Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; Chinese Names of People Mentioned in the Text; Chinese Terms Mentioned in the Text; 1 Introduction; 2 China Meets Global Governance and Global Order: With or Against the Tide?; 3 China and the Global Health Regime: Alienation or Integration?; 4 HIV/AIDS Governance in China: International-Domestic Nexus; 5 China's Contribution to Global Health Governance: China's Role in Africa's AIDS Crisis and WHO; 6 Theorizing and Extrapolating China's Increased Participation in Global Health Governance
7 ConclusionNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Summary
In scrutinizing China's evolving global role and its intentions for global governance and global health governance, this book argues that China is neither a system-defender nor a system-transformer of the liberal international order. While acting in concert with other major powers, China strives to defend itself from the encroachment of liberal democratic values on the world stage. This is the first book to systematically examine China's participation in the global health domain. It examines how and why China changed its stance on its HIV/AIDS epidemic and investigates China's emerging role in
