The War Against the West

nated in the attack on Pearl Harbor.nOnly a few years later, the communistsnseized power in China, where,nfollowing the Opium War of 1839,nWestern powers had attempted to imposentheir conceptions of law and diplomacy.nForced to submit, the Chinesenwere never converted---witnessnoutbreaks of xenophobia such as thenBoxer Rebellion and . . .