Prefaee SUNDegang&YahiaH ZOUBIR China’s Middle East Studies in Retrospect and Prospect SUNDegang I. China and the Middle East Revolts The Upheaval in the Middle East and China’S Middle East Policy YANG Fuchang China and the Arab Revolts WUSike China’S Middle East Policy toward the Arab Revolution YAOKuangyi Political Unrest in the Middle East and China’S Response LiU Zhongmin China’S Emerging Role in the New Arab World MohammadELSayedSELlM II. China’S Political and Security Ties with the Middle East On the Strategic Relationship between China and the Middle East Islamic Countries ZHU Weilie China’S Strategic Option:Approach the Greater Middle East through the Eurasian Hinterland ZHANGXiaodong The China-Arab States Cooperation Forum: Achievements,Challenges and Prospects Mohammed Numall JALAL III. China’S Economic and Trade Ties with the Middle East The Oil Politics&Geopolitical Risks with China’S “Going Global”Strategy toward the Greater Middle East WULei Exploring Economic Relations between China and the GCC States CHENMo Sino-Arab Economic and Trade Cooperation: Old Question.New 11ask QIANXuewen IV China’S Social and Cultural Ties with the Middle East The Economic and Trade Factors in China’S National Image in the Arab Countries ZHANGHong&LIUXinlu The Rise of GCC’S Soft Power and China,S Cultural Diplomacy MALirong International Competition for Discourse Power in the Middle East Upheaval and Implications for China LIWeijian About the Authors Index