An Emerging China and Diasporic Chinese

Historicity, state, and international relations

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12422784
AutoresHong Liu (0000-0003-3328-8429, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen20
Número72
Páginas813-832
Fecha de publicación2011-09-16
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Contemporary China (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1067-0564 • E-ISSN: 1469-9400
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10670564.2011.604502
OpenAlexW2004580580
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20

The past decade has seen a growing body of literature on the (re)emergence of China and its implications for the new international order, and this scholarship is accompanied by the attempts from both within and outside of China to establish Chinese schools of international relations (IR). These admirable efforts, however, have been largely state-centric and concerned mainly with the balance of power, with little attention being directed to the diaspora's role in the evolution of China's international relationship and their potential contribution to bridging China studies and international relations theorization. Drawing upon theoretical insights from both IR and diaspora studies and employing a wide range of primary data including archives and personal interviews, this essay examines the diaspora's role (or the lack of it) in China's diplomacy since 1949 and attempts to conceptualize the Chinese experience in an historical and comparative perspective. I argue that historicity and state have played a significant part in shaping the interactions between the diaspora and diplomacy. The Chinese state's resilient capacity in domesticating (potential) diplomatic problems with respect to the diaspora and transforming them into new policy initiatives through facilitating diasporic participation in China's socio-economic and political processes has opened up new venues for the Chinese overseas to be involved in China's diplomacy. This article concludes by considering three different routes in engaging the diaspora with diplomacy at a time of China rising and by calling for strategic integration of diaspora into the emerging discourses on 'IR theories with Chinese characteristics

China · Diaspora · Diplomacy · Historicity (philosophy · International relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia