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Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping
Auflage
1
Ort / Verlag
Cambridge: Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2018
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Before the Chinese Communist Party came to power, China lay broken
and fragmented. Today it is a force on the global stage, and yet
its leaders have continued to be haunted by the past. Drawing on an
array of sources, Sulmaan Wasif Khan chronicles the grand
strategies that have sought not only to protect China from
aggression but also to ensure it would never again experience the
powerlessness of the late Qing and Republican eras. The dramatic
variations in China's modern history have obscured the commonality
of purpose that binds the country's leaders. Analyzing the calculus
behind their decision making, Khan explores how they wove
diplomatic, military, and economic power together to keep a fragile
country safe in a world they saw as hostile. Dangerous and shrewd,
Mao Zedong made China whole and succeeded in keeping it so, while
the caustic, impatient Deng Xiaoping dragged China into the modern
world. Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao served as cautious custodians of
the Deng legacy, but the powerful and deeply insecure Xi Jinping
has shown an assertiveness that has raised both fear and hope
across the globe. For all their considerable costs, China's grand
strategies have been largely successful. But the country faces
great challenges today. Its population is aging, its government is
undermined by corruption, its neighbors are arming out of concern
over its growing power, and environmental degradation threatens
catastrophe. A question Haunted by Chaos raises is whether
China's time-tested approach can respond to the looming threats of
the twenty-first century.