style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">The rise of China has been accompanied in recent years by the equally rapid creation of a whole genre of literature that seeks to explain the global shift of power and influence to the east. China’s Silent Army is an ambitious contribution to this flourishing body of work by two Spanish journalists who have travelled to the far-flung corners of the earth to observe the effects of the country’s newfound reach.