Understanding Japan-China Relations: Theories and Issues

This timely book examines new developments in Japan–China relations and new research conducted in Japan, China and elsewhere since 2006. The book covers major issues such as the September 2010 Chinese fishing boat collision incident, cross-Strait relations, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, and China's suspension of rare earth exports to Japan. It explores a variety of theoretical understandings of the Sino–Japanese relationship, namely relationship management, domestic politics, national identities and coevolution.

Readership: Academics, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students interested in Japan–China relations, Chinese foreign policy, Japanese foreign policy, East Asia international relations.

Ming WAN is Professor of Government and Politics at George Mason University's School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs. His PhD was from the Government Department, Harvard University. He held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard from the Program on US–Japan Relations, the John M Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the Pacific Basin Research Center, and was also a visiting research scholar at Tsukuba University and a George Washington University-Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Luce Fellow in Asian Policy Studies. He was on academic leave in Japan from August 2010 to August 2012, as a visiting professor at Keio University. He has authored The China Model and Global Political Economy: Comparison, Impact, and Interaction (Routledge, 2014), The Political Economy of East Asia: Striving for Wealth and Power (CQ Press 2008), Sino–Japanese Relations: Interaction, Logic, and Transformation (Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Stanford 2006), Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations: Defining and Defending National Interests (UPenn 2001), and Japan between Asia and the West: Economic Power and Strategic Balance (ME Sharpe 2001). He has also published in journals such as Asian Survey, Human Rights Quarterly, Orbis, Pacific Affairs, Pacific Review, and International Studies Quarterly and in edited volumes. His current research interests include East Asian international relations, international investment protection regimes, and political economy of security.