China is rising, but both Chinese and non-Chinese are wondering what message this rise offers. What do the Chinese want from the world? What can they give to the world? Many of those non-Chinese who perceive China’s rise as a threat and those Chinese who hold grievances over the wrongs that the Western and Japanese colonial
powers inflicted upon China in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries believe that the Chinese want to revive the country’s power and then take revenge for those wrongs. If this is the case, the world will be in a big trouble. Others believe that the rise of China may offer alternatives to the received economic and political models, which have been shown to be increasingly problematic.1 Therefore the message of the rise of China has become an issue that haunts not only academic researchers but also concerned citizens the world over.