Over the past five years, Yoshihara and Holmes (both strategy, Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island) have conducted collaborative research and publishing on China's seaward turn. As a companion to their first major work, Chinese Naval Strategy in the Twenty-First Century: The Turn to Mahan, their latest book validates, refines, and expands upon their survey of Chinese interpretations of American sea-power theorist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, and the authors' thesis that Chinese strategists would draw from and reshape Mahan's theories in their ascent as a 21st-century naval power. The authors examine how Chinese strategy, operations, and tactics may interact with US naval power in Asia, and consider nonmilitary implements of national power likely to play a defining role in Chinese sea power in the future. The text is based on extensive research conducted by the authors, as evidenced in the wide variety of Chinese open-source literature references cited in the endnotes. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less