Includes index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Perspective Shifts during the Development of Chinese Diplomacy: From Revolution and Nationalism to Development and Globalization / Baijia Zhang -- 2 China’s Contemporary Foreign Strategy: Ideology, Basic Platform, Current Challenges, and Chinese Characteristics / Yinhong Shi -- 3 China’s Dual-Identity Dilemma and Its Countermeasures / Shaojun Li -- 4 Traditional Chinese Culture and East Asian Security Cooperation / Fan Wang -- 5 Repositioning China in 2020 / China 2020 Research Team -- 6 “Marching Westwards”: The Rebalancing of China’s Geostrategy / Jisi Wang -- 7 Power Shift and Change in the International System / Xuetong Yan -- 8 China’s Rise, the Transformation of East Asian Regional Structure, and Development Direction of the East Asian Order / Fangyin Zhou -- 9 Terrestrial and Maritime Territorial Disputes and Their Resolution in the Process of China’s Rise / Xiangyang Li -- 10 The Strategy of China’s Opening-Up under New Circumstances / Haizhou Huang and Chengjun Zhou -- 11 Revisiting the Internationalization of the Yuan / Yongding Yu -- 12 Challenges Facing the Global Governance Mechanism and China’s Counter-Measures / Fan He , Weijiang Feng and Jin Xu -- 13 Building Mutual Trust between China and the u.s. / Yingyi Qian , Qingguo Jia , Chong’en Bai and Jisi Wang -- 14 Sino-u.s. Relations: Ideological Clashes and Competitions / Xinchun Niu -- Index.

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Where do we see China’s changes? What are the guiding principles behind these changes? Are China’s diplomatic policies and international strategies more reflective of its own national conditions or international trends? How will China balance its ideology with national interests? How does China see the current international order and its new position within the existing order? Besides answering these basic questions, this volume considers two other important issues: First, the future of China after its era of continuous high-speed growth; and second, (the all-important question in China’s foreign affairs) the future of Sino-US relations? 2013 was China’s first year under new leadership, and there is a consensus amongst researchers of China’s international affairs that the diplomatic practices China undertook to a great extent demonstrated new characteristics, perspectives, and requirements of the new leadership.