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When China Rules The World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World [Greatly updated and expanded]
Martin Jacques
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Description for When China Rules The World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World [Greatly updated and expanded]
Paperback. China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. This title introduces a set of ideas including China as a civilization-state, the tributary system, the Chinese idea of race, and the principle of contested modernity. Num Pages: 848 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 37. Weight in Grams: 576.
China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. Jacques argues that we cannot understand China in western terms but only through its own history and culture. To this end, he introduces a powerful set of ideas including China as a civilization-state, the tributary system, the Chinese idea of race, a very different concept of the state, and the principle of contested modernity. First published in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim - and controversy ... Read more
China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. Jacques argues that we cannot understand China in western terms but only through its own history and culture. To this end, he introduces a powerful set of ideas including China as a civilization-state, the tributary system, the Chinese idea of race, a very different concept of the state, and the principle of contested modernity. First published in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim - and controversy ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
848
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780140276046
SKU
9780140276046
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About Martin Jacques
Martin Jacques is one of Britain's foremost public intellectuals. A Visiting Senior Research Fellow at IDEAS, the London School of Economics' centre for diplomacy and grand strategy, a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and a Fellow of the Transatlantic Academy, Washington DC, Martin Jacques is widely respected as a leading global expert on what could prove to be the ... Read more
Reviews for When China Rules The World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World [Greatly updated and expanded]
The West hopes that wealth, globalization and political integration will turn China into a gentle giant... But Jacques says that this is a delusion. Time will not make China more Western; it will make the West, and the world, more Chinese
The Economist
[A] compelling and thought-provoking analysis of global trends.... Jacques is a superb explainer of history ... Read more
The Economist
[A] compelling and thought-provoking analysis of global trends.... Jacques is a superb explainer of history ... Read more