On China

Henry Kissinger served as national security advisor and then secretary of state under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and has advised many other American presidents on foreign policy. He received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Medal of Liberty, among other awards. He is the author of numerous books and articles on foreign policy and diplomacy and is currently the chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm.

出版者:Penguin Press

作者:Henry Kissinger

页数:608

出版时间:2011-5-17

价格:USD 36.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781594202711

图书标签:基辛格政治中国国际关系外交历史ChinaPolitics

In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to a country he has known intimately for decades, and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. Drawing on historical records as well as his conversations with Chinese leaders over the past forty years, Kissinger examines how China has approached diplomacy, strategy, and negotiation throughout its history, and reflects on the consequences for the global balance of power in the 21st century.

Since no other country can claim a more powerful link to its ancient past and classical principles, any attempt to understand China's future world role must begin with an appreciation of its long history. For centuries, China rarely encountered other societies of comparable size and sophistication; it was the "Middle Kingdom," treating the peoples on its periphery as vassal states. At the same time, Chinese statesmen-facing threats of invasion from without, and the contests of competing factions within-developed a canon of strategic thought that prized the virtues of subtlety, patience, and indirection over feats of martial prowess.

In On China, Kissinger examines key episodes in Chinese foreign policy from the classical era to the present day, with a particular emphasis on the decades since the rise of Mao Zedong. He illuminates the inner workings of Chinese diplomacy during such pivotal events as the initial encounters between China and modern European powers, the formation and breakdown of the Sino-Soviet alliance, the Korean War, Richard Nixon's historic trip to Beijing, and three crises in the Taiwan Straits. Drawing on his extensive personal experience with four generation of Chinese leaders, he brings to life towering figures such as Mao, Zhou Enlai, and Deng Xiaoping, revealing how their different visions have shaped China's modern destiny.

With his singular vantage on U.S.-China relations, Kissinger traces the evolution of this fraught but crucial relationship over the past 60 years, following its dramatic course from estrangement to strategic partnership to economic interdependence, and toward an uncertain future. With a final chapter on the emerging superpower's 21st-century world role, On China provides an intimate historical perspective on Chinese foreign affairs from one of the premier statesmen of the 20th century.

读后感

一本非常通俗的，入门级时政读物。 大篇幅的论述通过基辛格娓娓道来，让曾经发生的一切，好像一个个令人惊奇的故事，让我这个不太通晓历史的人，都可以比较顺畅的看进去。对于中英鸦片战争的始末描写，和高中课本中说的不尽相同。站在一个完全中立的角度看这件事情时，它的性...  

原文链接：http://www.rsywx.net/wordpress/2012/10/07/on-china-technical-review/ 我去年在Kobo上购买了基辛格博士的《论中国》英文版一书，上个月底抢先买了译本。利用出门到新疆去旅游的时候，抽空将这本600+页的书看完了——这也从另一个侧面证明，我只有在完全被隔绝（...

读这本书的时候同时在读邓小平时代。读这类书总有些猎奇心理，看有没有自己还不知道的秘闻。邓很详实，从他的一生来分析他的作为和思考，本身不错。论中国作者絮叨了一大堆他和中国领导人的交往，有时觉得没重点，但到后来的思考却很重要。总体的说，邓还是一本书。论中国展示...  

两个世纪之前的天廷洞开在一个外国人看来，清廷的对外态度是自然地沿袭了中华帝国的傲慢，但结果却是以夷制夷反被夷制，想谋定而动却被大势所趋。这让我反思一个“无能的清政府”的教科书结论是否显得太过单细胞。长久的清高加上不断的自我麻痹给了我们沉痛的教训。对于我们这...  

用户评价

估计不会引进，或者是删节本。

Memoir rather than something else.

#020 [27 Dec]

1.中国人民的老朋友基辛格博士真的很懂中国，2.各种捧中共领导的谋略，鄙视美帝国内意识形态主导的外交啊……不愧是现实主义外交家

读了改革开放以后的那部分，全是流水帐。最后稍微探讨了一下中国的崛起会不会像以前德国的崛起那样引起战争，可惜未曾深入，太浅薄了