This stimulating book examines the increasing influence of domestic factors on China's foreign policy making and focuses in particular on China's policy towards the United States, exploring whether there has been an emergence of societal factors that have begun to exert influence over the policy process.

Contents: Introduction: influence of societal factors: a case of China's American policy making, Yufan Hao; Contending views: emerging Chinese elites's perception of America, Yufan Hao and Lin Su; Recent "anti-Americanism" in China: historical roots and impact, Hongshan Li; The role of the media: a case study of China's media coverage of U.S. War in Iraq, Yanmin Yu; The internet and China's foreign policy-making, Junhao Hong; Ministry of foreign affairs in the age of internet, Xin An (Lucian) Lu; Impact of intellectuals and think-tanks on Chinese foreign policy, Quansheng Zhao; Between war and peace: the role of nationalism in China's US policy-making with regard to Taiwan, Zhidong Hao and Su Hao; Civil society and Chinese foreign policy, Guoli Liu and Su Hao; Coastal provinces and China's foreign policy making, Zhimin Chen; Regional influence in China's US policy making: the roles of Shanghai and Wang Daohan, Zhiqun Zhu; Index.