Post-Chineseness: Cultural Politics and International Relations

360 Pages·2022·2.738 MB·English

by  Chih-Yu Shih

Post-Chineseness
SUNY series, James N. Rosenau series in Global Politics
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Post-Chineseness
Cultural Politics and International Relations
CHIH-YU SHIH
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Name: Shih, Chih-yu, author.
Title: Post-Chineseness : cultural politics and international relations / Chih-yu Shih,
author.
Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021] | Series:
SUNY series, James N. Rosenau series in Global Politics | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: ISBN 9781438487717 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438487724
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: An Inescapable Agenda of Post-Chineseness 1
Part 1
Decentralizing Chineseness:
Relations from the Inside Out
1 Away from China-centrism: Balance of Relationships 19
2 Into the Iron Brotherhood: Relational Epistemology 39
3 Up from Subaltern Identities: Strategic Nonessentialism 63
4 Beyond Fundamentalist Faith: Cultural Nationalism 83
Part 2
Strategizing Chineseness:
Relations from the Outside In
5 Cultural Self Rebalanced: The Vietnamese Practices of Sinology 103
6 Colonial Cleavages: Japanese Legacies in Taiwan’s Views
on China 127
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7 Ethnic Role-Making: China Watchers in the Philippines 145
8 Geopolitical Distancing: Think Tanks in Southern Neighborhood 169
Part 3
Belonging to Chineseness:
Relations from the In-between
9 Me Inside and Outside: Performing for Hong Kong
and Singapore 193
10 Sticking My Head Out under the Sky: A Presbyterian for
Taiwan Independence 211
11 China Watch for No One: Relating Taiwan and China
in Hong Kong? 227
12 Post-Western Politics and Mainlandization: Between
Colonialism and Liberalism 247
In Lieu of a Conclusion: Noninternational Relations, Nonidentities 269
Appendix. Post-Asia and IR Research: A Pervasive Agenda 273
Notes 283
References 291
Index 339
Illustrations
Figures
7.1 Two dimensions of post-Chineseness 149
7.2 Post-Chinese evolution in the long run 153
Tables
1.1 Post-Chinese BoR 30
2.1 China as the Imagined Object of an Incurred Relationship 53
2.2 China as the Imagined Subject of an Incurred Relationship 54
4.1 The Cultural Nationalism of Post-Chineseness 85
4.2 Buddhist Mechanisms of Post-Chineseness 90
4.3 Christian Mechanisms of Post-Chineseness 84
4.4 Confucian Mechanisms of Post-Chineseness 97
5.1 Post-Chineseness in the External Perspectives 112
8.1 Role-Playing of a Bridge State 174
11.1 Positioning China-Watch 230
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Acknowledgments
An earlier version of chapter 2 was originally published in The Chinese Journal
of International Politics, Oxford University Press, 11:2 (2018): 131–152,
10.1093/cjip/poy005
An earlier version of chapter 3 was originally published in Asian Perspective,
Johns Hopkins University Press, 44:2 (2020): 279–302, 10.1353/apr.2020.
0008
An earlier version of chapter 8 was originally published in Third World
Quarterly, Taylor & Francis 40:12 (2019): 2170–2189, 10.1080/01436597.
2019.1636642
An earlier version of chapter 11 was originally published in China Report,
Sage Publications, 54:1 (2018): 118–136, 10.1177/2455632717744405
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