The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds | 
| Author: David M. Lampton
Publisher: University of California Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 12095
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0520254422
Dewey Decimal Number: 327.51
EAN: 9780520254428
ASIN: 0520254422
Publication Date: April 30, 2008
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Clear, comprehensive, and well-balanced, this unique assessment takes the measure of what is arguably the most important geopolitical change in today's world: the growth of China's power. In the only book on the subject to be based on extensive interviews with elite political leaders, diplomats, and others in China, the United States, and countries on China's periphery, David M. Lampton investigates the military, economic, and intellectual dimensions of China's growing influence. His account provides a fresh perspective from which to assess China--how its strengths are changing, where vulnerabilities and uncertainties lie, and how the rest of the world, not least the United States, should view it. Lampton gives a valuable historical framework by discussing how the Chinese have thought about state power for over 2,500 years, and he asks how they are thinking about the future use of power through instruments such as their space program. He also provides broad suggestions for policy toward China in light of the 2008 elections in the United States and China's hosting of the Olympic Games, in a book that is essential reading for understanding one of the most significant developments of the twenty-first century.
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Interesting book with differently historical point of view July 25, 2008
It's a very interesting book that the author uses a unique argument to discuss current Asian affair and related issues. I like it because it provides a framework to decribe US-China relation, but not writting a micor-history along the time lines. Great book and reasonable assumptions of powers, "Might", "Money" and "Mind."
This is a remarkable book June 5, 2008
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I gave this book to a friend, Henry Sailer, who was raised in China and very knowledgeable. This is his review.
This is a remarable book.It will enlighten the most advanced specialist and, at the same time, teach the new beginner.
There are new facts to be absorbed in virtually every sentence and Mr. Lampton's writing and organizational skills are such that the reader approachs each chapter with mounting fascination.
Mr. Lampton obviously has entree to leaders of most of the Asian states of which he writes - an entree which he has employed with commendable discretion and which brings to light facts and ideas which would otherwise not be available to the most zealot scholar, student or layman.
I have never said of any book of this kind that I intended to read it again. I do now.
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