Wealth and Power is a work of intellectual history disguised as a guide to China’s economic development. It covers a fascinating period of upheavals, riots and revolutions, social, economic, and political. As the book’s authors Orville Schell and John Delury make…
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Review of Weath and Power The Christian Science Monitor
In Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century, Orville Schell and John Delury explain how, for more than a century and a half, Chinese leaders, writers, and activists have sought answers as to why China lags behind…
Book reviews: Wealth and Power by Schell and Delury The Scotsman
After that, China was dismembered, first by the European powers, then, more devastatingly, by Japan. Chinese troops expelled the Japanese, and the country was reunified more than 60 years ago. But it is determined to keep the memory of the…
China’s Return to Greatness: Marching Forward The Economist
MODERN China’s founding trauma came in 1842, when British troops pushed opium down the throats of a prostrate nation at the Treaty of Nanjing. Today this brutal military and diplomatic defeat is hailed in China for the way its darkness…
What China Really Wants Asia Times
NEW YORK – The China pavilion is a red, inverted pyramid in Shanghai built for the city’s bustling 2010 World Expo. While the pavilion pays some homage to China’s ancient past, it mostly shows off China’s 21st century ambitions, with…
Losing Face, Leaping Forward The New York Times
In “Wealth and Power,” their engaging narrative of the intellectual and cultural origins of China’s modern rise, Orville Schell and John Delury note that the story of Goujian was a favorite of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, who united China under his…
For Your China Reading List: ‘Wealth and Power’ – James Fallows – The Atlantic
You could have a long debate on whether we’re in anything like a Golden Age for China itself. But beyond debate it is a golden age of writing about China, and therefore of things to read. There are overviews; universe-in-the-particular…
The rise and rebirth of Chinese realpolitik Financial Times
Confucius taught that “propriety and righteousness” were the foundations of the state, and “power and profit” were its enemies. The history of modern China, culminating in the wealth-creating reforms unleashed by Deng Xiaoping, has been dedicated to proving him wrong.…