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This ambitious work provides a detailed and accessible summary of the long-term aims of the Chinese Communist Party. The author's analysis rests on a wealth of source material from official documents and statements of Party leaders (much of which has not yet been translated into English), as well as from his own experience living in China and interacting with ordinary citizens. The sheer density of facts and direct quotations makes the book essential reading for anyone who wants to understand China -- even if they do not end up agreeing with the author's final assessment of the situation.
The book is tightly organized and well-formatted. After a concise overview of modern Chinese history, the book marches through the military, economic/technological, diplomatic and cultural aspects of the Party's comprehensive vision. The author frames each section around one of the key slogans from internal Chinese propaganda, harnessing the Party's own pedagogical research to efficiently communicate the same content to his audience.
The one weakness of the book has to do with the subtitle: "And why America must win." The book is primarily aimed at the typical American reader, who Western values of individual liberty and limited government as part of common sense. But on every page of the book, we are confronted with a whole civilization that does not see "these truths" as self-evident or even intelligible. The author's own presentation of China's historical context makes clear that this is not simply temporary anomaly or a product of totalitarian oppression. For this reason, a real argument for "why America must win" has to go much deeper, considering how we arrived at these values in the first place, and trying to reconstruct their rational foundation. But this is a monumental task, and falls well outside the scope of the present work. The facts masterfully laid out by the author will hopefully motivate some readers to seek out the great giants of the early 20th century -- such as Werner Jaeger, Etienne Gilson and Christopher Dawson -- who directly took on this challenge.
- Paperback: 314 pages
- Publisher: Atlas Publishing and Media Company (March 31, 2019)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0578438100
- ISBN-13: 978-0578438108
- Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 15.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- Customer Reviews: 35 customer reviews
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#26,929 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #35 in Asian Politics
- #48 in National & International Security (Books)
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