In this book, the author examines two approaches to the analysis of China's industrialization efforts between 1870 and 1911: the generally accepted domestic-limitation approach and the alternative foreign-intervention approach. He points to the year 1897 as a turning point in China's development.

More than one hundred years ago, imperial Chinese leaders tried to industrialize their nation, much as China's leaders are attempting today. Self-strengthening projects in industry and the military were implemented to increase China's wealth and power and to protect the country from further colonization by the Western powers of the nineteenth centu

How could life in the US get much worse? The government is owned by the big corporations and they don't care about anyone but themselves. Ben learns a secret. God didn't just create humans, He created dragons too. Ben learns that he is part dragon and part human. Not only that, he is the Chosen One.

Everyone lives below ground. Joshua is chosen to go to the surface to see if the world is habitable again. What he finds is a whole new way of life. The world is not like he was taught and neither is God. In fact, maybe he is God.