Chih-Yu Shih
Biographic Data
| ID | 696295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chih-Yu Shih |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chih-Yu |
| FAMILY NAME | Shih |
| SIGNATURE | SHIH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Taiwan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6558-2545 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 84 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 154 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 81 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Outsourcing Globality to the Colonizers: The Global South as Contingent Solidarity
The Global South did not emerge because postcolonies naturally recognized their shared history or conditions. Rather, it was constituted by how colonizers collectively perceived and treated them, forged into a reluctant but increasingly articulate bloc, defined by an imposed inferiority intelligible only in contrast to colonial Europe. The more forcefully Europe asserted its superiority, the more readily the postcolonies perceived unity, transcen…
Beyond the Asian Nato: Historical legacies, discursive binaries, and the possibility of a relational security community in Northeast Asia
Academic Freedom as a Duty rather than a Right: A Confucian Perspective and Beyond
This article explores the relationship between academic freedom and the field of political science, focusing on scholars’ duty to engage in societal issues related to their area of expertise, rather than merely protecting their intellectual pursuits from outside influence. By drawing on and expanding the Confucian principles, it examines how this viewpoint informs the responsibilities of scholars and educators working within the discipline
Confucian Governmentality and Socialist Autocracy in Contemporary China
Confucian Governmentality and Socialist Autocracy in Contemporary China
Liberal political science misconceives socialist autocracy in China as the opposite, reinforcing its incapacity to explain the worldwide democratic recession in the 21st century and the failure of any democracy to recover. A fatal flaw of liberal scholarship lies in the conceptualization of politics as influencing the choices of independent individuals in aggregate. Practical consequences include a desire to avoid or convert allegedly illiberal s…
The Communication Effect of Thai Public Service Advertising in China: A Semiotic Analysis
With the increasing significance of public service advertising in information dissemination and value guidance, the dissemination effect of Thai public service advertisements in China has attracted widespread attention. This study selected 20 Thai public service advertisements from 2015 to 2022. It uses case analysis and semiotic theory to deeply explore the role of visual and auditory symbols in the effectiveness and dissemination of Thai public…
Fluid Population, Fixed Territory: Fantasizing a Non-solution to the US-China-Taiwan Status Quo
The US-China rivalry over Taiwan reveals the security issue’s ontologicalnature. If Taiwan were to become an independent sovereign nation, noimmediate change in the balance of global power need occur. However, itwould destroy the regime legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party andstrengthen the US’ reputation as the protector of liberal democracy. Againstthis background of deadlock, the idea of singular sovereignty has been anobstacle to any sol…
An Alternative Approach to Ideas and Personality: Chinese President Xi Jinping and His Mass-Line Sensibilities
This paper addresses a lacuna in the literature concerning how a ruler’s ideas shape their attitudes toward the world and others through their personality. It examines the political ideas of Chinese President Xi Jinping as his references to the self-in-relation rather than his schema to assess and treat alters-in-relation. In addition to allowing political actors to assess the world and engage in policymaking, personality may inspire them to use …
A Relational Analysis of Exceptionalism: Connecting Liberalism with Confucian Multilateralism and Emotion
The literature on exceptionalism is preoccupied with its distinctive national sources and resultantly differing styles. Exceptionalism has thus become almost synonymous with culture and identity, rather than international relations (IRs). The paper instead argues that exceptionalism reveals a relational identity that both informs and is informed by a multilateral relation prior to the emergence of exceptionalism. It also argues that all relationa…
The mission of relational IR and the translation of the Chinese relational school
Ontological Security Dilemma: A Practical Model of Relational Deterrence
The Quest for Post-Chineseness Among Chinese Indonesian Intellectuals: An Intellectual History Agenda
