"Steven Mosher exposes the resurgent aspirations of the would-be hegemon-and the roots of China's will to domination in its five-thousand-year history of ruthless conquest and assimilation of other nations, brutal repression of its own people, and belligerence toward any civilization that challenges its claim to superiority."--Provided by publisher.

A disease of the heart -- Hegemon: The invention of the totalitarian state -- The hegemon awakens from its slumbers -- The diminutive hegemon: Deng Xiaoping -- Hegemony under Jiang Zemin, General Secretary -- Of the Chinese Communist Party, 1989/2002 119 -- Move over, Great Helmsman, "Big Daddy" Xi is here -- Great Han chauvinism: the new religion of -- A nation of narcissists? -- The sum of all China's fears -- As China advances, America must not retreat -- What America can do.