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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: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Penguin Press, 2009.Description: xxv, 550 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781594201851 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1594201854 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • End of the western world and the birth of a new global order
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.51
LOC classification:
  • JZ 1734 J19wh 2009
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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