China’s Grand Strategy Under Xi Jinping : How History Complicates Beijing’s Global Outreach (Paperback)

1. Introduction 2. PRC foreign policy: Mao vs. Xi 3. ‘One country, two histories’: how PRC and Western narratives of China’s pre-imperial and imperial past diverge 4. How PRC and Western narratives of Chinese modernity diverge 5. Chinese ‘strategic culture’ reconsidered 6. Peacetime or peaceful ? Identifying change and continuity in Chinese grand strategy from a global historical perspective 7. Examining new FDI patterns from a Japanese historical perspective 8. Conclusions