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Chinese Perceptions of the U.S.

An Exploration of China's Foreign Policy Motivations

By: Biwu Zhang

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Chinese Perceptions of the U.S.

An Exploration of China's Foreign Policy Motivations

By: Biwu Zhang

China threat" has been one of hotly debated topics since the early 1990s, and this book is an effort to test the China threat thesis. The author argues that a test of the China threat thesis requires addressing two fundamental questions: whether China has the capabilities to challenge the international system and whether China has the motivations to do so. This book will offer a systematic study of China's foreign policy motivations by resorting to an image approach. The conclusion as to whether China is a status quo or a revisionist country will be reached by exploring how consideration of national interests and how China's perceptions of key characters of the U.S. affect China's foreign policy orientation. A summary of the dominant Chinese images of the U.S. will also contribute to understanding China's motivations vis-a-vis the U.S.

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Lexington Books

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0739170856

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9780739170854

Unnatural Narrative across Borders

Transnational and Comparative Perspectives

By: Biwu Shang

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Unnatural Narrative across Borders

Transnational and Comparative Perspectives

By: Biwu Shang

This book actively engages with current discussion of narratology, and unnatural narrative theory in particular. Unsatisfied with the hegemony of European and Anglo-American narrative theory, it calls for a transnational and comparative turn in unnatural narrative theory, the purpose of which is to draw readers’ attention to those periphery and marginalized narratives produced in places other than England and America. It places equal weight on theoretical exploration and critical practice. The book, in addition to offering a detailed account of current scholarship of unnatural narratology, examines its core issues and critical debates as well as outlining a set of directions for its future development. To present a counterpart of Western unnatural narrative studies, this book specifically takes a close look at the experimental narratives in China and Iraq either synchronically or diachronically. In doing so, it aims, on the one hand, to show how the unnatural narratives are written and to be explained differently from those Western unnatural narrative works, and on the other hand, to use the particular cases to challenge the existing narratological framework so as to further enrich and supplement it. The book will be useful and inspiring to those scholars working in such broad fields as narrative theory, literary criticism, cultural studies, semiotics, media studies, and comparative literature and world literature studies.

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Routledge

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0429859236

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Chinese Perceptions of the U.S.

An Exploration of China's Foreign Policy Motivations

By: Biwu Zhang

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An Exploration of China's Foreign Policy Motivations

By: Biwu Zhang

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Chinese Perceptions of the U.S.

Chinese Perceptions of the U.S.

Unnatural Narrative across Borders

Unnatural Narrative across Borders

Chinese Perceptions of the U.S.

Chinese Perceptions of the U.S.

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