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Over the past 250 years of momentous change and dramatic upheaval, China has proved itself to be a Restless Empire.
Tracing China’s course from the eighteenth-century Qing Dynasty to today's People’s Republic, Restless Empire shows how the country’s worldview has evolved. It explains how Chinese attitudes have been determined by both receptiveness and resistance to outside influence and presents the preoccupations that have set its foreign-relations agenda.
Within two decades China is likely to depose the United States as the world’s largest economy. By then the country expects to have eradicated poverty among its population of more than one and a half billion, and established itself as the world’s technological powerhouse. Meanwhile, some – especially its neighbours – are afraid that China will strengthen its military might in order to bend others to its will.
A new form of Chinese nationalism is rising. Many Chinese are angry about perceived past injustices and fear a loss of identity to commercial forces and foreign influences. So, will China’s attraction to world society dwindle, or will China continue to engage? Will it attempt to recreate a Sino-centric international order in Eastern Asia, or pursue a more harmonious diplomatic route? And can it overcome its lack of democracy and transparency, or are these characteristics hard-wired into the Chinese system? Whatever the case, we ignore China’s international history at our peril.
Restless Empire is a magisterial and indispensible history of the most important state in world affairs today.
WINNER OF THE 2013 ASIA SOCIETY BERNARD SCHWARTZ BOOK AWARD
Tracing China’s course from the eighteenth-century Qing Dynasty to today's People’s Republic, Restless Empire shows how the country’s worldview has evolved. It explains how Chinese attitudes have been determined by both receptiveness and resistance to outside influence and presents the preoccupations that have set its foreign-relations agenda.
Within two decades China is likely to depose the United States as the world’s largest economy. By then the country expects to have eradicated poverty among its population of more than one and a half billion, and established itself as the world’s technological powerhouse. Meanwhile, some – especially its neighbours – are afraid that China will strengthen its military might in order to bend others to its will.
A new form of Chinese nationalism is rising. Many Chinese are angry about perceived past injustices and fear a loss of identity to commercial forces and foreign influences. So, will China’s attraction to world society dwindle, or will China continue to engage? Will it attempt to recreate a Sino-centric international order in Eastern Asia, or pursue a more harmonious diplomatic route? And can it overcome its lack of democracy and transparency, or are these characteristics hard-wired into the Chinese system? Whatever the case, we ignore China’s international history at our peril.
Restless Empire is a magisterial and indispensible history of the most important state in world affairs today.
WINNER OF THE 2013 ASIA SOCIETY BERNARD SCHWARTZ BOOK AWARD
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About the Author:
Odd Arne Westad currently holds the ST Lee Chair in US-Asian Relations at Harvard University, before which he served as professor of international history at the London School of Economics. The author or editor of fourteen books and winner of numerous prizes, including the Bancroft Prize, Westad lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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"A rich history of the past 250 years of Chinese foreign policy."―Ian Johnson, New York Review of Books
"A fine example...of the way history can begin to make sense of [China] for an outsider."―Guardian (UK), Best History Books of 2012
"A wonderful book.... Westad upends, but ever so politely, a slew of misconceptions about China that have been concocted by his academic predecessors both in the West and in Asia."―John Pomfret, Washington Post
"A readable introduction to a vast topic, Restless Empire traces the development of modern China and provides context for understanding the country's future place in the world."
―New Yorker, Page-Turner blog
"Westad's clear account is extraordinarily useful, both for the context in which he puts it and for the use he makes of recent scholarship."―Commonweal
"To understand why the map that appears in the Chinese passport has angered diplomats outside China, Odd Arne Westad's perceptive accounts of the Sino-Indian War of 1962 and of more recent squabbles over islands in the South China Sea are essential reading"
―Times Literary Supplement
"[A] lucid and engaging book.... This fine survey is the best guide to appear yet on the knotty entanglements of China's pasts and futures."
―Literary Review (UK)
"China's relationship with the outside world since 1750 has been varied and complex. Westad explains all."
―Denver Post
"Westad's Restless Empire is thorough, fast-moving, and consistently clear. It gives an excellent introduction to the vagaries of China's foreign relations over the last 250 years."
―Jonathan Spence, author of The Search for Modern China
"Written by one of the most distinguished scholars on China, this book brings clarity and insight into complex historical issues."―Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans and co-author of Mao: The Unknown Story
"A fine example...of the way history can begin to make sense of [China] for an outsider."―Guardian (UK), Best History Books of 2012
"A wonderful book.... Westad upends, but ever so politely, a slew of misconceptions about China that have been concocted by his academic predecessors both in the West and in Asia."―John Pomfret, Washington Post
"A readable introduction to a vast topic, Restless Empire traces the development of modern China and provides context for understanding the country's future place in the world."
―New Yorker, Page-Turner blog
"Westad's clear account is extraordinarily useful, both for the context in which he puts it and for the use he makes of recent scholarship."―Commonweal
"To understand why the map that appears in the Chinese passport has angered diplomats outside China, Odd Arne Westad's perceptive accounts of the Sino-Indian War of 1962 and of more recent squabbles over islands in the South China Sea are essential reading"
―Times Literary Supplement
"[A] lucid and engaging book.... This fine survey is the best guide to appear yet on the knotty entanglements of China's pasts and futures."
―Literary Review (UK)
"China's relationship with the outside world since 1750 has been varied and complex. Westad explains all."
―Denver Post
"Westad's Restless Empire is thorough, fast-moving, and consistently clear. It gives an excellent introduction to the vagaries of China's foreign relations over the last 250 years."
―Jonathan Spence, author of The Search for Modern China
"Written by one of the most distinguished scholars on China, this book brings clarity and insight into complex historical issues."―Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans and co-author of Mao: The Unknown Story
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