China's Strategic and Diplomatic Cultures

Catalog description

This course looks at the ways in which diplomacy and strategy have developed in the Chinese context. It examines Chinese strategic and diplomatic cultures through key historical texts, case studies, and contested ideas about Chinese approaches to international politics in peace and war. A theme of the course will be the question of how history and culture are understood in the present and what this can tell us about contemporary China. CUHK Course code: CHES3006, Enrollment limited.