Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's

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Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power

From the former New York Times Asia correspondent and author of China's Second Continent, an incisive investigation of China's ideological development as it becomes an ever more aggressive player in regional and global diplomacy.

For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set aside. China has asserted its place among the global heavyweights, revealing its plans for pan-Asian dominance by building its navy, increasing territorial claims to areas like the South China Sea, and diplomatically bullying smaller players. Underlying this attitude is a strain of thinking that casts China's present-day actions in decidedly historical terms, as the path to restoring the dynastic glory of the past. If we understand how that historical identity relates to current actions, in ways ideological, philosophical, and even legal, we can learn to forecast just what kind of global power China stands to become--and to interact wisely with a future peer.
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Steeped in deeply researched history as well as on-the-ground reporting, this is French at his revelatory best.

From the Hardcover edition.

Country	USA
Author	Howard W. French
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780385353335
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
NumberOfPages	352
PublicationDate	2017-03-14
Publisher	Knopf
ReleaseDate	2017-03-14
Studio	Knopf

Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power

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