoding the Rise of China

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   • Tse-Kang Leng, Rumi Aoyama

   Pages 1-9

3. China’s Foreign Policy as a Rising Power

   • Rumi Aoyama

   Pages 11-38

4. The History-Informed IR Study on the Resurgence of China

   • Yu-Shan Wu

   Pages 39-55

5. Philosophy, Culture and Sino-Japanese Relations

   • Takeshi Uemura

   Pages 57-83

6. Domestic Politics and China’s Assertive Foreign Policy: Why China’s Rise May Not Be Peaceful

   • Nien-chung Chang Liao

   Pages 85-106

7. Useful Adversary: Foreign-Domestic Linkages in China’s Relations with Japan (2010–15)

   • Satoshi Amako, Mong Cheung

   Pages 107-128

8. Understanding the Internationalization of the Renminbi

   • Szu-yin Ho

   Pages 129-145

9. China’s Arctic Diplomacy: Global and Regional Aspects

   • Tse-Kang Leng

   Pages 147-170

10. Back Matter

    Pages 171-180

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This edited collection provides a synthetic analysis of the rise of contemporary China and its impact on the current global system from a range of Asian and Western perspectives. Highlighting Taiwanese and Japanese viewpoints, the book considers a macro, integrated vision of the rise of China and examines the vital cultural factors which link domestic politics and foreign policy in the Sino-Japanese relationship. The book addresses key policy matters, such as the internationalization of the Chinese currency and Arctic diplomacy, and provides a key reference on contemporary Chinese foreign policy and the Sino-Japanese relationship for students, academics experts and policy makers in the field of Area Studies, History and International Relations.

• History and the Rise of China
• Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)
• Chinese School of International Relations
• Senkaku/Diaoyutai Islands Dispute
• Cultural Constructivism
• Chinese Assertiveness
• Renminbi Internationalization
• Malacca Dilemma
• Arctic Diplomacy and China
• Chinese Grand Strategy
• area studies

• Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei City, Taiwan

  Tse-Kang Leng

• Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

  Rumi Aoyama

Tse-Kang Leng is Director of Institute of Political Science of Academia Sinica (IPSAS) and Professor of Political Science at National Chengchi University. His research interests focus on political economy of globalization, local governance in China, and cross-Taiwan Strait relations. His academic works have appeared in Asian Survey, China Journal, Pacific Focus, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Contemporary China studies, and chapters in edited volumes. 

Rumi Aoyama is Professor of Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University, Japan. Her research specialties include Chinese foreign policy, China’s regional strategies, and Japan-China relationship. Her recent publications include China and the Future of International Order, (2015) and China’s Asia Policy in the Post-Cold War Era, (2013).

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