Essence of China: Challenges & Possibilities intends to explore the glorious past,contemporary challenges and futuristic prospects of China. It is seeking to learn something about the mindset of its elites, the decision-makers who played role in its recent history,continues to do so at present and likely to do so in the future. China is a rapidly evolving nation both economically and militarily,thus it is paramount that world understands its roots, mode of doing business and its ambitions to compete with the United States and perhaps to reclaim its old glory of the imperial past! The book is a must read for young people who will be dealing with all the nations including the awakened giant, China. Indeed, it is rather urgent to learn more of China in our new brave world of petite Global Village where humanity is imperceptibly converging into the finite spaceship called Earth.