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With an market and populace that dwarf most industrialized nations, China is appearing as a 21st hundred years global superpower. Even though China is an international head in modern business and technology, its early history exerts a powerful drive on its overseas policy. Christopher A. Ford expertly traces China's self-image and its own role on the planet order - from the age of Confucius to today. Ford argues that despite its contact with and connection with today's world, China is still strongly influenced by the hierarchical view of political order, and is merely comfortable with overseas relationships that reinforce its self-perception of political and moral supremacy. Recounting how this attitude has clashed with the European notion of split and coequal condition sovereignty, Ford speculates and offers a warning about how China's legacy will continue steadily to shape its overseas relationships. Artfully weaving historical, philosophical, spiritual, and cultural analysis into a cohesive analysis of the Chinese language worldview and explaining its relevance, Ford offers a distinctive perspective of modern China. The audiobook is posted by The University Press of Kentucky. "The Head of Empire is an excellent guidebook for contending with the People's Republic: a scholarly analysis of Chinese background written with significant authority and flair, and a sobering accounts of what interacting with Chinese ability and ambition means to us - and, especially to them." - The Weekly Standard. "A much-needed and an erudite contextualization... [this audiobook] will gain immensely those thinking about the history and tactical culture of China's overseas policy." - The China Quarterly. "With impressive zeal, [Ford] works his way through the cannon of Chinese political beliefs." - The New York Overview of Books.