Due to the challenge of defining Chineseness, various disciplines can contribute to the subject without a single authority having a monopoly over its scope. Post-Chineseness is an evolving movement that aims to reduce the embarrassment of China scholars at their failure to exchange the methodologies and scopes of their subjects, often rendering them strangers to one another. Recognition is particularly relevant to the study of post-Chineseness. C…
Loving Hong Kong: Unity and Solidarity in the Politics of Belonging
This paper employs Confucianism to illustrate a kind of differential or benevolent love, which people give in accordance with their relations and roles. In this sense, Confucian benevolent love is more of a duty to create mutual belonging than an emotion of solidarity.1 This benevolent love contrasts with the universal love of liberalism and the resultant solidarity that those who express this form of love feel for one another—these people often …
Post-Chineseness: Cultural Politics and International Relations
Role and relation in Confucian IR: Relating to strangers in the states of nature
The literature on International Relations theory has yet to align relational theory with role theory, despite the fact that these two theories share so much epistemological common ground. This article uses role theory to bridge the gap between the Confucian and Western conceptions of relationality, whose practitioners regard each other as strangers. With the support of role theory, the comparative analysis of relationality in this article has mai…
‘Community of Common Destiny’ as Post-Western Regionalism: Rethinking China’s Belt and Road Initiative from a Confucian Perspective
Conventional explanations of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) focus on how the BRI will be in China’s interest, how it will strengthen China’s geopolitical position, or a combination of the two. We argue that such views are limited because they merely interpret the BRI through ‘Western’ IR lenses. This paper ‘re-worlds’ China by using the BRI as a case study to illustrate how in the discursive field(s) of China’s elite, China as a Westphali…
Forum: Did “America First” Construct America Irrelevant
Did "America First" construct America irrelevant? Answering this question has been the subject of much debate in the popular press, the policy community, and scholarly circles. That asked, it is worth remembering that scholars and policymakers have long argued that one of the most enduring and important aspects of the US role in the world is American structural power. Perhaps nowhere has the Trump administration's approach to world affairs been m…
Strategizing Femininity between the Global and the Taiwanese Local: Implications for International Relations
The article tackles a conceptual topic of postcolonial feminism—self-feminization. Specifically, the article explores the femininity of Taiwanese professionals’ bridging role between the head and branch offices of multinational firms in Taiwan, as well as between an allegedly universal ethos in science, market, and the globalization on the one hand and the humanist concerns for emotion, relation, and nuance on the other. The femininity of financi…
Engendering international relations of Shanghai: The metaphor of cheongsam and the construction of post-Western identities
China’s infinite transition and its limits: Economic, military and political dimensions
In China’s Infinite Transition and Its Limits: Economic, Military and Political Dimensions, three Russian scholars of China studies take readers inside the cycles of recentralisation within Chinese
Post-Chinese, Post-Western and Post-Asian Relations: Engaging a Pluriversal East Asia
Arguing that studies of China must simultaneously be studies of East Asia, this article offers a philosophically critical reflection on the meaning of Chineseness in lieu of the theme of the special issue—East Asia. The two regions are reciprocally holographical of each other. The latter part of the article will further propose a research agenda of post-Asianness. I hope to convey a message that is hidden but strong: that East Asia is a redundant…
A Relational Reflection on Pandemic Nationalism
Twenty-one years of Asian ethnicity: A Short Recollection
In February 2021, Asian Ethnicity formed a new team of editors-in-chief, led by Ian G. Baird, professor of geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Matthew W. King, associate professor of religi
Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Studies of China and Chineseness: Unlearning Binaries, Strategizing Self
Friendship in Chinese International Relations
Confucian friendship adds to the literature on friendship distance sensibilities and aims to maintain and even reinforce the Confucian ethical order, whereas contemporary international politics fails to provide any clear ethical order. The use of friendship and the concomitant creation of a friendly role by China indicate an intended move away from the improper order, including the tributary system, the Cold War, imperialism, and socialism. Confu…
Towards global relational theorizing: A dialogue between Sinophone and Anglophone scholarship on relationalism
