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The book reviews discussions and debates among practitioners and scholars about major diplomatic issues China has faced in the past 30 years or so. The three main topics are: how China understands the rest of world, how China understands where it stands in relation to the rest of the world, and the construction in China of international relations as an academic discipline. Readers will learn about what some of the most contentious issues have been, what came of the debates over them in terms of either substantive answers to specific questions or other forms of contribution toward theory construction. The volume should be valuable to anybody studying the history of China’s foreign policies and of the study of international relations in the country.