Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise

by Susan Shirk and Susan L. Shirk

Book Overview

Winner, The Lionel Gelber Prize
Silver Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award

For decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, shows in this sobering, clear-eyed account of China today, something changed.

For three decades after Mao's death in 1976, China's leaders adopted a restrained approach to foreign policy. They determined that any threat...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190068515
• ISBN13: 9780190068516
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"