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Greater China: The Next Superpower? (review)

Greater China: The Next Superpower? (review) 244 China Review International: Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 1997 David Shambaugh, editor. Greater China: The Next Superpower. Oxford: Clarendon Paperbacks, 1995. ix, 310 pp. "Greater China" is now a common phrase in the press, and increasingly in academic discourse it is used as a new model for post-Cold War global politics. Greater China: The Next Superpower.--the product of a China Quarterly conference held in Hong Kong in January 1993--is an interesting book on fhis popular topic. Though there is often disagreement among scholars about the limits of Greater China, most of those represented in this volume see it in terms of the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Occasionally Macao, Singapore, and Overseas Chinese communities are also included. Since this conglomeration of people and places bodes to be a major player in world economic, political, and strategic relations, the volume addresses how different groups use and criticize die "Greater China" concept. In "Introduction: The Emergence of 'Greater China,'" editor David Shambaugh sets die volume up nicely by providing a concise summary of each of the chap- ters. He highlights how Greater China is part of a post-Cold War reconfiguration of International Relations and contains various http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

Greater China: The Next Superpower? (review)

China Review International , Volume 4 (1) – Mar 30, 1997

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244 China Review International: Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 1997 David Shambaugh, editor. Greater China: The Next Superpower. Oxford: Clarendon Paperbacks, 1995. ix, 310 pp. "Greater China" is now a common phrase in the press, and increasingly in academic discourse it is used as a new model for post-Cold War global politics. Greater China: The Next Superpower.--the product of a China Quarterly conference held in Hong Kong in January 1993--is an interesting book on fhis popular topic. Though there is often disagreement among scholars about the limits of Greater China, most of those represented in this volume see it in terms of the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Occasionally Macao, Singapore, and Overseas Chinese communities are also included. Since this conglomeration of people and places bodes to be a major player in world economic, political, and strategic relations, the volume addresses how different groups use and criticize die "Greater China" concept. In "Introduction: The Emergence of 'Greater China,'" editor David Shambaugh sets die volume up nicely by providing a concise summary of each of the chap- ters. He highlights how Greater China is part of a post-Cold War reconfiguration of International Relations and contains various

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