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When China rules the world : the rise of the middle kingdom and the end of the Western world by Martin Jacques is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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SUMMARY: For over two hundred years we have lived in a western-made world, one where the very notion of being modern was synonymous with being western. This original and ground-breaking new book argues that the twenty-first century will be different. With the rise of increasingly powerful non-Western countries, the west will no longer be dominant and there will be many ways of being modern. In this new era of 'contested modernity' the central player will be China.Far from becoming a western-style society, China will remain highly distinctive. Continental in size and mentality, and accounting for one-fifth of humanity, China is a 'civilization-state' whose characteristics, attitudes and values long predate its existence as a nation-state. China is already having a far-reaching and much discussed economic impact, but its influence will be far greater than this: China's rise signals the end of the global dominance of the western nation-state and the rise of a world which it will shape in a host of different ways. As it rapidly reassumes its traditional position at the centre of East Asia, the old tributary system will be resurface in a modern form, contemporary ideas of racial hierarc
Who reads When China rules the world : the rise of the middle kingdom and the end of the Western world?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Martin Jacques
- Publisher
- Allen Lane
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781594201851
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Fiction, Language Learning
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (273 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14