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In this essay in the special issue on the Sino-Canadian relationship, the author presents a historical discussion of the political terra incognita of China to argue that a broad perspective of Chinas international history will offer more understanding than the study of discrete policy episodes. Chinese economic & political roles are traced through the historical era as the Asian Middle Kingdom, the impacts of British colonization, & the changing Sino-American relationship. The efforts to build an independent Canadian policy are contextualized in the WWII & Cold War policies, & the creation of a modernized Asian-Pacific multilateral organization is prescribed. The author concludes that Chinas return to political & economic power will require a fundamental rethinking about world affairs based on the knowledge of Chinese international history. J. Harwell

The foreign policy of Communist China was born in the loess caves of Yenan during the period 1935–45. For the first time after years of fighting, the Communists had leisure for reflection. Their government began to be a magnet for the younger members of the intelligentsia who repudiated the Kuomintang because the Kuomintang had proved unable to defend China's national interests; they were willing to try Communism as the cure for Imperialism. Already the Communist leaders were confident that in the long run they would come to power. In Yenan, in lectures and seminars, they built up concepts and the world picture which, with surprisingly little modification, have governed their foreign policy ever since.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Making of the Post-Tiananmen Intellectual Field: A Critical Overview -- Part I Against the Neoliberal Dogma: Four Arguments from China -- 2. Debating Liberalism and Democracy in China in the 1990s -- 3.Whither China? The Discourse on Property Rights Reform in China -- 4. The Changing Role of Government in China -- 5. Contemporary Chinese Thought and the Question of Modernity -- Post-Tiananmen Art -- Part II In the Global Context -- 6. King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the ''Handover'' from the U.S.A. -- 7. The Burdens of History: Lin Zexu (1959) and The Opium War (1997) -- 8. Mao to the Market -- 9. Chinese Consumerism and the Politics of Envy: Cargo in the 1990s? -- 10. Nationalism, Mass Culture, and Intellectual Strategies in Post-Tiananmen China -- 11. Street Scenes of Subalternity: China, Globalization, and Rights -- Appendix In the Tiger's Lair: Socialist Everydayness Enters the Market Economy in Post-Mao China -- Contributors -- Index

Relations with the ASEAN countries; issue of the Kampuchean conflict.

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