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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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[1313]Steve Rose, ‘The Great Fall of China’, Guardian , 1 August 2002; interview with Gong Li, ‘I Don’t Go to Hollywood. Hollywood Goes to China ’, Guardian , 6 April 2007; David Barboza, ‘Made-in-China Blockbusters: Success that Can Sting’, International Herald Tribune , 29 June 2007; Mark Landler, ‘Pa per Tigers, Hidden Knockoffs Flood Market’, International Herald Tribune , 4 July 2001.

[1314]See Gary Gang Xu, Sinascape: Contemporary Chinese Cinema (Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007).

[1315]‘KungFuBustle’, China Business Weekly , 14–20 November 2005.

[1316]David Barboza, ‘At Christie’s Auction, New Records for Chinese Art’, International Herald Tribune , 29 November 2006; David Barboza, ‘In China’s New Revolution, Art Greets Capitalism’, International Herald Tribune , 4 January 2007; Jonathan Watts, ‘Once Hated, Now Fêted — Chinese Artists Come Out From Behind the Wall’, Guardian , 11 April 2007; Souren Melikian, ‘The Chinese Advance: More Bids, Many Buys’, International Herald Tribune , 8–9 April 2006.

[1317]Kurlantzick, Charm Offensive , p. 63.

[1318]David Barboza, ‘The Games Are Golden for Beijing Network’, International Herald Tribune , 23–24 August 2008.

[1319]Edwin Heathcote, ‘Power Games’, Financial Times , 19 July 2008; Nicolai Ouroussoff, ‘ Beijing Unveils a Landmark Olympics Stadium’, International Herald Tribune , 7 August 2008.

[1320]Shi Jiangtao and Al Guo, ‘Clear View for the Games?’, South China Morning Post , 21 July 2008.

[1321]Christopher Clarey, ‘Spectacle Has Viewers Floating on Air in Beijing ’, International Herald Tribune , 9-10 August 2008.

[1322]Pete Thamel, ‘Future of NBA Lies in China and Millions of Fans’, International Herald Tribune , 11 August 2008.

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[1324]David Y. H. Wu and Sidney C. H. Cheung, eds, The Globalization of Chinese Food (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004), pp. 2–7; P. Y. Ho and F. P. Lisowski, A Brief History of Chinese Medicine and Its Influence (Singapore: World Scientific, 1998), p. 37.

[1325]Wu and Cheung, The Globalization of Chinese Food , pp. 5–6.

[1326]Ibid., pp. 10–11.

[1327]Ibid., pp. 9-10.

[1328]Ho and Lisowski, A Brief History of Chinese Medicine , pp. 52-3.

[1329]Alok Jha, ‘Not Just a Bunch of Plant Extracts’, Guardian , 25 March 2004; Mure Dickie, ‘Chinese Traditional Medicine Gets a Dose of Modernisation’, Financial Times , 7 November 2003; ‘Traditional Chinese Medicine: Potions and Profits’, The Economist , 27 July 2002.

[1330]‘A Tough Sell for Western Drugs’, International Herald Tribune , 26 December 2007.

[1331]Tony Blair’s premiership perhaps constituted the most extreme case of this.

[1332]US National Intelligence Council, Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World (November 2008), p. xi; also pp. 1–2, 97.(Posted on www.dni.gov/nic/N IC _2025_project.html.)

[1333]Robert Kagan, ‘The Case for a League of Democracies’, Financial Times , 13 May 2008; Gideon Rachman, ‘Why McCain’s Big Idea is a Bad Idea’, Financial Times , 5 May 2008.

[1334]Paul A. Cohen, Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984), p. 95.

[1335]Yan Xuetong, ‘The Rise of China in Chinese Eyes’, Journal of Contemporary China , 10:26 (2001), pp. 33-4.

[1336]John King Fairbank, ed., The Chinese World Order: Traditional China’s Foreign Relations (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1968), p. 62.

[1337]The Chinese have made this perfectly clear. See ‘Interview: Message from Wen’, Financial Times , 1 February 2009; ‘Wen Blames Crisis on Policy Mistakes’, Financial Times , 28 January 2009; ‘Wen and Putin Lecture Western Leaders’, Financial Times , 29 January 2009.