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Drawing on forty years of intimate acquaintance with the country and its leaders, Henry Kissinger reflects on how China's past relations with the outside world illuminate its twenty-first century trajectory. In On China , Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to the... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Chan Kai Yee: An experienced Chinese-English, English-Chinese translator. Chief editor of a China law website in 2010 providing information on PRC laws for legal professionals throughout the world
- John Foster Dulles: Add a description of this character.
- Bill Clinton
- Fang Lizhi
- Warren Christopher
- Ronald Reagan
- Queen Victoria
- Perry Link
- Henry Pottinger
- Gerald Ford
- Huang Hua
- Andrei Gromyko
- Hillary Clinton
- Geng Biao
- Andrew J. Nathan
- Qiao Guanhua
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Jiang Zemin
- Madeleine Albright
- Shi Zhe
- E. F. Hill
- Mr. Edgar Snow
- Qian Qichen
- Hua Guofeng • Deng
- Charles Hill
- Dr. Kissinger
- George Mitchell
- Deng Xiaoping
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Walter Stoessel
- Richard Nixon
- Carl von Clausewitz
- Machiavelli
- André Malraux
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Chen Jian
- Konstantin Chernenko
- Lin Biao
- Robert Zoellick
- Zhao Ziyang
- Elliot Richardson
- Deng Pufang
- Lee Teng-hui
- Lenin
- Jimmy Carter
- James Schlesinger
- Comrade Khrushchev
- Charles Elliot
- George Macartney
- Zhang Chunqiao
- Lord Napier
- Li Ruihuan
- Wen Jiabao
- Li Peng
- Lee Kuan Yew
- Qin Shihuang
- Nikolai Ignatieff
- Dean Acheson
- Jiang Qing
- Zhou Enlai
- George H. W. Bush
- Anatoly Dobrynin
- Dean Rusk
- Kim Il-sung
- Alexander Haig
- Li Hung-Chang
- Trotsky
- Kim Il Sung
- Confucius
- Mao Zedong
- Zheng Bijian
- David Shambaugh
- Hu Yaobang
- Li Hongzhang
- Huang Zhen
- Lord Amherst
- Wang Bingnan
- Comrade Stalin
- Lyndon Johnson
- Lin Zexu
- Deng Nan
- Lawrence Eagleburger
- Bismarck
- Xiong Xianghui
- Peng Dehuai
- Lampton
- Frederick Keying Pottinger
- George III
- Prince Gong
- Syngman Rhee
- Grazing Li
- Yuri Andropov
- Peng Zhen
- Liu Shaoqi
- Zhu Rongji
- Lin Piao
- Henry Dundas
- Wang Hairong
- Brent Scowcroft
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Nancy Tang
- Hu Jintao
- Gordon
- Deng Liqun
- Hegel
- Eyre Crowe
- Donald Rumsfeld
- George Kennan
- Sun Wu
- Wang Hongwen
- Jean Sainteny
- John F. Kennedy
- George Shultz
- Hitler
- Mondale
- Constance A. Johnson
- Frederick Bruce
- Anwar Sadat
- Sun Tzu
- Douglas MacArthur
- Aleksei Kosygin
- Engels
- Alain Peyrefitte
- Le Duc Tho
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Wei Yuan
- Winston Lord
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Chai Zemin
- Chen Yi
- Dai Bingguo
- Harry Truman
- Liu Mingfu
- Ho Chi Minh
- Harold Brown
- Ye Jianying
- Barack Obama
- Qishan
- Dalai Lama
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Mr. Kissinger
Setting & Locations edit
Glossary edit
- tian xia: literally means All Under Heaven
- kamikaze: literally means Divine Wind; inclement weather that prevented two invasions of Japan by Mongols using the experienced Song fleet.
- kowtow: Standard ritual act of complete prostration acknowledging the emperor's overlordship. Performed with the forehead touching the ground three times on each prostration.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Henry Kissinger (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 327
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