Challenges to Chinese Foreign Policy

When Beijing hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics, China symbolically asserted its role as an emerging world power-a position it is not likely to relinquish anytime soon. China's growing economy, military reforms, and staggering productivity have contributed to its ascendancy as a major player in international affairs. Western scholars have attempted to explain Chinese foreign policy using historical or theoretical evidence, but until this volume, few studies from a Chinese perspective have been published in English.

Yufan Hao is assistant professor of political science at Colgate University. He is the coeditor of China’s Foreign Policy Making: Societal Forces and Chinese American Policy. C. X. George Wei is professor of law in the Lee Kong Chian School of Law at Singapore Management University. He is the author of several books, including The Law of Copyright in Singapore. Lowell Dittmer is professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley. He has authored numerous publications and is coeditor of China’s Deep Reform: Domestic Politics in Transition.