International Relations in Modern China: Institualization of the Field

China today approaches the end of the “textbookish” era of studying by the West, which has been lasting for more than 150 years. The Great Power understood the value of its historical experience, traditional political culture, and philosophy with its logic and metaphysics. Chinese scientists actively “re­understand” and “reformulate” politically the thought of their great predecessors and formulate concepts of international relations, geopolitics, and the world system. Yan Xuetong, Qin Yaqing, Ye Zicheng, Zhao Tingyang, and many others have become a visible part of Western discourse on the problems of global policy, and such Chinese journals as “Contemporary International Relations”, “World Economy and Policy”, and “Intern a tional Politics”, the Chinese equivalents of “Foreign Affairs”, “Russia in World Politics”, and “Internat ional Process”, have won respect among scientists.

The article tries to show the Chinese viewpoint on the history of their “international relations” discipline. The author of the article had to find “international” content in the large quantity of original sources, systemize them, characterize them, and present the main problems of all the periods of the institutionalization of this discipline in China. It reflects the impact of China’s humiliation by Western powers on the national intellectual landscape, as well as the role of the Communist ideology and the Party in the development of the national school of International Studies. The article also introduces unknown Chinese literature to Russian researchers, and it also considers the Chinese discourse in its own context instead of “Western discourse in a Chinese context”.

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