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America's Response to China
Given the many important developments in Sino-American relations in the past decade, there is a desperate need for a succinct, historically grounded assessment of the increasingly contentious and complicated relationship between these two giants of the world stage. This classic text by one of America's leading diplomatic historians analyzes the concerns and conceptions that have shaped |
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1421: The Year China Discovered America (P.S.)
On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas." When the fleet returned home in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and economic chaos. The great ships were left to rot at their moorings and the records of their journeys were |
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Joel Kotkin: America On The Rise
For Forbes, Joel Kotkin writes that both liberal and conservative pundits who assume the rise of China and accompanying demise of America are missing several important points, especially |
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China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
China today is visible everywhere -- in the news, in the economic pressures battering the globe, in our workplaces, and in every trip to the store. Provocative, timely, and essential -- and updated with new statistics and information -- this dramatic account of China's growing dominance as an industrial superpower by journalist Ted C. Fishman explains how the profound shift in the world economic |
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1421: The Year China Discovered America
This special examines the theories outlined by Gavin Menzies in his best-selling book. An amateur historian and former submarine commander in the British Navy, Menzies poses an argument that could change the way we perceive global history forever -- that Chinese admirals discovered America and Chinese junks first circled the earth. Traveling across the continent, the film combines history, science |
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Zhang Wen: “China, America, and Afghanistan”
ChinaGeeks translates a post from former journalist Zhang Wen about President Obama’s announcement of a troop surge in Afghanistan and Chinese media reports headlined, ““China responds |
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Agatha deaths rise to 180 in Central America
(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Villagers used hoes and pick axes on Tuesday to hunt for victims of landslides that have killed at least 180 people in Central America while officials in Guatemala's capital tried |
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China Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage, and Diplomacy in Asia
This "gripping" multigenerational memoir of a life spent serving America's interests across the Far East is "an adventure story worthy of John le Carre" ( Wall Street Journal ) James Lilley spent his childhood in China and later served for three decades in the CIA in Tokyo, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Laos, Bangkok, Cambodia, and Peking before moving to the State Department in the early 1980s to begin a |
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