1st Edition

An East Asian Challenge to Western Neoliberalism Critical Perspectives on the ‘China Model’

By Niv Horesh, Kean Fan Lim Copyright 2018
180 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

180 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Analysts generally agree that, in the long term, the biggest challenge to American hegemony is not military, but rather China’s economic rise. This perception is spread in no small measure because Xi Jinping has – in the face of patent military inferiority – conducted himself much more boldly on the world stage than Hu Jintao. Meanwhile, China has also begun conjuring up an alternative vision for... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Restoring Tang Splendour? A Critical Historical Assessment of China’s New Aspirational Narrative of Global Leadership

3. CPC Elite Perception of the US since the Early 1990s: Zheng Bijian, Wang Huning and Liu Mingfu as Test Cases

4. The ‘Singapore Fever’ in China: Policy Mobility and Mutation

5. The Chongqing vs. Guangdong ‘Models’ of Economic Development: Regional and Historical Perspectives on the Dynamics of Socioeconomic Change in post-Mao China

6. China: An East Asian Alternative to Neoliberalism?

7. Conclusions

Biography

Niv Horesh is a professorial visiting fellow at the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University.

Kean Fan Lim is assistant professor in economic geography in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham.