"Chinese president Xi Jinping is most famously associated with his "Chinese Dream" campaign. Xi environs the dream to be one about the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Many observers, though, view China's pursuit of this dream as alarming. They see a global power ready t...

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1. Verfasser:	Sun, Jing 1974- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press March 2021
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1949- Diplomatie Außenpolitik China China / Foreign relations / 20th century China / Foreign relations / 21st century China / Politics and government / 20th century China / Politics and government / 2002- Cao, Xueqin / approximately 1717-1763 / Hong lou meng / Criticism and interpretation HISTORY / Asia / General Hong lou meng (Cao, Xueqin) Diplomatic relations Politics and government Since 1900 Criticism, interpretation, etc
Zusammenfassung:	"Chinese president Xi Jinping is most famously associated with his "Chinese Dream" campaign. Xi environs the dream to be one about the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Many observers, though, view China's pursuit of this dream as alarming. They see a global power ready to abandon its low-profile diplomacy and eager to throw its weight around. This book represents an inter-disciplinary effort of deciphering the Chinese Dream and its global impact. Jing Sun employs concepts from political science and journalism and those from literature, sociology, psychology and drama studies, to offer a multi-level analysis of various actors' roles in Chinese foreign policymaking: the leaders, the bureaucrats, and its increasingly diversified public. The title - Red Chamber has two layers of meanings: first, it refers to an earlier Chinese dream that nearly all the Chinese are familiar with - an 18th century literature classic Dream of the Red Chamber that describes the rise and fall of seemingly invincible powerhouses; second, it refers to the ornate, red-painted headquarters of the Chinese Communist Party in downtown Beijing, where its leaders now are dreaming global - hence the second part of the title World Dream. The classic epic novel Dream of the Red Chamber also offers methodological inspirations for this book: in telling a grand family's demise, the author Cao Xueqin rejected making any particular group of actors dominating the story narrative. Instead, he detailed activities by people at all levels. By doing so, the book presented a dynamic network of interactions, as power sparks on the nodes of this cobweb. Likewise, this book rejects a simple dichotomy of an omnipotent, authoritarian state versus a suppressed society. Instead, it examines how Chinese foreign policy is constantly being forged and contested by interactions among its leaders, bureaucrats, and people [...]."
Beschreibung:	viii, 224 Seiten Diagramme 23 cm
ISBN:	9780472054862 9780472074860