Rebranding ChinaPub Date : 2019-01-08DOI: 10.11126/STANFORD/9781503606838.003.0004
Xiaoyu Pu
{"title":"Domestic Audience, Nationalism, and Weapons of Mass Consumption","authors":"Xiaoyu Pu","doi":"10.11126/STANFORD/9781503606838.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11126/STANFORD/9781503606838.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter opens with a conceptual analysis of how China signals a higher status through conspicuous consumption in international relations. It then turns to the importance of domestic audience and nationalism. The chapter discusses China’s aircraft carrier project and 2015 military parade, examining the underlying motivations and comparing the status signaling argument with competing approaches.","PeriodicalId":154028,"journal":{"name":"Rebranding China","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129510508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebranding ChinaPub Date : 2019-01-08DOI: 10.11126/STANFORD/9781503606838.003.0002
Xiaoyu Pu
{"title":"Status Signaling in International Relations","authors":"Xiaoyu Pu","doi":"10.11126/STANFORD/9781503606838.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11126/STANFORD/9781503606838.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the theoretical framework of status signaling in international politics. Status signaling is the use of a particular subset of signals to convey the information that a state is asserting a particular standing in international society. In a general sense, status signaling is the mechanism of information transmission that aims to change or maintain a special type of status belief among relevant political actors. Each audience is different, so an emerging power sends different status signals. There are various means through which the national leaders can signal the preferred status of their nation. This chapter identifies strategies and tactics of status signaling: conspicuous consumption, conspicuous giving, and strategic spinning.","PeriodicalId":154028,"journal":{"name":"Rebranding China","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127582878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebranding ChinaPub Date : 2019-01-08DOI: 10.11126/stanford/9781503606838.003.0006
Xiaoyu Pu
{"title":"Lying Low or Striving for Achievement","authors":"Xiaoyu Pu","doi":"10.11126/stanford/9781503606838.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503606838.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter analyzes China’s strategic spinning during the global financial crisis. Facing two types of global audiences (the global South and the West), China sometimes highlights its profile as an emerging great power and other times downplays its profile by emphasizing its developing country status. A developing country status serves multiple purposes for China. Targeting the West, signaling a developing country status sends a reassuring message, and it allows China to shirk greater international responsibilities. Targeting the global South, signaling a developing country status plays the solidarity card. The tension between China’s great power status and its identity of developing country is bound to increase as China seeks a new role in the twenty-first century.","PeriodicalId":154028,"journal":{"name":"Rebranding China","volume":"64 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113984668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebranding ChinaPub Date : 2019-01-08DOI: 10.11126/stanford/9781503606838.003.0003
Xiaoyu Pu
{"title":"China on the World Stage","authors":"Xiaoyu Pu","doi":"10.11126/stanford/9781503606838.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9781503606838.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes China’s multiple identities and audiences in detail. China’s identities include that of socialist country, developing country, both emerging and established great power, and quasi superpower, and its audiences include the domestic, regional, global South, and Western domains. While China certainly intends to build a positive image, the country has multiple incentives to project different images. This chapter illuminates the various motivations of China’s signaling behaviors.","PeriodicalId":154028,"journal":{"name":"Rebranding China","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114994840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebranding ChinaPub Date : 2016-04-29DOI: 10.7551/MITPRESS/9780262034364.003.0012
Judith Shapiro
{"title":"China on the World Stage:","authors":"Judith Shapiro","doi":"10.7551/MITPRESS/9780262034364.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7551/MITPRESS/9780262034364.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":154028,"journal":{"name":"Rebranding China","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130589265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}