Haunted by Chaos - China¿s Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping, With a New Afterword

Before the Communists came to power, China lay broken. Today it is a global force, but its leaders are haunted by the past. Sulmaan Wasif Khan chronicles the grand strategies that have sought to protect China from aggression and ensure it would never again experience the powerlessness of the late Qing and Republican eras.