ABSTRACT
Bringing together a team of cutting-edge researchers based in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indo-Pacific countries, this book focuses on the tug of war between China’s influence and forces of resistance in Hong Kong, Taiwan and selected countries in its surrounding jurisdictions.
China’s influence has met growing defiance from citizens in Hong Kong and Taiwan who fear the extinction of their valued local identities. However, the book shows that resistance to China’s influence is a global phenomenon, varying in motivation and intensity from region to region and country to country depending on the forms of China’s influence and the balances of forces in each society. The book also advances a concentric center-periphery framework for comparing different forms of extra-jurisdictional Chinese influence mechanisms, ranging from economic, military and diplomatic influences to united front operations.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of comparative politics, international relations, geopolitics, Chinese politics, Hong Kong-China relations, Taiwan and Asian politics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |44 pages
Introduction
chapter 1|21 pages
Re-thinking China’s influence across surrounding jurisdictions
chapter 2|21 pages
More than sharp power
part I|44 pages
Contextualizing China’s influence
chapter 3|12 pages
China’s assimilation of peripheries in former Qing imperial frontiers
chapter 4|15 pages
Peripheral nationalisms of Taiwan and Hong Kong under China’s influence
part II|82 pages
China’s Influence in Peripheral Autonomy
chapter 6|14 pages
China’s influence on Hong Kong’s elections
chapter 9|16 pages
China’s influence on Hong Kong’s entertainment industry
part III|84 pages
China’s Influence in Peripheral Contested State
chapter 11|18 pages
China’s influence on Taiwan’s elections
chapter 12|14 pages
China’s influence on Taiwan’s economy
chapter 13|19 pages
China’s influence on Taiwan’s media
chapter 14|17 pages
China’s influence on Taiwan’s entertainment industry
part IV|74 pages
China’s Influence in Peripheral Sovereign States
chapter 19|19 pages
China’s influence in Australia and New Zealand
part |18 pages
Conclusion
chapter 20|16 pages
China’s influence and the pushback
part |13 pages
Epilogue