If anybody's genuinely interested in learning about China, especially their foreign policy and attitudes towards America and Europe (not to mention the rest of Asia), I'd like to recommend the following book: "The Great Wall & The Empty Fortress: China's Search For Security," by Andrew J. Nathan and Robert S. Ross. It may be a bit out of date by now, but it's still worth a read if you'd like a contextual view of what makes China tick.
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"If Schumacher’s last effort was the final nail in the coffin then Year One would’ve been the crazy guy who stormed the graveyard, dug up the coffin and put a bullet through the franchise’s corpse just to make sure." -- From a review of Darren Aronofsky & Frank Miller's "Batman: Year One" script
