This book’s full title is Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power. I found this a very interesting book and fits in with other histories I have read about China. He thinks that understanding China’s history will help us understand China’s current ambition. The current world order came about when China was at a weak point. China was for a very long time the dominant power in Asia. China now wants to be the or at lease one of the dominant powers currently.
From Edoardo Agamennone, a quote “Howard French thus portrays China as an ultra-Machiavellian power seeking to regain its rightful place in the current world order, far from being a peaceful and harmless defender of underdeveloped and developing countries alike.”
Jonathan Chatwin does a good review of this book on Asian Review of Books. Robert W. Foster does another good review of this book on Association for Asian Studies. Also, there is Edoardo Agamennone on Torino World Affairs Institute with an insightful view of this book.
Howard French talks at Politics and Prose Bookstore. He also speaks at the National Committee on US-China Relations.
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