This volume contains 10 chapters on the relationship between China and the international society. International studies, East Asia studies, and other scholars from China discuss China's diplomacy, self-consciousness, and self-confidence; how China's engagement with the international system is a mutually influencing, two-way socializing process in which the logic of practice plays a role; the ideological sources of China's conduct; its interaction with international human rights norms; its international relations theories; its relationship with neighboring countries and foreign strategies; the role and influence of its mainstream media in South China Sea disputes; public policy and cross-border investment by Chinese enterprises; its approaches and future prospects for participation in United Nations peacekeeping and peacebuilding; and the founding of the Forum of China-Africa Cooperation. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)