Henry Kissinger served as national security advisor and then secretary of state under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and has advised many other American presidents on foreign policy. He received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Medal of Liberty, among other awards. He is the author of numerous books and articles on foreign policy and diplomacy and is currently the chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm.
In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to a country he has known intimately for decades, and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. Drawing on historical records as well as 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 global balance of power in the 21st century.
Since no other country can claim a more powerful link to its ancient past and classical principles, any attempt to understand China's future world role must begin with an appreciation of its long history. For centuries, China rarely encountered other societies of comparable size and sophistication; it was the "Middle Kingdom," treating the peoples on its periphery as vassal states. At the same time, Chinese statesmen-facing threats of invasion from without, and the contests of competing factions within-developed a canon of strategic thought that prized the virtues of subtlety, patience, and indirection over feats of martial prowess.
In On China, Kissinger examines key episodes in Chinese foreign policy from the classical era to the present day, with a particular emphasis on the decades since the rise of Mao Zedong. He illuminates the inner workings of Chinese diplomacy during such pivotal events as the initial encounters between China and modern European powers, the formation and breakdown of the Sino-Soviet alliance, the Korean War, Richard Nixon's historic trip to Beijing, and three crises in the Taiwan Straits. Drawing on his extensive personal experience with four generation of Chinese leaders, he brings to life towering figures such as Mao, Zhou Enlai, and Deng Xiaoping, revealing how their different visions have shaped China's modern destiny.
With his singular vantage on U.S.-China relations, Kissinger traces the evolution of this fraught but crucial relationship over the past 60 years, following its dramatic course from estrangement to strategic partnership to economic interdependence, and toward an uncertain future. With a final chapter on the emerging superpower's 21st-century world role, On China provides an intimate historical perspective on Chinese foreign affairs from one of the premier statesmen of the 20th century.
读书要有自己的思考 翻开这本厚厚的书,这是一个多次与中国接触的美国外交官写的对于中国近百年来的历史以及他对于中国几个领导人的认识。 分析清朝末期到建国以来中国的特性,作者主要有一个观点:中华民族从来都有强烈的民族自豪感,我们就是地球的中心,这源于我们深厚的文...
评分 评分中国的事,有时候外国人看得更明白。 倒不是因为别的什么原因,一是旁观者清,二是身在墙外。 透过老外的眼睛看看自己,不仅能更清楚的了解自己,而且也能知道外面人的视角和思维。 在当下这个时刻,更有价值。 新华社“勿谓言之不预”之后,王老师马上又要访美了。按照新乡时...
评分两个世纪之前的天廷洞开在一个外国人看来,清廷的对外态度是自然地沿袭了中华帝国的傲慢,但结果却是以夷制夷反被夷制,想谋定而动却被大势所趋。这让我反思一个“无能的清政府”的教科书结论是否显得太过单细胞。长久的清高加上不断的自我麻痹给了我们沉痛的教训。对于我们这...
评分《我将是你的镜子》本来是波普艺术家安迪·沃霍尔的一本访谈录。1982年,这位艺术家曾经有一次中国之旅。在这个给他奇异灵感的国度,这场被安排的旅途并不愉快,却留下不少诡异的照片。如今看来,吸引我们注意的倒不一定是那个苍白的西方人,反而是北京中八十年代初北京的风貌...
特别看了下春夏之交部分。另,说江flamboyant,但最容易被underestimated
评分无法评论。对政治什么的是在是太没有兴趣了。
评分The man is literally a primary source for all the significant historical moments in post-1949 China.
评分啃完了不容易!
评分读了改革开放以后的那部分,全是流水帐。最后稍微探讨了一下中国的崛起会不会像以前德国的崛起那样引起战争,可惜未曾深入,太浅薄了
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