The book explores the historical connections between China and the Middle East, detailing China's engagement with key countries in the region. It analyzes how China's growing influence is altering perceptions of the Chinese among Middle Easterners and addresses recent developments in these relationships.
The book analyzes recent research in world history, focusing on the interplay between modernity and empire. It integrates insights from history and international relations, highlighting economic factors within world systems. The author presents a roadmap for the evolution of world history as a discipline, offering a comprehensive understanding of its contemporary relevance and development.
Analyzing the economic history of empires, this study connects contemporary discussions in international relations and politics to the complex legacies left by historical empires. It explores how past imperial influences shape current global dynamics and debates, providing insights into the enduring impact of these powerful entities on modern governance and international interactions.
Critical Perspectives on the 'China Model'
Focusing on the China model, this book delves into its origins and implications for the global system as China enhances its regulatory capabilities. It explores how China's evolving economic strategies could reshape international dynamics. The content is particularly relevant for students and scholars interested in Chinese economics and economic history.
The author provides a concise diachronic survey of the economic history of modern Shanghai, setting out how the city's urban infrastructure, municipal institutions, consumer culture and industry have shaped, and have been shaped by, this economic power house.
This book attempts to identify change and continuity in PRC grand strategy, and the extent to which Chinese imperial history complicates PRC global outreach in the Xi Jinping era.Empires convey the wish to make the world a better place - even in the midst of oppression - and are eschatological in their rhetoric. However, empires that last longer have been more pragmatic in their grand strategy; sometimes appropriating the aura of past golden ages, and at other times learning from the mistakes of their predecessors. To date, Chinese strategic thinkers are preoccupied with learning lessons from the disintegration of the USSR and fascinated by the secrets of American power. Interdisciplinary in its reach, analysing grand strategy through both rhetoric and praxis, this book unpacks the Chinese world view through critical examination of the latest history textbooks currently in use in PRC middle schools. It also brings new evidence to bear on the debate in the West about Chinese strategic culture. Finally, it compares historical Japanese OFDI patterns with China in order to understand what makes the Chinese economy unique. China's Grand Strategy Under Xi Jinping is aimed towards students and scholars of history, international business and wider Chinese studies.