This book includes articles and essays from world experts working with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, which has been the world's leading research institute on China for sixty years. The authors analyze China's past, present and future, exploring the history and the development of Chinese civilization, consider current problems and ways to solve them, and provide answers to the most exciting questions about one of the most important nations in the world. Will China become the leader of Asia? What is the cause of ethnic tension in China? What does longevity mean for China's leadership? Does China's outward political interests undermine its exceptionalism? How strong is China's military? Can its high growth rates be maintained? What can China teach us about poverty alleviation? Has Chinese propaganda succeeded in winning hearts and minds? What future does China's past hold? All this shows that China's experience - both its undeniable successes and its instructive failures - can serve to benefit other countries. The book's publishing layout is saved in PDF A4 format.