This book is part of an initiative in cooperation with renowned Chinese publishers to make
fundamental formative and influential Chinese thinkers available to a western readership
providing absorbing insights into Chinese reflections of late.Haipeng Zhang and Jinyi Zhai
provide us with a history of China's struggle for national independence and prosperity
reflecting the humiliation in the sinking period and the struggle during the rising period.
After the Japanese aggressions against China had caused more damage to China than all previous
invasions Chinese society not only avoided the continued sinking but also laid the foundation
for China's modernization and the recent success story to the present day.
