Haunted by chaos

• Verfasst von: Khan, Sulmaan Wasif [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Haunted by chaos
• Titelzusatz: China's grand strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping : with a new afterword
• Verf.angabe: Sulmaan Wasif Khan
• Ausgabe: First Harvard University Press paperback edition
• Verlagsort: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: [2022]
• Umfang: xi, 322 Seiten
• Fussnoten: Literaturhinweise, Register
• Ang. zum Inhalt: Forging great China
• Ang. zum Inhalt: Mao Zedong and the balance of power
• Ang. zum Inhalt: Deng Xiaoping and seeking truth from facts
• Ang. zum Inhalt: Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and the virtue of dullness
• Ang. zum Inhalt: Xi Jinping and the insecurity of power
• ISBN: 978-0-674-27117-3
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1799377474

Abstract

Before the Chinese Communist Party came to power, China lay broken and fragmented. Today it dominates the global stage, and yet its leaders have continued to be haunted by the past. Analyzing the calculus behind decision making at the highest levels, Sulmaan Wasif Khan explores how China’s leaders have harnessed diplomatic, military, and economic power to keep a fragile country safe in a hostile world. At once shrewd and dangerous, Mao Zedong made China whole and succeeded in keeping it so while the caustic Deng Xiaoping dragged China into the modern world. Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao were cautious custodians of Deng’s legacy, but Xi Jinping has shown an assertiveness that has raised concern across the globe. China’s grand strategies, while costly, have been largely successful. But will this time-tested approach be enough to tackle the looming threats of the twenty-first century?