China's World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict is the first book written by David Daokui Li, a Chinese economist and professor. As stated in the title, he wrote this book in order to educate westerners about China's government, economy, and culture in order to challenge misunderstandings that he fears could lead to war. Originally started in the early 2010s, he worked on this book for many years and as relationships between China and the West became more strained.

While this definitely has a slant - it is written for a specific purpose and aims to argue that China's success is good for the world - it was a very well-written, concise, helpful account of some basics of China's functioning and perspectives. As someone who doesn't know very much about the systems of governance in China, I found this book to be fascinating and educational.

Thank you so much to David Daokui Li and W. W. Norton & Company for this ARC through NetGalley. China's World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict will be available for purchase January 9th. I definitely recommend it for those interested in geopolitics and macro economics, especially readers in Western Europe or the United States.

Thank you to the publisher for providing access to this book in exchange for a review. It was interesting to finally read a book about China by an expert who has an insider view into China's governance structure, but at the same time I prefer reading books written by third parties. On one hand it was helpful to have a China-centric explanation, but on the other hand this book is not at all unbiased. I found the writing to be a bit simplistic and he clearly avoided major criticism of China.