While the rise of China has long been an accepted fact of international economic and political relations the more recent rise of India as an economic power has provoked intense global interest. This book presents a Chinese assessment of how China and India see themselves each in relation to the other focusing on their experiences of modernization and economic reform and their ramifications on each countrys role in global affairs. Eschewing the geopolitical idiom of competition and rivalry between emerging Asian giants the book seeks to understand the parallel complementary convergent and divergent development experiences from a more selfconsciously geocivilizational perspective contextualizing developments in both the shortterm framework of independent nationhood against the more immediate background of nationalist and antiimperialist struggles and in the longue dure of shared continental histories.