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Book SynopsisThe book that got China right: a prophetic work on how America's policies towards China led it away from liberalization and further towards authoritarianism, from the bestselling author of Rise of the Vulcans
[The China Fantasy] predicted, China would remain an authoritarian country, and its success would encourage other authoritarian regimes to resist pressures to change . . . Mann’s prediction turned out to be true. -New York Review of Books, October 2017
From Clinton to Bush to Obama, the prevailing belief was engagement with China would make China more like the West. Instead, as [James] Mann predicted, China has gone in the opposite direction. -The New York Times, February 2018
One of our most perceptive China experts, James Mann wrote
The China Fantasy as a vital wake-up call to all who are ignorant of America's true re
