A China Scholar's Long March

Download or read book A China Scholar's Long March written by Charles Horner and published by Merwinasia. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A China Scholar's Long March is a collection of forty-seven pieces written between 1978 and 2015 by Charles Horner, a China Scholar, a former U.S. government official, and the author of the two-volume work Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate. The pieces originally appeared in general interest publications such as The American Interest, The National Interest, and Commentary; in newspapers like the Wall Street Journal; and in some more specialized periodicals such as China Heritage Quarterly and the Naval War College Review. Together, the pieces are an unfolding story. "Americans are not given to introspection, "Horner comments, "but to enthusiasms, including the prospect for permanent harmony between the United States and China." "In the disputes that went on in China--between 'radicals' and 'pragmatists, ' we used to hope for the victory of the moderates, the less ideological, the more practical. We must now begin to think about the consequences of living with what we have wished for." When Horner wrote this, he also noted that American strategic analysis of the highest order was only beginning to sense a coming United States-China contest. Years later, that contest, with all of its dangers and uncertainties, is now upon us. -- Back cover