Chinese perspectives on international political economy

Political Science

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 62-79

  Daojiong, Zha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

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EID: 25844523842     PISSN: 00323187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003231879704900105     Document Type: Review

References (58)

1. George T. Crane and Abla Amawi (eds.), The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy: A Reader (New York, 1997, 2nd edn.), p. 4.
2. One recent example of critical analysis of this phenomenon is Richard Madsen, China and the American Dream: A Moral Inquiry (Berkeley, 1995).
3. See also Yu Bin, 'The Study of Chinese Foreign Policy', World Politics, Vol. 46 (1994), pp. 235-61.
4. This sentence is a modification of Gearoid O. Tuathail and John Agnew's definition of 'intellectuals of statecraft' in 'Geopolitics and Discourse: Practical Geopolitical Reasoning in American Foreign Policy', Political Geography Quarterly (1992), p. 193.
5. The two articles by Gerald Chan and Song Xinning, respectively, stand as testimonies. In a separate piece, Gerald Chan informs us that the inability to form a genuinely Chinese theorisation on international affairs dates back to pre-modern China. See Gerald Chan, 'International Studies in China: Origins and Development', Issues & Studies, Taipei, Vol. 33 (1997), pp. 40-64.
6. Selected Works of Mao Tze-tung, Volume 5, p. 155.
7. Jiang Xuemo (ed.), Zhengzhi jingjixue jiaocai (Political Economy Textbook) (Shanghai, 1995, 8th edn.), p. 198.
8. For a presentation of these changes in Chinese polemics, see David Shambaugh, Beautiful Imperialist: China Perceives America, 1972-1990 (Princeton, 1991), chapter II.
9. Wu Shuqing, Wei Xinghua, and Hong Wenda (eds.), Zhengzhi jingjixue (ziben zhuyi bufen) (Political Economy (Capitalism)) (Beijing, 1993), p. 427.
10. Wu et al., Zhengzhi jingjixue, p. 429.
11. 'Advance along the Road of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics', Beijing Review, Vol. 30 (30 September 1987).
12. Gordon White, Riding the Tiger: The Politics of Economic Reform in Post-Mao China (Stanford, 1993), p. 162.
13. Xiandai hanyu cidian (Modern Chinese Language Dictionary) (Beijing, 1982), p. 686.
14. Concise Chinese definitions of IPE are difficult to find. Song Xinning came close to offering one as 'interactions of world politics and economics' in page 21 of his draft paper 'Teaching International Relations in China' at the conference on 'Teaching Social Sciences in East Asia'. However, a broader survey of Chinese literature shows that my own summary is more reflective of the actual state of affairs.
15. Excellent examples of applying these perspectives to the understanding of China's development trajectory are found in Alvin Y. So, Social Change and Development: Modernization, Dependency, and World-System Theories (London, 1990).
16. See also Alvin Y. So and Stephen W. K. Chiu, East Asia and the World Economy (London, 1995).
17. Thomas J. Christensen, 'Chinese Realpolitik', Foreign Affairs, Vol. 75 (September/ October 1996), p. 37,
18. footnote 2, referring to Alastair lain Johnston, Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History (Princeton, 1995).
19. Chang Zheng and Wang Xinfang, Guoji zhengzhixue (International Politics) (Beijing, 1995), p. 4.
20. Wu Kaiping and Sang Yucheng, 'Guoji zhengzhi jingjixue' (International Political Economy) in Ni Shixiong (ed.), Chongtu yu hezuo: xiandai xifang guoji guangxi lilun pingjie (Conflict and Cooperation: An Introduction to and Critique of Modern Western Theories on IR) (Chengdu, 1988), p. 271.
21. Wu Kaiping and Sang Yuchang, Guoji zhenzhi jingjixue, pp. 290-1.
22. Qiu Danyang, Shijie zhengzhi jingji yu guoji guanxi gailun (Introduction to the World Political Economy and IR) (Guangzhou, 1995), pp. 275-6.
23. Crane and Amawi, The Theoretical Evolution of International Political Economy: A Reader, p. 5,
24. citing Jacob Viner, 'Power versus Plenty as Objectives of Foreign Policy in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries', World Politics, Vol. 1 (October, 1948).
25. See, for example, Susan Shirk, The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China (Berkeley, 1993).
