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From a former President of the United Nations Security Council, an authoritative look at the US, China, and the defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century “Mahbubani has written an excellent and important book on the biggest question in international affairs: how will the...

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China over seventy years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. Under their leaderships, China has undergone an extraordinary transformation from an undeveloped and insular country to a comprehensive world power. In this definitive study, renowned Sinologist David Shambaugh offers a refreshing account of China's dramatic post-revolutionary history through the prism of those who ruled it.

Is economic—or broader—conflict, well beyond the trade and technology war that has already erupted, inevitable between the world’s two superpowers? Will their clash produce a new economic leadership vacuum akin to the 1930s, when Great Britain was unable to play its traditional leadership role and a rising United States was unwilling to step in to save the global order?

Xi Jinping’s reforms are designed to produce a corruption-free, politically cohesive, and economically powerful one-party state with global reach: a Singapore on steroids. But there is no guarantee the reforms will be as transformative as the Chinese leader hopes.

"Wanted in China: More Male Teachers, to Make Boys Men" is from the Culture (Arts) section of The New York Times. It was written by Javier C. Hernández and narrated by Paul Ryden.

"Steinway's Grand Ambitions in China" is from the July 08, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Javier C. Hernández and narrated by Paul Ryden.

Five people were killed in a clash at a branch of the Communist Party in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, the state news media reported Thursday.

"China Says 5 Killed in Attack at Communist Party Office in Xinjiang" is from the December 29, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Javier C. Hernández and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"China Sentences Hu Shigen, Democracy Advocate, to 7 Years in Prison" is from the August 03, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Javier C. Hernández and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"China's Tech-Savvy, Burned-Out and Spiritually Adrift, Turn to Buddhism" is from the September 07, 2016 Technology section of The New York Times. It was written by Javier C. Hernández and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"China Censors WeChat Rumors, including the One about Robots Taking Over" is from the June 24, 2016 Tech section of The New York Times. It was written by Javier C. Hernández and narrated by Paul Ryden.

"China Faces a Surge in Cardiovascular Disease, Study Finds" is from the August 15, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Javier C. Hernández and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Tornado Kills at Least 78 in Eastern China" is from the June 23, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Javier C. Hernández and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"North Korea’s Hydrogen Bomb Claim Strains Ties With China" is from the World section of The New York Times. It was written by Javier C. Hernández and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"'Get out!' China Menaces a Boat in Disputed Waters" is from the July 10, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Javier C. Hernández and narrated by Sam Scholl.

"Villager’s Execution in China Ignites Uproar Over Inequality of Justice" is from the November 20, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Javier C. Hernandez and narrated by Kristi Burns.

Ideas about globalization have become so completely accepted that they are now embraced as the conventional. This book presents a very different position, based on a serious look at the history of globalization and a reader-friendly presentation of the economic data that dramatically refute the accepted truths advanced by so many commentators.