Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Editors and Contributors -- EDITORS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Chapter 1 China's Borderlands and Their International Implications: An Overview -- THE LINKS OF BORDERLANDS WITH INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY -- IN THE NORTH AND NORTHWEST -- IN THE EAST -- IN THE SOUTH -- IN THE SOUTHWEST -- NOTES -- Chapter 2 The Disturbances in the Tibetan Areas and Ürümqi 2008-2009: Implications for China's International Relations -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- THE TIBETANS AND UYGURS -- THE DISTURBANCES -- CHINA'S INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, ESPECIALLY WITH RESPECT TO TIBET AND XINJIANG -- THE DISTURBANCES IN THE TIBETAN AREAS: IMPACT ON CHINA'S INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS -- The United States and the Western World -- Relations with India -- CHINA'S INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND THE XINJIANG RIOTS -- The United States and the Western Countries -- Impact on Relations with the Muslim World -- CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK -- NOTES -- Chapter 3 Peaceful Rise from the Border: Chinese Practice of Diplomatic Leadership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation -- INTRODUCTION -- PRACTICE OF BARGAINING LEVERAGE -- PRACTICE OF NEGOTIATING SKILLS -- PRACTICE OF INTELLECTUAL INNOVATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Chapter 4 China and Its Central Asian Neighbour -- INTRODUCTION: LOOKING BACK -- SECURITY INTERESTS -- ECONOMIC AND ENERGY INTERESTS -- Trade Relations -- Energy Interests -- CHINESE APPROACHES: A MIX OF BILATERAL AND REGIONAL -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Chapter 5 Facing Russia and Outer Mongolia: Border City Hulunbeier in the 1960s and the 2000s -- THE BIGGEST CITY IN THE WORLD? -- THE ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN HULUNBEIER -- An Earthshaking Change in the City -- Market Economy that is Full of Beans -- Unlimited Potential Resources to be Tapped -- NEW PROBLEMS FACING THE CURRENT URBANISATION WAVE.

A Tendency of a Rising Bubble Economy in Real Estate -- The Relationship between Government Control and Market Orientation -- Synchronisation between Economic and Social Development -- The Power for Expanding the Reform and Open Policy -- NOTES -- Chapter 6 Prelude to the Diaoyutai Dispute: Chinese-Japanese Controversy Over the Liuqiu Islands as Seen from an International System-Change Perspective -- NOTES -- Chapter 7 China's Northeast Water Frontiers, East China Sea Disputes and Co-Management Approach -- INTRODUCTION -- BORDERLANDS VS. WATER FRONTIERS -- CHINA'S PROBLEMS WITH ITS NORTHEAST WATER FRONTIERS -- In the East China Sea -- In the Sea of Japan -- DISPUTE OVER SENKAKU/DIAOYU-JAPAN/CHINA (ALSO TAIWAN) -- DISPUTE OVER CHUNXIAO/SHIRAKABA GAS AND OIL FIELDS: CHINA/JAPAN -- DISPUTE OVER SOCOTRA/SUYAN - SOUTH KOREA/CHINA -- DISPUTE OVER DOKDO/TAKESHIMA - SOUTH KOREA/JAPAN -- Significance - Political -- Significance - Economic -- Significance - Security/Military -- Significance - International Relations in the Region -- EVOLUTION OF BEIJING'S APPROACHES -- The History-Embedded Approach -- The National Interest-Driven Approach -- The Co-Management Approach -- CONCLUSION: CO-MANAGEMENT ON THE DISPUTES IN EAST CHINA SEA -- NOTES -- Chapter 8 The Evolution of Beijing's Military Strategy Toward Taiwan -- CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS UNDER MAO -- The Aborted Campaign to Capture Taiwan -- Politics Driving Cross-Strait Military Confrontation -- The anti-blockade operations -- 23 August bombardment -- A Brief Review Summary -- BEIJING'S TAIWAN POLICY UNDER DENG AND JIANG -- From Ye's 9-Point to 9.2 Consensus -- 1995: A Year of Turning Points -- HU JINTAO'S CONTROL OF TAIWAN POLICY -- 2004/05: Heightened Tensions in Cross-Strait Relations -- The Anti-Secession Law -- Hu's New Thinking: Ambiguity is the Name of the New Game -- Ambiguity on the one-China principle.

Ambiguity on a timetable -- BEIJING'S POLICY EVOLUTION SINCE 20 MAY 2008 -- De-Warization as the Immediate Goal -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Chapter 9 Theorizing Language Rationalisation in Greater China: Political Transition, Self-Governance and Language Outcomes in Post-Handover Hong Kong -- INTRODUCTION -- TOWARD A POLITICAL APPROACH TO LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY OUTCOMES -- LANGUAGE REGIMES AND THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE STANDARDS AND STANDARD LANGUAGES: GREATER CHINESE PERSPECTIVES -- LANGUAGE OUTCOMES IN POST-HANDOVER HONG KONG -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Chapter 10 Local Autonomy Matters: One-Country Two-System Policy in Macao and Its Implications for China's Policies on Its Borderlands -- INTRODUCTION -- LOCAL AUTONOMY: A CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS -- MACAO'S AUTONOMY - A CRITICAL EVALUATION -- FACTORS FAVOURABLE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ONE-COUNTRY TWO-SYSTEM POLICY -- IMPLICATIONS OF MACAO IN CHINA'S FOREIGN RELATIONS -- IMPLICATIONS OF BEIJING'S POLICY ON ITS BORDERLANDS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Chapter 11 China's Myanmar Policy: Challenges and Adjustments -- INTRODUCTION -- KEY COMPONENTS OF CHINA'S POLICY TOWARDS MYANMAR -- Border Stability -- Economic Interests -- Strategic Interests -- CHALLENGES OF CHINA'S POLICIES -- Uncertainty of Business Environment -- Anti-Chinese Feeling -- Beijing's Policies Undercut by Local Actors -- LIMITS OF CHINA'S LEVERAGE IN MYANMAR -- Economic Influence -- Political Influence -- HOW WILL CHINA ADJUST ITS POLICIES TOWARDS MYANMAR? -- NOTES -- Index.