Introduction
1 Centrality of China and Foreign Contacts
2 Barbarians at the Gate
3 Opening Pandora’s Box
4 Japan’s China Wars
5 The Turn of the Century
6 The War of Resistance Against Japan
7 A New Power Under Test
8 Security Priorities
9 Boundary Settlements
10 Ups and Downs with the Superpowers
11 Refocusing on Asia
12 Africa and the Middle East
13 Trade Negotiations
14 Regional Diplomacy
15 Statecraft and Crisis Management
Conclusion: China’s Place in the World
Bibliography
Biography
Wenguang Shao’s international career has spanned academia, government, and business. In the 1980s, he taught in Beijing as a university lecturer and worked in New York as a simultaneous interpreter with the U.N. He was a senior diplomat in China’s foreign service in the 1990s before he moved into television media in Hong Kong and Britain, doubling as a consulting senior fellow at I.I.S.S. (2015–2017). He holds an M.A. degree from the Fletcher School and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. He does consultancy work in his retirement and divides his time between London, Beijing, and Hong Kong.
