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On China by Henry Kissinger is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is On China about?
The eminent historian and strategist reflects on how China's past illuminates its twenty-first-century trajectory, drawing on forty years of intimate acquaintance with the country and its leaders. In Untitled on China, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to the country he has known intimately for decades and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. Drawing on historical records as well as on his conversations with Chinese leaders over the past forty years, Kissinger examines how China has approached diplomacy, strategy, and negotiation throughout its history and reflects on the consequences for the twenty-first-century world.As Kissinger underscores, the unique conditions under which China developed continue to shape its policies and attitudes toward the outside world. For centuries, China rarely encountered other societies of comparable size and sophistication. China was the "Middle Kingdom," treating the peoples on its periphery as...
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Henry Kissinger
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA, Inc.
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Social Science, International Relations
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (25 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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