What is ‘relational theorizing’ in International Relations and what can it offer? This article introduces a thematic section that responds to these questions by showing two things. First, relational theorizing is not a doctrine or a method, but a set of analyses that begin with relations rather than the putative essences of constitutively autonomous actors. Second, relational theorizing has emerged from different geo-linguistic traditions, and a …
National Role Conception as Foreign Policy Motivation: The Psychocultural Bases of Chinese Diplomacy
National role conception can be conceived of as the core of a grand causal map through which statesmen make sense of the world and their personal existence therein. An analyst should try to discover statesmen's world views in order to find out what type of relationship statesmen perceive the state to be involved in. The clarification of the relationship helps to identify those norms they associate with interstate relations. Diplomacy can be inter…
Confucianism with a Liberal Face: The Meaning of Democratic Politics in Postcolonial Taiwan
Neither cultural conversion to Western liberalism nor resort to local traditions such as Confucianism adequately deals with the hybrid nature of democratization in a postcolonial context. With its assortment of Chinese, Japanese, American, and Taiwanese hegemonic legacies, Taiwan offers a case in point. Its version of democratic politics operates across three contending normative domains: liberal political institutions, Confucian rationales for p…
A Relational Reflection on Pandemic Nationalism
Assigning Role Characteristics to China: The Role State Versus The Ego State1
Journal Article Assigning Role Characteristics to China: The Role State Versus The Ego State Get access Chih-yu Shih Chih-yu Shih National Taiwan University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 8, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 71–91, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1743-8594.2011.00158.x Published: 04 January 2012
China's Quest for Grand Strategy: Power, National Interest, or Relational Security
As China's power steadily rises, mutual role expectations between China and the United States become increasingly unstable. To ensure a mutually agreeable role for China, Chinese grand strategy has the double mission of presenting China as an accepted and respected matching power and of assuring the incumbent hegemonic power that China is a role-player. We apply the notion of national role style to analyse China's grand strategy. We argue that Ch…
Negotiating Ethnicity in China: Citizenship as a Response to the State
This challenging study brings together anthropology and political science to examine how ethnic minorities are constructed by the state, and how they respond to such constructions.Disclosing endless mini negotiations between those acting in the name of the Chinese state and those carrying the images of ethnic minority, this book provides an image of the framing of ethnicity by modern state building processes. It will be of vital interest to schol…
Affirmative Balance of the Singapore–Taiwan Relationship: A Bilateral Perspective on the Relational Turn in International Relations: Table 1
The relational turn of IR stresses the processual constitution of the state. The indigenous theory of Chinese IR adopts the relational turn but contends that the Chinese experiences are distinctive. Relying on the case of Singapore-Taiwan relationship, this paper argues that the Chinese relationality attests to a bilateral sensibility that does not confront the relational turn in general, which is multilateral. The case further contributes to the…
Covid-19, Democracies, and (De)Colonialities
Liberal democracies often include rights of participation, guarantees of protection, and policies that privilege model citizens within a bounded territory. Notwithstanding claims of universal equality for “humanity,” they achieve these goals by epistemically elevating certain traits of identity above “others,” sustaining colonial biases that continue to favor whoever is regarded more “human.” The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these fault line…
The West that is not in the West: Identifying the self in Oriental modernity
This paper discusses the meaning of 'the West' in Chinese and Japanese political discourse. It argues that for Japanese and Chinese political thinkers, the West does not exist in the West. Rather, the West is sometimes at the periphery and, at other times, at the centre. For them, 'the Chinese' is about the epistemology of all-under-heaven. There is no such concept as 'Other' in this epistemology. As a result, modern Western thinkers depend on op…
Ontological Security Dilemma: A Practical Model of Relational Deterrence
Role and relation in Confucian IR: Relating to strangers in the states of nature
