China's material interests are in a stable global order, given the immense benefits that
Beijing has enjoyed under extant conditions. Although some accounts seek to portray China …

When external eyes turned to China 30 years ago (if they did at all), the focus was still on the
extent to which it might be breaking away from its socialist economic past. And though we …

China's spectacular economic growth over the past decades has given rise to a more
confident and proactive China in global governance. China is now an institution-builder, with …

Two sharply contrasting views of China exist today. On the one hand a rising superpower
predicted to have the largest economy in the world by mid century, on the other hand a …

Currently, the world system is in a state of complex crisis and transformation. The overall
influence of its US-led centre has weakened, and most of the global periphery is in either …

In this timely book, a group of leading scholars provides a comprehensive assessment of
China's polity, economy, and society. Taking the thirtieth anniversary of Beijing's adoption of …

As the last remaining socialist country with perhaps the fastest economic growth in the world
today, China presents a challenge to critical thinking about globalization. It is imperative that …

This book seeks to demystify the re-ascendancy of China as a civilization state. China's
politics and society are examined in the light of its living civilization, which is the only one of …

China has (re-) emerged as a great power in a world not of its own making. The distribution
of power in major organisations and the dominant norms of international interactions are …

China's economic rise has prompted predictions that it will become a global power and
supplant the US as the new global hegemon. However, Andrew TH Tan argues that, while …