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SUMMARY:China’s international relations and harmonious world: time\, spac
 e and multiplicity in world politics - Dr Astrid Nordin\, University of 
 Lancaster
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DESCRIPTION:\nThe Manchester China Institute Evening \nSeminars Series 20
 18-2019\n\n\nDr Astrid Nordin \nUniversity of Lancaster\n\nWednesday\, 1
 4th November 2018\, 4:30-6:00pm\nCommon Room A\, Whitworth Building\n\n"
 China’s international relations and harmonious world: time\, space and m
 ultiplicity in world politics"\n\nAs scholars and publics look for alter
 natives to what is understood as a violent Western world order\, many cl
 aim that China can provide such an alternative through the Chinese dream
  of a harmonious world. This book takes this claim seriously and examine
 s its effects by tracing the notion across several contexts: the policy 
 documents and speeches that launched harmony as an official term under p
 revious president Hu Jintao\; the academic literatures that asked what a
  harmonious world might look like\; the propaganda and mega events that 
 aimed to illustrate it\; the online spoofing culture that is used to cri
 ticise and avoid "harmonization"\; and the incorporation of harmony into
  current president Xi Jinping’s "Chinese dream".\n\nThis book finds cont
 emporary Chinese society and international relations saturated with harm
 ony. Yet\, rather than offering an alternative to problems in "Western" 
 thought\, it counter-intuitively argues that harmony has not taken place
 \, is not taking place\, and will not take place. The argument unfolds a
 s a contribution to wider debates on time\, space and multiplicity in wo
 rld politics. Offering analysis of the important but understudied concep
 t of harmony\, Nordin provides new and creative insights into wider cont
 emporary issues in Chinese politics\, society and scholarship. \n\nThe b
 ook also suggests a creative and novel methodology for studying foreign 
 policy concepts more broadly\, drawing on critical thinkers in innovativ
 e ways and in a new empirical context. It will be of interest to student
 s and scholars of IR\, Chinese foreign and security policy and IR theory
 .\n
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LOCATION:Common Room A\, Whitworth Building\, Manchester
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