1st Edition

China's Negotiating Mindset and Strategies Historical and Cultural Foundations

Edited By Guy Olivier Faure, I. William Zartman Copyright 2025
340 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

340 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book analyzes the mindset with which China enters into negotiations, and applies these insights into contemporary arenas of Chinese activity around the world. The volume presents and analyses the historical and cultural foundations of Chinese thinking as used in the practice of present-day negotiation. It begins by addressing the essence of Chinese negotiations and the Chinese mindset,... Read more

1. Introduction, Guy Olivier Faure and I. William Zartman  2. The Essence Of Chinese Negotiation And The Chinese Mindset, Guy Olivier Faure  PART I: Cultural Foundations         3. Chinese Board Games As Metaphors Of Chinese Strategy, Cyrille J.-D. Javary  4. The Confucian Approach To Negotiation, Shougang Zhang  5. Yin-Yang Chinese Negotiation Dance, Tachia Chin  6. Tai Chi And Chinese Negotiation Behavior, Alisher Faizullaev  PART II: Concepts in Action  7. Playing Power The Chinese Way, Bih-rong Liu  8. Friends And Foes, Yafeng Xia  9. The Role Of Face In Negotiations In China, Lihua Zheng  10. Languages Of Negotiators, Chiou-Fen Kao  PART III: Negotiating Business Relations  11. Business Negotiations, Zhi-Xue Zhang and Li Ma  12. Changing Priorities Driving China-U.S. Trade Negotiations, Amy P. Celico  13. Chinese Characteristics In EU Trade Negotiations, Weinian Hu  PART IV: Negotiating Geopolitics  14. The Belt And Road To The Near-Abroad And Central Asia, Maryia Danilovich  15. A Tale Of Two Approaches: Negotiating China-ASEAN Relationships, Frederick Kliem  16. The South China Sea, David A. Welch  17. Unraveling Chinese Mindset in the East China Sea, Tetsuro Iji and Yuan-kang Wang  18. Negotiations Across The Taiwan Straits, Koong-Lian Kao  19. Chinese Strategic Pragmatism versus Indian Brahmanical Idealism, Rajesh Kumar  20. Russian Perspectives on Chinese Negotiating Behavior: A Research Note, Mikhail Troitskiy  21. China’s Negotiating Strategy In Africa, David H. Shinn  PART V: Tying the Two Together  22. Chinese Mindset and Strategies: Inferences, Guy Olivier Faure  23. Practicing The Mindset, I. William Zartman 

 

Biography

Guy Olivier Faure is Professor Emeritus at the Sorbonne, Paris, and the China Europe International Business School, Shanghai, and President of the Diplomatic School of Brussels. He has authored/co-authored and edited 23 books and over 140 articles.

I. William Zartman is Jacob Blaustein Distinguished Professor Emeritus of International Organization and Conflict Resolution at The Johns Hopkins University-SAIS, Washington DC, and founding member of the Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) Program in Geneva (GCSP) and Abu Dhabi (AGDA). He has authored and co-authored two dozen works on negotiation and on African politics.