On China

The singularity of China. The era of Chinese preeminence

Confucianism

Concepts of international relations: impartiality or equality?

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

Korea

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?