Kissinger made a historical first diplomatic political developments ancestralesde China including Chinese culture continued to inspire even during the Maoist period. The author as an academic, in-depth know this ancient Chinese history: his analysis matches that of Marcel Grannet in "The Chinese civilization and in the other book of Marcel Granet" Chinese philosophy. Without this knowledge many historic decisions taken by the Chinese leaders in the 19th and 20th century are almost incomprehensible in particular the decisions taken during the communist period under Mao. It does not seem there is any translation in French which is very unfortunate. It is very probable that the Western powers go astray in cryant impose their industrial model today as they were misled by trying to impose the model of the Industrial Revolution in China in the 19th century .: The china "the kingdom middle "considered ancestrally los foreign countries as barbarians.