Martin Jacques - When China Rules the World

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For well over two hundred years we have lived in a western-made world, one where the very notion of being modern is inextricably bound up with being western. The twenty-first century will be different. The rise of China, India and the Asian tigers means that, for the first time, modernity will no longer be exclusively western. The west will be confronted with the fact that its systems, institutions and values are no longer the only ones on offer. The key idea of Martin Jacques's ground-breaking new book is that we are moving into an era of contested modernity. The central player in this new world will be China. Continental in size and mentality, China is a 'civilisation-state' whose characteristics, attitudes and values long predate its existence as a nation-state. Although clearly influenced by the west, its extraordinary size and history mean that it will remain highly distinct, and as it exercises its rapidly growing power it will change much more than the world's geo-politics. The nation-state as we understand it will no longer be globally dominant, and the Westphalian state-system will be transformed; ideas of race will be redrawn. This profound and far-sighted book explains for the first time the deeper meaning of the rise of China.
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China Digital Times
Book Review: When China Rules the World
“When you’re alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go: downtown.” So warbled the British singer, Petula Clark in the 1960s. However, today if solitude is your constant companion, I would suggest that you purchase a copy of this riveting book and read it on the bus and in airports — as I have been doing in recent days, with the dramatic words on the bright red cover of this weighty tome blaring insistently — and no doubt you will find, as I have, that your reading reverie will be constantly interrupted by a stream of anxious interlopers curious to know what the future may hold.
For like Petula Clark, the author too hails from London, though the startling message he brings decidedly differs from her melancholy intervention. For it is the author’s conclusion that sooner rather than later, China — a nation ruled by a Communist Party — will have the most sizeable and powerful economy in the world and that this will have manifold economic, cultural, psychological (and racial) consequences. Strangely enough, Jacques — one of the better respected intellectuals in the North Atlantic community — does not dwell upon how this monumental turn of events occurred. To be sure, he pays obeisance to the leadership of Comrade Deng Xiaoping, who in 1978, opened China’s economy to massive inward foreign direct investment, which set the stage for the 21st Century emergence of the planet’s most populous nation. Yet, for whatever reason, Jacques — who once was a leading figure in the British Communist Party — does not deign to detail to the gentle reader how Beijing brokered an alliance with US imperialism, that helped to destabilize their mutual foe in Moscow, which prepared the path for the gargantuan capital infusion that has transformed China and bids fair to do the same for the world as a whole.
Still, it is noteworthy that this book’s back-cover carries blurbs from the conservative economic historian, Niall Ferguson of Harvard (Henry Kissinger’s authorized biographer); the leading historian, Eric Hobsbawm; the well-known Singaporean intellectual and leader, Kishore Mahbubani (who has written a book that mirrors Jacques’ earthshaking conclusions); and a raft of Chinese thinkers who do not seem displeased nor surprised by his findings.

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in Africa

government’s policy

in Malaysia

in Russian Far East

in United States

overseas investment see foreign direct investment

Pakistan

Pan Wei

Panchen Lama

parenting

paternalism

patriotism

Patten, Chris

Peking Man

Perdue, Petern

Peru

Peugeot Citroën

Philippines

physical appearance

Pizza Hut restaurants

political reform

political stability

politics

future directions

nature of

pollution

Polo, Marco

polygenism

Pomeranz, Kenneth

popular accountability

popular sovereignty

population

in China

in East Asia countries

farming

loss and decline

world population shares

post-bubble crisis

poverty-reduction

Project for the New American

Century

protectionism

provinces

public opinion

on Chinese military power

on living standard

in Taiwan

Pudong, Shanghai

pugilistic traditions

Pye, Lucian

Qianlong, Emperor

Qin dynasty (221–206 BC)

Qin Shihuang

Qing dynasty (1644–1912)

identity crisis

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tributary system

Qing Ming Festival

qipao

race riots

races see also Han Chinese

racism see also homogeneity

raw barbarians

raw materials see also commodities

regional pre-eminence

China and East Asia see also tributary system

China and Japan

China and Taiwan

China and United States

concept of sovereignty

multilateralism

reconfiguration of power

religion renminbi

and euro

implications of liberalization

as non-tradable currency

as reserve currency

research and development

resource-intensive growth

‘reverse racism’

Rice, Condoleezza

rice cultivation

Richerson, Peter J.

right to vote

Roberts, J. M.

Rogoff, Kenneth

Rudd, Kevin

rule of law

rural migrant workers

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Russia

samurai

San Francisco

Sarkozy, Nicolas

Saudi Arabia

science and technology

scientific publications

Senkaku/Diaoyu islands

sense of guilt

Shambaugh, David

Shandong province

Shanghai

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Shi Yinhong

Shimonoseki, Treaty of

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ships

Sichuan province

Singapore

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Sinocentrism see Middle Kingdom mentality

skin colour

Smith, Adam

Song dynasty (AD 960-1279)

South Asia

South China Sea

South-East Asia see also ASEAN

South Korea

farming population

identity

Mandarin learning

Students in China

urban population

sovereign wealth funds

Soviet Union

special economic zones

sports

Spratly and Paracel islands

state enterprises

state sovereignty

Steel, Valerie

steppe nomads

Su Xiaokang

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Sun Zi

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Taipei

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China’s attitude to

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and Australia

and China

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and the developing world

share of world population

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Wolferen, Karel van

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world history

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Xu Zongheng

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yellow races

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Yu Yongding

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Yuan Shih-kai

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Zambia

Zhang Qingli

Zhang Taiyan

Zhang Wei-Wei

Zhang Xiaogang

Zhang Yimou

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Zhang Yunling

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Zhou Enlai

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About the Author

Martin Jacques is currently a visiting research fellow at the London School of - фото 85

Martin Jacques is currently a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. He has recently been a visiting professor at Remnin University, Beijing, the International Centre for Chinese Studies, Aichi University and at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, and was a senior visiting research fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He was editor of the highly respected journal Marxism Today until its closure in 1991. He was founder of the UK think-tank Demos, has been a columnist for The Times and the Sunday Times and was deputy editor of the Independent. He currently writes a regular column for the Guardian. He is the co-editor and co-author of The Forward March of Labour Halted? (1981), The Politics of Thatcherism (1983) and New Times (1989).

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1John J Mearsheimer The Tragedy of Great Power Politics New York Norton - фото 86

[1]John J. Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (New York: Norton, 2001), p. 74.

[2]Alastair Bonnett, The Idea of the West: Culture, Politics and History (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Chapters 1–2, 6.

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