The China Question

The China Question: Contestations and Adaptations provides fresh perspectives on, and empirics about, China’s international relations through the lens of the local and regional configurations and developments around the world. While China’s foreign policy strategies have received much attention, and in particular the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the local contestations and/or adaptations that China provokes in the countries and regions it engages remain under-researched. In this book, a global collection of scholars examines how countries, societies, and individuals around the world are responding to China‘s rise. Dragan Pavlicevic is Associate Professor in the Department of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, and researches China-Europe relations, China‘s infrastructure projects abroad, China‘s multilateral initiatives, and issues related to local-level and participatory governance in China. He is the author of Public Participation and State Building (Routledge, 2020) and numerous academic studies and policy analysis on China’s foreign relations. Nicole Talmacs is Associate Professor in the Department of International Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, and researches Chinese soft power and cultural exchange in areas of strategic interest to China. She is the author of China’s Cinema of Class (Routledge, 2017).