Updating the papers from the 2011 Asan Conference to cover the end of 2011, this book reflects the state of analysis on the eve of the important 2012-13 transition to China's fifth-generation leaders.

Introduction: Gilbert Rozman PART I: CHINA'S LEADERSHIP AND FOREIGN POLICY 1. More Actors, Less Coordination? New Challenges for the Leaders of a Rising China; Thomas Christensen 2. China's Foreign Policy and the Leadership Transition: Prospects for Change under the 'Fifth Generation'; Avery Goldstein 3. Another Take on Prospects for the Foreign Policy of the Chinese Fifth-Generation Leadership; Shin Jung-seung PART II: CHINA'S THINK TANKS AND FOREIGN POLICY 4. Chinese Foreign Policy Research Institutes and the Practice of Influence; Bonnie S. Glaser 5. Moving between the 'Inner Circle' and the 'Outer Circle': The Limited Impact of Think Tanks on Policy Making in China; Quansheng Zhao PART III: CHINA'S NATIONAL IDENTITY AND FOREIGN POLICY 6. Chinese National Identity and Foreign Policy: Linkages between the Two; Gilbert Rozman 7. Chinese Nationalism and the American Response: Sources of Tension and Prospects for Renewed Cooperation; Robert S. Ross PART IV: FINANCIAL FACTORS IN CHINESE FOREIGN POLICY MAKING  8. China's Leadership and Their Financial and Monetary Policies; William H. Overholt 9. How Do Monetary and Financial Issues Interact with China's Foreign Policy Making?; François Godemont PART V: CHINA'S FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE KOREAN PENINSULA 10. China's North Korea Policy: Misperception and Reality (An Independent Chinese Perspective on Sino-Korean Relations); Chen Ping 11. China's Korea Policy in the Making; Yufan Hao 12. Disillusionment and Dismay: How Chinese Netizens Think and Feel about the Two Koreas; Peter Gries Index

Gilbert Rozman is a Musgrave Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, USA