Paperback Burstein, Daniel and de Keijzer, Arne. What It Means for Business, the Economy and the Global Order. Simon and Schuster, 1998. China is big. China will never be a Western-style democracy.
Nobody knows the future of the Sino-American relationship.
The detail here is good and the sidebars are entertaining. Hardcover Protter, Eric, ed. Painters on Painting. If you want to see what great painters say on the principles of aesthetics, you'll be as disappointed as I was. The earlier sources here, late medieval and later, have some interesting remarks to make on technique, but the later ones talk almost exclusively in terms of 'feeling' and social significance.