Chapter 1: The Singularity of China. The Era of Chinese Preeminence ; Confucianism ; Concepts of International Relations : Impartiality or Equality? ; Chinese Realpolitik and Sun Tzu's Art of War -- Chapter 2: The Kowtow Question and the Opium War. The Macartney Mission ; The Clash of Two World Orders : The Opium War ; Qiying's Diplomacy : Soothing the Barbarians -- Chapter 3: From Preeminence to Decline. Wei Yuan's Blueprint : "Using Barbarians Against Barbarians," Learning Their Techniques ; The Erosion of Authority : Domestic Upheavals and the Challenge of Foreign Encroachments ; Managing Decline ; The Challenge of Japan ; Korea ; The Boxer Uprising and the New Era of Warring States -- Chapter 4: Mao's Continuous Revolution. Mao and the Great Harmony ; Mao and International Relations : The Empty City Stratagem, Chinese Deterrence, and the Quest for Psychological Advantage ; The Continuous Revolution and the Chinese People -- Chapter 5: Triangular Diplomacy and the Korean War. Acheson and the Lure of Chinese Titoism ; Kim Il-sung and the Outbreak of War ; American Intervention : Resisting Aggression ; Chinese Reactions : Another Approach to Deterrence ; Sino-American Confrontation -- Chapter 6: China Confronts Both Superpowers. The First Taiwan Strait Crisis ; Diplomatic Interlude with the United States ; Mao, Khrushchev, and the Sino-Soviet Split ; The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis -- Chapter 7: A Decade of crises. The Great Leap Forward ; The Himalayan Border Dispute and the 1962 Sino-Indian War ; The Cultural Revolution ; Was There a Lost Opportunity? -- Chapter 8: The Road to Reconciliation. The Chinese Strategy ; The American Strategy ; First Steps -- Clashes at the Ussuri River -- Chapter 9: Resumption of Relations : First Encounters with Mao and Zhou. Zhou Enlai ; Nixon in China : The Meeting with Mao ; The Nixon-Zhou Dialogue ; The Shanghai Communiqué ; The Aftermath -- Chapter 10: The Quasi-Alliance : Conversations with Mao. The "Horizontal Line" : Chinese Approaches to Containment ; The Impact of Watergate -- Chapter 11: The End of the Mao Era. The Succession Crisis ; The Fall of Zhou Enlai ; Final Meetings with Mao : The Swallows and the Coming of the Storm -- Chapter 12: The Indestructible Deng. Deng's First Return to Power ; The Death of Leaders -- Hua Guofeng ; Deng's Ascendance -- "Reform and Opening Up" -- Chapter 13: "Touching the Tiger's Buttocks" : The Third Vietnam War. Vietnam : Confounder of Great Powers ; Deng's Foreign Policy -- Dialogue with America and Normalization ; Deng's Journeys ; Deng's Visit to America and the New Definition of Alliance ; The Third Vietnam War -- Chapter 14: Reagan and the Advent of Normalcy. Taiwan Arms Sales and the Third Communiqué ; China and the Superpowers -- The New Equilibrium ; Deng's Reform Program -- Chapter 15: Tiananmen. American Dilemmas ; The Fang Lizhi Controversy ; The 12- and 24-Character Statements -- Chapter 16: What Kind of Reform? Deng's Southern Tour -- Chapter 17: A Roller Coaster Ride Toward Another Reconciliation : The Jiang Zemin Era. China and the Disintegrating Soviet Union ; The Clinton Administration and China Policy ; The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis ; China's Resurgence and Jiang's Reflections -- Chapter 18: The New Millennium. Differences in Perspective ; How to Define Strategic Opportunity ; The National Destiny Debate -- The Triumphalist View ; Dai Bingguo -- A Reaffirmation of Peaceful Rise -- Epilogue : Does History Repeat Itself? The Crowe Memorandum. Toward a Pacific Community? -- Afterword to the paperback edition.
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