The singularity of China. The era of Chinese preeminence
Concepts of international relations: impartiality or equality?
Chinese Realpolitik and Sun Tzu's Art of War
The Kowtow question and the opium war
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
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
Was there a lost opportunity?
The road to reconciliation: The Chinese strategy
First steps: clashes at the Ussuri River
Resumption of relations: first encounters with Mao and Zhou
Nixon in China: the meeting with Mao
The Quasi-Alliance: conversations with Mao: The horizontal line: Chinese approaches to containment
The end of the Mao era. The succession crisis
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 visit to America and the new definition of Alliance
Reagan and the advent of normalcy
Taiwan arms sales and the third Communiqué
China and the superpowers: the new equilibrium
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?