Relation and role in China's internationalism : rediscovering Confucianism in a pluriversal world / Chih-yu Shih.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shi, Zhiyu, 1917-2001, author.

Series:

SUNY series, James N. Rosenau series in global politics

SUNY Series, James N. Rosenau Series in Global Politics Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internationalism.

Neoliberalism.

Confucianism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2024]

Summary:

Creative exploration of how the encounter between Confucianism and western (neo)liberalism necessarily leads to the unlearning of both.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Illustrations

Tables

Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Translating Confucianism as a Pluriversal Engagement

Background

Purpose: The Post-Western Pluriverse

Significance of the Topics: Nature, Order, and US-China Relations

The States of Nature

The Normative Order

US-China Relations

Theme: Relations and Roles

Structure: Cosmology, Relation, and Identity

A Note on Methodology

Part One. Cosmology: Denationalizing Tianxia

1. De-Sinicizing Tianxia: The Invisible Hand of International Relations

Denationalizing Tianxia: A Definition

Classical Sources for Spontaneous Tianxia

Tianxia as Mutual Soft Power

Conclusion

2. Rivalry in Tianxia: Hegemony as Role Relations

Introduction

Chinese Internationalism as Weiqi

Tianxia as the Stone Board of Weiqi

Winning the Game of Weiqi

China and the US in their Rival Roles

Weiqi versus Chess Players

Part Two. Relation: Practicing Confucian IR

3. Role and Relation in Confucian IR: Relating to Strangers in the States of Nature

The Confucian State of Nature

Defining Relation and Role for Confucianism

Confucian IR and Chinese Relational Policy

Case Study: Pyongyang's Improvisation

Pyongyang's Five Prior Relations

Inter-Korean Relations

The Historical Relations

Hegemonic Relations

4. Performing Anger: The Ethics of Foreign Policy Role Emotion

Defining Anger

Relation and Anger

Relational Anger as a Cultural Signal

Distinct and Universal Relations

Relationally Constituted Anger - The First Agenda

Strategic Audience-Role Anger

Assertive Self-Role Anger

Contagious Alter-Role Anger

Collective Universal-Role Anger

Anger-to-Mode Relation - The Second Agenda

Discussion

Pluriversal Relational Anger.

Chinese Relational Anger

5. Patience with Nonsolutions: Emotion and Trust in Role Creation

Patience as Relational Emotion

Relationality and Patience

Trust and Patience

Two Nonsolution Policy Examples

China-North Korea

Sino-US Relations

6. Corrupting Friendship: Distance Sensibilities in International Gift Giving

The Confucian Principles of Friendship

Friendship as Virtue

Friendship as a Danger

The Confucian Approach to International Friendship

Equal Friendship versus Hierarchical Socialism

Friendship to Abort Unwanted Relations

Examples Illustrative of China's Practices of Friendship

Two Relational Types of Friendship

The Four Policy Types of Friendship

Corrective Friendship

Illustrative Friendship

Dialectical Friendship

Indulgent Friendship

US Practices of Confucian Friendship

7. Doomed to Expand: Exception and Exceptionalism as the Mechanisms of Relating

Exceptionalism as a Relational Claim

Relational Expansion as a Necessity

The Absence of Exceptionalism in Confucian Multilateralism

Exception and Exemptionalism under Confucianism

Part Three. Identity: (De)securitizing Chineseness

8. Western Belonging Aborted: The Ideological Background of the US-China Rivalry

A Long Route of Constructing Chinese Revisionism

The US Perception of Chinese Revisionist Power

The Return of Chinese Liberal Critics and Dissidents

A Revisionist Power Composite of Confucianism and Socialism

The New Left and Political Neo-Confucianism

Becoming "Revisionist"

9. Neither Balance nor Deterrence: Relational Security across the Taiwan Strait

Relational Ontology and the Security Dilemma

The Revisionism-Informed Security Dilemma

Ontological Threats and Security.

Relational Threat as Deterrence

Relational Settings

Taiwan

The United States

China

A Practical Model

10. Building Post-Western Regionalism: Moral Superiority or Post-Tianxia?

Relations through "Directed Improvisation"

The Confucian Attitude

A "Community of Shared Future for Humankind"as Post-Western Regionalism

11. Experimenting with Twin Sovereignty: Implications for the Security Community

The Sovereignty-Locked Literature

An Exit from Sovereignty

De-territorializing the Security Community

Conclusion: Unlearning Chinese Relational IR

Relations between Relational Systems

Expansion and Coexistence of Relational Systems

Critical Translation

Pluriversal Practices and Chinese Relational IR

The Cosmological Dimension: Critical Translation and Abstraction

Systemic Dimension: Metaphors and In-Betweenness

Strategic Dimension: Role, Nonsolution, and Cycles

Relational Internationalism?

Notes

Index.

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ISBN:

9781438498874

9781438498898

1438498896

OCLC:

1446805607