Analyzes international and cultural relationships informed by "China," a category that is becoming ever more indispensable and yet unstable in everyday narratives.

• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: An Inescapable Agenda of Post-Chineseness
  • Background
  • From Chineseness to Post-Chineseness
  • Traces of Post-Chineseness in the Literature
    • Post-Chinese International Relations
      • The Chinese School of International Relations
      • Relational School of International Relations
      • The Post-Western Agenda
    • Post-Chinese Ethnicity
    • Post-Chinese China Studies
  • Unconventional and Composite Methodology
    • Post-Western Approach
    • Relational Lenses
    • Intellectual History
  • Structure of the Arguments and Cases
    • Formatting the Narratives
    • Snapshots of the Chapters
• Part 1 Decentralizing Chineseness: Relations from the Inside Out
  • 1 Away from China-centrism: Balance of Relationships
    • Self-centrism and Chineseness of Strangers
    • Balance of Relationships and Bilateral IR
    • Post-Chineseness as Relationality
    • Post-Chineseness and the Balance of Relationships
      • Post-Chinese Strategies
        • Moral Chineseness and BoR
        • Hybrid Chineseness and BoR
        • Exotic Chineseness and BoR
        • Equal Chineseness and BoR
        • Borderline Chineseness and BoR
        • Utility Chineseness
        • Post-Chinese Affects
    • Conclusion
  • 2 Into the Iron Brotherhood: Relational Epistemology
    • Theoretical Significance of the Sino-Pakistani Relationship
    • Into the Iron Relationship of the CPEC
    • Relational IR, Chinese Friendship, and the Bilateral Identity
    • Post-Chineseness against the Odds
      • Embedded Relationality
      • The Rationale of a Post-Chineseness Agenda
      • A Note on Post-Pakistaniness
      • Relationality Informed by Post-Chineseness
      • Formation of Experiential Chineseness
    • Conclusion: Implications for International Relations Theory
  • 3 Up from Subaltern Identities: Strategic Nonessentialism
    • Colonial International Relations and Taiwan
    • (Re)theorizing Decolonization via the Relational Discourse
      • “Can the Subaltern Speak?”2
      • Discourse as Power Reconsidered
      • Discourse as Relation
    • Yadong as Relational Discourse in Sun Yatsen’s Narratives
      • Yadong as a Relation
      • Sun Yatsen’s Yadong and East Asia
    • Taiwan’s Lost Opportunity for Decolonization during the Cold War
      • Taiwan’s Postcolonial Discourse
      • Cold War Intervention in Taiwan’s Decolonization
    • Conclusion
  • 4 Beyond Fundamentalist Faith: Cultural Nationalism
    • Cultural Nationalism as the Purpose of Post-Chineseness
      • Cultural Chineseness in a Multireligious State
      • Political Chineseness in a Multireligious State
      • Cosmopolitan Chineseness in a Multireligious State
      • Postmodern Chineseness in a Multireligious State
    • Post-Chinese Buddhism
      • Cultural Chineseness and Buddhism
      • Political Chineseness and Buddhism
      • Cosmopolitan Chineseness and Buddhism
      • Postmodern Chineseness and Buddhism
    • Post-Chinese Christianity
      • Cultural Chineseness and Christianity
      • Political Chineseness and Christianity
      • Cosmopolitan Chineseness and Christianity
      • Postmodern Chineseness and Christianity
    • Post-Chinese Confucianism
      • Cultural Chineseness and Confucianism
      • Political Chineseness and Confucianism
      • Cosmopolitan Chineseness and Confucianism
      • Postmodern Chineseness and Confucianism
    • Conclusion
• Part 2 Strategizing Chineseness: Relations from the Outside In
  • 5 Cultural Self Rebalanced: The Vietnamese Practices of Sinology
    • Introduction
    • Looking at China’s Post-Chineseness
    • Post-Chineseness as Intellectual Practices
    • Altercasting Embedded in Post-Chineseness
    • Memory versus Resource in Role Identity
    • Altercasting and Vietnam’s Practices of Post-Chineseness
      • Altercasting and Civilizational Chineseness
      • Altercasting and Scientific Chineseness
      • Altercasting and Sinological Chineseness
      • Reflective Altercasting and Ethnic Chineseness
