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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Pan, Cehngxin
Titre(s) : Knowledge, desire and power in global politics [Texte électronique] : western representations of China's rise / Chengxin Pan
Publication : Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, 2012
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (x, 247 pages)
Note(s) : How is the rise of China perceived in the West? Why is it often labelled as 'threat'
and/or 'opportunity'? What are the implications of these China imageries for global
politics? Taking up these important questions, this ground-breaking book argues that
the dominant Western perceptions of China's rise tell us less about China and more
about Western self-imagination and its desire for certainty. Then Chengxin Pan expertly
illustrates how this desire, masked as China 'knowledge', is bound up with the political
economy of fears and fantasies, thereby both informing and complicating foreign policy.
Sujet(s) : Urbanisation -- Asie
Développement économique
Histoire économique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781782544241
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb437080330
Notice n° :
FRBNF43708033
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Cover; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction: knowledge, desire and power
in Western representations of China's rise; 2. Threat and opportunity: a bifocal lens;
3. Of fears and fantasies: neocolonial desire in Western self/Other imagination; 4.
The 'China threat' and the political economy of fear; 5. The 'China threat': a self-fulfilling
prophecy; 6. The 'China opportunity': false promises (and premises); 7. The international
politics of disillusionment; 8. China watching: towards reflection and dialogue; Notes;
Bibliography; Index.