Description:The Thucydides trap and a US-China face-off are not structurally inevitable; US-China relations are what the US and China make of them. Phua focuses on the ability to see US as US and China as China to trigger both countries' cultural tendencies towards pragmatism.Phua examines China's arduous journey to fit in the Westphalian system, the deep cultural misunderstandings by the West of Sunzi's The Art of War, and attempts to offer an inside-out cultural synthesis of classical and modern Chinese thought as a proxy of their operational code, beyond the standard clich�s about Confucian and Daoist thought. He builds on Jervis' perception and misperception as well as Alastair Johnston's cultural realism. Readers will benefit from a culturally-Chinese, western-educated and politically neutral understanding of China as China.An essential primer for academics, practitioners and students of international relations, diplomacy and Chinese culture.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cultural Pragmatism for Us-China Relations: Breaking the Gridlock and Co-Creating Our Future. To get started finding Cultural Pragmatism for Us-China Relations: Breaking the Gridlock and Co-Creating Our Future, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
154
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Routledge
Release
2022
ISBN
1000738574
Cultural Pragmatism for Us-China Relations: Breaking the Gridlock and Co-Creating Our Future
Description: The Thucydides trap and a US-China face-off are not structurally inevitable; US-China relations are what the US and China make of them. Phua focuses on the ability to see US as US and China as China to trigger both countries' cultural tendencies towards pragmatism.Phua examines China's arduous journey to fit in the Westphalian system, the deep cultural misunderstandings by the West of Sunzi's The Art of War, and attempts to offer an inside-out cultural synthesis of classical and modern Chinese thought as a proxy of their operational code, beyond the standard clich�s about Confucian and Daoist thought. He builds on Jervis' perception and misperception as well as Alastair Johnston's cultural realism. Readers will benefit from a culturally-Chinese, western-educated and politically neutral understanding of China as China.An essential primer for academics, practitioners and students of international relations, diplomacy and Chinese culture.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cultural Pragmatism for Us-China Relations: Breaking the Gridlock and Co-Creating Our Future. To get started finding Cultural Pragmatism for Us-China Relations: Breaking the Gridlock and Co-Creating Our Future, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.