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When China Rules the World

Martin Jacques

How is the balance of world power shifting from the United States toward China, and what kind of power will China be?

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At a glance

Author
Martin Jacques

Why read it

  • You will see how unusual American dominance has been, with a reach wider than even the British Empire at its height
  • You will weigh the argument that the financial crisis woke Americans to the fact that China had become their banker
  • You will stop assuming that a modern China must become a Western one, seeing why the author calls it a civilization state

Who it is for

  • An investor assessing the rise of Asia
  • A student of international relations
  • A citizen wondering what a Chinese century could mean

Contents

  1. Note on Transliteration, Names and Currency
  2. Major Periods in Imperial China
  3. The Changing of the Guard
  4. Part I: The End of the Western World
  5. The Rise of the West
  6. Japan – Modern But Hardly Western
  7. China’s Ignominy
  8. Contested Modernity
  9. Part II: The Age of China
  10. China as an Economic Superpower
  11. A Civilization-State
  12. The Middle Kingdom Mentality
  13. China’s Own Backyard
  14. China as a Rising Global Power
  15. When China Rules the World
  16. Concluding Remarks: The Eight Differences that Define China
  17. Afterword
  18. After the Financial Crisis: The Beginning of the Chinese World Order
  19. Appendix – The Overseas Chinese
  20. Guide to Further Reading

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