China has risen as a regional, if not a global, power within thirty years since its initiation of the reform and open-door policy. China’s economic, military, cultural, and diplomatic rise has been taken for so granted that the issue of the rise of China per se seems to be a taciturn topic in the community of the Chinese studies. With its breathtaking economic growth rates and massive expansion of trade and investment, Chinese economy has been recorded as the most viable contributor to the devel <<