A Wolf in the World?: China from 1950 to the Present

What really drives China? Centuries of self-imposed separation from the outside world continue to lead astray Western thinkers, whose mythologies obstruct our understanding. Based on half a century of engagement, starting with three years during the Cultural Revolution - when China was at its most vicious - George Walden draws a crisp, indispensable portrait of China’s modern mind set under Xi Jinping.