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The China horizon : glory and dream of a civilizational state by Weiwei Zhang (Fudan University, China & Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, China) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>This is a book of China's own political narrative written by one of China's leading and best-known thinkers. It is the last part of the author's "China Trilogy", which is a best-seller in China, with over one million copies sold. The book in itself is a centerpiece of the unfolding debate within China on the nature and future of the country and how it compares with the West. It addresses a hugely important issue of the day, i.e., in what way China is overtaking or may overtake the United States as the world's preeminent power. The author provides an original and thought-provoking study on how China has managed, through its own development model, to catch up and even surpass, to various extents, the United States, in terms of gross GDP, net household assets and social protection.<br></p><p>The book elaborates on how China has engaged itself in reshaping its institutions to ensure its smooth rise, drawing on the strengths of its own traditions, socialist legacies and elements from the West. It analyzes the weakness of the Western political institutions and discusses how China has developed its own institutional edge over the West. The author argues that as a civilizational state,

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Author

Weiwei Zhang (Fudan University, China & Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, China)

Publisher

World Scientific Publishing Company

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781938134722

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Economics, History