Contentious integration : post-cold war Japan-China relations in the Asia-Pacific / Chien-peng Chung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chung, Chien-Peng, author.

Series:

Rethinking Asia and international relations.

Rethinking Asia and international relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--Foreign relations--China.

Japan.

China--Foreign relations--Japan.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book studies the relationship between the People's Republic of China and Japan as the basis of the construction and maintenance of economic and security arrangements in the Asia-Pacific. It explains how these arrangements have been challenged by the occasionally testy ties between these two major Asian powers and explores their dynamic interactions in promoting their own agenda and ambitions, and obstructing that of the other's in contending for leadership of East Asia.

Contents:

Sino-Japanese relations in the first post-cold war decade

Proactive Japan and reactive China

China's initiatives in structuring regional multilateralism (1996-2004)

China-Japan relations in the post-Koizumi era : a brightening half-decade?

From mutual tolerance to separate ways

Delayed but proactive response : Japan strikes back

"One-upmanship" diplomacy over the Pacific

Competitive multilateralism : ASEAN in the context of China's advance, Japan's flanking and America's pivot

Looking forward : Japan and China in an East Asian community.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-57396-2

1-317-16045-2

1-317-16044-4

1-4724-1999-5

9781315573960

OCLC:

890725172