The Whirlpool That Produced China: Stag Hunting on the Central Plain - Hardcoverby Tingyang Zhao (Author), Edmund Ryden (Translator) In The Whirlpool That Produced China, Tingyang Zhao offers a philosophical interpretation of China's historicity, explaining how the expansion of China was not due to the lures of expansionist behavior but to the offerings of the surrounding contenders as they were constantly being pulled into a whirlpool of growth and amalgamation. The peoples surrounding China on all four sides sought to win the