Negotiating Asymmetry: China's Place in Asia

by Anthony Reid and Yangwen Zheng

Though wary of China's rapid rise, her neighbors have considerable experience of dealing with unequal power without surrendering their autonomy. For its part, China has a long memory of unequal or "tributary" relations and a relatively brief and turbulent experience of working within the current useful fiction of "sovereign equality" in international relations. The emerging pattern will have to take account of the great discrepancy in economic and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824834127
• ISBN13: 9780824834128
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"