This book describes China's growing range of activities in Africa, especially in the sub-Saharan region. The three most important instruments China has at its disposal in Africa are development aid, investments and trade policy. The Chinese government, which believes the Western development aid...

Research on Chinese International Relations (IR) theory has produced a variety of discourses, including post-positivist analyses, contributions by area specialists and China watchers, and articles by Chinese IR scholars. These strands, however, hardly overlap or communicate with each other. To...

With the beginning of the post‐Maoist era, the focus of Chinese foreign policy shifted from ideology and revolution to pragmatism and reform. Chinese scholars in the field of International Relations (IR) are now encouraged to develop abstract scientific analyses of China's international...

Die nachfolgenden Beiträge behandeln aus einer jeweils individuellen Sichtweise die Erfahrungen mit Feldforschungsaufenthalten in Asien. Nach einer allgemeinen Einführung zum Verständnis von Feldforschung berichten einzelne Beiträge von Erfahrungen bei Forschungsaufenthalten in China, Japan,...