26. See also Gordon White, Riding the Tigers.
27. Wu et al, Zhengzhi jingjixue, p. 325.
28. For example, Xi Laiwang, Ershiyi shiji Zhong guo zhanglue da cehua, waijiao maolue (A Grand Strategy for China in the 21st Century: Foreign Affairs) (Beijing, 1996).
29. 'The Man Who Makes History', Beijing Review (12-18 October 1992), p. 17.
30. Cited in Janet B. Johnson and Richard A. Joslyn, Political Science Research Methods (Washington, D.C., 1986), p. 19.
31. Samuel Kim, 'China and the World in Theory and Practice' in Samuel Kim (ed.), China and the World: Chinese Foreign Relations in the Post-Cold War Era, 3rd edn., (Boulder, 1994), p. 7.
32. Deng Xiaoping, Jianshe you Zhong guo tece de shehui zhuyi (Building Socialism with Chinese Characteristics) (Beijing, 1992), p. 105.
33. Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping (in Chinese) (Beijing, 1993), Vol. 3, pp. 282-3.
34. My thanks to Gerald Chan for reminding me of this significant event.
35. Representative of the effort to construct an IR theory with Chinese characteristics is Liang Shoude and Hong Yinxian, Guoji zhengzhixue gailun (Introduction to International Politics) (Beijing, 1994). See also Liang Shoude's article in this special issue.
36. Feng Tejun, Dangdai shijie zhengzhi jingji yu guoji guanxi (Contemporary World Politics, Economics, and IR) (Beijing, 1995), pp. 248-50.
37. See also Renmin Ribao (People's Daily), 29 February 1990, p. 2,
38. Li Tianran, 'Guanyu zonghe guoli wenti' (On the Question of Comprehensive National Strength), Guoji wenti yanjiu (Studies of International Politics) (April 1990), pp. 52-8.
39. For an updated analysts, see Ren Yue, 'Sovereign in Chinese Foreign Policy: Principle and Practice', in Maurice Brosseau, Suzanne Pepper and Tsang Shu-ki, (eds.), China Review 1996 (Hong Kong, 1996), pp. 145-74.
40. Liang Shoude and Hong Yinxian, Guoji zhengzhixue gailun, p. 265.
41. Michael R. Fowler and Julie M. Bunck, Law, Power, and Sovereign State: The Evolution and Application of the Concept of Sovereignty (University Park, 1995).
42. Cynthia Weber, Simulating Sovereignty: Intervention, the State and Symbolic Exchange (New York, 1995).
43. Joseph A. Camilleri and James Falk, The End of Sovereignty? The Politics of a Shrinking and Fragmented World (Brookfield, 1992).
44. Zhang Zhongguo, 'Xianghu yiceng lilun' (Interdependence Theory) in Ni Shixiong (ed.), Chongtu yu hezuo, pp. 142-57.
45. Wu Shuqing, Wei Xinghua, and Hong Wenda (eds.), Zhengzhi jingjixue (shehui zhuyi bufen) (Political Economy (Socialism)) (Beijing, 1993), p. 319.
46. Samuel Kim, 'China and the World in Theory and Practice', p. 29.
47. See also Thomas W. Robinson, 'Interdependence in China's Foreign Relations', in Kim (ed.), China and the World, pp. 187-201.
48. William R. Feeney, 'China and the Multilateral Economic Institutions', in Kim (ed.), China and the World, p. 247.
49. Jiang Xuemo, Zhengzhi jingjixue jiaocai, p. 385.
50. See also Wu Shuqing et al., Zhengzhi jingjixue (shehui zhuyi bufen), p. 319.
51. Wu Shuqing et al., Zhengzhi jingjixue (shehui zhuyi bufen), p. 322.
52. Xu Luodan and Xie Kang. Zhongguo duiwai maoyi (China's Foreign Trade) (Guangzhou, 1995), pp. 94-6.
53. Good examples are numerous. Using Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol (eds.), Bringing the State Back in (Cambridge, 1985) should be a good start.
54. Again, good examples are numerous. A text that the Chinese can easily identify with is Alvin Y. So, Social Change and Development.
55. An excellent English-language text to start with is Stephen Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman (eds.), The Politics of Economic Adjustment (Princeton, 1992).
56. Such is the case in the four-volume Zhongguo jinyu shijie zhuyao jingjichuan yuankexue congshu (Series on Chinese Penetration into the Major Economic Blocs of the World) (Beijing, 1996). Instead of offering concrete advice for Chinese enterprises, the series simply repeats the mercantilist notion of global economic growth as a zero-sum game.
57. Ezra F. Vogel, 'Contemporary China Studies in North America: Marginals in a Superpower' in Asian Research Trends, No. 4 (1994), pp. 179-85.
58. See also Jonathan Spence, To Change China: Western Advisors in China 1620-1960 (New York, 1980).