On China / Henry Kissinger.
Kissinger, Henry, 1923-
2011
DS775.8 .K47 2011 (Mapit)
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Title On China / Henry Kissinger.
Author Kissinger, Henry, 1923-
ISBN 9781594202711
1594202710
Publication Details New York : Penguin Press, 2011.
Language English
Description xviii, 586 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Call Number DS775.8 .K47 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 327.51
Summary "In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to a country he has known intimately for decades, and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. Drawing on historical records as well as his conversations with Chinese leaders over the past forty years, Kissinger examines how China has approached diplomacy, strategy, and negotiation throughout its history, and reflects on the consequences for the global balance of power in the 21st century. Since no other country can claim a more powerful link to its ancient past and classical principles, any attempt to understand China's future world role must begin with an appreciation of its long history. For centuries, China rarely encountered other societies of comparable size and sophistication; it was the "Middle Kingdom," treating the peoples on its periphery as vassal states. At the same time, Chinese statesmen-facing threats of invasion from without, and the contests of competing factions within-developed a canon of strategic thought that prized the virtues of subtlety, patience, and indirection over feats of martial prowess. In 'On China', Kissinger examines key episodes in Chinese foreign policy from the classical era to the present day, with a particular emphasis on the decades since the rise of Mao Zedong. He illuminates the inner workings of Chinese diplomacy during such pivotal events as the initial encounters between China and modern European powers, the formation and breakdown of the Sino-Soviet alliance, the Korean War, Richard Nixon's historic trip to Beijing, and three crises in the Taiwan Straits. Drawing on his extensive personal experience with four generation of Chinese leaders, he brings to life towering figures such as Mao, Zhou Enlai, and Deng Xiaoping, revealing how their different visions have shaped China's modern destiny. With his singular vantage on U.S.-China relations, Kissinger traces the evolution of this fraught but crucial relationship over the past 60 years, following its dramatic course from estrangement to strategic partnership to economic interdependence, and toward an uncertain future. With a final chapter on the emerging superpower's 21st-century world role,'On China' provides an intimate historical perspective on Chinese foreign affairs from one of the premier statesmen of the 20th century"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Chinese Realpolitik and Sun Tzu's Art of War
The Kowtow question and the opium war
The Macartney mission
The clash of two world orders: The Opium War
Qiying's diplomacy: soothing the barbarians
From Preeminence to decline. Wei Yuan's blueprint: Using barbarians against barbarians, learning their techniques
The erosion of authority: domestic upheavals and the challenge of foreign encroachments
Managing decline
The challenge of Japan
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The boxer uprising and the new era of warring states
Mao's continuous revolution: Mao and the great harmony
Mao and international relations: the empty city stratagem, Chinese deterrence and the quest for psychological advantage
The continuous revolution and the Chinese people
Triangular diplomacy and the Korean War. Acheson and the lure of Chinese Titoism
Kim Il-sung on the outbreak of war
American intervention: resisting aggression
Chinese reactions: another approach to deterrence
Sino-American confrontation
China confronts both superpowers: the first Taiwan Strait crisis
Diplomatic interlude with the United States
Mao, Khrushchev, and the Sino-Soviet split
The second Taiwan Strait crisis
A decade of crises: The great leap forward
The Himalayan border dispute and the 1962 Sino-Indian War
The cultural revolution
Was there a lost opportunity?
The road to reconciliation: The Chinese strategy
The American strategy
First steps: clashes at the Ussuri River
Resumption of relations: first encounters with Mao and Zhou
Zhou Enlai
Nixon in China: the meeting with Mao
The Nixon-Zhou dialogue
The Shanghai Communiqué
The aftermath
The Quasi-Alliance: conversations with Mao: The horizontal line: Chinese approaches to containment
The impact of Watergate
The end of the Mao era. The succession crisis
The fall of Zhou Enlai
Final meetings with Mao: the swallows and the coming of the storm
The indestructible Deng. Deng's first return to power
The death of leaders: Hua Gueofeng
Deng's ascendance: reform and opening up
Touching the tiger's buttocks: the third Vietnam War. Vietnam: confounder of great powers
Deng's foreign policy: dialogue with America and normalization
Deng's journeys
Deng's visit to America and the new definition of Alliance
The third Vietnam War
Reagan and the advent of normalcy
Taiwan arms sales and the third Communiqué
China and the superpowers: the new equilibrium
Deng's reform program
Tiananmen. American dilemmas
The Fang Lizhi controversy
The 12- and 24-character statements
What kind of reform? Deng's southern tour
A roller coaster ride toward another reconciliation: the Jiang Zemin era . China and the disintegrating Soviet Union
The Clinton administration and China policy
The third Taiwan Strait crisis
China's resurgence and Jiang's reflections
The new millennium. Difference in perspective
How to define strategic opportunity
The national destiny debate: the triumphalist view
Dai Binnguo: a reaffirmation of peaceful rise
Does history repeat itself? The Crowe memorandum
Toward a Pacific community?

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