Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. The Singularity of China
Chapter 2. The Kowtow Question and the Opium War
Chapter 3. From Preeminence to Decline
Chapter 4. Mao's Continuous Revolution
Chapter 5. Triangular Diplomacy and the Korean War
Chapter 6. China Confronts Both Superpowers
Chapter 7. A Decade of Crises
Chapter 8. The Road to Reconciliation
Chapter 9. Resumption of Relations: First Encounters with Mao and Zhou
Chapter 10. The Quasi-Alliance: Conversations with Mao
Chapter 11. The End of the Mao
Chapter 12. The Indestructible Deng
Chapter 13. "Touching the tiger's buttocks": the third Vietnam War
Chapter 14. Reagan and the Advent of Normalcy
Chapter 15. Tiananmen
Chapter 16. What Kind of Reform? Deng's Southern Tour
Chapter 17. A Roller Coaster Ride Toward Another Reconciliation : The Jiang Zemin era
Chapter 18. The New Millennium
Epilogue:
Afterword to the Paperback Edition
Notes
Index