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Title:
When China rules the world : the end of the western world and the birth of a new global order / Martin Jacques.
Author:
Jacques, Martin.
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Books, ©2012.
Call Number:
JZ1734 .J33 2012
Abstract:
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.
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9780143118008
Physical Description:
xxxv, 812 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Contents:
The changing of the guard -- The end of the Western world: The rise of the West ; Japan : modern but hardly western ; China's ignominy ; Contested modernity -- The age of China: 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 ; Afterword: After the financial crisis : the beginning of the Chinese world order -- Appendix: The overseas Chinese.
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