Premised on the idea that China and Japan posses the most significant "regional leader actor" capacity in East Asia due to material, technocratic, ideational, and other factors, this volume contains 13 papers addressing the question of leadership and regionalism for East Asia. Presented by Dent (East Asian international political economy, U. of Leeds, UK), the papers discuss the history and current realities of bilateral Sino-Japanese relations, the Japanese perspective on financial and trade summitry in the East Asian region, China's place in East Asia, Chinese discourse on Japan's changing security role in the region, constructing regional order by empowering China, community building versus Chinese hegemony in the management of regional security, Japan and China in the Group of Eight conferences and the United Nations, China's involvement in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the United States and Korea as intermediary powers. Annotation ⓒ2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)