For more than twenty years after the Communist Revolution in 1949, China and most of the western world had no diplomats in each others' capitals and no direct way to communicate. Then, in July 1971, Henry Kissinger arrived secretly in Beijing on a mission which quickly led to the reopening of relations between China and the West and changed the course of post-war history. For the past forty years, Kissinger has maintained close relations with successive generations of Chinese leaders, and has probably been more intimately connected with China at the highest level than any other western figure. This book distils his unique experience and long study of the 'Middle Kingdom', examining China's history from the classical era to the present day, and explaining why it has taken the extraordinary course that it has. The book concentrates on the decades since 1949, presenting brilliantly drawn portraits of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping and other Chinese leaders, and reproducing verbatim Kissinger's conversations with each of them. But Kissinger's eye rarely leaves the long continuum of Chinese history: he describes the essence of China's approach to diplomacy, strategy and negotiation, and the remarkable ways in which Communist-era statesmen have drawn on methods honed over millennia. At the end of the book, Kissinger reflects on these attitudes for our own era of economic interdependence and an uncertain future. On China is written with great authority, complete accessibility and with many wider reflections on statecraft and diplomacy distilled from years of experience. At a moment when the rest of the world is thinking about China more than ever before, this timely book offers insights that no other can.

亨利•基辛格为20世纪最著名的美国外交家、世界历史的重要人物、诺贝尔和平奖得主。本书为基辛格的处女作，部分为政治传记，部分为外交史，既有基于历史文献的严谨历史叙事，也有基于其理论的客观分析和评论，集中研究了俄国击败拿破仑后世界各国为构建新的国际秩序所做的努力，尤其关注外交的局限性和国际稳定的要素。 该书所阐发的“均势外交”思想奠定了基辛格战略思维的基础，本书的成功奠定了基辛格作为现实主义学派中第一流学者的声誉。 《重建的世界》看似一部讲述欧洲历史的著作，但基辛格在书中亦描绘了均势外交的基本原则，而我们也不难在他日后担任国家安全事务助理和国务卿时采取的政策当中发现这些原则。 本书清晰地表明了基辛格的观点：国际和平最好不是由法律或者国际组织来确保，而是要依靠分散权力以克制强势者的野心来实现。 ——弗朗西斯•福山 基辛格的第一本书回顾了拿破仑战争后期以及欧洲政治家们为取得长期和平所作出的种种努力。 在一个大多数政治学家备受热核战争威胁困扰的时期，讨论十九世纪早期欧洲的宫廷外交看上去十分奇怪且缺乏时代性。但是基辛格暗示，即使战争的装备改变了，政治家的任务也不会变，仍旧是在强国中利用相互的恐惧心理构建一个权力均衡的格局，以维持国际体系的秩序。 ——《大西洋月刊》

In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book-length to a country he has known intimately for decades, and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape. Drawing on historical records as well as his conversations with Chinese leaders over the past forty years, Kissinger examines how China has approached diplomacy, strategy, and negotiation throughout its history, and reflects on the consequences for the global balance of power in the 21st century. Since no other country can claim a more powerful link to its ancient past and classical principles, any attempt to understand China's future world role must begin with an appreciation of its long history. For centuries, China rarely encountered other societies of comparable size and sophistication; it was the "Middle Kingdom," treating the peoples on its periphery as vassal states. At the same time, Chinese statesmen-facing threats of invasion from without, and the contests of competing factions within-developed a canon of strategic thought that prized the virtues of subtlety, patience, and indirection over feats of martial prowess. In On China, Kissinger examines key episodes in Chinese foreign policy from the classical era to the present day, with a particular emphasis on the decades since the rise of Mao Zedong. He illuminates the inner workings of Chinese diplomacy during such pivotal events as the initial encounters between China and modern European powers, the formation and breakdown of the Sino-Soviet alliance, the Korean War, Richard Nixon's historic trip to Beijing, and three crises in the Taiwan Straits. Drawing on his extensive personal experience with four generation of Chinese leaders, he brings to life towering figures such as Mao, Zhou Enlai, and Deng Xiaoping, revealing how their different visions have shaped China's modern destiny. With his singular vantage on U.S.-China relations, Kissinger traces the evolution of this fraught but crucial relationship over the past 60 years, following its dramatic course from estrangement to strategic partnership to economic interdependence, and toward an uncertain future. With a final chapter on the emerging superpower's 21st-century world role, On China provides an intimate historical perspective on Chinese foreign affairs from one of the premier statesmen of the 20th century.

谈经济离不开政治，谈中国离不开世界。《影子里的中国——即将到来的社会危机》是一本经济学家、政治学家、国际学者共同把脉政治时局和经济轨迹、预测未来危机的著作。谈经济离不开政治，谈中国离不开世界。本书澄清了当下中国的改革理路，从“中国轨迹”到“世界上最危险的邻居”，从“即将到来的中国危机”到“未来中国的陷阱”，围绕金融革命、社会核心价值观与未来新秩序展开思考，评判中国改革成败，并预言今后中国的新危机与未来世界的新格局。 焦点话题均为约稿专文论述，作者在各个领域的影响力巨大，预言了中国的发展方向，满足了社会各界精英对中国梦的期盼与想象，并为新一届政府提供了颇具价值的参考。

《基辛格越战回忆录》是大外交书系之一。基辛格继《大外交》后的又一部力作结束越战的谈判是基辛格外交生涯中最为辉煌的一章，他因此获得了诺贝尔和平奖基辛格首次披露越南战争期间国际国内政坛内幕。他亲身经历了和北越代表团旷日持久的艰难而令人感到挫败的谈判，参与了谈判中的每一次重大决策的制定。其间，国际风云迭起，国内矛盾重重，基辛格纵横捭阖，运筹帷幄，写下他外交生涯中最重要的一笔，为世人留下了一笔丰厚的外交财富。 基辛格不仅是《基辛格越战回忆录》所述事件的中心人物，也是一个一流的学者和天才散文大师，其渊博的学识和严谨缜密的文风在《基辛格越战回忆录》中发挥得淋漓尽致。 书中精彩的细节描写再现了许多国际重要的政坛人物——约翰逊、尼克松、戴高乐、胡志明和勃列日涅夫等的个性特征，他们曾经在国际舞台上扮演了重要的角色。

在线阅读本书 THE SEMINAL WORK ON FOREIGN POLICY AND THE ART OF DIPLOMACY Moving from a sweeping overview of history to blow-by-blow accounts of his negotiations with world leaders, Henry Kissinger describes how the art of diplomacy has created the world in which we live, and how America's approach to foreign affairs has always differed vastly from that of other nations. Brilliant, controversial, and profoundly incisive, Diplomacy stands as the culmination of a lifetime of diplomatic service and scholarship. It is vital reading for anyone concerned with the forces that have shaped our world today and will impact upon it tomorrow.