The literature on International Relations theory has yet to align relational theory with role theory, despite the fact that these two theories share so much epistemological common ground. This article uses role theory to bridge the gap between the Confucian and Western conceptions of relationality, whose practitioners regard each other as strangers. With the support of role theory, the comparative analysis of relationality in this article has mai…
Ethnicity as Policy Expedience: Clan Confucianism in Ethnic Tujia-Miao Yongshun
In this paper, I examine the lack of attention given to ethnicity in Yongshun County in Tujia-Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Western Hunan. Contrary to most other papers on Chinese ethnic politics, my discussion is on the lack of ethnicity. The aim of this paper is to serve as a reminder that, in a case like Yongshun, ethnic identification means more to a visitor than to the locals. Yongshun's Tujia and Miao people do indeed form one community, bu…
Defining Japan: The Nationalist Assumption in China's Foreign Policy
Friendship in Chinese International Relations
Confucian friendship adds to the literature on friendship distance sensibilities and aims to maintain and even reinforce the Confucian ethical order, whereas contemporary international politics fails to provide any clear ethical order. The use of friendship and the concomitant creation of a friendly role by China indicate an intended move away from the improper order, including the tributary system, the Cold War, imperialism, and socialism. Confu…
International Relations of Post-Hybridity: Dangers and Potentials in Non-Synthetic Cycles
The term hybridity is losing its critical potential in the study of globalization, both because no one is not hybrid anymore and because awareness of hybridity might encourage violence. Whereas hybridity initially appeared as either cosmopolitanism or post-coloniality, it has however turned into a subversive celebration of unavailing indoctrination of any orthodoxy or canon. It is also the evidence of sited subjectivity or agency, whose unique ge…
Constituting Taiwanese Statehood: The world timing of un-Chinese consciousness
This paper argues against the popular impression that the rise of Taiwan's national consciousness is a result of democratization. Instead, it looks to the world timing of Taiwan becoming an independent reference point internationally for explanation of the changing identity in contemporary politics
A postcolonial reading of the state question in China
The notion of sovereignty in China carries a postcolonial legacy. Earlier Chinese leaders adopted the notion of sovereignty to protect themselves from Western imperialist intrusion. However, not only was their performance as a sovereign state judged against a set of criteria already determined externally, but their sovereign sphere was also constructed too late to avoid the imperialist remnants within China which were established before Chinese c…
Post-Chinese, Post-Western and Post-Asian Relations: Engaging a Pluriversal East Asia
Arguing that studies of China must simultaneously be studies of East Asia, this article offers a philosophically critical reflection on the meaning of Chineseness in lieu of the theme of the special issue—East Asia. The two regions are reciprocally holographical of each other. The latter part of the article will further propose a research agenda of post-Asianness. I hope to convey a message that is hidden but strong: that East Asia is a redundant…
Competing for a Better Role Relation: International Relations, Sino-US Rivalry and Game of Weiqi
Identities in Sino-Pakistani ‘Iron Brotherhood’: Theoretical Implications beyond the Economic Corridor
The Sino-Pakistani relationship illustrates a truly relational identity. It involves two relational selves constituting each other, and the formation of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) independently constituting each of them. Both the study and the presentation of this relational identity are only possible under an epistemology of relationality, as opposed to the epistemology of the self-interested actor. The article enlists the anthr…
Understanding China as practicing Chineseness: Selected cases of Vietnamese scholarship
The notion of post-Chineseness is enlisted to analyze Vietnamese Sinology as a comparative agenda. Chineseness can thus have various, if not entirely irrelevant, meanings. Vietnamese Sinologists have relied on different kinds of post-Chineseness to make sense of their relationship with the encountered Chinese to select and determine the mode of self-understanding, the purpose and a strategy to reconnect, and the normative criterion to assess and …
Relations and Balances: Self‐restraint and Democratic Governability under Confucianism
This article attempts to create a theory of relations and balances ( RaB ) in order to understand the systemic stability of democracy. It draws on Confucianism and compares Confucian self‐restraint with liberal self‐restraint. Empirical evidence suggests that on the one hand a Confucian constituency dislikes challenges to the authorities for the sake of systemic stability, but on the other it disapproves of authoritarian control in order to maint…
