Hegemon; China's Plan to Dominate Asia and the World

San Francisco, CA: Encounter Books, 2000. Reprint. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xi, [1]193, [1] p. Notes. Index. Signed by author on fep. Steven Westley Mosher (born May 9, 1948) is an American social scientist and author who specializes in demography and in Chinese population control. He is the president of the Population Research Institute, an advocate for human rights in China, and has been instrumental in exposing abuses in China's one-child policy as well as other human rights abuses in population control programs around the world. Mosher was born in 1948. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in May 1968, He served with the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Far East, achieving the rank of Lieutenant. Mosher is known in Chinese as Mao Sidi, giving him the same family name as the late Chairman Mao Zedong. In 1979 Mosher became the first American research student to conduct anthropological research in rural China after the Cultural Revolution. He was given early access to China at the request of Jimmy Carter to Deng Xiaoping. For centuries, China had not only had the largest population, but also the most advanced economy and the strongest army on earth. It saw itself as the Hegemon, the ever-expanding central power around which the world revolved. Steven Mosher believes that China still sees itself in these terms. In Hegemon, Mosher shows how the quest for domination has been something like an art form in Chinese statecraft, an enduring feature on the country's mysterious face that is often hidden from the west. Hegemon is a masterly inquiry into the ideas at the heart of Chinese culture and history. It is also as timely as today's headlines about Chinese efforts to influence U.S. elections and steal U.S. nuclear secrets and to establish China as a global superpower. A major work of scholarship and analysis, Hegemon reinforces Steven Mosher's reputation as one of our most thoughtful and provocative China Watchers.