Interpreting China as a Regional and Global Power

This collection discusses China's contemporary national and international identity as evidenced in its geopolitical impact on the countries in its direct periphery and its functioning in organizations of global governance. This contemporary identity is assessed against the background of the country's Confucian and nationalist history.

Jean-Christophe Defraigne, Saint-Louis University, Belgium and Zhejiang University, China Niall Duggan, University of Göttingen, Germany Kristof Elsen, Ghent University, Belgium Frank Gaenssmantel, University of Groningen, the Netherlands Bruno Hellendorff, Group for Research and Information on Peace and Security (GRIP), Belgium Tze-ki Hon is Professor History at the State University of New York at Geneseo, USA Thierry Kellner, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Julia Schneider, University of Göttingen, Germany Tanguy Struye de Swielande, University of Louvain, Belgium Ady Van den Stock, Ghent University, Belgium Tine Walravens, Ghent University, Belgium Hung-jen Wang, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh, University of Malaya, Malaysia