<p><b>This fascinating, in-depth look at China’s new and rapidly changing role in the world focuses on the critical choices China must make to ensure sustainable economic growth.</b></p><p>All signs show that China's diplomacy is facing unprecedented changes, among which opportunities and challenges coexist. As power is redistributed globally, China finds it is at a crossroad.</p> <p>By comparing possible modes of the rise of great powers, <i>Re-Constructing China</i> introduces the necessity of China's peaceful development and growth and explains how the nation can achieve it in the most effective way possible. China is attempting to become a great power of a new breed and in its development must maintain sustained economic growth and explore a revitalization of its cultural confidence.</p><b>Li Jingzhi</b> is a professor at Renmin University of China. He has served as dean of Institute of International Relations at Renmin University of China and editor-in-chief of Teaching and Research.</p>