On China
"In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the ...
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1 - The Singularity of 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 and 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 Guofeng
- 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
- A Roller Coaster Ride Toward Another Reconciliation The Jiang ...
- China and the Disintegrating Soviet Union
- The Clinton Administration and China Policy
- The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis
- China’s Resurgence and Jiang’s Reflections