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When China rules the world : the end of the western world and the birth of a new global order / Martin Jacques.

By: Jacques, Martin.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2009Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p 438-539) and index.Description: xxv, 550 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781594201851 (alk. paper); 1594201854 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Globalization -- Economic aspects -- China | China -- Foreign relations -- 1976- | China -- Politics and government -- 2002- | China -- Economic conditions -- 2000- | China -- Foreign relations -- Western countries | Western countries -- Foreign relations -- ChinaDDC classification: 327.51
Contents:
The changing of the guard -- The rise of the West -- Japan : modern but hardly western -- China's ignominy -- Contested modernity -- China as an economic superpower -- A civilization-state -- The Middle Kingdom mentality -- China's own backyard -- China as a rising global power -- When China rules the world -- Concluding remarks : the eight differences that define China.
Summary: Explains how China's ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process creating a whole new world.
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Includes bibliographical references (p 438-539) and index.

The changing of the guard -- The rise of the West -- Japan : modern but hardly western -- China's ignominy -- Contested modernity -- China as an economic superpower -- A civilization-state -- The Middle Kingdom mentality -- China's own backyard -- China as a rising global power -- When China rules the world -- Concluding remarks : the eight differences that define China.

Explains how China's ascendance as an economic superpower will alter the cultural, political, social, and ethnic balance of global power in the twenty-first century, unseating the West and in the process creating a whole new world.

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