Understanding China's International Relations 理解中国的国际关系

China's influence on the international stage has grown significantly over recent decades. Alongside the rapid development of its economy, the country has come to play a key role within the global configuration of politics and diplomacy.

Zhiyan Guo is Professor and Subject Leader of Chinese at the University of Warwick, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK, and previously elected as Chair of the British Chinese Language Teaching Society. Her research interests include intercultural communication, language acquisition, Chinese characters and reading, and technology in language teaching. She published the monograph Young Children as Intercultural Mediator: Mandarin-speaking Chinese Families in Britain (2014) and other publications (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5852-441).
Ruth Herd has been Coordinator of Mandarin Chinese at Imperial College London since 2002. She has degrees in Chinese (1991) and Japanese (1983), both from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and obtained her doctorate in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford (2001). In 2021, with Zhaoxia Pang she co-authored "Complete Mandarin", a beginners' course in the Teach Yourself series (CEFR A1 to touching B2).
Jing Fang has an MSc in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh. She has over 30 years' experience in teaching Chinese literature and language, as well as in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. She has been Lecturer in Chinese at the University of Oxford since 2000. She has contributed to textbooks such as When in China: A Guide to Chinese Business Culture (2015) and Social Perspective: An Intermediate-Advanced Chinese Course (Routledge 2022).