The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds / Edition 1

by David M. Lampton

Overview

Clear, comprehensive, and well-balanced, this unique assessment takes the measure of what is arguably the most important geopolitical change in today's world: the growth of China's power. In the only book on the subject to be based on extensive interviews with elite political leaders, diplomats, and others in China, the United States, and countries on China's periphery, David M. Lampton investigates the military, economic, and intellectual dimensions of China's growing influence. His account provides a fresh perspective from which to assess China—how its strengths are changing, where vulnerabilities and uncertainties lie, and how the rest of the world, not least the United States, should view it. Lampton gives a valuable historical framework by discussing how the Chinese have thought about state power for over 2,500 years, and he asks how they are thinking about the future use of power through instruments such as their space program. He also provides broad suggestions for policy toward China in light of the 2008 elections in the United States and China's hosting of the Olympic Games, in a book that is essential reading for understanding one of the most significant developments of the twenty-first century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520249516
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	04/30/2008
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

David M. Lampton is George and Sadie Hyman Professor, Director of China Studies, and Dean of Faculty at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He is author of Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000 (UC Press) and editor of The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Age of Reform, among many other books and articles on Chinese domestic and foreign affairs.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction

1. Thinking about Power
2. Might
3. Money
4. Minds
5. China and Its Neighbors
6. A Precarious Balance
7. What Chinese Power Means for America and the World

Notes
Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"This is a rare book. . . . Well researched, insightfully analyzed and clearly argued."—The China Journal

"A thoughtful and informative resource that helps understand the motivation and direction of its leaders."—Basil & Spice

Editorial Reviews

An essential addition to the study of modern Chinese foreign relations and what currently motivates the country’s policies and ideas on both the domestic and the international level.

International Affairs

Even-handed and comprehensive.

Journal of Asian Studies

A comprehensive and extensively researched analysis of the sources of China’s emergence as a regional and global power.

Political Science Quarterly

This is the most comprehensive study available about the different dimensions of rising Chinese power.

China Quarterly

This is a rare book. . . . Well researched, insightfully analyzed and clearly argued.

China Journal

This is a rare book. . . . Well researched, insightfully analyzed and clearly argued.

The China Journal

A thoughtful and informative resource that helps understand the motivation and direction of its leaders.

Basil & Spice

A finely crafted and meticulously researched book.

China Perspectives