Between Core National Interest and a Harmonious World: Reconciling Self-role Conceptions in Chinese Foreign Policy
Journal Article Between Core National Interest and a Harmonious World: Reconciling Self-role Conceptions in Chinese Foreign Policy Get access Chih-yu Shih, Chih-yu Shih Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jiwu Yin Jiwu Yin † *Corresponding author. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Chinese Journal of International Politics, Volume 6, Issue 1, S…
Breeding a Reluctant Dragon: Can china rise into partnership and away from antagonism
the rise of china became a popular subject in china comparatively recently, gaining prominence only in the last decade. for those in china who were used to understanding modern chinese history as a history of victimisation at the hands of imperialism, recognising such a return to the world stage was an uneasy shift. in the context of international concerns that china’s rise poses a threat to world peace or a contribution to the clash of civilisat…
National Role Conception as Foreign Policy Motivation: The Psychocultural Bases of Chinese Diplomacy
National role conception can be conceived of as the core of a grand causal map through which statesmen make sense of the world and their personal existence therein. An analyst should try to discover statesmen's world views in order to find out what type of relationship statesmen perceive the state to be involved in. The clarification of the relationship helps to identify those norms they associate with interstate relations. Diplomacy can be inter…
China's Just World: The Morality of Chinese Foreign Policy
Chinese Managers' Motivation for Investment: Reflections On Some Interviews
A research note on workers' culture in China
This article reports a part of the field research carried out in Shanghai in 1991, dealing with worker's culture. Specifically, it examines the factory's role in shaping the worker's sense of future and meaningful life. In this particular aspect, factory identity among workers appears to be very weak, while those whose factory identity is strongest tend to be cadres and party members. This article argues that such lack of factory identity partial…
The Decline of a Moral Regime: China's Great Leap Forward in Retrospect
Chinese political culture has undergone profound changes since the Great Leap Forward (GLF) Campaign in 1958. The campaign extended the scope of the Chinese moral regime to its extreme. Ironically, the failure of the GLF destroyed the moral consensus in Chinese politics, undermined the myth of a supreme leadership, bred moral alienation in the masses, and more importantly, led to cadre corruption. This article sets out to examine the interaction …
State and Society in China’s Political Economy: The Cultural Dynamics of Socialist Reform
Shih demonstrates what reform has done to China's political and economic mechanisms and how the precarious coexistence of collectivism and individualism continues to dominate the thinking of the country's reformers
The style of chinese constitutional development: China and Taiwan
Defining Japan: The Nationalist Assumption in China's Foreign Policy
National Security is a Western Concern
China's Socialist Law under Reform: The Class Nature Reconsidered
Journal Article China’s Socialist Law Under Reform: The Class Nature Reconsidered Get access Chih-Yu Shih Chih-Yu Shih Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 44, Issue 4, Autumn 1996, Pages 627–646, https://doi.org/10.2307/840624 Published: 01 October 1996
The mass line approach to democracy in China
Before the current period of reform was initiated, the legitimacy of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was theoretically guaranteed due to the Party's high moral position in politics. However, legal reformers in China have recently begun to reconceptualize the notions of the mass line and democratic centralism. Thus reform, which was initially started to restore order, has now extended its scope to include the control of all political acto…
A postcolonial reading of the state question in China
The notion of sovereignty in China carries a postcolonial legacy. Earlier Chinese leaders adopted the notion of sovereignty to protect themselves from Western imperialist intrusion. However, not only was their performance as a sovereign state judged against a set of criteria already determined externally, but their sovereign sphere was also constructed too late to avoid the imperialist remnants within China which were established before Chinese c…
Confucianism with a Liberal Face: The Meaning of Democratic Politics in Postcolonial Taiwan
Neither cultural conversion to Western liberalism nor resort to local traditions such as Confucianism adequately deals with the hybrid nature of democratization in a postcolonial context. With its assortment of Chinese, Japanese, American, and Taiwanese hegemonic legacies, Taiwan offers a case in point. Its version of democratic politics operates across three contending normative domains: liberal political institutions, Confucian rationales for p…
