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.
不了解中国的近现代史我就没办法理解当下的中国。从国际关系的角度审视中国对内对外政策的逻辑:在毛折腾了29年以后,邓制定了稳定压倒一切的前提下发展经济的战略,在这个前提下,边疆地区的处理方式变得可以理解了。而一直被欧美所诟病的人权问题,在我看来是执政党为了保持...
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...
评分读这本书的时候同时在读邓小平时代。读这类书总有些猎奇心理,看有没有自己还不知道的秘闻。邓很详实,从他的一生来分析他的作为和思考,本身不错。论中国作者絮叨了一大堆他和中国领导人的交往,有时觉得没重点,但到后来的思考却很重要。总体的说,邓还是一本书。论中国展示...
评分有些事情不方便议论,于是它们便变成了文字,经过时间的沉淀,留在了一本本回忆录里面。 基辛格的《论中国》是一本好书,它的亮点不仅在于从西方的眼光看待中国,还在于我们可以通过回顾熟悉的事件,体会西方的思维方式,同时从一个相对客观的角度重新审视并反思我国外交政策的...
评分权力是最好的春药。——基辛格 这是我对这个老头的最深的第一印象。可见美国政治家也是爱说骚话的。尤其是拜读了此书之后,在他开诚布公地批判了美国的普世价值推广理想主义之后,了解他是个高度务实的现实主义者之后,当年的中美世界精英(毛、邓、尼克松,里根,布什等)的全...
估计不会引进,或者是删节本。
评分啃完了不容易!
评分Not a diplomatic theoretical argument, not even a scholarly writing on Sino-US relations, typical "China's old friend" stance makes Kissinger a holy cow, permeated the naive students of the school of China studies. 2.5/5
评分Memoir rather than something else.
评分小时候读过许多基辛格的书,都是中译,封底还故弄玄虚地印着“内部发行”(其实并不难买到)。这次是第一次看他的英文原文。仍属跳读。
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