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After two decades since the disintegration of Soviet Union in 1991, the largest and the most populist socialist state — the People's Republic of China — does not only manage to stay intact, but has also emerged as the second largest economy in the world. Moreover, its political, diplomatic, military and cultural reaches have been extended to various parts of the world. There have been many factual and fictional discussions and debates in the public domains, on China's apparent rise either as a threat or an opportunity. This book will take on these discussions and debates to provide theory-informed empirical studies regarding a few research questions: How does the People's Republic of China manage to rise and achieve global reaches?How can we effectively conceptualize China's global reaches? What internal and external strategic and security measures have Chinese state adopted in order to maintain such vast and far-reaching constellations of domestic-external nexuses? We consider that the idea and concept of “Global China” is perhaps the most viable analytical instrument to capture such increasingly complex phenomena in association with the rise of China. Contents:Globalization: China's Challenges (Joseph Y S Cheng)Urbanization: Earning Money but Losing Ethnic Identity? (Yuen Fun So)Changing Faces of Chinese Labor Regimes: Case Studies in Beijing and Shenzhen (Ting Wang and Chris King-Chi Chan)Power and Surveillance in Everyday Life (Flora Sapio)Globalization and the Development of Civil Society in China (Joseph Y S Cheng)New Citizens in Urban China: From Exclusion to Inclusion (Xiaoqing Tang and Raymond K H Chan)Re-Inventing Confucianism: Return, Contradictions, and Possibilities (Anne Cheng)Resisting Global China: Local Resistance to China's Resource-Led Diplomacy in the Philippines and Beyond (Pak Nung Wong, Kathlene Aquino, Kristinne Lara de Leon and Yuen Fun So)China in Myanmar: Naypyidaw's New Great Game (Ricky Yue)China's Maritime Power Play in Indian Ocean since 1962: India's Assessment and Response (Commodore Seshadri Vasan)Dragon in the Tear Drop: Regional Dynamics of Growing Chinese Influence in Sri Lanka (S I Keethaponcalan)China in Africa: A Reflection on the Reconfiguration and Cross-Continental Implications of its Power and Political Economy (Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo)Conclusion: Whither 'Global China'? (Pak Nung Wong) Readership: Academics, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students interested in China's politics, China's governance, China's internal and external strategies, and security measures. Key Features:First book on the idea of “Global China”In-depth analyses of African and Asian states by leading scholarsKeywords:Global China;Governance;Foreign Relations;Africa;Asia

Academic Discourse presents a collection of specially commissioned articles on the theme of academic discourse. Divided into sections covering the main approaches, each begins with a state of the art overview of the approach and continues with exemplificatory empirical studies. Genre analysis, corpus linguistics, contrastive rhetoric and ethnography are comprehensively covered through the analysis of various academic genres: research articles, PhD these, textbooks, argumentative essays, and business cases. Academic Discourse brings together state-of-the art analysis and theory in a single volume. It also features: - an introduction which provides a survey and rationale for the material - implications for pedagogy at the end of each chapter- topical review articles with example studies- a glossary The breadth of critical writing, and from a wide geographical spread, makes Academic Discourse a fresh and insightful addition to the field of discourse analysis.

A basic property of human language is that it unfolds in time; the left and right margin of discourse units do not behave in a symmetrical fashion. The working hypothesis of this volume is that discourse elements at the left periphery have mainly subjective and discourse-structuring functions, whereas at the right periphery, such elements play an intersubjective or modalising role. However, the picture that emerges from the different contributions to this volume is far more complex. While it seems clear that the working hypothesis cannot be upheld in a “strong” way, most of the chapters – especially those based on corpus data – show that an asymmetry between left and right periphery does exist and that it is a matter of frequency.