Zhao offers a quick history of China's foreign policy since 1949 and then offers a provocative assessment of it today.
Reviews - China and the World
Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, and the Fate of US Power in the Pacific Century
November 29, 2017
Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan and the Fate of US Power in the Pacific Century
Ross and Tunsjø, eds, Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China - Power and Politics in East Asia, 2017
November 13, 2017
A review of Ross and Tunsjø book encompassing the political rise of China and the after effects for the world.
Frazier, The East is Black - Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination, 2014
June 1, 2017
Robeson Taj Frazier's book was reviewed by Joseph Parrott for the History of African Americans discussion list in June 2017.
Andrade and Xing, Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai - Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550-1700, 2016
May 1, 2017
The book edited by Andrade and Xing was reviewed for the H-Asia discussion list in May 2017. It is published here via creative commons license.
Holslag, China's Coming War with Asia, 2015
March 1, 2016
This review by Andrew Oros was published by the History of Diplomacy discussion list.
Cho and Crowe, eds, Germany and China: Transnational Spinners Since the Eighteenth-Century, 2014
March 1, 2016
This review by Irmy Schweiger was published on the History of Asia discussion list in March 2016.
Harnisch, Bersick, and Gottwald, eds, China's International Roles, 2015
March 1, 2016
Reviewed by Olga Daksueva for the History of Diplomacy discussion list, March 2016.
Radchenko, Unwanted Visionaries -- The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War (January 1, 2013)
January 27, 2016
Simon Miles reviewed Sergey Radchenko's book for the History of War discussion list.
Bickers and Howlett, eds., Britain and China, 1840-1970: Empire, Finance and War (July 7, 2015)
January 23, 2016
Reviewed by Stacie A. Kent for the History of Diplomacy discussion list.
Chen, Comparative Study of Child Soldiering on the Myanmar-China Border (2014)
July 27, 2015
Kai Chen's book was reviewed by Jane Ferguson for H-Asia and is published here under Creative Commons license.
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Thursday, May 4, 2023 - 4:00pm
Join us for a book talk with Suisheng Zhao on how Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Xi Jinping each conceived and executed radically different approaches to China's relations with others.