China: The Stealth Empire

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Edward Burman is a British born author, company director and management consultant resident in Beijing. He is also Visiting Professor at the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts where he teaches European Culture. Among his previous books are The Inquisition: the Hammer of Heresy, 1984 and Emperor to Emperor: Italy Before the Renaissance

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China

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Asks why it is that China despite its size and once advanced culture and technology did not become a world power? This book traces the answer through Chinese innate sense of superiority which made foreign conquest and trade an irrelevance.