Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in this book. This book explains about China entering a new and complicated phase in its development. It is organized into four parts. Part one of the book examines China's long-term relationship with Central and Southeast Asia in the 2,000 years prior to the Industrial Revolution. Second part of the book concerns the penetration of the Asia-Pacific region by countries from the industrialized West in nineteenth and twentieth centuries, after Industrial Revolution gave the West unrivalled global economic and military power. Third part of the book addresses the core ideological issue for Communist Party of China, namely the way in which to interpret and make use of the intellectual legacy of Karl Marx in analyzing policy challenges facing China in the era ahead. Final part of the book demonstrates, the history of class struggle in Britain approached the violent 'class warfare' that Engels in The Condition of the English Working Class.