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As scholars and publics look for alternatives to what is understood
as a violent Western world order, many claim that China can provide
such an alternative through the Chinese dream of a harmonious
world. This book takes this claim seriously and examines its
effects by tracing the notion across several contexts: the policy
documents and speeches that launched harmony as an official term
under previous president Hu Jintao; the academic literatures that
asked what a harmonious world might look like; the propaganda and
mega events that aimed to illustrate it; the online spoofing
culture that is used to criticise and avoid "harmonization"; and
the incorporation of harmony into current president Xi Jinping's
"Chinese dream". This book finds contemporary Chinese society and
international relations saturated with harmony. Yet, rather than
offering an alternative to problems in "Western" thought, it
counter-intuitively argues that harmony has not taken place, is not
taking place, and will not take place. The argument unfolds as a
contribution to wider debates on time, space and multiplicity in
world politics. Offering analysis of the important but understudied
concept of harmony, Nordin provides new and creative insights into
wider contemporary issues in Chinese politics, society and
scholarship. The book also suggests a creative and novel
methodology for studying foreign policy concepts more broadly,
drawing on critical thinkers in innovative ways and in a new
empirical context. It will be of interest to students and scholars
of IR, Chinese foreign and security policy and IR theory.
The question of how China will relate to a globalising world is one
of the key issues in contemporary international relations and
scholarship on China, yet the angle of innovation has not been
properly addressed within the field. This book explores innovation
in China from an International Relations perspective in terms of
four areas: foreign and security policy, international relations
theory, soft power/image management, and resistance. Under the
complex condition of globalisation, innovation becomes a
particularly useful analytical concept because it is well suited to
capturing the hybridity of actors and processes under
globalisation. By adopting this theme, studies not only reveal a
China struggling to make the future through innovation, but also
call attention to how China itself is made in the process. The book
is divided into four sections: Part 1 focuses on conceptual
innovation in China's foreign and security policies since 1949.
Part 2 explores theoretical innovation in terms of a potential
Chinese school of International Relations Theory. Part 3 expands on
innovation in terms of image management, a form of soft power, in
particular how China exports its image both to a domestic and
foreign audience. Part 4 highlights how innovation is used in China
by grassroot popular groups to resist official narratives. This
book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese
studies, Chinese foreign policy and international relations,
international relations theory and East Asian security.
As scholars and publics look for alternatives to what is understood
as a violent Western world order, many claim that China can provide
such an alternative through the Chinese dream of a harmonious
world. This book takes this claim seriously and examines its
effects by tracing the notion across several contexts: the policy
documents and speeches that launched harmony as an official term
under previous president Hu Jintao; the academic literatures that
asked what a harmonious world might look like; the propaganda and
mega events that aimed to illustrate it; the online spoofing
culture that is used to criticise and avoid "harmonization"; and
the incorporation of harmony into current president Xi Jinping's
"Chinese dream". This book finds contemporary Chinese society and
international relations saturated with harmony. Yet, rather than
offering an alternative to problems in "Western" thought, it
counter-intuitively argues that harmony has not taken place, is not
taking place, and will not take place. The argument unfolds as a
contribution to wider debates on time, space and multiplicity in
world politics. Offering analysis of the important but understudied
concept of harmony, Nordin provides new and creative insights into
wider contemporary issues in Chinese politics, society and
scholarship. The book also suggests a creative and novel
methodology for studying foreign policy concepts more broadly,
drawing on critical thinkers in innovative ways and in a new
empirical context. It will be of interest to students and scholars
of IR, Chinese foreign and security policy and IR theory.
The question of how China will relate to a globalising world is one
of the key issues in contemporary international relations and
scholarship on China, yet the angle of innovation has not been
properly addressed within the field. This book explores innovation
in China from an International Relations perspective in terms of
four areas: foreign and security policy, international relations
theory, soft power/image management, and resistance. Under the
complex condition of globalisation, innovation becomes a
particularly useful analytical concept because it is well suited to
capturing the hybridity of actors and processes under
globalisation. By adopting this theme, studies not only reveal a
China struggling to make the future through innovation, but also
call attention to how China itself is made in the process. The book
is divided into four sections: Part 1 focuses on conceptual
innovation in China's foreign and security policies since 1949.
Part 2 explores theoretical innovation in terms of a potential
Chinese school of International Relations Theory. Part 3 expands on
innovation in terms of image management, a form of soft power, in
particular how China exports its image both to a domestic and
foreign audience. Part 4 highlights how innovation is used in China
by grassroot popular groups to resist official narratives. This
book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese
studies, Chinese foreign policy and international relations,
international relations theory and East Asian security.
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