This book scrutinises the frequently ignored agency of the Global South's sub-national actors in their interactions with China. Comprised of eleven case studies employing a multidisciplinary approach, contributors examine China's presence in the Global South on a country-by-country basis, analyzing how various non-state and sub-state actors are responding to the rise of China, and whether they are attracted by the cooperation models that China proposes, or deterred by its new assertiveness. Contributions cover diverse and heterogeneous geographies from the Global South, from Papua New Guinea to Argentina, Madagascar to Russia. In examining such diverse cases, contributors focus on two interrelated questions: What is the actual economic, political, and social impact of China's growing presence in the Global South? And, critically, how do the citizens of the Global South understand and interpret China's rise? Taken together, the case studies develop a comprehensive picture of a complex and sometimes problematic process of China's inclusion into the economic, social, and political realities of the Global South. This book identifies and fills the gaps in the existing literature on China's rise by offering a nuanced perspective on China's relations with the countries of the Global South, accounting for variables such as social context, intersubjective meanings, and identities. It also provides an important contribution to the literature on international politics of development and China's role in the transformation of the South-South cooperation. It is a vital text for students and scholars interested in China's rise in the context of international relations and world order. It provides insights and will be of interest to those in IR, development studies, anthropology, cultural studies, and communication studies.

Covers diverse and heterogeneous geographies of the Global South Shows that sub-state and non-state actors in countries of the Global South are not passive recipients Adopts a multidisciplinary approach bringing together insights

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Theodor Tudoroiu is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Université de Montréal and an M.A. from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. His China-related publications include The Myth of China's No Strings Attached Development Assistance: A Caribbean Case Study (Lexington Books, 2020), China's International Socialization of Political Elites in the Belt and Road Initiative (Routledge, 2021), and China's Globalization from Below: Chinese Entrepreneurial Migrants and the Belt and Road Initiative (Routledge, 2022). Anna Kuteleva is a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russia). Anna holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Alberta (Canada) and an M.A. in World Politics from Shandong University (China). Over the last ten years, she has worked extensively in the realm of political science and Chinese studies. Her research is located in a broad constructivist tradition of IR and focuses on the nexus between politics and sociocultural contexts in international relations, with particular interests in energy politics, security, Russia, and China. Anna recently published her first book that examines the development of bilateral energy relations between China and two oil-rich countries, Kazakhstan and Russia.

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Chapter 1. Not the Relationship You Would Expect: China, Sub-National Actors, and Structural Factors(Anna Kuteleva and Theodor Tudoroiu).- Chapter 2. Images and Models of China-led South-South Cooperation: What does Rising China Offer to the Global South?( Anna Kuteleva).- Part I: China's Image and Its Reception in the Global South.- PART 1 China's Image and Its Reception in the Global South.- Chapter 3 Manufacturing Sameness: Reconstructing Brand-China in Africa (Tara Mock).- Chapter 4 The Unguaranteed Hegemony of China in Global South: A Reception Analysis of China Central Television in Africa(Yu Xiang).- Chapter 5 China's global media in Latin America: Exploring the impact and perception in Mexico and Argentina(Pablo Sebastian Morales).- Chapter 6 Kung Fu vs. Radio Calisthenics: The Confucius Institute and Chinese Culture Education in Madagascar(Mingyuan Zhang).- PART 2 China as a Dividing Factor within Countries of the Global South.- Chapter 7 Melanesian Self-Reliance Discoursesand Chinese Investment: The Ramu Nickel Mine in Papua New Guinea(Henryk Szadziewski).- Chapter 8 China's Tied Aid to Trinidad and Tobago: Impact and Perceptions(Theodor Tudoroiu and Amanda Reshma Ramlogan).- Chapter 9 Indonesian Elite Perception of China during the Presidency of Joko (Jokowi) Widodo(Johanes Herlijanto).- PART 3 China's Acceptance as a Function of Partner Country's Structural Features.- Chapter 10 China's Colombia Conundrum: from Warm Reception to Failure, Apathy and Prejudice(Sabrina van den Bos).- Chapter 11 The impact of China's rise on the Russian Far East: Opportunities and Challenges(Anna Kuteleva and Sergei Ivanov).- PART 4 Chapter 12 Normative Power China, Subnational Agency, and Structural Factors in the Global South(Theodor Tudoroiu).