When China rules the world
Subtitle: the end of the western world and the birth of a new global order
By: Martin Jacques
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9781594201851
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 438-539) and index.
Table of contents: title: The changing of the guard --; title: The rise of the West --; title: Japan : modern but hardly western --; title: China's ignominy --; title: Contested modernity --; title: China as an economic superpower --; title: A civilization-state --; title: The Middle Kingdom mentality --; title: China's own backyard --; title: China as a rising global power --; title: When China rules the world --; title: Concluding remarks : the eight differences that define China.