Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750

In Restless Empire, award-winning historian Odd Arne Westad presents a history of China's relationship with the rest of the world for the last 250 years. Westad shows that, for most of its recent past, China has been an open society with an unrivalled capacity to reinvent itself. China's permeability has enabled it to compete and engage with other powers, but it has also contributed to the instability that has marked the country for much of its recent history-and which will pose a serious c...