China Rising: Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy

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China Rising: Power and Motivation in Chinese Foreign Policy, edited by Yong Deng and Fei-ling Wang. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. viii + 349 pp. US$82.00 (hardcover), US$34.95 (paperback).

This edited volume seeks to study various factors bearing on the motivational structure of China's foreign policy. Fei-ling Wang's chapter defines this motivational structure as consisting of three Ps: (political) preservation, prosperity and power/prestige, of which political preservation is the most important. However, to use regime survival and political and social insecurity to interpret China's diplomatic behavior is becoming increasingly out of touch with reality. Many of …