01419cam a22002298i 4500 20260623142911.0 9781009393812 R 327.510 182 3 BRA/R 23/eng/20230602 Womack, Brantly, author. 16850 Recentering Pacific Asia : regional China and world order / by Brantly Womack, . - U K : Cambridge University Press , 2023 xvii+255 pages Includes bibliographical references and index. Continuities in China's Pacific Asian centrality -- Thin connectivity : traditional Chinese centrality -- Sharp connectivity : Western modernization and de-centered Pacific Asia -- Thick connectivity : the re-centering of Pacific Asia -- China, Pacific Asia, and reconfiguring a multinodal world -- Global power rivalry, Pacific Asia, and world order. "Brantly Womack argues that China's regional context is the key to both its economic success and its major political challenges. Pacific Asia is now the world's largest and most cohesive economic region, and China has returned to its center. China's regional experience and challenges will therefore shape its global outlook and prospects"-- International organization. 16845 Wang, Gungwu, 16851 Wu, Yushan, 16852 Qin, Yaqing, 16853 Goh, Evelyn, 16854 ddc REF 760962 760962