{"title":"Books by Chih-yu Shih","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781438498881","title":"Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCreative exploration of how the encounter between Confucianism and western (neo)liberalism necessarily leads to the unlearning of both.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePluriversalism within International Relations and the literature on Chinese international relations each embrace ideas of relation and difference. While they similarly strive for recognition by Western academics, they do not seriously engage with each other. To the extent that either succeeds in winning recognition, it ironically reproduces Western centrism and the binary of the Western versus the non-Western. In \u003ci\u003eRelations and Roles in China's Internationalism\u003c\/i\u003e, author Chih-yu Shih demonstrates, through a critical translation exercise, that Confucian themes enable both the critique and realignment of liberal thought, allowing all of us, including the members of Confucianism and the neo-liberal order, to understand how we adapt to and coexist with each another. In the end, Confucianism not only informs the pluriversal necessity that all are bound to be related but also de-nationalizes China's internationalism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56419821355381,"sku":"9781438498881","price":27.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781438498881.jpg?v=1786020487"},{"product_id":"decolonizing-security-in-east-asia","title":"Decolonizing Security in East Asia","description":"Decolonizing Security in East Asia challenges failing sovereign-centric models in the Indo-Pacific. It identifies a 'postcolonial security dilemma' where states camouflage ontological identity anxieties as existential survival discourse to secure Western recognition. The advocacy for an 'Asian NATO' epitomizes this mimicry, institutionalizing rigid binaries that provoke regional friction and invite the very external interventions they claim to deter. While regional groupings such as ASEAN or BRICS attempt to 'delink' from Western hegemony, they often fall into a 'Sovereign Sensibility Trap.' By hyper-fixating on sovereign equality, they ironically reproduce colonial logic, inviting fragmentation and marginalizing local peace. Moving beyond state-centrism, this Element proposes 'pluriversal coexistence' as a radical alternative. Through subaltern sites and grassroots vignettes, it demonstrates how security is found in relational, nonbinary practices rather than rigid borders. This Element provides a transformative framework for moving beyond the colonial architectures currently fracturing East Asian security.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57483359224181,"sku":"9781009700382","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781009700382.jpg?v=1786178500"},{"product_id":"post-chineseness","title":"Post-Chineseness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnalyzes international and cultural relationships informed by \"China,\" a category that is becoming ever more indispensable and yet unstable in everyday narratives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere have been few efforts to overcome the binary of China versus the West. The recent global political environment, with a deepening confrontation between China and the West, strengthens this binary image. \u003ci\u003ePost-Chineseness\u003c\/i\u003e boldly challenges the essentialized notion of Chineseness in existing scholarship through the revelation of the multiplicity and complexity of the uses of Chineseness by strategically conceived insiders, outsiders, and those in-between. Combining the fields of international relations, cultural politics, and intellectual history, Chih-yu Shih investigates how the global audience perceives (and essentializes) Chineseness. Shih engages with major Chinese international relations theories, investigates the works of sinologists in Hong Kong, Singapore, Pakistan, Taiwan, Vietnam, and other academics in East Asia, and explores individual scholars' life stories and academic careers to delineate how Chineseness is constantly negotiated and reproduced. Shih's theory of the \"balance of relationships\" expands the concept of Chineseness and effectively challenges existing theories of realism, liberalism, and conventional constructivism in international relations. The highly original delineation of multiple layers and diverse dimensions of \"Chineseness\" opens an intellectual channel between the social sciences and humanities in China studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57484093784437,"sku":"9781438487700","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57685785313653,"sku":"9781438487717","price":78.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781438487700_412df670-8b89-4eae-ad98-8c1a507058e8.jpg?v=1792598971"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-chih-yu-shih.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}