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""A timely book...An impressive roster of authors collectively provides a broad overview of the many aspects of the relationship, going well beyond diplomacy and politics. The essays also work beautifully by themselves."" -Odd Arne Westad, author of Empire and Righteous Nation ""Offers a wide range of accessible essays on topics from international relations to culture, in a tone that is lively and argumentative but always balanced. Overall, the book has a powerful message: the United States needs informed and clear-eyed engagement with China."" -Rana Mitter, author of China's Good War For decades, Americans have described China as a rising power. But China has already risen. What does this mean for the United States, for the global economy, and for international security? Tackling key issues, providing historical perspective, and demystifying stereotypes, Maria Adele Carrai, Jennifer Rudolph, Michael Szonyi, and an all-star group of China experts offer essential insights into the many dimensions of the world's most important bilateral relationship. Ranging across questions of security, economics, military development, climate change, public health, science and technology, education, and the worrying flashpoints of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Xinjiang, the concise essays that compose this book are ideal vantage points on the tensions as well as the potential collaborations between China and the United States. The China Questions 2 makes clear that we are faced not with another Cold War but with something more complex that must be understood on its own terms.

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A fresh, lively and insightful book that can be read by student and specialist alike in search of a synoptic view of the relationship. -- John Delury * Global Asia * A timely book. For general readers and students alike, these concise essays on critical aspects of the US-China relationship work very well. An impressive roster of authors collectively provides a broad overview of the many aspects of the relationship, going well beyond diplomacy and politics. The essays also work beautifully by themselves. -- Odd Arne Westad, author of <i>Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations</i> Focusing on the turbulent bilateral relationship between China and the United States, The China Questions 2 offers a wide range of accessible essays on topics from international relations to culture, in a tone that is lively and argumentative but always balanced. Overall, the book has a powerful message: the United States needs informed and clear-eyed engagement with China. -- Rana Mitter, author of <i>China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism</i> Required reading. The authors are a who’s who of American scholars on US–China relations, and the topics include virtually everything that would be of concern to students, academics, and practitioners. At a time when there are too few books on the relationship generally, this fills a wide gap. The editors have my admiration. -- Stephen A. Orlins, President of the National Committee on United States–China Relations

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Maria Adele Carrai is Assistant Professor of Global China Studies at New York University Shanghai and the author of Sovereignty in China: A Genealogy of a Concept since 1840. Jennifer Rudolph is Professor of Asian History and International and Global Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the author of Negotiated Power in Late Imperial China: The Zongli Yamen and the Politics of Reform. Michael Szonyi is Frank Wen-hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History at Harvard University and the author of The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China and Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line.

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