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| Preface | |
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| Note on Chinese Sellings | |
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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 then 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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| SinoAmerican 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 Communique | |
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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-"Reforrn 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? | |
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| The Crowe Memorandum | |
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| Toward a Pacific Community? | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |