In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world's newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China's meteoric rise from developing country to superpower.

Part I. Historical legacies -- Schools of thought -- Imperial China -- Revolutions and revolutionaries -- Part II. The present and the futures -- From Mao to now -- U.S.-China misunderstandings -- The future.