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Our romance with China remains one of the very most complex and swiftly evolving and could very well be one of the most crucial to our nation's future. Here, John Pomfret, the writer of the best-selling Chinese Lessons, calls for us deep into both of these countries' shared record and illuminates in lively, stunning information every major event, romance, and ongoing development that has affected diplomacy between both of these booming, influential nations. We meet early American missionaries and chart their influence in China and follow several young Chinese students who sign up for American universities, wanting to soak up Western traditions. We see firsthand major and damaging incidents like the Boxer Rebellion and the rise of Mao. We study both nations' involvement in world incidents such as World Battle I and II. Pomfret calls for the myriad historical milestones of two of the world's most effective nations and transforms them into one substance, fascinating story, giving us with a nuanced understanding of where both of these nations stand in relation to each other and all of those other world.
