FictionFan’s Book Reviews
...I can’t recommend it highly enough to anyone who is interested in understanding the national psyche of a nation that seems destined soon to be the wealthiest and most powerful of all...
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*Starred Review*
Many contemporary books examining China’s recent gains in wealth and power (often with ominous overtones) have sought out and found answers in recent geopolitical trends...
Publishers Weekly
All along the road to fuqiang, the leading lights of China have been ideologically pragmatic, trading one concept for another as circumstances dictated.
Kirkus Reviews
From humiliation to glory: A vigorous scouring of the historical record by two crack Chinese scholars fleshes out the troughs and triumphs of Chinese greatness.