1st Edition
China’s International Relations and Harmonious World Time, Space and Multiplicity in World Politics
By Astrid Nordin
Copyright 2016
202 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
220 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
220 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
The Chinese dream of a harmonious world: a story of appearance and disappearance 1. Policy discourse under Hu Jintao: doing and undoing things with words in Chinese politics 2. Chinese academic discourse: reinventing a hierarchical world order 3. Propaganda at the Shanghai Expo: foreclosing futures and simulating Chinese world leadership 4. Online spoofs under harmonisation: complicating cooperation and resistance 5. Xi Jinping’s Chinese dream: dreaming away the harmonious world. Concluding remarks: dreaming of future harmonies and multiplicities
Biography
Astrid H. M. Nordin is a Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University, UK
