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When China rules the world [Book] : the end of the western world and the birth of a new global order / Martin Jacques.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, 2012.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxxv, 812 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0143118005 (pbk.)
  • 9780143118008 (pbk.)
  • 0143118005
  • 9780143118008
Other title:
  • End of the western world and the birth of a new global order
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.51 22
  • 327.51 22
  • 327.51 22
LOC classification:
  • DS740.4 .J33 2012
  • JZ 1734 J194w 2012
Other classification:
  • 327.51
Contents:
The changing of the guard -- Part I. The end of the western world -- The rise of the West -- Japan : modern but hardly western -- China's ignominy -- Contested modernity -- Part II. 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.
Summary: 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.
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Books Books Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad 327.51 JAC-W (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 47255
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 731-776) and index.

Note on transliteration, names and currency -- Major periods in imperial China -- The changing of the guard -- Part I. The end of the western world -- The rise of the West -- Japan : modern but hardly western -- China's ignominy -- Contested modernity -- Part II. 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.

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.

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