Nordin, Astrid

China's international relations and harmonious world: time, space and multiplicity in world politics / Astrid H.M. Nordin. - London: Routledge, 2016. - xvi, 202 p. 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Chinese dream of a harmonious world: a story of appearance and disappearance 1. Policy discourse under Hu Jintao: doing and undoing things with words in Chinese politics 2. Chinese academic discourse: reinventing a hierarchical world order 3. Propaganda at the Shanghai Expo: foreclosing futures and simulating Chinese world leadership 4. Online spoofs under harmonisation: complicating cooperation and resistance 5. Xi Jinping's Chinese dream: dreaming away the harmonious world. Concluding remarks: dreaming of future harmonies and multiplicities

9781138944879 (hardback)


International cooperation


China--Foreign relations--Philosophy.
China--Foreign relations

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