Reconsidering the new institutional approach to China: English writings by Chinese Scholars
Steven Cheung, Will China Go Capitalist? An Economic Analysis of Property Rights and Institutional Change, Hobart Paper 94 (London: The Institute of Economic Affairs, 1982). Yasheng Huang, Inflation and Investment Controls in China: The Political Economy of Central‐Local Relations during the Reform Era (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Yushan Wu, Comparative Economic Transformations: Mainland China, Hungary, the Soviet Union and Taiw…
Between the Mosque and the State: The Identity Strategies of the Litong Muslims
Ethnicity as Policy Expedience: Clan Confucianism in Ethnic Tujia-Miao Yongshun
In this paper, I examine the lack of attention given to ethnicity in Yongshun County in Tujia-Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Western Hunan. Contrary to most other papers on Chinese ethnic politics, my discussion is on the lack of ethnicity. The aim of this paper is to serve as a reminder that, in a case like Yongshun, ethnic identification means more to a visitor than to the locals. Yongshun's Tujia and Miao people do indeed form one community, bu…
Navigating Sovereignty: World Politics Lost in China
In this book, the author undertakes a postcolonial analysis of identities the Chinese state uses to confront world politics and globalization. Because these identities are created at the confluence of
The global constitution of “Taiwan democracy”: Opening up the image of a successful state after 9/11
Consuming Part-time Nationalism: China as an Immigrant in the Global Society
If Chinese foreign policy is to continue enjoying legitimacy, one must not allow globalization to overwhelm, penetrate, or obscure the boundary of the Chinese state. However, if the contemporary goal of Chinese foreign policy is to globalize, the process of integrating unavoidably questions the very foundation of Chinese foreign policy. By reinterpreting and psychologizing China's foreign policy, this paper tackles the discursive strategy, pertai…
Negotiating Ethnicity in China: Citizenship as a Response to the State
This challenging study brings together anthropology and political science to examine how ethnic minorities are constructed by the state, and how they respond to such constructions.Disclosing endless mini negotiations between those acting in the name of the Chinese state and those carrying the images of ethnic minority, this book provides an image of the framing of ethnicity by modern state building processes. It will be of vital interest to schol…
Breeding a Reluctant Dragon: Can china rise into partnership and away from antagonism
the rise of china became a popular subject in china comparatively recently, gaining prominence only in the last decade. for those in china who were used to understanding modern chinese history as a history of victimisation at the hands of imperialism, recognising such a return to the world stage was an uneasy shift. in the context of international concerns that china’s rise poses a threat to world peace or a contribution to the clash of civilisat…
Lost Agency for Change: The Diasporic Identity in Yizhou's Shui Community
This paper discusses how an incorporated ethnic community has gradually lost its agency for change or subjectivity to face the state. Contrary to what a postcolonial writer wants to see, in the diasporic Shui community of Yizhou (a city in China's Guangxi Autonomous District) there is a lack of agency for change or self-empowerment. The paper reports how the Shui identity is reduced to a by-product of ancestor worship within each family. The loss…
Autonomy, Ethnicity, and Poverty in Southwestern China: The State Turned Upside Down
The Chinese state reaches out to ethnic communities in three different channels of autonomy, ethnicity, and poverty. However, each of these channels designates a submissive position to ethnic citizens
Constituting Taiwanese Statehood: The world timing of un-Chinese consciousness
This paper argues against the popular impression that the rise of Taiwan's national consciousness is a result of democratization. Instead, it looks to the world timing of Taiwan becoming an independent reference point internationally for explanation of the changing identity in contemporary politics
A Country of No Significance? InterpretingThe Japan Times's Inattentive Approach to Chinese Affairs in 1997
This article seeks to explain whyThe Japan Timestakes a backseat approach to events in China. Specifically, the Japanese English‐language newspaper demonstrated a lack of sensitivity when dealing with events that took place in China during 1997.The Japan Times's attitude is tantamount to actualizing a familiar identity strategy of withdrawal. For modern Japanese thinkers, such as Nishida Kitaro, Takeuchi Yoshimi, and Mizoguchi Yuzo, the withdrawa…
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