      • Reflective Altercasting and Experiential Chineseness
      • Reflective Altercasting and Cultural Chineseness
    • Policy Implications
  • 6 Colonial Cleavages: Japanese Legacies in Taiwan’s Views on China
    • Introduction
    • Colonial Relationality of Modernity and War
      • Up from Colony
      • Post-Chinese Possibilities Embedded in Colonial Relationality
    • Six Illustrative Stories of Colonial Relationality
      • Hsu Chie-lin’s Practices of Cultural Chineseness
      • Yeh Chi-cheng’s Practices of Sinological Chineseness
      • Shih Ming’s Practices of Civilizational Chineseness
      • Chen Peng-jen’s Practices of Experiential Chineseness
      • Shih Che-hsiung’s Practices of Ethnic Chineseness
      • Parris Hsu-cheng Chang’s Practices of Scientific/Policy Chineseness6
    • Conclusion
  • 7 Ethnic Role-Making: China Watchers in the Philippines
    • Introduction
    • A Role Analysis of Post-Chineseness in the Philippine Context
    • Theoretical Propositions of Post-Chinese Agency
    • Epistemological Shifts Illustrated
      • Proposition 1.1: In-Group Chineseness Moves toward Out-Group Chineseness in the Long Run
      • Proposition 1.2: Out-Group Chineseness Does Not Move toward In-Group Chineseness
      • Proposition 2: Sinological Chineseness Is Stable
      • Proposition 3: Ethnic Chineseness Is Unstable
    • Allusion to a Comparative Agenda
  • 8 Geopolitical Distancing: Think Tanks in Southern Neighborhood
    • Civilizational Bridges qua Former Colonies
    • Four Possible Roles of a Bridge State
    • Role Identities of Nepal and Bangladesh
    • China Watching in South Asian Bridging States
    • Singapore’s Role-Making and China Watching
    • Chinese Legacy Denied a Bridge Role
    • Crafting Objectivism at EAI
    • Conclusion
• Part 3 Belonging to Chineseness: Relations from the In-between
  • 9 Me Inside and Outside: Performing for Hong Kong and Singapore
    • Prescribing Post-Chineseness for the Community
    • Chineseness and Cross-cultural Representations
    • Kuo Pao-kun’s Quest for Cultural Subjectivity
    • Kuo Pao-kun’s Unspeakable Methodology
    • Denny Yung and His Moving-Body Technique
    • Conclusion
  • 10 Sticking My Head Out under the Sky: A Presbyterian for Taiwan Independence
    • Introduction
    • Taiwan’s Approach to China Embedded in Colonial Relations
    • Church Relations versus Colonial Relations
    • The Rise of Contextual Theology
    • Approaching China from the Perspective of Contextual Theology
    • Conclusion
  • 11 China Watch for No One: Relating Taiwan and China in Hong Kong?
    • The Hong Kong Platform
    • Position and Purpose in Hong Kong’s China Watching
    • Between the Inside and the Outside
      • Liao Kuang-sheng
      • Peter Nan-hsiung Lee
      • Byron Song-jan Weng
    • A Comparison of Taiwanese Intellectuals in Hong Kong
      • The Insiders and Their Cultural Chineseness
        • New Asia Scholars and Normative China
        • Szeto Wah and Authentic China
        • Danny Yung and Practical China
      • The Outsiders and Their Civilizational Chineseness
        • Chinese News Analysis (CNA) and Christian Sinology
        • Michael Bond and Cross-cultural Chinese Psychology
        • David Zweig and Internationalizing China
    • Conclusion
  • 12 Post-Western Politics and Mainlandization: Between Colonialism and Liberalism
    • Silenced by Nationalism and Liberalism
    • The Irony of 2015, or Any Year
    • The Caveats of Post-Western Politics
    • Post-(Western-)Chineseness
    • Implausible Chinese, Post-Western, or Western
    • Conclusion: Post-Chineseness and Mainlandization
  • In Lieu of a Conclusion: Noninternational Relations, Nonidentities
  • Appendix. Post-Asia and IR Research: A Pervasive Agenda
    • How Universal Is Non-Western?
    • Asia as Unfulfilled Epistemology
    • Being Critical also for the West
    • Four Illustrative Agendas for Future Prospects
      • Cyclical Temporality and Post-Western International Relations
      • Worlding the West and Global IR
      • Ontological Escape and National Schools of IR
      • Post-Asianness and the Relational Turns
    • An Ethical Note
• Notes
• Index