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Lowell Dittmer is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of several books including China's Continuous Revolution: The Post-Revolutionary Epoch, 1949-1981. Samuel S. Kim is Lecturer in Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. His many previous books include China, the United Nations, and the World Order.

The nuclear test explosions in India and Pakistan in 1998, followed by the outbreak of hostilities over Kashmir in 1999, marked a frightening new turn in the ancient, bitter enmity between the two nations. Although the tension was eclipsed by the events of 9/11 and the subsequent American attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, it has not disappeared, as evidenced by the 2001 attack in the Indian Parliament by Islamic fundamentalists out of Kashmir. ...

The chief target of China's infamous Cultural Revolution, Liu Shaoqi is one of the tragic figures of the Chinese revolution By addressing the issues that decimated China's monolithic elite in the late 1960s, Lowell Dittmer illuminates not only the life and fate of this fascinating leader but also the policy-making process of a revolutionary state facing the diverging exigencies of economic modernization and political development In this new ed...

The recent uncertainties over the South China Sea have become one major issue in the relations between China and Southeast Asian countries. The South China Sea issue, however, is countered by the deepening economic integration between China and Southeast Asia, which is likely to continue should China's proposal for a 21st Century Maritime Silk Road is agreed and implemented. Yet the success or not of this proposal depends also on the interacti...

This book, first published in 2000, is a pioneering effort to develop theoretical principles about informal political structures in East Asia.