![]() ![]() I would like to praise the author for providing such an extensive book which covers China’s Century of National Humiliation to the extent that it is able to draw an understanding of current Chinese policies and insecurities. Despite the fact that China and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is conditioned to present the games as an ‘apolitical event’, the Olympics however, withhold the power of tying international relations to identity and security. The 2008 Olympics was seen as China’s opportunity, ‘their 100-year-dream’ towards rising peacefully through soft power and cultural diplomacy instead of their military and economic strength alone. ![]() It’s current successes are highlighted by giving a detailed description of the 2008 Olympics. ![]() This in turn covers a large area on Century of National Humiliation. The author’s emphasis mainly lies in understanding the current successes of China as a result of its past failures. The author describes China as a pessoptimist nation, and by doing so he engages the readers on how China’s growing optimism can be understood through its enduring pessimism and vice versa. This book seeks to examine China’s pessoptimistic nature by analysing Chinese understanding of their current successes and past failures. According to Mao’s dictum, “Make the past serve the present, and make foreign things serve China,” rightly describes how the current Chinese foreign policy largely revolves around themes of security and identity. ![]()
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