China's Contingencies and Globalization

How have Chinese views on globalization been developing over time? How is China managing the new normal of slower growth? Is China creating an alternative modernity? Is China a status quo power or a reform power? Can China manage its growing international role in international institutions and in the New Development Bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, along with infrastructure projects in the region such as One Belt One Road and the Maritime Silk Road? Can China achieve balanced interactions with ASEAN and with developing countries in the region and worldwide? How is governance in China evolving in relation to social movements, protests, labour struggles and migrant workers? Do Chinese policies in relation to religious diversity contribute to social harmony or to friction? This timely volume by Chinese and international scholars offers diverse perspectives on these questions. This book was originally published as a special edition of Third World Quarterly.

Changgang Guo is a Professor of History, Director of the Centre for Global Studies, and Director of the Centre for Turkish Studies, Shanghai University.

Debin Liu is Kuang Yaming Professor of International Studies and History, and the founder and Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs, Jilin University.

Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at University of California Santa Barbara.