Shaun Breslin is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick and Senior Research Fellow, The Wong MNC Center. This collection was completed while he held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship to study the nature of China as a global power.

Ren Xiao is Professor of International Politics at the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai, where he is also Director of the Center for the Study of Chinese Foreign Policy.

In this book, leading Chinese specialists outline how their colleagues are studying and interpreting different dimensions of China's evolving global role - opening these Chinese language debates to a new audience.

Introduction: China debates its global role 1. The study of Chinese scholars in foreign policy analysis: an emerging research program 2. Grown from within: Building a Chinese School of International Relations 3. Striving for achievement in a new era: China debates its global role 4. Chinese conception of the world order in a turbulent Trump era 5. Chinese perception of China's engagement in multilateralism and global governance 6. China debating the regional order 7. Foreign aid study: Chinese schools and Chinese points 8. International law debates in China: traditional issues and emerging fields