Over the past 250 years of momentous change and dramatic upheaval, China has proved itself to be a Restless Empire. It explains how Chinese attitudes have been determined by both receptiveness and resistance to outside influence and presents the preoccupations that have set its foreign-relations age...

Over the past 250 years of momentous change and dramatic upheaval, China has proved itself to be a Restless Empire. It explains how Chinese attitudes have been determined by both receptiveness and resistance to outside influence and presents the preoccupations that have set its foreign-relations agenda.