When China Rules The World

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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 & 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 & the principle of contested modernity. First published in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim
- & controversy
- When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World & the Rise of a New Global Order" has sold a quarter of a million copies been translated into eleven languages nominated for two major literary awards & has been the subject of an immensely popular TED talk. In the three years since the first edition was published the book has transformed the debate about China worldwide & proved remarkably prescient. In this greatly expanded & fully updated paperback edition with nearly three-hundred pages of new material backed up by the latest statistical data Martin Jacques renews his assault on conventional thinking about China's ascendancy showing how its impact will be as much political & cultural as economic thereby transforming the world as we know it."