ABSTRACT
In the past three decades or so China has undergone rapid, deep and wide transformations both at home and in relation to the rest of the globe and all signs are that they are accelerating as the old world order is shifting (Jacka, Kipnis, & Sargeson, 2013). In this context China is being watched and viewed from various disciplines, social, economic, political, psychological, legal, historical, etc. (e.g. Barabantseva, 2009; Brown, 2007; Dunford & Yeung, 2011; Hodge, 1998; Hua & Guo, 2007; Huang, 2003; Shambaugh, 2013). That does not mean, though, that China is now being understood in new, or fair, ways. More often than not, China continues to be represented as the Other: ‘threat’ to world security, ‘the biggest polluter’, ‘saboteur’ of ‘international’ law, ‘abuser’ of human rights, and so on and so forth (Brown, 2007; Chu, 2013; Lee, 2013; Li, 2008).
