Publication Type
Book Chapter
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
7-2013
Abstract
To explain China’s recent turn from a modest foreign policy to a more assertive global stance, the chapter argues that we need to pay closer attention to how citizen intellectuals are challenging the foreign policy establishment’s monopoly on discussion of China’s place in the world. These new voices emerged as an unintended consequence of President Hu Jintao’s “harmonious world” policy, which created space for citizen intellectuals to talk about new post-western world orders. These official and unofficial sources chart a set of futures ranging from China fitting into the current international system, to China gradually changing international norms, to Beijing asserting a completely different model of politics, economics and society.
Keywords
China, foreign policy, strategic futures, citizen intellectuals, post-western world orders
Discipline
Asian Studies | International Relations | Political Science
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
China across the Divide: The Domestic and Global in Politics and Society
Editor
Rosemary Foot
First Page
19
Last Page
42
ISBN
9780199919864
Identifier
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199919864.003.0002
Publisher
Oxford University Press
City or Country
New York
Citation
CALLAHAN, William A.. (2013). China’s harmonious world and post-Western world orders: Official and citizen intellectual perspectives. In China across the Divide: The Domestic and Global in Politics and Society (pp. 19-42). New York: Oxford University Press.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/4369
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199919864.003.0002