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 Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm.
For more than twenty years after the Communist Revolution in 1949, China and most of the western world had no diplomats in each others' capitals and no direct way to communicate. Then, in July 1971, Henry Kissinger arrived secretly in Beijing on a mission which quickly led to the reopening of relations between China and the West and changed the course of post-war history.
For the past forty years, Kissinger has maintained close relations with successive generations of Chinese leaders, and has probably been more intimately connected with China at the highest level than any other western figure. This book distils his unique experience and long study of the 'Middle Kingdom', examining China's history from the classical era to the present day, and explaining why it has taken the extraordinary course that it has.
The book concentrates on the decades since 1949, presenting brilliantly drawn portraits of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping and other Chinese leaders, and reproducing verbatim Kissinger's conversations with each of them. But Kissinger's eye rarely leaves the long continuum of Chinese history: he describes the essence of China's approach to diplomacy, strategy and negotiation, and the remarkable ways in which Communist-era statesmen have drawn on methods honed over millennia. At the end of the book, Kissinger reflects on these attitudes for our own era of economic interdependence and an uncertain future.
On China is written with great authority, complete accessibility and with many wider reflections on statecraft and diplomacy distilled from years of experience. At a moment when the rest of the world is thinking about China more than ever before, this timely book offers insights that no other can.
《我将是你的镜子》本来是波普艺术家安迪·沃霍尔的一本访谈录。1982年,这位艺术家曾经有一次中国之旅。在这个给他奇异灵感的国度,这场被安排的旅途并不愉快,却留下不少诡异的照片。如今看来,吸引我们注意的倒不一定是那个苍白的西方人,反而是北京中八十年代初北京的风貌...
评分权力是最好的春药。——基辛格 这是我对这个老头的最深的第一印象。可见美国政治家也是爱说骚话的。尤其是拜读了此书之后,在他开诚布公地批判了美国的普世价值推广理想主义之后,了解他是个高度务实的现实主义者之后,当年的中美世界精英(毛、邓、尼克松,里根,布什等)的全...
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还行吧,一般
评分大一开始读的,看完了比较在意的几章,没能读完也没有特别深刻的印象。今天的中国和读此书时的中国,也变化了很多啊。
评分还行吧,一般
评分斯时已逝,其后是漫长的、漫长的告别。。 BTW,这本书前后算是看得最久的了,基本都是在飞机或是火车上读的。-_-
评分大一开始读的,看完了比较在意的几章,没能读完也没有特别深刻的印象。今天的中国和读此书时的中国,也变化了很多啊。
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