Original title: On China

Author: Henry Kissinger (USA)

Translators: Hu Liping / Lin Hua / Yang Yunqin / Zhu Jingwen

Publisher: CITIC Press

Published: 2012-10

ISBN: 9787508635583

Notes:

The author is a renowned American scholar and statesman, and he offers a different perspective on the book, documenting China’s modern, contemporary, and present-day foreign policy and decision-making mechanisms. The book describes many kinds of events, leaders maneuvering against one another and nations contending with one another. From humiliation, to development, and finally to rise, China has stepped onto the world stage and become ever more vibrant.

History always advances through ebbs and flows, through rises and falls. Being wise after the fact is the easiest thing in the world. We are no better at making decisions than the decision-makers were; rather, it is our insufficient information and the aspects we fail to consider that prevent us from understanding their decisions.

Every year many people around the world die in the flames of war. China’s current peaceful development has not come easily.