Everyone, it seems, is writing books on China. And why not? After all, Beijing remains the only genuine challenger to U.S. hegemony and is, we have long been told, “rising.”
This voluminous body of literature on all things Sino (which fattens each year) makes Bruno Maçães's achievement all the more impressive. If it's easy to write a book on China, it's difficult write a good one on it. Maçães has gone one better and written an excellent book. And he succeeds because he does something different...
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