{"product_id":"haunted-by-chaos-chinas-grand-strategy-from-mao-zedong-to-xi-jinping-9780674977099","title":"Haunted by Chaos: Chinas Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn American Interest Top Book of the Year  Khan has unraveled the mystery of Chinese grand strategy  showing why insecurity lies at the root of Chinese power projection Readers will not find a shrewder analysis as to why the Chinese act as they do. Robert D. Kaplan  author of The Revenge of Geography  Before the Chinese Communist Party came to power  China lay broken and fragmented. Today it is a force on the global stage  and yet its leaders have continued to be haunted by the past. Drawing on an array of sources  Sulmaan Wasif Khan chronicles the grand strategies that have sought not only to protect China from aggression but also to ensure it would never again experience the powerlessness of the late Qing and Republican eras.  The dramatic variations in Chinas modern history have obscured the commonality of purpose that binds the countrys leaders. Analyzing the calculus behind their decision making  Khan explores how they wove diplomatic  military  and economic power together to keep a fragile country safe in a world they saw as hostile. Dangerous and shrewd  Mao Zedong made China whole and succeeded in keeping it so  while the caustic  impatient Deng Xiaoping dragged China into the modern world. Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao served as cautious custodians of the Deng legacy  but the powerful and deeply insecure Xi Jinping has shown an assertiveness that has raised both fear and hope across the globe.  For all their considerable costs  Chinas grand strategies have been largely successful. But the country faces great challenges today. Its population is aging  its government is undermined by corruption  its neighbors are arming out of concern over its growing power  and environmental degradation threatens catastrophe. A question Haunted by Chaos raises is whether Chinas time-tested approach can respond to the looming threats of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647848767541,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674977092","price":55.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674977099.jpg?v=1781698100","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/haunted-by-chaos-chinas-grand-strategy-from-mao-zedong-to-xi-jinping-9780674977099","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}