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Post-Chineseness SUNY series, James N. Rosenau series in Global Politics ————— David C. Earnest, editor Post-Chineseness Cultural Politics and International Relations CHIH-YU SHIH Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 2022 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. For information, contact State University of New York Press, Albany, NY www.sunypress.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 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 (ebook) Further information is available at the Library of Congress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 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 vi Contents 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 vii 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 ix

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