TABLE OF CONTENTS -- 1 THE INADEQUACY OF OLD PRACTICES -- 2 DEVELOPING A FOREIGN POLICY -- 3 FOREIGN IMPACT AND REFORM -- 4 TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OR THE OPEN DOOR? -- 5 REBELLION AGAINST THE WEST -- 6 THREATENED LOSS OF MANCHURIA -- 7 NURTURING NATIONALISM -- 8 ALIGNMENT WITH GERMANY AND AMERICA -- 9 STRENGTHENING THE EMPIRE -- 10 REVOLUTION AND FOREIGN MONEY -- 11 "THEORETICAL" ALLY IN WORLD WAR I -- 12 THE WASHINGTON CONFERENCE, 1921 -- 13 TURNING FROM THE WEST TO RUSSIA -- 14 DIPLOMATIC SUCCESSES -- 15 "INCIDENT" WITH JAPAN AND RECONSTRUCTION -- 16 RENEWED AGGRESSION AND INTERNAL DISCORD -- 17 THE ALLIANCE IN WORLD WAR II -- 18 THE AFTERMATH OF YALTA -- 19 THE LOSS OF MANCHURIA AND SINKIANG -- 20 THE COLLAPSE OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT -- 21 THE THEORY OF COMMUNIST FOREIGN POLICY -- 22 THE HATE-AMERICA CAMPAIGN -- 23 THE ALLIANCE WITH THE SOVIET UNION -- 24 THE BID FOR ASIAN LEADERSHIP -- 25 REALIZING AMBITIONS IN ASIA -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.