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Gerald Segal,’Nuclear Forces’, in Gerald Segal and William T. Tow (eds), Chinese Defence Policy, Macmillan, London, 1984, p. 104.
For 3000 years China regarded itself as the ‘Middle Kingdom’, surrounded by less civilised peoples (or ‘barbarians’). China’s ‘sudden catastrophic demotion’, to use Toynbee’s expression, is dated from the Anglo-Chinese War of 1838–42. (Arnold Toynbee, ‘Introduction’, in Arnold Toynbee (ed.), Half the World: The History and Culture of China and Japan, Thames & Hudson, London, 1973, p. 10.)
Sun Tzu, The Art of War (trans. Samuel B. Griffith), Oxford University Press, London, 1963, pp. 77, 87.
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Dellios, R. (1990). Introduction. In: Modern Chinese Defence Strategy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11049-0_1
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