Interpreting Chinese foreign policy : the micro-macro linkage approach / Quansheng Zhao.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhao, Quansheng.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Foreign relations--1949-.

China.

International relations.

China--Politics and government--1976-.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xv, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Summary:

Interpreting China's increasingly diverse foreign relations and international conduct requires new, sophisticated tools of analysis. This book goes far beyond textbooks which examine Chinese foreign policy by way of diplomatic history: instead it provides a comprehensive, enduring, and useful framework for understanding Chinese policy decisions and behaviour patterns.

Quansheng Zhao applies the 'micro-macro linkage' model to Chinese foreign policy from 1949 to the present, illustrating how factors such as domestic constraints, the international environment, and individual actors combine to influence policy decisions. He shows how the key trends of modernization, nationalism, and regionalism have shaped the character and patterns of China's international behaviour. He then uses the model to interpret China's past and present policies towards Taiwan, the United States, the former Soviet Union, Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and South-East Asia. This book also offers teachers and students a comprehensive review of literature and analytical approaches, a solid overview of Chinese foreign policy, and helpful chronologies of Party and State leadership.

Quansheng Zhao's 'micro-macro linkage' approach opens new doors to fresh and valuable research, and is sure to remain one of the most important conceptual guidelines for a long time to come.

Contents:

1 The Study of Chinese Foreign Policy 3

2 The Micro-Macro Linkage Approach 18

Part II Micro-Macro Analyses: The Evolution of a Revolutionary Power 37

3 China's Symbolic Macrostructure and Changing Priorities 39

4 Institutional Macrostructure and the Policy-making Process 78

5 Power/Regime Macrostructure and Strategy and Tactics 115

6 Case Study: Japan's Official Development Assistance to China 148

Part III Conclusions: Chinese Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era 183

7 Modernization, Nationalism, and Regionalism 185

8 Policy Choices and New Research Agenda 229

Appendix 1 The Chinese Communist Party Leadership 254

Appendix 2 The PRC State Leadership 256.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-274) and index.

ISBN:

0195874293

0195874307

OCLC:

34583832