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Preface | |
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Note on Chinese Spellings | |
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Prologue | |
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The Singularity of China | |
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The Era of Chinese Preeminence | |
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Confucianism | |
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Concepts of International Relations: Impartiality or Equality? | |
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Chinese Realpolitik and Sun Tzu's Art of War | |
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The Kowtow Question and the Opium War | |
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The Macartney Mission | |
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The Clash of Two World Orders: The Opium War | |
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Qiying's Diplomacy: Soothing the Barbarians | |
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From Preeminence to Decline | |
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Wei Yuan's Blueprint: "Using Barbarians Against Barbarians," Learning Their Techniques | |
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The Erosion of Authority: Domestic Upheavals and the Challenge of Foreign Encroachments | |
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Managing Decline | |
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The Challenge of Japan | |
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Korea | |
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The Boxer Uprising and the New Era of Warring States | |
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Mao's Continuous Revolution | |
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Mao and the Great Harmony | |
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Mao and International Relations: The Empty City Stratagem, Chinese Deterrence, and the Quest for Psychological Advantage | |
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The Continuous Revolution and the Chinese People | |
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Triangular Diplomacy and the Korean War | |
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Acheson and the Lure of Chinese Titoism | |
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Kim Il-sung and the Outbreak of War | |
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American Intervention: Resisting Aggression | |
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Chinese Reactions: Another Approach to Deterrence | |
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Sino-American Confrontation | |
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China Confronts Both Superpowers | |
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The First Taiwan Strait Crisis | |
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Diplomatic Interlude with the United States | |
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Mao, Khrushchev, and the Sino-Soviet Split | |
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The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis | |
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A Decade of Crises | |
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The Great Leap Forward | |
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The Himalayan Border Dispute and the 1962 Sino-Indian War | |
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The Cultural Revolution | |
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Was There a Lost Opportunity? | |
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The Road to Reconciliation | |
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The Chinese Strategy | |
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The American Strategy | |
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First Steps-Clashes at the Ussuri River | |
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Resumption of Relations: First Encounters with Mao and Zhou | |
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Zhou Enlai | |
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Nixon in China: The Meeting with Mao | |
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The Nixon-Zhou Dialogue | |
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The Shanghai Communiqu� | |
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The Aftermath | |
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The Quasi-Alliance: Conversations with Mao | |
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The "Horizontal Line": Chinese Approaches to Containment | |
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The Impact of Watergate | |
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The End of the Mao Era | |
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The Succession Crisis | |
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The Fall of Zhou Enlai | |
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Final Meetings with Mao: The Swallows and the Coming of the Storm | |
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The Indestructible Deng | |
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Deng's First Return to Power | |
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The Death of Leaders-Hua Guofeng | |
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Deng's Ascendance-"Reform and Opening Up" | |
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"Touching the Tiger's Buttocks": The Third Vietnam War | |
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Vietnam: Confounder of Great Powers | |
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Deng's Foreign Policy-Dialogue with America and Normalization | |
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Deng's Journeys | |
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Deng's Visit to America and the New Definition of Alliance | |
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The Third Vietnam War | |
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Reagan and the Advent of Normalcy | |
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Taiwan Arms Sales and the Third Communiqu� | |
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China and the Superpowers-The New Equilibrium | |
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Deng's Reform Program | |
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Tiananmen | |
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American Dilemmas | |
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The Fang Lizhi Controversy | |
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The 12- and 24-Character Statements | |
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What Kind of Reform? Deng's Southern Tour | |
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A Roller Coaster Ride Toward Another Reconciliation: The Jiang Zemin Era | |
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China and the Disintegrating Soviet Union | |
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The Clinton Administration and China Policy | |
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The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis | |
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China's Resurgence and Jiang's Reflections | |
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The New Millennium | |
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Differences in Perspective | |
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How to Define Strategic Opportunity | |
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The National Destiny Debate-The Triumphalist View | |
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Dai Bingguo-A Reaffirmation of Peaceful Rise | |
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Epilogue: Does History Repeat Itself? The Crowe Memorandum | |
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Toward a Pacific Community? | |
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Afterword to the paperback edition | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |